While southerners focused primarily on the farming of cotton, there was production of grain, cattle, and other foods in the North, as well as a developing factory system. ... Another tool of transportation was the river system, in which the South grew on. Cotton, the main stay of the southern economy, was shipped up and down the Mississippi River, north and south, to the rail lines in Ohio to the port of New Orleans. ... Cotton thrived because it grew on the rich soil of the southern river delta and could be shipped from the ports of river cities and towns on the Mississippi away to ocean harb...

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In the essay "Culture Etiquette: A guide", by Amoja Three Rivers indicates that, "[It is] ethnocentric to refer to us as minorities"(502). ... I don't think it is appropriate to label us as minorities just because, when we are placed side by side to the white people, we are automatically inferior to them. ... We should all be able to control what we say about others before we speak. ... Amoja Three Rivers tells us, "sometimes we need some time and space apart from the dominant group"(503). ... Ultimately, I have a habit of repeating myself a few times, until we both understand each other....

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Starting with the Hudson River School founded by Thomas Cole, the nation obtained a visual representation of Manifest Destiny. ... The so-called Hudson River School appeared in the mid 1820s. ... The Hudson River artists were men, who believed in the glory of nature, which they thought was an evidence of God's power. ... Mountains, woods, waterfalls and other wonders of nature, as depicted in The Hunter's Return, can symbolize the marvels of the frontier. ... Durand attended an apprenticeship to an engraver, and became famous for his banknotes and his engravings of other artists&#x...

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This is causing significant problems within our local lakes, rivers and streams. Although acid rain is not concentrated enough to burn through human skin, it kills many trees and other wildlife. ... This needs to be stopped, before our lakes, rivers, and streams become useless. There is no reverse to acid rain, adding lime to infected water has harmful side effects. ...

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On the other hand Victor is a tough kid that never got over the fact that his father left his family when he was young. ... When they return to the reservation, both Victor and Thomas have found new respect for each other as well as for Arnold Joseph. ... Then a quick cut in the scene to a reverse shot of Victors back from the other side of the bridge. A crane shot is then used to move from high above Victors back slowly down to the river below. ... The closing scene not only reflects Victor's accomplishment, it also relates to the all the other Native Americans on the reservation. ...

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This book forces us to face the dark side of our American history and how far the colonials went to fulfill their Christian manifest destiny. ... Since there are two sides to every story, Brown clearly shows us one we rarely see. ... He spends all of his time making alliances with the other tribes and in 1675 attacks 52 settlements, destroying 12 of them, but being destroyed in the process. ... In 1865 the settlers tried to invade Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, in the Powder River Invasion. ... Along with these attacks there were other villages attacked the same way. ...

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They also wanted navigation rights on the Mississippi River and permanent ownership of Fort Niagara and Sackets Harbor, along with several other things. ... The Treaty had both sides agree to disagree and resolve their problems at a later time. ... These three events prove that nether side could consider themselves victorious in the War of 1812. ...

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Therefore, if they freed all the slaves, someone would predict, many whites would have no jobs and many things would be up-side-down. ... After the Battle of Bull Run, each side began to train its troops and to plan strategy for the war. There were differences between both side's strategies. ... He crossed the Rappahannock River to attack General Lee's forces. ... Before the real business, both of them were talking about other things rather than the Civil War and they seemed like good friends. ...

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Wallace also explains how racists white people treated the Native Americans and forced them to leave the east and head west of the Mississippi river. ... In the late 1830's, the Indian tribes of the east were leaving one after the other. ... Right after the Choctaws headed west, the Chickasaws made the journey and were finally past the Mississippi river about three years later. ... If he had to pick on side and write about it, I would guess he would favor the Indians, only because of the way Jackson had them treated and forced off their land. ... I would recommend this book to oth...

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This issue makes people immediately stereotype these or other races when they see them or get know them - this is a huge influence on people for how they view other races. ... It is dramatic to immigrants when they realize how different these two countries are when they are so close to each other. ... The characters of this movie are seen just walking up the street and crossing the border without making it difficult and it is like any other day. ... Meanwhile they seem to be frightened and as soon as they cross the river they feel safe and they feel even better when they find people from their...

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Like the typical Englishman, he kept his emotions to himself, and out of sight from others. ... In the war, England did not take sides, on account of their immense losses during WWII, and like them, Fowler did not take sides. Different people in the story felt that "One has to take sides. ... The bodies were lying in a river, settled at the bottom. They formed a solid ground for others to tread upon. ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Efforts at compromise failed, and both sides prepared for war. ... Root causes Slavery Contemporary actors, the Union and Confederate leadership and fighting soldiers on both sides believed that slavery caused the Civil War. ... They took control of federal forts and other properties within their boundaries with little resistance from outgoing President James Buch...

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Eaton was not treated fairly by the other cabinet wives, which goes against the constituion. ... Biddle, Concentrated on getting Jackson's opposers to his side, Jackson believed the bank was a monopoly, and was basically run by stockholders, not the government. ... Supreme Court was fair in deciding the Charles River Bridge vs. ... His decisions in many other court cases such as Gibbons vs. ...

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They attended this mission not knowing what to expect, travel to new places, and face war with other tribes and other nations, traveling in the west. ... " ( 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 swiftness of the current wheeled the boat, broke out toe rope and was nearly over setting the boat, all hands jumped out on the upper side and bore on that side until the sand washed from under the boat." ( Barth, 86) . ... In addit...

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They conceded to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi River. ... The treaty returned US-British relations to the status they had had before the war: neither side gained or lost territory. ... Between these dates a final battle was fought on January 8, when a British army landed at the mouth of the Mississippi River and was defeated near New Orleans by forces under Andrew Jackson. ... This war gain America the respect of other nation, for now they realize that America is becoming stronger and stronger everyday and can withstand against anything that comes their way. ...

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The stories By the Waters of Babylon and There Will Come Soft Rains both show the weaknesses in man's technology. In both instances man was drastically hurt by a technological war. In There Will Come Soft Rains man was eliminated altogether, from the details the author gives. The setting of these tw...

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grendel works in nihilism United We Stand in Optimism For so many years, tragedies and other major events have torn America. ... Our tears flow like rivers as we watch Americans die because of events such as terrorism. ... We feel a need to help others because they are Americans, not because of how they got to be. ... We know the Lord is always by our side, and we take larger steps to a positive future. ...

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Each different area was responsible for providing different goods or services for the others. ... Many rivers ran through the middle colonies which attracted traders and fur trappers; this expanded the business side of the middle colonies. ... Most people grew small crops to sustain their families, but because the growing season was so short, they had to find other means of food and sustenance. ...

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The Treaty of Paris entitled America to large new land masses as well as rivers and fresh water lakes. ... Unfortunately, the Treaty of Paris, the Articles of Confederation nor the Declaration of Independence offered the same opportunities to the nation's other residents. Native Americans, many of whom sided with the British in hopes of stopping colonial expansion onto native land, had large tribal territories relinquished to the newly formed United States after the war. ... But as responsible citizens of this great nation, we must never overlook the injustices served upon other races and...

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As time elapsed, laziness perfused through the people like a coursing river, corruption raged through the government with the force of a great typhoon, and the Visigoths subsequently overtook the Romans like a raging fire. ... The U.S government has meddled with governments in one part of the world and waged war in other parts of the world, and often in multiple places at the same time. ... On one side of the debate, there is a group of people who desire health care at a basic level (nothing is more American than that any person has the right to own a gun, but not to have basic health care in ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Efforts at compromise failed, and both sides prepared for war. ... Root Causes Slavery Contemporary actors, the Union and Confederate leadership and fighting soldiers on both sides believed that slavery caused the Civil War. ... They took control of federal forts and other properties within their boundaries with little resistance from outgoing President James Buch...

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In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... On the other hand, it was called Clinton's big ditch, but it will change New York forever. ... 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. ... Brown had his five sons fighting by his side. ... On the other hand, the North was one hundred percent behind Lincoln to get rid of slavery. ...

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Doubled the size of U.S. secured navigation rights on the Mississippi River. ... Embargo Act (1807)- Stopped shipments of food and other American products to foreign ports. ... It also prevented war with France, over the Mississippi River. ... This was true for the most part, and his cabinet was on his side. ... It was firmly on Jefferson's side and did everything it could to further the republican interest. ...

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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. Sea side we came the rumble of a distant stream [...] ... Other qualities that best depict the bourgeois world Efrain are his way of thinking to observe and categorize what they see and experience. ...

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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. ... Also in 1863, " the governor of Colorado Territory and other officials came to Conejos A treaty was signed there, giving the white men all the Colorado land east of the mountaintops, leaving the Ute all the land west of the divide" ( Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee 367). ... In the early morning, when the soldiers were asleep, the Navaho " attacked the for from three sides. ...

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