big communities with millions of people‚ their lives and properties. Big floods always draw international attention. In order to support my discussion about floods with concrete examples‚ I will talk about causes and consequences of flood using Mississippi River basin. The flood plain A river’s flood plain is central to any discussion of floods. A broad‚ nearly flat landform consisting of stream-deposited sediment‚ the flood plain is inundated by flows in excess of channel capacity (that is‚ a flood)
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stretches from west-central to southeastern Mississippi‚ but thins right at the border of and barely touches Clarke County‚ Alabama (Echols‚ et al.‚ 1893). Geologist Ephraim Nobel Lowe originally proposed the name Madison Sands for this formation‚ due to the fact that he had studied it in Madison County‚ Mississippi. The name was later changed to Forest Hill by Charles Wythe Cooke. The Forest Hill Formation overlies the Red Bluff Formation in eastern Mississippi and disconformably overlies the Yazoo Formation
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Louisiana Purchase On April 30‚ 1803‚ Thomas Jefferson made a treaty with Napoleon of France called the Louisiana Purchase. The purchase included the acquirement of the New Orleans area and 828‚000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. Jefferson bought this land from France for $15 million dollars‚ with each acre costing about three cents. The Louisiana Purchase was one of Jefferson’s greatest accomplishments because it more than doubled the size of the United States. The land
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were highly dependent on free access to the Mississippi River ... and New Orleans.” Not only that‚ but many political officials in the U.S. feared Napoleon Bonaparte would try to dominate the Mississippi river and such frictions with France could lead to a war that Jefferson did not want. Jefferson‚ however‚ found himself in a conflict. His high Constitutional beliefs told
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establish reproducing populations in the wild by the early 1980s. At present‚ bighead carp have been found in the open waters of 23 states and silver carp in 17 states. Asian carp represent over 97% of the biomass in portions of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers and are quickly spreading northward up the Illinois River in the direction of the Great
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Deep inside every single one of us is a younger‚ a more youthful self. Although it seems as if we’re completely different people as we grow‚ that isn’t the case. We are simply a more mature version of our old self shaped by our previous life experiences. Our theme is seen when the narrator‚ Anne Moody gets into high school and soon develops a sense of personal growth. In doing so‚ Anne was capable of living her life to the fullest‚ her perspective on everything changing. “I was sick of pretending
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DBQ When the Native Americans lived east of the Mississippi river‚ they didn’t want to follow the law and be part of U.S. government and wanted to govern their own people. Andrew Jackson being a president of United States didn’t want the group to ignore the government therefore‚ proposed to move them west of the Mississippi river. In order to justify and keep threats away from the U.S. settlers‚ the U.S. government promised them bigger land‚ money‚ pay for their needs and support for one year
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In Mississippi Burning and Freedom Song shows two different perspective on the success of the civil rights movement. In the film Mississippi Burning the main focus is on the FBI helping African American achieve justice and prove to African American that they are willing to challenge the police department and clansmen for them. On the other hand freedom song portrays a combination effort of the old generation and the young generation trying to bring the community together to fight for their right
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growing population of the United States to expand west. Also‚ the Louisiana Purchase gave the United States the important port of New Orleans and the trading channel of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River played an important role for America. It was so important that we could go to war for it. (Document 7) The Mississippi River was also important because it was used for trading goods and was used for transportation. According to Document 3‚ purchasing Louisiana increased the economy because
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