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    MY HIKE The trail I chose was called Garnsey Road Arboretum. It is located on Garnsey Road‚ two blocks West of Moseley Road. .We drove to the trail which took about seven to eight minutes by car. There are a lot of muddy areas on this trail. There are many different slopes on this trail as well. Some slopes are steep and very uneven‚ and some are flat. My Aunt Rain went with me and we had a good time together. On the hike we played music and took many photos together. My Aunt Rain is fourteen

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    by the authorities. Native Americans were victims of many atrocities after the colonization of America‚ we’ll be discussing two situations that I personally believe can summarize the genocide against Native Americans; The Trail of Tears and the Massacre of Sand Creek. The Trail of Tears is the forced relocation of Native Americans after the Indian Removal Act was signed by the President Andrew Jackson in 1830. Cherokee‚ Muscogee‚ Chickasaw‚ Seminole‚ and Choctaw tribes were removed into Indian Territory

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    Cause and effect John G. Burnett English 101 A03 February 20 2011 Analysis Essay/Cause and Effect of Removal of the Cherokees By John G. Burnett During Andrew Jackson’s presidency from 1829 to 1837‚ a lot of controversial decisions were made. The removal of Cherokee Indians in the 1830’s was one‚ and this was more a change of the national policy than a reformulation. Since the Spanish came to the New World from the 1500’s‚ the continent’s inhabitants- Indians‚ were there. Beginning from

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    After wrongfully criticizing Chris in Outside Magazine‚ Krakauer reported that‚ “the boy made some mistakes on the Stampede Trail‚ but confusing a caribou with a moose wasn’t one of them” (pg. 178). Many criticized Chris for confusing a caribou with a moose‚ thinking that if he cant get that right how did he expect to survive in the wild‚ but they were the wrong ones and Chris

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    The Donner Party is a tragic story about eighty-seven people going on a journey leaving only forty-six surviving. The main originator of this group was a man named James Reed. Reed had recently read the book The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California by Landsford W. Hastings who proposed a new shortcut across the Great Basin. This route appealed to travelers because it would save them 350-400 miles on a terrain. However‚ Reed did not know that the Hastings Route had never been tested. The information

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    "A Walk in the Woods" Questions 1. Bill Bryson and Stephen Katz went out to hike on the Appalachian Trail. 2. A huge snow blizzard gets in their way. 3. They survived the ordeal by using a map that Bryson had. Then Bryson and Katz decided to take action and started walking along a logging trail and getting to a little shelter. There‚ they met Jim and Heath‚ who were prepared for the weather. The next morning‚ all four of them hiked along the Appalachian Trial and eventually split into the pairs

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    Peter Skrzynecki’s poems Immigrants at Central station and ’Crossing the Red Sea’‚ Alan Moir’s political cartoon MV Cormo Express (SMH 28/10/03)‚ about the stranded sheep in the middle of the ocean‚ and also the bookcover for Victor Kelleher’s Ivory Trail. Often journeys have an element of a lack of choice. In ’Immigrants at Central station’‚ Skrzynecki uses simile to describe their restricted freedom writing‚ ’like a word of command’. There is a sense of irony here‚ that having escaped their oppressive

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    minority who happened to be immigrants. The removal act was implemented in 1838 and 1839 by Andrew Jackson. After the Supreme Court ruling in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia(1832)‚ states had no authority over tribes‚ which later led to the trail of tears in 1938. The trail of tears forced the Cherokee Nation to give up all land east of the Mississippi River and migrate on to present day Oklahoma. The journey caused starvation and many other effects that killed over 4‚000 people. (Explain without opinion

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    and even starvation on their ways to their other destinations. The five major tribes affected were the Cherokee‚ Chickasaw‚ Choctaw‚ Creek‚ and Seminole. These were called The Civilized Tribes that moved into a more modern westernized culture. The Trail of Tears is a name given to the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Now that the Indians were out of the way Jackson had planned to expand

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