"When I traveled on the river, it cost just nineteen cents a bushel to send wheat from Idaho to Portland by barge. ... The Columbia River water rights enable this. In 2013, 49.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 33.3 million adults and 15.8 million children. ... Without Columbia River water rights, our farms will have to shut down leaving the entire region crippled by unemployment. ... If farmers don't have rights over the Columbia River, the prices of food will go up leaving Joe hungry and out of a job. ...

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By bringing along wives and children it suggests, particularly pertaining to this document, that these newcomers not only wanted to stay permanently in the New World, but to also build new lives for their families. ... With the cultivation of this cash crop an abundance of plantations arose in this region, as shown by River Plantations in Virginia, the want and need for personal wealth is apparent. ...

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Native American children had to sit and watch as their parents were being massacred and know that they were next. ... In 1865 the settlers tried to invade Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, in the Powder River Invasion. ... In 1868, at the Medicine Lodge the Cheyenne, the Kiowas, the Comanches, and the Arapos all agreed to live in a reservation just below the Powder River. ... He was then invited to the White House to sign the Treaty of 1868, which would allow them to move back to Powder River. ... The Indians refused to sell the Powder River, On March 17, 1875, the U.S. attacked the Sioux and Cheyen...

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The determined owner chased Davids to the Ohio River, but Davids suddenly disappeared without a trace, leaving his owner bewildered and wondering if the slave had "gone off on some underground road." ... Popular conductors of the Underground Railroad included James Fairfield (a white abolitionist who went into the Deep South and freed slaves by posing as a slave trader), Harriet Tubman (who became known as "Moses" in 1849 when she made nineteen trips to the South and helped free at least 300 slaves), and African American abolitionist John Parker of Ripley, Ohio (who ventured to Kentucky and Vi...

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Jackson suggested in his first annual message to Congress to set apart an abundant district west of the Mississippi River guaranteeing the Indians it as long as they shall occupy it. ... He thought that the Indians now will think for themselves and give up their country to move across the Mississippi River. ... And under Scott's orders men, women, and children were taken from their activities, their homes were in flames, the day came. ... The Mississippi River was running full o ice, they had to wait on the eastern bank. 60 yeas later the miseries of that halt beside the frozen riv...

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The heart of New Orleans is the French Quarter, or Vieux Carré, a 6-by-12-block rectangle along the Mississippi River where the city was originally settled by the French in 1718. Here the Creoles (children born in the colony to French and Spanish settlers) built their stately town houses, cathedral, marketplace, opera houses, and theaters. ...

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John River in 1564. ... He is the youngest of four children. ... Also in 2000, Graham achieved a milestone in his career-long battle to save America's Everglades with congressional approval of a comprehensive plan to restore the River of Grass. ... Graham legislation would also ensure that low-income legal immigrant children and pregnant women have access to the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program to meet their health-care needs. ... Graham is also spearheading a campaign to reform dredging practices that have degraded the Apalachicola River. ...

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Its big oceans lakes and rivers were home for millions of gorgeous creatures that swam peacefully in clear water. ... Will be this picture of a world just available to decorate the walls in the future houses, or just a bed story that our children will tell their grandchildren? ...

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In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... There were four million men, women, and children in slavery. ... But, in the state of Louisiana it was against the law to separate children under the age of 11 years old from their parents. ... It was against the law for slaves to read, write and name their children after themselves. ... If you are a free slave they still can sell you to who ever want to buy you weather they lived up or down the river. ...

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For instance, say a family of four (a mother, a father, and two children) come to the US illegally from Mexico and decide to settle in the state of Texas. To reach Texas coming from Mexico, they will have to cross the wide Rio Grande, which is the river that creates the boundary line between Texas and Mexico. ... They need a source of income, a roof over their heads, and an educational plan for their children, and that's where the problems start. ... When the parents have their children holding jobs as a result of low-wages, they will probably want the kids to get an education, so their n...

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This act allowed President Andrew Jackson to forcibly remove the eastern American Indian tribes to land west of the Mississippi River. ... The trudging on of women, children, men, and elders is present in each of the struggling groups. The absolute brutality of the situation is portrayed through imagination, we could not fathom the difficulty of walking thousands of miles carrying children, clothing, food, and the everyday necessities of life. ...

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" ( Barth, 67) On June 29, 1805 Clark and his party were traveling across the Great Falls of the Missouri River when all of a sudden there was a down pour that made the river very strong and powerful. ... The relationship they established with the Crow's were that they were the children of the Great Chief. ... He figured that if the Shoshoni women and children could cross the mountain then him and his men could. ... In addition it strengthened the claim of the United States to the area drained by the Columbia River. ...

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Efrain also teaches on topics you eat geography and grammar so that Maria could be a good wife and mother to their future children. ... List the names and characteristics of the places he sees as the greatness of Valle del Cauca and Daguo travel by river and by the way to Cali. Describing the river Daguo says "Gradually were becoming dense fog. ... Maria read The Imitation of the Virgin and prayers to children. ...

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Studies of the affects of television violence on children and teenagers have found that children may become insensitive to violence. ... They can visit castles, take river trips, or explore imaginary lands With selective viewing television can richly contribute to school readiness" (Chen, 122). Unfortunately, most children's programming does not teach children what most parents and teachers want them to learn. ... Television violence perceived by children affects children's thoughts, actions, and the way they live. ... I believe aggression modeled b...

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His people in the beginning in the gods live on the other side of the river. ... Brightly colored animals in the children's" room reflects an aspect of the house's personality as does the reading of the woman's favorite poem. ...

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This was the migration of almost 110,000 men, women, and children of Japanese decent from their homes on the Pacific coast into ten wartime communities constructed in remote areas between the Sierra-Nevada Mountains and the Mississippi River. ...

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Honduras Have you ever wanted to travel to a beautiful country far from where your at now? To visit a land full of many different customs and where culture is put into a whole new perspective. Well if this is what you have dreamed of take your Spanish class and fly or drive down to a friendly n...

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In regards to my family, in 20 years I plan on being happily married and have at least 2 children. ... I would like to give back to my children what my parents gave to me when I was a child; respect, security, comfort, and love. ... I will be a Scoutmaster (adult leader) for a local Boy Scout troop and organize special days for clean-ups of rivers and woods, as well as other activities that are beneficial for the community. ...

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Much of the North's strategy depended on geography and they wanted to control over Mississippi River because it would enable the North to penetrate deep into the South and keep the Confederacy from resupplying its western forces. ... He crossed the Rappahannock River to attack General Lee's forces. ... Hooker then withdrew across the Rappahannock River for escape, giving the South a victory, but it was the Confederates' most costly victory in terms of casualties. ...

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Louis"(Brown), or "a Kiowa man who refused to relinquish the shirt which had smallpox on it beside Columbia River" (Mayor, 60), but the truth is not like that. ... Peter's up the Missouri River from St. ... It carried smallpox inside and appeared "among the southern-most tribes along the river" (Brown) before it actually speared out to the "Mandans at Fort Clark and tribes north" (Brown). ... There is another important version of Smallpox Blankets which claimed that "Jim Beckwourth, a Black mountain man adopted by the Crow tribe of the upper Missour...

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She employs Marian as a sort of maid to clean and look after the children. ... His racist attitude came through clearly in only one line which was, "He began to whistle "Swanee River"" and then asked, "Make you homesick." ... Lines that include the words, "Swanee River," and "Piccaninnies," (Pg 116) we see the racism from the driving instructors. ...

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He was responsible for the bomb that killed several women and children in the town square and all he could think about was the fact that he had to clean the blood off of his shoes before he met with the Minister. ... The bodies were lying in a river, settled at the bottom. ... These deaths and the compilation of the corpses might have represented the same thing as the bodies in the river, except that these deaths filled a void, or gap. ...

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The excuse of Manifest Destiny was used when the Indians were being removed from the Mississippi River area. ... This was a place made by the white Americans, west of the Mississippi River for the Indians to live. ... He stated that the land was not as fertile as the land further west, and states specifically that, "It is much better sometimes to do what does not please us just now, if we think it will be best for our children" (Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee 370). ...

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Their parents were stirct and they wanted their children to study the Bible. ... Industries The fertile land and water from the rivers helped the settlers of the Middle Colonies. ... Farmers used the Delaware and the Hudson rivers to move their cash crops to markets in Philadelphia and New York City. ...

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Two of the Williams' children John Jr. and Jerusha are murdered during the invasion. ... Williams, is killed on the journey after falling face first in a river. ... John eventually finds out about his remaining children that had been captive. ... It is interesting however to analyze the differences in raising children by Indian and Colonist parents. Puritans raised their children in a forceful manner, teaching them scriptures and values at a very early age. ...

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