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    Native American Dwellings

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    Native American Dwellings Katie Nguyen Civics Coach Kelly Period 3 Hundreds of years ago‚ America’s first people lived in a variety of dwellings. Their homes depend geographically from where they live. Each Indian tribe needed a housing that would fit their lifestyle and climate. Because North America is such a big continent‚ each tribe had to adapt to different weather and environments‚ ranging from the Arizona deserts of 120 degree Fahrenheit‚ to the Alaskan tundra of -50 degree Fahrenheit

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    Out of the Dust

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    They are waiting on rain to come for their crops. When the rain does come she feels her dad is getting better‚ and in the end her hands will not stop her from playing piano. The novel is historical. It was located in the Southwestern Great Plains of the United States‚ otherwise known as the Dust Bowl. It takes place during the Great Depression. The Dust Bowl is when you didn’t get any rain. The Sun dried up the soil‚ crops‚ and wasn’t good for the animals. They were limited on water because

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    Case Study

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    A flat file database describes any of various means to encode a database model (most commonly a table) as a single file. Example of a flat file model A flat file can be a plain text file‚ usually containing one record per line‚ or it can be a binary file. Within such a record‚ the singlefields can be separated by delimiters such as comma or tab characters‚ or may have a fixed length. In the latter case‚ short values may be padded with space characters. Extra formatting may be needed to avoid delimiter

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    about the author

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    managed a flour plant and served as treasurer of Monterey County. His mother‚ Olive Hamilton Steinbeck‚ was a former schoolteacher. John died in 1968. After World War I‚ economic forces brought many poor and migrant agricultural workers from the Great Plains states‚ such as Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ California. Following World War I‚ a recession led to a drop in the market price of farm crops‚ which meant that farmers were forced to produce more goods in order to earn the same amount of money. The stock market

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    Hello‚ and welcome to “Learn More‚ Teach More.” It has been more than five centuries since Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. We know a great deal about Columbus‚ of course‚ and about the Europeans and Africans who crossed the Atlantic after him. We know much less about the “Indians‚” as Columbus mistakenly called them—the people already living in America. But we are learning more all the time‚ so I want to talk about early contacts between Native Americans and newcomers. We now estimate

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    Water Conservation

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    How Important is Water?As we all know‚ water is essential for mankind ’s survival. However‚ people seem to believe that our water supply is endless since there is more water than land on this Earth. Water regenerates and is redistributed through evaporation‚ making it seem endlessly renewable. So why worry?Actually‚ only one percent of the world ’s water has the capability of being used by us. About ninety-seven percent is salty seawater‚ and two percent is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps.

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    Protectors? The Sioux Indians also known as the Lakota were first around in the 18th century. They were the largest tribe and not many people know that they were nomadic. As they were nomadic‚ they travelled a lot and followed buffalos around the Great Plains. The traditional view on the Sioux Indians is that they are barbaric because of what people had heard and because of Hollywood. But the more recent view of them is that they are more spiritual and they are put across as positive.

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    Trials of the Endured A light blue sky with a touch of white is granting the brightness for the picture taken at some point in daylight. Still grass and the idle trees cover the setting of what appeared be to a neighborhood‚ indicated by a white‚ urban house and miscellaneous items that presents itself in the background. Right in front of this picture‚ a young boy in a navy-blue bathroom robe is playing with a fallen tree branch and a leaf that’s a quarter of his size. His posture ensnared my

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    The Eastern Woodland Indians The Eastern Woodland Indians was comprised mainly of two major regions the Iroquois and the Cherokee. These Indians lived from the East of the plains down to the coast. Iroquois region was in the North Eastern known today as the vicinity of Ohio and the Cherokee region was in the Southeastern known today as the Georgia and Tennessee vicinity. The Indians dwelt off lands gathering‚ farming‚ hunting‚ and fishing for survival. While men created bows and arrows for hunting

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    westward expansion

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    Westward expansion was an important part of not only American history but the history of Native Americans as well. In a sense this journey seemed like a good idea and even an opportunity to further colonize the land but there was one problem‚ a group had already claimed the land as their home. This minor set back did not discourage Americans from working towards manifest destiny. The ways of the Native Americans were very different from those of the new settlers which caused much conflict and misconceptions

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