My house lies on top of a mountain that has an incredible view of the Mediterranean Sea. When I look down from my house, I see the mountain's feet touching the water softly. ... That's my father, always a morning person: he would wake up really early to go to work and come home late; he didn't have much time for us. ... One night, my brother and I were swimming and when we swim together, we always go crazy. ... We used to sleep in the living room around my grandma while she used to tell us stories about my grandpa's adventures. ...

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The Heritage of the Southwest Cowboys and Cowgirls never seem to go out of style. ... Any working cowboy or rancher will tell you that it's a profession that can be learned, but usually not without a few hard knocks. ... What became in time the Hispano homeland, the Upper Rio Grande, is a vast arid region defined by a life-giving river that descends from the steep southern ranges of the Rocky Mountains through the barren plateaus of the north to the Chihuahuan desert of the south. It is the ancestral homeland of sedentary Tanoan and Keresan Pueblo Indian peoples, who diverted its wat...

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I will also tell you how he impacted many people in America and how he solved many problems that accrued while he was president. ... He was going up and his popularity grew stronger. ... Johnson went against the interests of his state's planter class even to the point of wanting to create a separate mountain state from the poorer upcountry regions of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. ... Johnson went against the interests of his state's planter class even to the point of wanting to create a separate mountain state from the poorer upcountry regions of Tennessee, Vi...

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The Treaty of Parisin 1783 was signed, which the recgonized the independence of the American colonies and gave them control of the western territory from the Appalachian mountains to the Mississippi River. ... This moves towards the French Revolution because they are starting to recgonize how the Americans are doing things and that they are soon going to be one of the biggest powers in the world. ... As you can tell from the French their declarations look very similar to our Declaration of Independence. ...

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The words she chooses to describe all things hold very negative connotations; she goes from the "deep blue" of the Mexican Gulf, to the "murky stream" of the Mississippi by which she is received to the U.S. ... She tells us that the "gentlemen" who shared her voyage never would have been called that in Europe, military or not. ... This woman, supposedly semi-invalid and yet managed to go everywhere she wanted to go and to ride 800 miles on horseback with her outlaw lover Mountain Jim, I don't think she would have been so concerned about the pigs. ... To begin her adventure she met a ...

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" He tells me those things ," (Niatum 140). ... Many other narratives branched off this concept to tell of the migration of ancestors, adventurers of culture heroes, and the origin of ceremonies, customs, and rituals. ... This history of literature goes along with the history of the white migration across the United States. ... One example is the narrative of Black Elk called Wasichus in the Hills; it tells the story of a Sioux holly man (Riley 97-106). ... They also believed in place such as the mountains, lakes, and rivers. ...

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The 3 I am going to tell you about are the American beech tree, the Guelder rose, and the White Birch. ... As far as trees go it doesn't live very long, only about 140 years. ... The earth's arteries however are really a vast web of rivers and streams that channel water across the planet from mountains to oceans. ...

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Henry David Thoreau wrote in chapter 2 of Waldon: Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. ... However, I have come to understand the fact that we have to live our lives by what is right for us, not what others tell us we should do. ... He tells us to appreciate the times when we happen onto the true wonders of nature. ... I am going through a time right now of uncertainty in my life. ... We could go at any time, so why not do something worth while. ...

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Henry David Thoreau wrote in chapter 2 of Waldon: Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. ... However, I have come to understand the fact that we have to live our lives by what is right for us, not what others tell us we should do. ... He tells us to appreciate the times when we happen onto the true wonders of nature. ... I am going through a time right now of uncertainty in my life. ... We could go at any time, so why not do something worth while. ...

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The reason I am interested in the dialect issue is that I, myself have a dialect stemming from the mountains of eastern Kentucky. ... I believe this stereotype needs to be corrected in our culture, but unfortunately it's going to remain, at least for the rest of my life. ... They are very proud of where they are from, and particularly where they are from in Ireland, I may not be able to pick out major differences in the way that they speak, because I can barely understand them, but they seam to be able to tell the different dialects from one another among themselves. ...

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Steve Jobs is known for being an inspiration and an example for many technology creators around the world. He grew up in a middle-class family but he became one of the greatest inventors in the world. Steve Jobs is the creator of Apple. He showed the world what is possible. He created one of the fi...

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The works of American poet Robert Frost tell of simple things- swinging on a birch tree, stopping by woods on a snowy evening, and the death of a hired man. ... Among his other books were Mountain Interval' published in 1916, West-Running Brook' published in 1928, and In the Clearing' published in 1962 {Cox, 57} Frost taught or held advisory posts at Amherst and Dartmouth colleges, the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and other schools. ... As he goes on to say about the drums beating and the bugles blowing and the old man trying to comfort the young soldier du...

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Personally I hate the Japanese and that goes for all of them "(John Tateishi pg. xvi). ... There were fifteen different relocation camps that the Japanese people were sent to such as, Manzanar and Tule Lake in California, Poston and Gila River in Arizona, Minidoka in Idaho, Topaz in Utah, Heart Mountain in Wyoming, Amache in Colorado. and Jerome and Rohwer in Arkansas. ... You Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Jack Garner, tell us why we must go and shed our blood for something we have never had" (C.L.R. ...

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Now, students who wish to go to a particular school may not have the chance to do so because college tuition is becoming an increasing concern for many families. ... Members of the administrative staff of most colleges and universities feel that their school must continue to raise tuition and fees if it is going to continue to attract high school graduates in the future. ...

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