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    Kurtz wants to turn the stations into beacons of civilization and moral improvement‚ and Kurtz wants to take over the manager’s position. about fifty miles from the Inner Station‚ the steamboat came across a hut. Written on a board it said "Wood for you. Hurry up. Approach cautiously." Inside the hut‚ Marlow found a rudely formed table‚ a heap of rubbish‚ and a book about seamanship. The natives took the wood and Marlow slipped the book

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    MICKEY MOUSE‚ Walt Disney ’s most famous character‚ made his screen debut on November 18‚ 1928‚ as star of the first sound cartoon‚ Steamboat Willie. Since his debut‚ Mickey Mouse has become an international personality whose success laid the financial foundation upon which Walt Disney built his creative organization. Besides being the personification of everything Disney‚ Mickey Mouse has become one of the most universal symbols of the Twentieth Century. Mickey Mouse was born in Walt Disney

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    Mark Twain. Huckleberry is a very caring person because he is compassionate‚ skillful‚ and very discreet. First‚ Huckleberry’s character shows that he is compassionate towards everyone. An example of this is when Huckleberry came across a wrecked steamboat in the river. Huck decides to check it out and as he got aboard Huck heard voices saying‚ “‘Oh please don’t boys; I swear I won’t ever tell!’” (p. 67). He then a heard a reply“‘It’s a lie‚ Jim Turner … You always want more’n your share of the truck’”

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    Walt Disney Walter Elias “Walt” Disney was born December 5‚ 1901‚ in Hermosa‚ Illinois. He and Roy his brother‚ co-founder Walt Disney Productions‚ it became one of the best-known motion-picture companies in the world. Disney created the cartoon character Mickey Mouse‚ which became the world’s oldest and most famous vermin in the world. Walt Disney was an extremely creative’ person‚ who took his talents‚ developed many movies‚ characters‚ and two theme parks for all ages to enjoy. Walt Disney’s

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    only how transformative the steam engines were. The steam engines caused industrialization to form. These boats allowed more jobs and more factories which helped the economy. Factories were more useful as the demand for the resources used for the steamboats grew. The problems that it causes were never made important. The steam engines caused air pollutant that was harmful to people. The pollutant filled the skies of three major cities: London‚Paris‚and New York. in the 1800s‚London’s sky was filled

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    The Treaty of Paris 1783 Short after the battle of Yorktown in 1781‚ talks of peace began to linger in the English Parliament and in the Continental Congress. Although‚ back in those days Parliament was infamous for being unstable‚ and most of the time it depended on the House of Commons and the good favor or the King. When the news of the defeat at Yorktown reached England‚ the parliamentary opposition succeeded in overthrowing the embattled government led by Lord North. Unfortunately the new

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    Mississippi river. When he was young‚ Twain lived in a time when slavery was still legal‚ we see influence of this in many of his novels. Another primary influence in Twain’s novels were his ambition as a boy to become a steamboat captain. In 1857‚ he became an apprentice to a licensed steamboat captain‚ where he discovered the phrase‚"mark twain"‚ which he later took as his pen name. We know all these things and more about Mr. Twain. How he spoke‚ how he wrote‚ these things are all recorded. However‚ who

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    Railroads were first invented during this time and was a faster way to travel and transport goods across the country. The way of traveling before railroads was by river on steamboats showed in the fourth document. Steamboats were invented during early part of the Industrial Revolution‚ and then later on railroads were created that made it easier to get from the east to west. Building railroads that went hundreds of miles took a lot of labor. This

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    Question 1 Indian Removal The Indian Removal Act was the forced relocation of Indian Tribes from their homelands to federal lands further West. The people of the South supported this Act because they wanted to gain the fertile Indian lands. A type of Indian resistance would be that they attempted to adopt “white” practices‚ like large farms and even owning slaves. Another type of Indian resistance would be going to war. The First Seminole War‚ for example‚ tried fighting against the Americans for

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    ruling protects a central government view‚ and keeps the power within this government. This biasness is also shown in 1824 at the Gibbons vs. Ogden trial. The steam boat had skyrocketed as a fast transport across rivers. So Fulton’s steamboat‚ the North River Steamboat‚ received exclusive‚ long term rights to operate and license all steam-powered ferryboat on the Hudson River. Yet there was competition when Gibbons took people to New York City from a small town of Elizabethtown. Ogden‚ an operator

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