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James Fenimore Cooper Indian Tribes
1,226 wordsJames Fenimore Cooper -- The Historian James Fenimore Cooper is, in his own right, a historian. Cooper is responsible for passing on views of early America that will never be available to us again. He helped many Americans view Indians and other ethnic groups as people and not savages. Historical events greatly influenced Coopers writing. Time periods such as the Revolutionary war and the American exploration of the West were often the backgrounds for Coopers most successful novels. Novels such ...
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Great Salt Lake Brigham Young
1,229 words... ad to find the route. He came across a place with grassy hills crowned with beautiful timber 25 miles north-west of Garden Grove. He named it Mt. Pisgah, referring to the mountain from which Moses saw the Promised Land from. The majority of the camp made it to Mt. Pisgah and planted crops and built cabins to help the Saints that were to come later. There were nearly 2000 people there at one time. By October, starvation was widespread. On October 9, 1845, flocks upon flocks of quail flew into...
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Culturally Integrated Society Persons With Disabilities
1,924 wordsCanada has long been called "The Mosaic", due to the fact that it is made up of a varied mix of races, cultures and ethnicities. As more and more immigrants come to Canada searching for a better life, the population naturally becomes more diverse. This has, in turn, spun a great debate over multiculturalism. Some of the issues under fire are the political state's policies concerning multiculturalism, the attitudes of Canadians around these policies, immigration, the global market, and a central ...
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William Henry British Broadcasting
1,131 wordsBetween 1844 - 6, William Henry Fox Talbot used the title The Pencil of Nature for his set of published prints which featured images of botanical specimens, photogram's, still life and landscapes. Photography was very young at the time of the Pencil of Nature; this set being the first published photographically illustrated book. Talbot first investigated the usage of the camera obscura and camera lucida to aid his sketches by tracing the image projected onto the paper through the prism; it was h...
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Role In Society Songs Of Innocence
1,176 wordsLong before the state of Israel was established in 1948, the pioneers beginning to settle in Israel at the turn of the century envisioned and eventually put into action their idea of a perfect society. Living by their motto Work and Believe, these immigrants established settlements, known as a kibbutz, where everyone, men and women, young and old, were given specific responsibilities to help the community function as a whole. All individuals living on the kibbutz were seen as equal and each do t...
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Ecology The Study Of Plans Animals And Environment
1,134 wordsEcology is the scientific study of the interrelationships of plants, animals, and the environment. In recent years, the word has sometimes been misused as a synonym for environment. The principles of ecology are useful in many aspects of the related fields of conservation, wildlife management, forestry, agriculture, and pollution control. The word ecology (Greek, oikos, "house, " and logos, "study of") is generally believed to have been coined by Ernst HAECKEL, who used and defined it in 1869. T...
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Homestead Act Barbed Wire
1,413 words... ches. Others hired phony claimants or bought abandoned land. The General Land Office was under funded and unable to hire a sufficient number of investigators for its widely scattered local offices. As a result, overworked and underpaid investigators were often susceptible to bribery. Of some 500 million acres dispersed by the General Land Office between 1862 and 1904, only 80 million acres went to homesteaders. Small farmers acquired more land under the Homestead Act in the 20 th century tha...
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Trip To West Ride Inside Wagons
515 wordsResponse on " Diary of Mrs. Amelia Stewart Knight" When I finished this article I started to realize that the life of pioneers was not just one big adventure, but they had to face some really difficult problems like dangerous river crossing, bad weather, different kinds of accidents and diseases along the way without any chance for medical treatment. But first of all I had make a research to answer one question before all the problems along the way. It is how much did pioneers traveling west nee...
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Jim And Antonia Sense Of This Word
1,480 wordsLandscapes: Freedom and Opportunity (1) Today, the term American dream is being often used, when it comes to describing the opportunities that newly arrived immigrants are able to find in U. S. However, many people think of this term as something utterly abstract, even though that American dream has traditionally being associated with geographical vastness. In her book My Antonia, Willa Cather was able to organically integrate a story line into the physical settings, which creates a powerful dra...
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Death Of A Salesman Willy Loman
1,691 wordsDeath of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and The American Dream The play Death of a Salesman was written by Arthur Miller in 1949. The aim of this essay is to compare this play concept of the American Dream. But what is the American Dream? Well, if you are an American and if you have a family, a house and a car, a decent job with a good salary and if you consider yourself to be surrounded by people who respect you for who you are, you can be said to have reached the American Dream. The concept of th...
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Considered To Be The First Natty Bumpo Cooper
900 wordsJames Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey on September 15, 1789. He was the eleventh of twelve children born to William and Elizabeth Cooper. When James was one year old the family moved to the frontier, and his father established the settlement of Cooperstown at the head of the Susquehanna River. Cooper attended a private preparatory school in Albany, New York, and was then admitted to Yale in 1803. He was expelled during his junior year because of a prank. His family allowed him...
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Women Played Baseball
1,050 wordsJ Johnson 11 - 14 - 01 KPE 3345 Female Pioneers in Sport: Softball For this Women of Diversity Group Project, my group chose to write about female pioneers in sport. Within that category I chose female pioneers of softball. During this paper I will discuss the history of the sport and female participation in the sport. I will also give some statistics and make comparisons between females and males involved in softball and baseball. Softball was developed as an indoor game in 1887 by George W. Ha...
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Susan B Anthony Lucy Stone
883 wordsWomen Feminists 2 Final Composition-Feminism Women have a disease, a disease that will prevent them from ever achieving political, social or economic greatness. This disease is the need for independence and self-respect or the lack there of. This is what we have come to know as feminism. Understand that the need for independent and self-respect isnt a real disease, I just used disease as a metaphor for how women go about trying to achieve them. For nearly one hundred and fifty years women have f...
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Expanded Academic Asap Human Genome Project
1,697 wordsIt all started back in 1953 with two men by the names of James D. Watson and Francis Crick when they discovered the double-helical structure of DNA. Little did they know they were opening the door to the creation of a perfect world. In 1986, the Human Genome Project, led up by the National Institution of Health (NIH), took a giant leap through this door. They began the long process of mapping out the entire genetic makeup of the human body. The main purpose of the HGP was originally for the use ...
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Jim Burden Father
1,484 wordsMy My Antonia My Antonia My Antonia is an ideal book to introduce one to because it deals with the great variety of people from other countries who were confronted simultaneously with the creation of new lives and a new country. Willa Cather focused on depicting ethnic values of the different cultures of the various immigrants who came to Nebraska. I was amazed at the hardships, the plight, and the conditions of life on the rural Nebraska prairie land of the late nineteenth century America that ...
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Rocky Mountains Oregon Trail
4,840 wordsOregon Trail The Oregon Trail was a route followed by American emigrants as they moved westward during the middle nineteenth century. Along this route, the settlers would face many challenges such as Indian attacks, fierce weather, difficult terrain features, and many diseases. Although these tasks proved to be formidable, nearly four hundred thousand people would eventually travel along the trail. This paper will relate some of the settlers thoughts of the land and describe some of the dominant...
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