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    50 and 100 words. 1. Painting title‚ artist‚ date: A Showery Day‚ Grand Canyon‚ Thomas Moran‚ 1919 a. What events influenced this painting? How? Many people were not aware of Arizona’s Canyon until 1869‚ when John Wesley Powell became the first to travel its full length by boat. In 1871 Powell made a second trip accompanied by the young artist Frederick Dellenbaugh. His third trip was in 1873‚ when he introduced the Grand Canyon to landscape artist Thomas Moran‚ who portrayed its grandeur to the

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    books and other articles that I would need on the flight and in America. My mind was filled with various ideas about how I would spend my time with my cousins. I started dreaming about Disney world‚ Universal studios‚ the Statue of Liberty‚ the Grand Canyon and all the other tourist attractions that I had read about in magazines. My father took me shopping the same day because he felt that I would need some more things to take with me. We bought gifts for my cousins and my uncle and aunt and when

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    everything. We were acutely aware that we had overdressed for the weather‚ having just left a chilly Illinois. It was the hottest place to which I had ever been. The both of us‚ father and son‚ were going to meet up with my grandpa to go to the Grand Canyon for one of the greatest trips ever. We were going white water rafting on the Colorado River for eight days. Returning to the hotel‚ we immediately headed into the conference room to begin the week’s plans. Surrounding me were men and women

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    packaged experience to people and how the true values of experience via confrontation is being ruined because of that “preformed complex” (460). The travelers these days in the Grand Canyon will not see the same values and beauty that Garcia López de Cárdenas did‚ because they already pre-experienced the values of the Grand Canyon via “appropriated symbolic complex”; Percy describes this as the difference between the “sightseers” and “discoverers‚” saying‚ “the thing is no longer the thing as it confronted”

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    Italy—from scratch‚ sauce and all. 10. Learn Spanish or Italian (or at least enough to hold a conversation). 11. Hit the lottery and spend it all in one week‚ but none of it on myself. 12. Never lose my ambition. 13. Go hang gliding in the Grand Canyon. 14. Change somebody’s life dramatically and not just financially. 15. Spend a weekend‚ outside‚ in the back country of Tuscany. 16. Make lifelong friends and spend as much time with them as possible. 17. Create a piece of art that hangs in

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    Name: __________________________________ Date Completed: _____________________________ Class: ____________ Lab Minutes: _______________ Teacher: _______________________________ This lab was created by Mr.Buckley from Edward Knox High School. Credit is given for this original activity to Mr. Buckley. |Problem: What lessons can we learn from the Kaibab deer? |[pic] | |Objectives:

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    the negatives certainly outweigh the positives. To start‚ there is literally nothing to do here. Our most exciting landmarks are shopping malls‚ dirt‚ and a hole in the ground. The grand Canyon is beautiful and it should be on your bucket list‚ but that’s it. Don’t move to Arizona just so you can see the grand canyon. Although it’s one of the wonders of the world‚ it’s only

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    in Italy—from scratch‚ sauce and all. 10. Learn Spanish or Italian (or at least enough to hold a conversation). 11. Hit the lottery and spend it all in one week‚ but none of it on myself. 12. Never lose my ambition. 13. Go hang gliding in the Grand

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    guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn‚ but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth‚ the Grand Canyon‚ something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible‚ right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I

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    River rafting The modern raft is an inflatable boat‚ consisting of very durable‚ multi-layered rubberized (hypalon) or vinyl fabrics (PVC) with several independent air chambers. The length varies between 3.5 m (11 ft) and 6 m (20 ft)‚ the width between 1.8 m (6 ft) and 2.5 m (8 ft). The exception to this size rule is usually the packraft‚ which is designed as a portable single-person raft and may be as small as 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) long and weigh as little as 4 pounds (1.8 kg). Rafts come in a few

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