The three cultural regions of North America directly preceding colonization would be the Iroquois‚ the Algonquian‚ and Narragansett’s. The Iroquois are a melting pot. League traditions allowed for the dead to be symbolically replaced through captives taken in the "Mourning War." They also were a mix of farmers‚ fishers‚ gatherers and hunters‚ though their main diet came from farming. The main crops they farmed were corn‚ beans and squash‚ which were called the three sisters and were considered special
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As far back as the 1930s‚ two leading manufacturers of military and civilian aircraft sought to write their own chapters in the annals of aviation history. The Northrop Corporation‚ founded by Jack Northrop in Hawthorne‚ California and the Grumman Corporation‚ founded by Leroy Grumman on Long Island‚ New York‚ have made extensive contributions to the aeronautical industry. During World War II‚ both companies ranked amongst the top one hundred in the United States in the value of wartime production
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At the end of “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck‚ Kino felt guilty and decides to throw the pearl back into the sea. The pearl symbolizes greed and suggests wealth could bring contentment while also teaching a lesson.Kino fantasized all the possibilities for his family when Juan Tomas asked him‚ “What will you do now that you have become a rich man?” (pg 24) KIno then stated‚ “We will get married at the church”‚ “Have new clothes”‚ “Have a rifle”‚ and “My son will go to school.” (pg 24-25) When Kino tried
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1. Why did Huck give his money to Judge Thatcher? Huckleberry Finn gave Judge Thatcher his money‚ because he knew Pap was coming to town. He didn’t want to give it to his dad‚ because he would always buy drinks and get drunk and he didn’t want to waste his money. 2. Describe Pap Finn. What kind of a person is he? Pap was about 50 years old‚ had a bad attitude toward being stupid‚ he always wore rags‚ he had long‚ greasy black hair‚ he wore rags for clothes‚ he is white‚ and he was always drunk
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things out of greed and jealousy. One of these people destroys Kino’s canoe‚ his most prized possession. The destruction of it is devastating to him; he calls it "an evil beyond thinking‚" commenting that "the killing of a man is not so evil as the killing of a boat" (62). It is his family’s only means of survival‚ giving Kino and his family access to fish‚ for food‚ and pearls‚ his only source of income. Whoever destroyed the canoe must have known how vital it was to Kino and his family‚ but they did
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foreshadow events because it is kind or ironic. She has such a positive and fearless attitude in the beginning that she does not possibly see anything going wrong. The reader is likely to be aware of the inevitable outcome when Anne sees the first canoe fall over but didn’t assume anything wrong could happen. That probably gave readers an eerie feeling‚ as if something wasn’t right; the author was way too optimistic in a situation where she probably should’ve been the opposite. If Anne Fadiman began
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The House of Mapuhi‚ Jack London Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines‚ the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze‚ and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water‚ a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide‚ twenty miles in circumference‚ and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was much pearl shell‚ and from the deck of the schooner‚ across the slender
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Tenochtitlán included the division of his forces into three columns‚ two in which he sent to the north of Lake Texcoco and the third one to the southeast. He had built thirteen brigantines in which he utilized as fourth contingency plan to counter the canoe borne Aztecs. His flanking like tactic gave Cortés an advantage against
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Ngatoroirangi The earliest Māori stories speak of a man named Ngatoroirangi‚ a tohunga (high priest) who guided the Te Arawa canoe to this land from Hawaiki‚ the ancestral homeland of Māori. Anxious to explore‚ he and an expedition party‚ travelled east from Maketu‚ down the coast until he reached what is now known as the Tarawera River. Naming it Te Awa-o-te-atua‚ he turned inland and followed it upstream until he reached Ruawahia‚ the central peak of Mount Tarawera. Ngatoroirangi finally
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mounds of various shapes and sizes in the woodland areas surrounding the lake. The first European-Americans believed to have visited the lake region were two teenage boys named Joe Brown and Will Snelling‚ who travelled west up Minnehaha Creek by canoe. In the late 1850s‚ ginseng became a major commodity that played a critical role in the economy of the region‚ particularly during the financial depression of the Panic of 1857. Before 1852‚ Lake Minnetonka was not presented on maps‚ but thanks to
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