Buffalo

the year 1817, a manmade canal was built and changed the lives of many ordinary Americans. The Erie Canal is a canal that spreads from Albany to Buffalo New York and connects with the Great Lakes. The Canal gave residents the chance to start over and build up from what they have. I have had the opportunity to read The Artificial River by Carol Sheriff. In her book, she explained how the Erie Canal changed lives and how it help show progress in American history. Some topics that Sheriff used to…

PERSONAL ESSAY 7 p.m. February 3 2005. Just like my dream birthday, Brother bought a large birthday cake and Mom prepared homemade pizzas, but it was always Dad’s present that I anticipate the most. By the time I tore open the gift, I did not even know that it was a beginning of everything especially for my passion towards machine. It was a model of complex machine racecar set. I shoot an “excited” look to my father and smile, oblivious to the fact that this gift would change my life…

The Erie Canal has been praised for years as a well-known legendary waterway around the world (Larkin 1998). The canal has been termed as “the greatest public work undertaken by a free society solely for the benefit of its people…the undertaking was a prodigious one” (Edmonds 1960, p. 1). Not only was the forty feet wide, four foot deep and 363 miles canal, which originally contained 77 locks, able to bridge a connection from Lake Erie to the Hudson and a 66 mile link to the Champlain Canal as a…

College in the fall of 2010. Medaille is a small, private, predominately white institution (PWI) in Buffalo, NY. In high school, I didn’t apply to any large institutions. Medaille was ten minutes away from my home, so it was very convenient at the time. After my first semester, I realized that Medaille was not the college for me. The school was expensive, lacked diversity,…

written the furthest in the past, is the Native American tale of the “Coyote & The Buffalo”, written during the Early American era.(1600-1800) The Native American folktales of this era focused on teaching good morals, and explaining bad ones. This story originated throughout Native tribes in hopes to teach the tales important morals to children, and adults alike.The story also includes the explanation as to why “No buffalo ever lived in the Swah-netk’-qhu country”.(Pg.44) This story's purpose…

Blue Buffalo, a pet food manufacturer headquartered in Wilton, Connecticut, announced a recall due to illnesses in dogs that was traced to the use of a variety of Blue Buffalo dog food. In this Letter from The Blue Buffalo Company they try to minimize the issue, as most companies would, and say While the potential of increased Vitamin D presents no serious health risk, and any negative reaction to these products has been confined to a very small segment of the canine population who appear to be…

in the settling of the American West. According to British historian David H. Murdoch: “Our images derive from the screen and Hollywood proves the point: ten films all told have Daniel Boone as the central character, Crockett appears in eleven, Buffalo Bill Cody features in 47, Billy the Kid in 44, Wild Bill Hickok and Jesse James in 35 each, General Custer in 34 and Wyatt…

adjust to living in a new city or town that they are unfamiliar with. Resonating with what many first year college students go through, I found that participating in the Buffalo River boat tour helped me to become more acquainted with the city of Buffalo and its surrounding areas. Furthermore, the added commentary of the history of Buffalo throughout the duration of the tour enriched and supplemented what I was visually…

join the regular American peacetime army. For over 20 years at the end of the 19th century black soldiers fought against the Plains Indians across the Southwest of the United States. The Native Americans referred to these African American men as “Buffalo Soldiers”. It is not know exactly why the Native Americans called them this, but accounts suggest that it is because of their tireless marching and rugged fighting style. The soldiers took this as a sign of respect and even adopted the name as…

1a. Jane Addams and the Hull House- She was an american activist and reformer. The Hull house was founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House served as a place where the working class immigrants could use as shelter and for social purposes. In Devil in the White City, when problems occurred about America's lower and middle class, the Hull House was used as a place to speak and issue these problems. B. Frederick Law Olmstead- He was an american landscape architect, born…