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    among:The Metis: Started as children of First Nations women and European men who came to North America to work in the fur trade. Art‚ music‚ flags. 1869-1870 resistance; creation of Manitoba in 1870; 1885 resistance. Metis flag; Metis sash. Metis Canoe Expedition. Ukrainians: People of the country of Ukraine. Art‚ dance‚ music. 1667 Treaty of Andrusovo; 1920 independence ends under the Soviet Union; 1991 Ukraine becomes independent nation. Pysanky; Ukrainian flag; Colour orange. Acadians:

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    seem to understand how where her friend went or what happen to her. The Conflict of the story occurs when the girls have participated in an excursion in the wildness. The girls were set out by a canoe and later two of the girls separate from the other campers to climb. As the girls were set of by a canoe Lucy says that she is going off to use the restroom but never returns. Instead‚ Lois hears a scream but they can’t identify who it was that screamed. The girls head back to the camp without Lucy

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    Steinbeck cleverly uses Kino’s canoe and the pearl itself to underline the difference in economic wealth and social capital. For example‚ when the pearl dealers underestimate the price of the pearl‚ this indicates to the reader how distant the monetary worth of something can be from its perceived value. Kino’s canoe‚ on the other hand is described as “the one thing of value he owned in the world”‚ unlike the pearl‚ which is arbitrarily assigned in value by those in power‚ the canoe is valuable because it

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    In the modern American society‚ the majority of people are accustomed to the easy life that has been provided for them‚ and only countless souls know what it takes to feed the family everyday. The short Novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck‚ gives a great rundown of the Indegene culture the main character (Kino) lived in. Kino is a poor pearl diver who lives in a small native Mexican village‚ by the name of La Paz. Steinbeck provides various examples how Kino’s surrounding culture kept their family’s

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    in Dixford on his canoe. As he paddled the canoe to pick up Sheila‚ he cast-ted his rod‚ “ and I immediately forgot about it.” (Wetherell) 246. While paddling to the concert Sheila mentions‚ how she thought fishing was boring‚ and dumb. “ I would have given anything not to appear dumb in Sheila’s unforgiving eyes.” As a result the narrator try’s to conceal is fishing equipment‚ that he had forgotten all about. “ She hadn’t seen my equipment yet‚” “ was I suppose push my canoe closer to the shore

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    MOMENTUM QUESTIONS 1. Which has greater momentum: a train at rest or a moving skateboard? Since the train is not moving‚ it has zero momentum. The skateboard‚ as long as it has some speed‚ will have more momentum‚ since p = m*v. 2. What are the ways to increase impulse? Impulse depends on the magnitude of the applied external force and the time that the force acts on the system. By increasing either of those‚ impulse on a system will be increased‚ and the system’s momentum will change accordingly

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    UCLES 2011 [Turn over 2 Part 1 Read Passage A carefully‚ and then answer Questions 1 and 2. Passage A In this extract Redmond O’Hanlon describes a journey into the jungle by canoe. James‚ a poet‚ has been eventually persuaded to accompany Redmond. Into the heart of Borneo At midday we climbed into our dugout canoe and set off up-river towards the interior. After about ten miles the fields gave way to well-established secondary forest‚ and then the primeval jungle began. The river seemed to close

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    It is a known fact that the RMS Titanic had sunk in the North Atlantic ocean in 1912‚ but what is not known is that the first ever time machine was used on the exact day of the sinking. He whom used it was none other than the mad scientist‚ Anton Von Woldenberg. Anton Von Woldenberg was the person who used the machine‚ but he was not the person who had constructed it. In the ship‚ Anton was planning out his new invention that he would start building when the ship finished its voyage‚ but as we all

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    There were four pieces of history that really jumped out at me and I liked being able to look at. First was a dugout canoe‚ it was made from pine and carbon dating tells that it was made sometime between 1430 and 1660. The canoe was found buried in the sand on the shore of Lake Ossipee‚ although it is not a whole canoe‚ it is amazing to see how simple they were at one point in time. Second was Katharine W. Pecker’s wedding dress from 1882‚ she wore it when she married

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    John Steinbeck describes pearl diving consisting of two ropes tied one to a stone and the other to a basket. The basket remained in the canoe while the rock went down under and lead him to the bottom of the water. "Kino had two ropes‚ one tied to a heavy stone and one to a basket. He stripped off his shirt and trousers and laid his hat in the bottom of the canoe. The water was oily smooth. He took his rock in one hand and his basket in the other‚ and he slipped feet first over the side and the rock

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