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    Plain Water Experiment

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    Purpose: How will salt and plain water affect plant cells? Hypothesis Clear water: If you place carrots and celery in plain water they will become flaccid and then eventually start to loose its colour and pieces of the celery or carrots will fall off. I know this because the vegetables will continue absorbing water putting the vegetable in a hypotonic solution. Pieces of the vegetable could break off because the cells are not getting what they need. The cells need to create glucose and oxygen

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    Question 1: According to the video “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Walls That Divide Us”‚ in 1934 when the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was founded‚ in their policy manual‚ they stated that neighborhoods were to remain homogenous‚ meaning white neighborhoods stayed white and black ones stayed black. So in an effort to ensure this‚ the FHA literally took a red marker and outlined areas where they are willing to insure home mortgages. This created the term redlining and this system of segregation

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    Eagle Plain poem paper

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    Eagle Plain The poem Eagle Plain is a very interesting poem. Even just reading the title of this poem starts to get your brain moving. This poem talks about the eagle being strictly American. The speaker tells of how the eagle does not know that it is the American eagle. When I read this poem‚ it caused me to think of all the things that people honored‚ and how all of those things don’t even realize that they are honored. This entire poem was about the symbol of America. With the poet using symbolism

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    Plain English editing (or re-writing) can cause discomfort‚ because it often reveals hidden weaknesses in the original document. But companies willing to accept the treatment and put in any work necessary will produce a document that shines. By turning existing‚ long-winded and inaccessible text into clear writing‚ plain English can shine an uncomfortably bright light on flaws in the original content that would otherwise remain unnoticed. The reality is that in many businesses‚ a lot of very

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    “The Plow That Broke the Plains” is a documentary of the Great Plains region‚ an area of 625‚000 square miles stretching across Texas‚ Kansas‚ Nebraska‚ Montana‚Wyoming‚ Colorado‚ New Mexico Oklahoma and the Dakotas. Written and directed by Pare Lorentz in 1936‚ it starts in the 1880s in the last frontier (the Great Plains)‚ when the territory was an "ocean of grass" perfect for cattle. The video ends in the middle 1930s‚ when farming choices had turned it into a no-man’s-land. People start heading

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    significant role in the lives of the Native Americans in the Great Plains region. During this time‚ the US government was trying to restrict residency of Indians in the Plains area as well as trying to avoid the spread of their culture. Technological developments aided the Native Americans in some ways‚ but it ultimately became a negative factor. In addition‚ government actions were astute in how they would mistreat and desolate the Plains Indians. With intention or no intention‚ both technology and government

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    The destruction of the Plains Indians’ cultures connected with the technological developments and government actions in the United States. During the period of struggle between Indians and Whites in the late 19th century‚ Indian leaders often traveled east to plead their case before the federal government‚ with few results. The building of the transcontinental railroads and all their branches was an inevitable part of the Industrial Revolution that drove America following the Civil War. The Indians

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    Amish "The Plain People" Relgion and Culture Jule England Beth McIlvain Indroduction to Interpersonal Communication 102 August 30‚2013 I done my intercultural Experience Assignment on the Amish‚ considered to others “the plain people”. I met with some of the Amish and I had a very interesting experience. When I met with one of the families in Cross Plains‚ IN‚ I had a list of questions that I was going to ask them. At this time I was when I found out that the Amish do not

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    Ojibwa Tribe Essay

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    No one ever knew Indians were ruthless. One of the most fierceful tribe of all Indian tribes is called the Ojibwa tribe. This particular tribe originally settled in the Northern part of the United States. The states in which they settled are: Minnesota‚ Wisconsin‚ and Michigan. They were one of the largest and most powerful of the Great Lakes area. After becoming more powerful‚ the made a huge expansion. Their land afterwards included southern Michigan‚ and south Ontario. Ontario is located in southern

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    “Emigrants Crossing the Plains” is a 60" x 96" oil painting that was created in 1867 by Albert Bierstadt. During Bierstadt’s first trip on the Oregon trail in 1859 he was inspired to capture the landscape and of the things he saw. From this inspiration he would go on to create many paintings of the West. The painting has been at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City since 1972. The painting shows a caravan that is on the way to Oregon. The caravan is surrounded by bountiful

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