life she traveled with Lewis and Clark. She will be remembered for being and interpreter on the expedition to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. The influential person that saved America I’ll be writing about is Sacajawea‚ meaning “Bird Woman.” For starters‚ Sacagawea symbolizes women’s worth and independence‚ erecting several statues and plaques in her memory‚ and doing much to spread the story of her contributions. Her main contribution is guiding the Lewis and Clark expedition in
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Bibliography: Into the Wardrobe: a C. S. Lewis web site‚ http://cslewis.drzeus.net/bio/ (accessed Feb. 2005) Lewis‚ W.H.‚ ed.‚ Letters of C.S. Lewis (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich‚ 1966). Green‚ Roger Lancelyn and Walter Hooper‚ C.S. Lewis: A Biography (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich‚ 1974). Frequently Asked Questions About C.S. Lewis‚ http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/lewis/cs-lewis.htm (accessed Feb 2005)
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With permission from France and a grant from congress‚ Jefferson sent an expedition to explore Louisiana and the region beyond. He appointed Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition‚ who he thought knew a lot about the subjects of nature. William Clark‚ another soldier‚ accompanied Lewis mainly because of his experience with the Indians. When Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis‚ they were heroes. Not only had they discovered “multiple passes across the rockies”‚ page 183‚ paragraph 2‚ but they
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vivid details‚ C.S Lewis does a great job of incorporating the Bible into his work The Chronicles of Narnia‚ from making the presences of his characters stand out amongst the crowd and making their presences known such as the Witch. C.S. Lewis uses allegory to symbolize Christianity with its main two elements: courage and faith; Christianity is tied to fantasy and imagination all through the series. From the use of Aslan as Jesus to Peter‚ Susan‚ Lucy‚ and Edmund as his sons‚ Lewis brings a different
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machine-based economy along with Albert Gallatin issuing the‚ “Report on Roads and Canals‚” leading to the creation of a national road were both big contributions to the American economy at that present time. Along with the Louisiana Purchase from France and Lewis and Clarke Expedition were two huge factors in the way America’s geography would turn out to this present day‚ along with helping the economy drastically. The election of Thomas Jefferson was on of the best things that has ever happened in American
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C. S. Lewis is a famous Christian author who uses the roles of good and evil to explain Christianity in his novel‚ The Screwtape Letters. Susan Black once said‚ “We’ve all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on – that’s who we really are.” There is both good and evil in the world‚ and it is our personal choice as to which of these we choose. I believe that Lewis recognized this and purposely chose to write from Screwtape’s perspective. This novel is
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directly. Periodicity is the quality or character of being periodic. The term periodic reflects the facts that the elements show patterns in their chemical properties in certain regular intervals. Two of the more common models include Bohr Model and Lewis Dot Model. Models play a very important role in the modern world i.e.‚ making predictions and telling us new information. The Periodic Table of Elements is a model because it can show us many things‚ valence‚ ionization‚ mass‚ and a number of different
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increased its scientific understanding‚ and as well as enhanced its worldwide reputation. The significant westward expansion was called the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The United States third president‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ named Meriwether Lewis the main leader of the expedition and Lewis chose William Clark to accompany him on his glorious journey. Meriwhether Lewis was a veteran of Indian wars skilled in the ways of the wilderness and William Clark was Lewis’s commanding officer in the army and also
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Christian Behavior Mere Christianity is a theology book written by C.S Lewis‚ as a commentary to the radio broadcastings between 1952 and 1954 of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The book was originally split up into three pamphlets: The Case for Christianity‚ Christian Behavior‚ and Beyond Personality. These set of documents are considered a classic of Christian apologetics. Christian Behavior is the third book in C.S Lewis’ Mere Christianity. Book three contains twelve Chapters which view questions
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Apologies were beautiful. Two people mended a broken bond with careful words of regret and remorse. To quote Lewis B.Smedes‚ a renowned author and theologian from the early nineteen hundreds‚ “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” But today‚ nearly one hundred years later‚ the way we apologize has been altered by our self-obsessed and self-serving society. It has merely become a polite formality- with little to no meaning. If we change the way we apologize
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