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    Josh Martel p.6 English The Amazing Mississippi River What has four eyes but cant see? the Mississippi river! The Mississippi river is a huge river and draws a big crowd of tourist. With many activities and tours why would you not want to go and see the river? The Mississippi river holds lots of great history and is very complicated with dams and locks but more then anything it is a very beautiful! The river and all the nature and animals around it it is a breathtaking sight and worth it

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    1 March 2016 Coal‚ Iron‚ and Steam Engines. One of the most important and main parts of the Industrial Revolution was the invention of steam power. The invention of the steam engine made many changes to transportation‚ including steam powered trains. Steam powered trains are vehicles that run on rails or tracks and are powered by steam engines. They were first made to move goods and other items‚ then began to move people. Even though they were a huge part of transportation in the 19th and 20th

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                2. Inventions:- Modern Inventions was another positive effect of the industrialization development. Some examples of inventions are x-rays‚ telephone‚ electricity‚ steamboats‚ spinning jenny‚ water frame‚ and the power loom. Doctors in hospitals used X-rays to help them examine peoples’ overall health. Steamboats were a brilliant invention to help people move their goods or material across rivers or other small bodies of water. Railroads were expanded during the industrial revolution‚

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    description and representation in his pieces‚ but for his extensive and abound life experience‚ including various people he had met on the steamboat‚ things he had heard during his early life. In the text‚ the writer used a word ‘cosmic’ to describe the wide range of people Mark Twain met on the steamboat. As for the theme of the text‚ from the steamboat on the Mississippi to the development of railway later‚ from the gold rush to the civil war‚ the writer has grabbed the trace of Mark Twain’s

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    Anisa Witham Professor Vettese ENGL 100 D1 17 September 2017 Reading Response 2 Two Ways to See a River 1. Twain uses analogies in this short piece. In the first paragraph Twain says.” A broad expanse of the river turned to blood; in the middle distance the red hue brightened into gold…” (1). Twain is comparing the way the river shined to blood because they both are red. Using analogies puts imagery into the readers head of how the scene looked. If Twain was just to compare this river to another

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    The North & South emerged as two distinct regions because they had various differences. These differences included the geography‚ the economy‚ the culture‚ & the transportation of each region within the U.S. One of the most striking differences between the North & South was the climate and geography. In the North‚ the climate was very hilly and rocky so not the best for growing crops. It was also very hard to grow crops with such a short growing season. There were long‚ snowy winters and moderately

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    At the start of the video it talks about the transportation revolution that took place between 1815 and 1860. The outbreak of the civil war is what actually leads to the revolution coming to an end. In the video‚ the author compares the lives of two artists while in America and significant differences are noted in the kinds of lives they both led. There were several innovations that took place during this era that led to mega changes in this field of transportation. The video outline the various

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    A canal is a large ditch that is filled with water. Canals were only a few feet deep‚ and the water levels could be raised to carry boats over certain obstacles with large dams. With steamboats carrying cargo down canals‚ the populations of the surrounding towns would skyrocket‚ and poor towns would become bustling cities. Traveling by canal was much more efficient than going on muddy roads‚ or even corduroy roads. This was beneficial

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    PERSUASIVE SPEECH OUTLINE Topic:   Why you should donate blood. General Purpose: To persuade the audience why they should donate blood. Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience why they should donate blood by telling them some surprising statistics about donating blood and what they can do to help solve the problem. I. Introduction 1.Imagine your father has just suffered a heart attack and must undergo an open-hearth surgery. 2.imagine your little brother or sister was born with a heart

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    were tiny and could fix the machines and they were fast with the machines. James Watt invented the first liable steam engine in 1775. Robert Fulton invented regular steamboat service on the River Hudson in 1807. Changes during the Industrial Revolution: - More people move to the cities. - Population grew. - In 1807‚ steamboat was first invented in the USA. - Infrastructure grew. - Life expectancy increased. - In 1804‚ the first locomotive was used to transfer goods. - Less people die of

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