any land east of the Mississippi River. This mass migration of about 15‚000 Cherokee Indians is now referred to by the Cherokee Nation as The Trail of Tears‚ due to the adverse impact it had on the Cherokee. Nearly 4‚000 Native Americans died during this mass migration‚ due to the plethora of obstacles they faced‚ including starvation and exhaustion (“The Trail of Tears”). Another one of the Five Civil Tribes‚ the Creeks‚ lost about 3‚500 members when they were forced from their lands in Alabama (“Stories”)
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Hiking the Appalachian Trail after college Greetings College Graduates my name is Tyler Anderson and today I would like to take some time to encourage you to hike the Appalachian Trail before you head off into the world and start your new lives and careers. There is one book that you should take the time to read called “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson. In this book Bill Bryson is planning on hiking the entire 2‚220 miles of the Appalachian Trial. He wanted to reacquaint himself with nature
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Travel writer Bill Bryson and his friend Stephan Katz are hiking along the Appalachian Trail when it begins to snow. They cross narrow ledges and slip and slide across streams. It takes them two hours to cover sixtenths of a mile. Finally‚ they come to the bottom of Albert Mountain. They cannot go up‚ and they cannot go back. Bill finds a logging trail marked on his map. They plod up the road through the snow. At last they find the Appalachian Trail again. They know that they are close to a shelter. At Big Spring Shelter
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According to John O’Sullivan‚ an editor of United States Magazine and Democratic Review‚ Manifest Destiny means that “that our country is destined to be the great nation of futurity.” What does Manifest Destiny mean? American leaders in the nineteenth century believed that it was America’s destiny to expand the nation’s civilization and spread the idea of democracy across the continent. The United States was growing in numbers and economically as a nation. As the colonies are growing‚ land expansion
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Annotated Bibliography Blackburn‚ Marion. "Return or the trail of tears." Mar.-Apr. 53-64. ebsco. Web. It’s easy to miss this subtle groove‚ covered in pine straw and vines‚ worn in the ground of eastern Tennessee. In the summer of 1838‚ about 13‚000 Cherokee walked this path from their homes in the Appalachian Mountains to a new‚ government mandated homeland in Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears was a journey of some 900 miles that took approximately nine months to complete. After they were rounded
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S: Subject: The author‚ Bill Bryson decides he is going to hike the Appalachian Trail (AT)‚ (which is approximately 2‚150 miles) after moving to New Hampshire and stumbling upon a sign celebrating the Appalachian Trail. “The AT is along the eastern seaboard; from Georgia to Maine it wanders across fourteen states.” Pg.3 O: Occasion: This novel is a memory‚ description‚ and summary all in one‚ which incorporates the Rhetoric device of description and narration. The larger‚ broader occasion‚ is that
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Chapter 1- Bill Bryson and his fam have just moved to "a small town in New Hampshire" Wanted to walked the entire Appalachian trail‚ longest hiking path‚ Bryson was a nature person‚ he wanted to feel like a mountain man. Many people didn’t have faith that Bryson could complete the path‚ instead of incuringing him they tell him all the horrible things that happen along the trail. Bryson is disappointed that his friend Katz has gone back to drinking. While hiking Katz ends up missing‚ they were goin
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Forceful Removal of Natives The trail of tears was simply wrong. The trail of tears is one of the saddest events in our nation’s history. We forcefully took land that did not belong to us. In addition‚ we killed thousands in the process. The 5 nations east of the Mississippi were changed forever. We took from them the very rights that we just fought for in the Revolutionary War. We had such double standards thinking that we deserve the rights in our constitution but not the native americans. Why
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resources and use the land they owned. They needed all of the land they could get which included Indian land. The Indians had followed Thomas Jefferson’s idea to adapt to the American ways but they were still forced out of their homes and went on the Trail of Tears. America could not stop there though. The greed and thirst for conquest grew rapidly like a beast. Soon Americans began to settle in Texas which was in newly independent Mexico. Americans did not follow the rules that went along with
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Appalachian Trail Many people are not aware of the different opportunities for nature and sightseeing walks or hikes in American. There are Many Trails Mountains and forest that are ripe for exploring. One of the longest Trails marked by foot in the world is the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail is about 2‚180 miles long it passes through a ground breaking 14 states. The Appalachian Trail is mostly located in Virginia While West Virginia occupies the least amount of miles in the trail. This beautiful
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