gear‚ food. They could bring extra livestock along. Unfortunately‚ land travel was the slowest way‚ and many starved‚ fell ill‚ or drowned going across rivers. The other way of travel was two main sea routes. A seventeen thousand mile route around Cape Horn took about five to seven months with poor living. The quicker route was by steamship via Panama and also had poor living but it was more expensive. Then people started pouring
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to mind‚ people tend to think more along the lines of superheros. Superman‚ Captain America‚ and Wonder Woman all have one thing in common‚ unrealistic powers that they use for good. When a picture of a “hero” is searched‚ images of men flying with capes will be the number one result. So that must be all there is to being a hero. The French epic poem The Song of Roland portrays the ideal hero‚ or knight‚ as Roland‚ one of the twelve peers under King Charlemagne’s rule. Roland is shown as the ideal
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Top Ten Events in American History Obviously‚ with a topic as broad as this it is subject to a personal opinion and viewpoint. What follows is what I believe to be ten extremely important events in the history of the United States. I have purposely left out events during wartime America as there are so many that over the course of the conflict so many would transpire that it would be remiss to leave them out and just say "the Civil War" or "World War II" thus taking us well beyond ten events.
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The novel Miracle In The Andes is a true story that took place in 1972. A uruguayan flight with 45 passengers had crashed in the Andes leaving only 33 alive after the impact. Survivors continued to die from injury‚ starvation and a surprise avalanche. After a total of 72 days in the Andes the survivors were rescued‚ Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa climbed through the Andes in search for help for themselves and the rest of the survivors back at the fuselage. A total of 16 out of the 46 people survived
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canal was built between 1904 to 1914 by the U.S Army‚ the canal connects the pacific ocean and the Atlantic ocean. The Panama canal was built to save time when sending ships of merchandise for selling or trading instead of going all the way around Cape Horn. The Panama Canal was worth it and a good decision to the U.S. The canal was still worth it despite what the canal costed because of the commercial goods‚ trade and military transit. There are 35 to 40 shippers that pass through the Panama canal
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Chinese Laborers Surviving and Thriving in the West Americans usually discredit the Chinese in the founding of America. However the Chinese put a large amount of work into helping construct the western part of the United States. In addition‚ they personally may have suffered more than Americans in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. In fact‚ some could argue that the Chinese laborers had the most difficulty surviving and thriving in the west due to natural dangers‚ economic deprivation
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First‚ there was a way to get to California by land called the Cape Horn route which was 8‚000 miles and it took six to eight months. This shows it was a long journey because six to eight months is more than half a year. Next‚ the author writes‚ “For the first leg of the journey‚ the argonauts hired Panamanians with long
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Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard ENG1501 Plot‚ Characterization and Themes Background Information Athol Fugard • • • • • • • • • • Born in 1932 in the Eastern Cape. Afrikaans mother‚ English father. Qualified as a mechanic‚ degree in social anthropology‚ worked as a sailor. Started theatre group in 1954 and wrote plays performed in the Labia. Married actress Sheila Meiring. Many black friends: wrote of these experiences. Kept diary which was his source of ideas for writing
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time the Mayflower anchored in the icy waters on the bay side of Cape Cod in the winter of 1620. Miles Standish led a small group of explorers on desperate scouting missions that predate the landing at Plymouth Rock First Encounter By Stephen Harrigan ‘I I NDIANS! INDIANS!” one of the members of the Mayflower’s shore party screamed as he came running in from the woods toward a tidal beach on the lee side of Cape Cod. His warning arrived only moments before a flur- ry of arrows
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Assignment on: The bog bodies and what they tell us about the past What they tell us… clothing- fabrics‚ fashion etc. hairstyles.… physical diseases – what was around and how they treated it. Also height and physical things. Punishment and ritual killing.. how and why . day top day things… food‚ tools invented etc. In Europe and Britian‚ in areas of boggy‚ marshy soil‚ several well-preserved bodies have been found. They were prevented from decaying by the airless conditions of the bog. Due
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