The Lewis and Clark expedition ignited a period of expansion for the US. The enormous amount of new discoveries of all the new plant and animal species gave the United States a monopoly over certain products only found in the west. Ideas knowledge learned from the Indians influenced western medicine and helped shape diverse lifestyles‚ which provided the West with a much-needed break from the archaic ways of British living. The new geography discovered on the journey coaxed others to follow the expedition’s
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Afton Rios Msc #225 Apologetics Paper #1 Clive Staples Lewis‚ or C.S Lewis‚ was a well known novelist and Christian Apologist. However‚ he it was only in his later life that he argued for the existence of God. He andured many hardships in his childhood. With his mother’s passing‚ influence of the boarding school he attended‚ along with other life situations caused Lewis to reject Christianity and become an avowed atheist. But today he is best known as an apologist‚ probably the most successful
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“Lewis and Clark Expedition”—An Integrated Learning Event Lesson #1: PowerPoint Teacher: Casey Lamping Subject: Social Studies Lesson Topic(s): Lewis and Clark Expedition PowerPoint Grade: 8th Learner Descriptions: 10 students: 4 girls‚ 6 boys Students with IEPs who require accommodations specified in the IEP: * 1-Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)‚ Tier 3 Reading Students without an IEP who have special needs: * 1-Gifted and Talented * 1-ELL * 1-Tier 2 Reading
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John Lewis Partnership Profile John Lewis Partnership (JLP) is a UK leading retail company which operates department stores and supermarkets. Products of this company include furniture‚ kitchenware‚ clothing items‚ groceries and organic foods. It also offers other services such as insurance services‚ textiles manufacturing‚ real estate services‚ online sale of products and travel services. Its brands include John Lewis and Waitrose (Datamonitor‚ 2010). Headquartered in London‚ the UK‚ it
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mention the name John Lewis is an image of a high street retail giant. Indeed the John Lewis Partnership is one of the UK’s top ten retail businesses with 27 John Lewis department stores and more than 166 Waitrose stores‚ the upmarket supermarket chain owned by the partnership‚ in Great Britain. The first store opened in Oxford Street London in 1864 with the first branch of the Waitrose chain opening in 1904. But for many‚ what may be an unknown detail about the John Lewis Partnership is that it
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Lewis Carroll “I can not go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”- Lewis Carroll. He was a very unpredictable writer in many senses‚ including the characters in his books and their actions. Most people would not know that Alice‚ from the two creatively written fantasy novels‚ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or Through the looking glass‚ was an actual girl. She was a close friend of Lewis Carroll‚ the man behind the two interesting literary works. Little did she know‚ that she
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yet mind boggling poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll‚ Carroll blends words together which creates a more made-up‚ magical theme. Though this poem is confusing and hard to understand at first because of the made up words‚ I believe that as said in the anecdote of the Introduction to Poetry‚ from the Anthology‚ the poem would take on a whole new meaning if we had the poet explain how he came to write the poem itself. I would love to sit down with Lewis Carroll and ask him why he wrote this fascinating
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C.S. Lewis Born on November 29‚ 1898 in Belfast‚ Ireland‚ C.S. “Jack” Lewis was the second child to Albert Lewis and Florence Augusta Hamilton- both who are said to have had “first rate minds” (C.S. Lewis: A Profile of His Life) and who passed their love for books and reading down to their children‚ along with their extensive library. Because of this‚ Lewis adapted an incredible writing skill‚ as well. However‚ after his tenth birthday in 1908‚ Lewis’ world was turned upside down by the death of
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" Captain Meriwether Lewis and William Clark took the risk of life‚ limb‚ and liberty to bring back the precious and valuable information of the Pacific Northwest of the United States territory. Their accomplishments of surviving the trek and delivering the data to the U.S. government‚ have altered the course of history‚ but have some Historian’s and author’s stating‚ "It produced nothing useful."‚ and having "added little to the stock of science and wealth. Lewis and Clark’s expedition is
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In the section The Monastery and the Clock‚ in Lewis Mumford’s Technics and Civilization‚ the clock is regarded as the key-machine of the modern industrial age. How such a machine managed to change the way we live out our existence is phenomenal. First used in seventh century monastery’s to keep a rule of order over the monks and to ensure that events take place regularly. Now the clock is an integral part of civilization. Since its creation it has prepared mankind to be compatible with future machines
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