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mainly farmed,but some men of the Doukhobors were carpenters and joiners, shoemakers, blacksmiths, harness makers,etc. ; and women cooked and farmed and as well wove, embroidered, and made clothing for their families. To pay the mortgages in British Columbia, most of the men went out of the villages they lived communally in to build skills on highway construction and maintenance, also went to work in the forest industry. When the CCUB had failed, many of the workers had stayed in the forest…

to get rid of Wishpoosh. He speared the beaver, which caused a major fight within the water. During the fight, the beaver’s dam broke and while coyote was trying to get away, he pulled on rocks and bushes and this created what is now known as the Columbia Gorge. Coyote was getting extremely tired during the fight and decided he needed to come up with another plan. He turned himself into a tree branch and soon after, Wishpoosh swallowed him. Once Coyote was inside the beaver, he returned to his…

When I think of Columbia, I think of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse because, just as Siddhartha experiences extremes before understanding the whole of existence, Columbians have their knowledge stretched between two polar opposites before realizing themselves. When I embarked upon reading Gateway to the Great Books, I learned that it was just the prelude of a project started in Columbia. However, unlike most schools with a strong humanities department, it’s also excellent in STEM subjects. In fact…

Geography is the study of the interaction between people within their environment at a place. It includes three factors: space, place, and environment. In this paper, I will first explain what those three factors entail. Then, I will relate the factors to Portland in detail. Finally, I will discuss the research a geographer would need to produce knowledge by exploration and observation in regards to a city. The central concepts of geography are the space, place, and environment. The three…

Wild steelhead (O. mykiss) populations are in decline across much of their native range. Nevertheless, steelhead remain an important sport fishery and a key management species for state and federal agencies. Steelhead managers are faced with a number of challenges associated with regulations and recovery goals imposed by the Endangered Species Act (ESA), while simultaneously attempting to maintain recreational angling opportunities. Factors affecting recruitment and survival of wild steelhead…

recharge in the lap of nature while going on various adventurous thrills. Glacier National Park is one of the options that you can consider. There are two different parks with the same name – Glacier National park – one of them is situated in British Columbia in Canada while the other is in Montana in the US. Glacier National Park in the US is directly connected to the Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. Both of these parks, connected by the US-Canadian international border…

Major Art history and visual arts 1. What aspect of the Columbia community, outside of the classroom, would you most want to impact and why? (150 words or less) I want to get involved in the Columbia University Badminton Club. As the president of the Badminton Club in my high school myself, the club won the award for the Best Club; badminton is always the sport I have great passion for. Columbia has a well-developed badminton club with weekly exercise and professional games. If I can get in…

Between 1916 and 1949 a few other companies offered colored shellac discs, including a blue-shellacked series from Columbia during the 1930s and chocolate colored pressings from a budget label “Perfect Records” prior to the 1930s. In 1949 when RCA Victor launched their 45-RPM format they began color-coding their records based on genre calcification. They classifications are as follows: Black Vinyl – Pop Pressings (Prefix 47) Green Vinyl – Country Music (Prefix 48) Red Vinyl - “Red Seal”…

The article “The Character of the British Columbia Frontier” by Barry M. Gough discusses the forces and institutions that influenced British Columbia to change from Ingenious land to a fur trade territory and then to a colony. Additionally, the character of the British Columbia Frontier was influenced by an imperial tide from 1846-1871 that caused a change in the character of human occupation and it brought new political and social institutions whose legacies can still be seen in present…

Canadians together. Since the railways were constructed Canada has become more culturally diverse meaning there was an increase in immigration in Canada and exposed Canada to different religions and cultures. There were people from China, Japan, British Columbia, and places all over, coming into Canada to settle with their families and find jobs. The railways also…