“Emigrants Crossing the Plains” is a 60" x 96" oil painting that was created in 1867 by Albert Bierstadt. During Bierstadt’s first trip on the Oregon trail in 1859 he was inspired to capture the landscape and of the things he saw. From this inspiration he would go on to create many paintings of the West. The painting has been at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City since 1972. The painting shows a caravan that is on the way to Oregon. The caravan is surrounded by bountiful
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University of the Philippines Diliman College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Department of Geography Final Paper in Geography 155 THE GREAT CENTRAL PLAINS Mary Angelie A. Pasion PHYSICAL BACKGROUND OF THE GREAT CENTRAL PLAINS General Information and Physical Background The North American Plains include the area from the Canadian boreal forest in the north to central Texas in the south and from the Rocky Mountain in the west to the Missouri River and the eastern boundaries of the
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or religious belief. In the last one-hundred years we‚ as a human population‚ have seen many acts of discrimination against our civil rights on a large scale. In Kathryn Stockett’s novel‚ “The Help” one of those times were brought into light‚ the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Many say that members of the Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Transgendered‚ and Bisexual (LGBT) community today experience similar discrimination to the black experience of Southern U.S in the 1960’s because of the fight for civil rights
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In the chapter titled “Hiding in plain sight”‚ the author‚ Kyle Cleveland addresses minority issues in Japan. The title to this chapter descriptive of the racial and class discrimination that the minorities in Japan undergone as a result of being marginalized by the system. Cleveland points out the racial problem that has been going on within the country for about one hundred years and counting as he views it from a political point of view; the public perception in regards to partisan politics; as
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17 Pages and We’re Off to the Graveyard There are only two deaths in the novel A Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel. Only two deaths‚ yet those two deaths come within the first 17 pages. That leaves the author with 360 more pages to build up the reader’s excitement and anticipation for some kind of climax. Richtel makes a bold move with this intro‚ but it’s a strong and prosperous move with plenty of room for further discussion. Sitting at his desk in his San Francisco house‚ with his two kids running
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The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all. It is an immense lake‚ a body of fresh water‚ although that particular description of its contents might now be more a figure of speech than practical fact. In the last 30 years‚ more than 60 percent of the lake has disappeared. The sequence of images above‚ acquired by Landsat satellites‚ shows the dramatic changes to the Aral Sea between 1973 and 2000. Beginning in the 1960s‚ farmers and state offices in Uzbekistan‚ Kazakhstan‚ and Central Asian states
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Using plain language will communicate clear‚ concise‚ and easy to understand to those seeking assistance or instructions. What aspects of your final project do you feel are the strongest? The examples‚ the history‚ and articles written support the use of plain language is the strongest aspects. With more time (and motivation)‚ what would you further revise about this piece? I would include more interviews
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade The transatlantic slave trade influenced all the aspects of the white Americans and African Americans’ life in the 18th century because it became the significant social and economic phenomenon in the history of the country (Dramaturgy Packet 2015‚ 17-18). In her play The Liquid Plain‚ Naomi Wallace discussed the idea of the transatlantic slave trade from the personal perspective of several characters in a vivid metaphorical language (Wallace 2013‚ 54). Thus‚ the concept
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Circumstances Haiti was the French of Santo Domingo‚ the most prolific colonial economy in the world. Monopolized by plantation agriculture‚ mainly to stock coffee and sugar to the world market‚ practically 90 percent was Haiti’s slave population. African slaves were brought to the island in the Atlantic slave trade. The fragment of the populace subsisted of peoples of European ancestry and of mixed heritage‚ delineated in the law of the colony as “white” or people of color‚ proportionately. Both of
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The plain zebra lives in a grassland of southern and eastern Africa. The plain zebras are herbivores meaning they only eat plants. They mostly spend their whole day eating grass‚ leaves‚ and stems. When it starts to get dry zebras will travel a great distance in order to find food or water. The black and white stripes make the zebra most recognized animal in the world. This animal is the way it is because of the stripes it makes it stand out of the rest of its common ancestors. An important fact
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