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Lewis And Clark Nez Perce
1,061 wordsThe Lewis and Clark expedition across the present day United States began May 14, 1804. With the approval of President Jefferson and the U. S. Congress, Lewis and Clark gathered an exploration party of about four dozen men. These men headed off to discover Western America. On September 1, 1805, they arrived at the Bitterroot Mountains, near present day Idaho. This began a nightmare that would not end until they reached modern-day Weippe. September 1, 1805, the explorers set out traveling west, h...
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Trail Of Tears And The Five Civilized Tribes
1,042 wordsTrial of Tears and the Five Civilized Tribes During the early years of 1800 s, valuable gold deposits were discovered in tribal lands, which by previous cessions had been reduced to about seven million acres in northwest Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and southwest North Carolina. In 1819 Georgia appealed to the U. S. government to remove the Cherokee from Georgia lands. When the appeal failed, attempts were made to purchase the territory. Meanwhile, in 1820 the Cherokee established a governmental ...
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Coal Miners Arnold Palmer
1,187 wordsImagine being woken up in the early morning and having your life be changed by a single horrific even. This situation was like no other coal disaster. This was the result of the irresponsibility of big business not caring for the well being of regular citizens. This case was a first in that the coal miners were not the victims, but their families were. The coal miners were not going to sit around and let this go by, they are ready to fight back. On an early February morning in 1972, one of the c...
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Native Americans Town Square
757 wordsLocation and Background The early English traders gave the Creek native Americans their name because they usually built their villages on or near creeks or rivers. If they were to still have their villages it would include areas of Northern Florida and Eastern Louisiana and Southern Tennessee. The majority of the villages were located along the banks of the Coosa, Tallaposa, Flint, Ocmulgee, and Chattahoochee rivers. The native word for the most powerful band of Creeks was the Muskogees. The Cre...
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Rocky Mountains Meriwether Lewis
1,710 wordsA glimpse 200 years in our past would leave you baffled, the miniature United States and endless frontier land. In those lands, on those plains, up in those snow-capped mountains lay the hopes and dreams of men throughout our small, developing nation. Men young and old, some skilled and some driven by a passion, took it upon themselves to explore this no mans land. Two very lucky men, and 29 of their contemporaries, were able to travel through this vast wilderness under the wishes and orders of ...
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An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge
1,135 wordsAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce's's tory "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" tells the story of a confederate secessionist, who is being hanged by Union troops. At the time of the hanging, the soldiers drop him from the bridge. Luckily, just as he falls the rope snaps and the man dives into the "sluggish stream." He miraculously takes of his ropes and swims away. When he reaches the bank of the creek, he runs for what seems like forever. He finally reaches home, w...
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Creek And The Beauty Waterfall
782 wordsday, can be a favorite way to spend a day. You get in your car, drive for miles, then get out and walk the remainder of the way to a waterfall. Civilization has cleared and marked a pathway for you and the many thousands like you that have also come to enjoy these named landmarks. Rarely do you get to enjoy the natural beauty of one by just stepping out into your own backyard. Behind my house, barely noticeable, is a trail leading through the woods to a waterfall. The trail is narrow but well wo...
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Owl Creek Bridge Occurrence At Owl Creek
1,652 wordsCompare and Contrast Essay Assignment Within the scope of this research, we will compare and contrast two literary works the poem "Variations on the word Sleep by Margaret Atwood and the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. Longing as a concept and as a theme is present in both of those works. After analyzing the poem and the story, it is evident that longing plays crucial role to the main characters developed in both works it is something that is necessary in ones ...
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Gray Fox Coyote Pacific Slope Flycatcher Species
683 wordsThis work describes the plant community, wildlife habitats, and special-status species that occur within the Toro Canyon area, including the potential for loss of sensitive (endangered, threatened, rare, or otherwise protected) plant communities and wildlife habitats. The Toro Canyon is located between the San Inez Mountains and the Santa Barbara Channel, California, The USA. Toro Canyon begins at the San Inez Mountains and extends approximately 5, 750 acres to the to the Pacific Ocean. Native v...
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Full View Waterfall Begin
663 wordsVisiting a waterfall, especially on a hot and sultry day, is one of the best ways you could spend your day. You get in your car, drive for miles, then once you have almost reached that spot your looking for, you park your car and walk the remainder of the way to the waterfall. Civilization has cleared and marked a pathway for you and many others like you that have also come to enjoy these landmarks. Rarely do you get to enjoy the natural beauty of one by just stepping out into your grandparents ...
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Environmental Protection Agency Parts Per Million
596 wordsEnvironmental Protection Agency The Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) in Edison, New Jersey is very successful in detecting and separating elements found in water. With it s expensive machinery and skilled workers the EPA proved to be successful in making New Jersey s drinking water safe. Throughout the tour, I picked up on some interesting and useful facts. I found myself very interested in exactly how many elements are found in water, how one goes about figuring out the name of the elemen...
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Wife And Son Forest Fire
1,366 wordsIn Jack Hodgins latest novel, Broken Ground, the inhabitants of the small forest community of Portuguese Creek are deeply affected by its extreme conditions. Matthew Pearson, a local farmer and former soldier, has his life utterly transformed from living in Portuguese Creek. For Tanner Pearson, Matthews ten year old son, living in Portuguese Creek has nothing but negative consequences. Lastly, Charlie MacKintosh, Tanners friend, is adversely affected by his time spent in the harsh wilderness of ...
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Face To Face Loved Tom
1,286 wordsIn the beginning the girl Trishia was sitting in the back seat of the car listening to her mom and brother fight. They were going on there Saturday outing to a nature forest. While on the trail Trishia had to urinate so she called to her mom, but her mom was busy arguing with Pete the brother. She ducked off in the woods to urinate when she saw other people near her. She went further into the woods and got lost. At first, she wasn? t worried she thought they would recognize that she was lost and...
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Bright Angel Trail Hiking The Grand Canyon River
1,156 wordsHiking the Grand Canyon I spent 5 years traveling America and have been to 40 states. I kept a detailed journal of my travels. One of my favorite places I visited was the Grand Canyon. My husband and I took an 18 -mile day hike. We spent the night in Flagstaff and arrived early at the South Rim entrance. Of all of the pictures I have seen of the Grand Canyon, I was truly surprised by how many trees and how green the Grand Canyon was! I was really expecting a big barren red hole, but trees were e...
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Battle Creek K Kellogg Health
382 wordsSurgeon, food reformer; born in Tyrone Township, Mich. (brother of Will K. Kellogg). Born into a Seventh Day Adventist family, he took a course in a hygieotherapeutic school. He rejected this approach and took regular medical training, finishing at Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York City) but with a thesis claiming that disease is the bodys way of defending itself. He had become editor of the Adventist monthly, Health Reformer (which he renamed Good Health in 1879), and on returning to ...
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Poem Quot Mind Quot
1,345 wordsRobert Kern In a more recent poem, on the other hand, Snyder seems to go to the opposite extreme, offering an explicit, self-conscious instance of metonymic closure that underlines rather than hides the differences between the poem as a poem and its sources in external experience. At the end of " Straight-Creek Great Burn, " the poet sees (or hears) " A whoosh of birds" fly up into the sky. Their flying is " all apart" and yet also " of one... mind, " and ...
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Owl Creek Bridge Occurrence At Owl Creek
434 wordsAmbrose Bierce wrote The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge during the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century. During this time period the two writing styles of romanticism, and realism were coming together. This melding of styles was a result of the romantic period of writing and art coming to an end, just at realism was beginning to gain popularity. The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a perfect example of this transition of styles as it combines elements of both romanticism and realism to c...
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Creek Stream Place
574 wordsA creek is no place for shoes. I think it? s unreasonable to ask such children to keep their shoes on in such a place. My bare feet were always covered with calluses from walking down the rough pavement of Pine Street and around the corner, past the tall oaks, but not as far as the Lindsay? s squeaky old swing-set. It was hard to see from the road, and as far as I could tell, nobody ever went there, except for me. Large pines nearby stood tall and erect, looking down at the ripples and currents ...
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House On Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
1,634 wordsJane Juffer In the introduction to Alfred A. Knopf's 1994, ten-year anniversary reprinting of her House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros recalls what initially inspired the now internationally acclaimed novel. As a graduate student in the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, Cisneros felt alienated by discussion of Gaston Bachelards Poetics of Space. She says, " What was this guy talking about when he mentioned the familiar and comforting house of memory? It was obvious he never had to clea...
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Land Ethic Natural World
974 wordsObservations and Views Between Dillard and Leopold Aldo Leopold was born in 1887, died in 1948, in 1949 his book A Sand Country Almanac was published. He was a renowned scientist, scholar, teacher, philosopher, and gifted writer. His book is a collection of his nature writing, lyrical writings, praise for nature, and manifestos for people. Leopold undoubtedly believed in the preservation of wilderness, however it was not until the last two decades of his life that he developed his famed Land Eth...
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