The artistic community was called into action, producing whole schools of painting, which glorified the development of the nation. ... It combines the different steps of America's steady shift from wilderness to civilization into one single picture. ... As Albert Boime says, "inevitably, the extermination of Native Americans is tied to the conquest of the wilderness and its transformation into an Edenic garden - The wild and dark area with the natives on the left contrasts with the right side of the painting, a light and open area occupied by the white Americans, which represents the "...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The rotation of the earth and the inertia of the air above it causes westerly winds at the equator. ... Equatorial air rises and, deflected, falls back to the surface in temperate latitudes, where it then flows toward the east. ... Land masses and underwater topography deflect currents into complex patterns near the continents. ... As the air ascends and cools, it loses its capacity to hold water (adiabatic cooling). ... Parent rock erodes physically and chemically into smaller and smaller particles, which become soils as they collect on both coarse and fine scales; the chemical nature of soil...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate