McCall Blaine Sederstrom Who is C.W. McCall and what’s the story behind him? C.W. McCall is actually not a real person. C.W. McCall is truly William D. Fries but just goes by Bill Fries. Bill fries was born November 15‚ 1928 in Audubon Iowa. Audubon Iowa is a very small town west of Des Moines surrounded by corn farms . The population was around 2‚250 people in 1930 and has declined to about 2000 in 2010. Bill said "He was a child of the Great Depression and his family was not very well
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Stephanie Springer October. 12‚ 2012 George Washington Carver was born in January 1864 into slavery in Diamond‚ Missouri. His master Moses Carver was a German American immigrant who brought George’s parents Mary and Giles. George had 10 brothers and sisters who all died prematurely. When George was only a week old‚ he was kidnapped along with his mother and sister‚ George’s older brother James got to safety though. The raiders sold the stolen slaves in Kentucky. Moses Carver hired a man named John
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There are many advantages of forming a civilization on a delta or near a river valley. One advantage is that there is plenty of fertile soil for farming. Hunters and gatherers needed to be able to produce their own food. In Mesopotamia‚ the Fertile Crescent‚ the Tigris and Euphrates flood and deposit rich soil for farming. Eventually‚ the farmers learned to irrigate the river water‚ which led to surplus food supplies. In Sumer‚ which is located on the delta of the Euphrates‚ the Sumerians were
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team player but she never was. She always remained humble‚ and used fearlessness collaboration with her teammates on how they could improve as a team. I also see it in my older sister Taylor. Taylor is currently studying Elementary Education here at Iowa. She is also a mentor for the Reach Program which is the students with disabilities on campus. Taylor needs and has this type of leadership philosophy to advance in her career‚ and lastly‚ I see it in my mom. I actually see it in my mom the most. Even
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the Mississippi are that they enhance the electricity generating capacity for the surrounding regions and the river won’t dry up but just waits for more water to arrive. The disadvantage of building dams on the Mississippi is that it could cause flooding if there are too great amounts of water. The flow of major tributaries in places such as Missouri‚ Ohio and Tennessee has been controlled by a series of dams. The upper st Anthony falls dam is situated on the upper course of the Mississippi river
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that is engaged in the production of wheat. Located in Iowa‚ the 2‚000-acre farm was established by Jeremiah Grennell more than 20 years ago. The sudden demise of its founder has led the farm to be transferred to the leadership of‚ Mr. Grennell’s niece and chosen heir‚ Denise Grey. She was informed of her inheritance early in 2010. Ms. Grey works as an AVP in the consumer credit of a large New York bank. With the huge distance between Iowa and New York‚ she is carefully studying the advantages
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water off the coast of South America. Climatologists call this El Niño. Its climate impacts show up mostly in the wintertime over North America. The warmer ocean fuels an intensification and southward shift of the jet stream. This brings disastrous flooding to the southern United States and warmer‚ drier conditions over parts of the Pacific Northwest‚ northern U.S‚ and Canada. But eventually those trade winds will pick up again and may become stronger than usual. When that occurs‚ they push the warm
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The basic idea of geography is the study of the physical features of the earth and human activity as it affects and is affected by these features. The special characteristics that make up Earth’s surface include various climates‚ countries‚ peoples‚ and natural resources. River valleys‚ mountains‚ deserts‚ islands‚ rainforest‚ and climate are some structures that are considered as geographical features. A geographical feature such as river valleys had an importance in the ways people lived in earlier
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Although the flood caused a lot of damage to the houses‚ buildings and landscape of Florida it could have been worse. Since Florida has such high risk for flooding they have prevention methods in place. One of the bigger and more effective methods are seawalls which are built in the ocean in order to stop very large tides that would cause flooding. However‚ seawalls are not very environmentally friendly. Seawalls are used in many high risk flood zone‚ not just Florida‚ so the problem exists all over
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much more. The Omaha tribe was first discovered in the 1600‘s near the Missouri river in present northwestern Iowa. The tribe covered land on both sides of the Missouri river from the mouth of the Platte river as far north as the Little bow river in Cedar County located in Iowa. Their territory extended from Yankton South Dakota south to Rulo Nebraska and up to Cedar county Iowa‚ an area of 35‚600‚000 acres. They had villages at Homer and several other locations up and down the Missouri river
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