Meriwether Lewis and William Clark paved the way of the west for the present day American citizens. They traveled over 8‚000 miles across the country by sailing‚ walking‚ canoeing and riding horses. Lewis was in charge of documenting all of the new plants and animals they came across. Clark took the responsibility for composing the maps of the rivers and the land in the west. Together‚ and with the help of their fellow members of the Corp of Discovery‚ they made one of the most memorized expeditions
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mistaking him for an elk. 2. Clark was not actually a captain. When Lewis asked Clark to join the expedition he said President Jefferson was willing to promote him to captain. Before the expedition began‚ the Secretary of War notified Lewis that Clark would receive a lieutenant’s title. Lewis was angered and wrote Clark that it was best that none of their party or any other persons would know anything about the grade which "By God‚ shall be equal to my own." 3. Clark would establish a reference
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Oscar Wilde’s presentation of women in ’A Woman of No Importance’ in comparison to John Fowles’ views of women in ’The French Lieutenant’s Woman’‚ in light of the view that Oscar Wilde has a more sympathetic view of woman in his time. In this essay I will be comparing Oscar Wilde’s play ’A Woman of No Importance’ to John Fowles’ novel ’The French Lieutenant’s Woman’. I will be exploring their differing views of woman in Victorian society. Generally‚ woman were viewed as inferior to men‚ yet Wilde
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No wonder Kerri Walsh is a sand volleyball player she was born in Santa Clara California. Her parents play a lot of sports her mom played sand volleyball and her dad played minor league baseball. She went to Stanford University for college. During college in 2000 she went to the olympic games in Sydney Australia and played indoor volleyball for the USA team. She got fourth place in the olympics. A year later she graduated from Stanford University in 2001. She got a degree in American studies. After
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The poems I chose‚ “Havisham” and "Love After Love"‚ are comparable‚ with their common subject of how a person responds to the end of a relationship‚ but they are very contrasting in the paths they take. The persona in “Love After Love” talks about returning to yourself and loving who you are: without the need for someone else‚ “You will love again the stranger who was yourself” as if you lose yourself in a relationship so much that you need to learn how to look after yourself again. Whereas “Havisham”
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HER FIRST BALL KATHERINE MANSFIELD EXACTLY when the ball began Leila would have found it hard to say. Perhaps her first real partner was the cab. It did not matter that she shared the cab with the Sheridan girls and their brother. She sat back in her own little corner of it‚ and the bolster on which her hand rested felt like the sleeve of an unknown young man’s dress suit; and away they bowled‚ past waltzing lamp-posts and houses and fences and trees. "Have you really never been to
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Deadly Woman or Lonely Lover? The story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner was written in 1930’s‚ a time where if a woman was alone or had no company they were frowned upon or looked in another light. Emily Garrison showed tendencies of a lonely women looking for companionship after her father’s death. She became secluded away from the rest of the town‚ “After her father’s death she went out very little”. According to Crime Museum being antisocial can cause someone to become a killer. Miss
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Christina Noble is the founder of the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation. From the 20 years Christina arrived at Vietnam‚ she loved the people. Christina first renovated a dilapidated building for disadvantaged children. Since 1997 there have been over 100 life saving programs in Vietnam which are similar programs to Mongolia. These programs for thousands of children on the streets have saved and nurtured their lives. In many cases these children live with parents‚ uncles‚ aunts and grandparents
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My First True Love Teens deal with conflict on a day-to-day basis. This holds true especially for Jason. You could say Jason was your average everyday teenager. He plays the guitar in his free time and has a great number of friends. But as for girlfriends‚ that’s a different story. It’s not like he isn’t an attractive guy. He has short brown hair‚ hazel eyes and a smile that was incomparable. His amazing guitar skills and abilities would make a girl go through the roof. And for one special girl
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Research and Planning: TWLOHA (To Write Love On Her Arms) To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression‚ addiction‚ self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage‚ inform‚ inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. The formation of TWLOHA started in 2006 by Jamie Tworkowski. TWLOHA started gaining recognition when they used MySpace* as their platform to spread awareness. They started
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