6/24/09 Oral Report How Many People Were Here Before Columbus? By Lewis Lord George Catlin‚ the 19th-century artist‚ revered the Americans Indians-”a numerous and noble race of HUMAN BEINGS‚” he called them‚ “fast passing to extinction.” In the 1830s‚ he traveled among four dozens tribes to paint nearly 600 portraits and scenes of Indian life‚ most now hang in the Smithsonian. During his visits‚ his hosts extolled the blissful age before the settlers came‚ a time when tribes were much larger
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In 1607 about 110 settlers tried to settle in Jamestown‚ which is located in Virginia‚ but many of the did not survive. Why did so many colonists die? Some of the reasons why the colonists died were because of disease‚ bad water and droughts so they couldn’t grow food. The diseases were bad because the English were coming with disease which was bad because when one person got it pretty much everyone got it. In the summer of 1607 nearly half of the settlers died from disease. In total‚ nearly 130
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Three things I want to do before I die. I’m going to talk about three things I want to do before I die. There are more than three‚ but If I have to chose‚ I say that I want to go south America‚ meet the actress from desperate housewives which is American drama‚ and find someone whom I truly love. Firstly‚ I’m going to talk about why I want to go South America. There’re two reasons to support this. As a First reason‚ I want to meet my friends with whom I studied English in Toronto. We still
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took the grain to England. This had to be one of the biggest reasons for the colonist’s starvation. Another big problem for the colonists is that their water was too salty and contaminated‚ which made it unusable. (Doc. A) This caused many to get sick and die. The thing that caused the water’s to become too salty are the high and low tides‚ an event that happened twice daily. Since the human waste didn’t flush away in the rivers and just stay in the water‚ this caused it to be contaminated and
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Why did so many colonist die in early Jamestown In early Jamestown many people died it was hard there with the droughts that lasted so long and the attacks on the settlers it was pretty harsh back then.A lot of people got killed but not many lived.Those who lived were very fourturnet . Why did so many colonist die in early Jamestown. One reason why the colonist died is the environment‚the water was one of the big reasons why the died .another big reason was the bad conditions such as a long
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How Many Brands Put Green Before Profits? Can an eco-friendly product also be in vogue? This has been the question that designers are still intensively focusing on. And most-known labels are already woking on the issue via the green business management. (pic1) But how many of them do spend how much eco-effort on the issue? Do they put green totally before profits? If it is unfortunately kind of an utopic idea at least for now; at which rate do they contribute? Let’s examine the brands one by one
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”Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” We live in a world where the internet and social media plays a big role. There are constantly becoming less and less physical contact‚ and fewer face-to -face relations. This is demonstrated by the fact that we keep in touch with each other over Facebook‚ shopping takes place over the internet‚ we keep up with our economy whit online banking and meet friends and lovers over online dating sites. In late modern society‚ we are always available. But are we
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Kate Chopin: Woman Before her Time “Perhaps it is better to wake up after all‚ even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.” These are some famous words of a woman ahead of her time‚ Kate Chopin. Kate wrote many stories about women and their sexual appetites and cravings for independence‚ which made her stories taboo during her time. Her stories focused mainly on the lives of sensitive‚ intelligent women. She simply wrote life as she saw it. According to her website‚ she
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How would you define coward? Webster’s dictionary states that a coward is a person who lacks the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things. Does this mean that if you refuse to fight in a war you’re a coward? I got my draft notice June 17‚ 1968. That was two weeks ago. Right now I am close to the Canadian border. I can’t face my family after getting the draft notice. I wouldn’t have been able to watch the sorrow and discouraged look in my father’s eyes as I told him I wasn’t going. How
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Live to die Death is a part of life experience‚ and life experience is the reality one can bravely face. For death‚ to be precise‚ facing death is what a person experience. Oganda from “The Rain Came” by Grace Ogot has to face death in order to save her people. In “ A Woman Like Me” by Xi Xi‚ the narrator has faced her parents’ death when she was young and make up the face of the dead people at work. No one can actually experience death because dead is dead and there is no feelings. As for life
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