to the west. There was already a problem with it being in the current states the U.S. had. However‚ Missouri was admitted to the United States in 1821 from the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri compromise allowed Missouri to become a slave state if Maine would join the Union as a free state. Because of its location on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers‚ Missouri was an important way of transportation and commerce in back in early America. During the Civil war‚ most Missourians remained loyal to the
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Bath Salts Nothing to Relax About PSY 101-06 Ann Blumer Linisa E Beal Portfolio #8 Something close to an epidemic is happening in real communities across the state of Maine and Bangor is being labeled as "ground zero". A drug called chemically MDPV or methylenedioxypyrovalerone has surfaced in this area. Its street name goes by a myriad of different names mainly bath salts. We’ve heard it called Monkey Dust‚ Bliss‚ and Ivory Wave. Call it
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Motton as he defines like this : "The town of Motton was a different world in those day - more different then I could ever tell you. That was a world without airplanes droning overhead‚ a world almost without cars." (page 821) As he talks about Motton‚ we learn that it is a little rural town in western Maine. There was no phone‚ no doctors‚ no paved roads and not more than a dozen of houses. All those little things make Motton a completely innocent place. Why would the Devil attack a little innocent
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I feel that Ocean Acidification is an issue that isn’t talked about enough and that people don’t really know about it or what to do about it. This article did a really good job of giving examples of Ocean acidification but it doesn’t do a very good job of telling us what we can do to prevent it. The article also did a very good job of informing us with facts about it. In this article‚ it tells us that by 2050 the ocean will have become much‚ much more acidic‚ and a lot of the fish will have either
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I have used Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan many times in a guided reading group. It is the story if Sarah‚ who moves from Maine to the prairie when she answers the advertisement for a wife. She decides to try this out for a month and care for Anna and Caleb whose mother has dies. Sarah tells the family that they will recognize her when she arrives because she is "plain and tall." She brings with her a cat and gifts from the ocean. The story revolves around Caleb and Anna and their
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As a child‚ he and his family went there for the entire month of August every year because “none of them ever thought there was any place in the world like that lake in Maine” (163). White has not found another place that comes close to giving the same sense of pleasure that he and his family experienced at the lake in Maine. He wants to share this with his son so that he can experience the same sense of freedom that he had experienced as a child. White describes his trip and the arrival at
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sound of them all. With Privateer Hopewell be his side and 118 armed men ready to drop off supplies‚ but not seeing a single sign of life on the beachfront. To further investigate the settlement White finds the houses dismantled carefully and almost all of the belongings gone. In the minds of these men they believed they have stumbled onto a well-organized relocation of the settlement. The only signs of a clue was written
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urbanity. He is absorbed by the evils of enigma and of moral responsibility. 3. Briefly describe Hawthorne’s background. He was born in Salem and moved to Maine with his mother to live with an uncle as a child. He returned to Salem to attend college. He secretly go married‚ he enjoyed reading and the first novel he wrote was recalled and almost completely destroyed. He continued writing and his first big break was The Scarlet Letter. 4. What is the principle appeal of Hawthorne’s work? It is in
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imperialism at all. For instance‚ Spain was accused of causing an explosion aboard an American battleship called the U.S.S. Maine. Several investigations at the time were conducted‚ showing the explosion was most likely caused by a fire on the ship (Unger 233). The excuse for entering the war was the rebellion by the Cubans against Spanish rule and the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine. Additionally‚ when Congress passed the Fifty Million Dollar bill‚ which granted the president 50 million dollars to prepare
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smelly the Main Lobster Festival is‚ how hot the weather was‚ how long the lines were‚ and discusses lobster biology in great detail; with this start to his article you think you are going to read only about this festival and what it all entails. Almost like it is an advertisement to get people to show up. Instead‚ to my mind‚ Wallace’s purpose for his article was to get people to think about the lobsters‚ what they have to go through to be finally served to the crowd at the festival. So the heart
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