Hudson Group

We are first given a glimpse of the world Rip lives, his homestead and the places he is frequent to, and an elaborate telling of his lifestyle and ways. The second phase is the period by which Rip finds himself amongst Henry Hudson and his men, drinking and playing nine pins. Lastly, it is Rips return to a vaguely familiar yet very different land. In parts one and three, we are given some land marks that give a before and after image of change. We see in Rips arrival into his…

The stories used in this comparison is the reading from Being Prey: Surviving a Crocodile Attack and the video from ‘Three Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed’. Being Prey reading and ‘Three Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed’ video both tell about learning life lessons when they were in accident, but how they react to the dangerous situation is different. These stories are based on true story and fortunately, both of them survived from the incident. The first story is Being Prey:…

“Markers, Paw-Prints, Hair Dye, and Other Mistakes” I love trying new things. I’m bold. I love the rush of adrenaline you get when taking risks. I love the unknown. I’ve had this mindset for as long as I can remember; I’ve always believed that living a life without being audacious isn’t a life worth having. You need to be impulsive. Try new things without worrying about the outcome, because if you do, you won’t enjoy the little things in life nearly as much. But things can go wrong, and…

The market revolution is a term used to describe the increase of the exchange of goods and services in market transaction. In the first few decades of the nineteenth century, the transportation system was limited. The great rivers west of the Appalachians could not connect with the western famers to eastern markets since they flowed north to south. The roads were poor, expensive to maintain and horse-drawn wagons had limited capacity. So how were the farmers supposed to turn a profit from their…

by boiling the fat to make oil, and using the oil as lamp oil, to create soap. The baleen part of the whale was used for umbrellas and female fashion. Although Giovanni da Verrazano discovered the greater northern river, it was later named the Hudson River as I was credited for making the river known to the Dutch. As soon as the Dutch found out, they colonized New Amsterdam. My work was able to drastically influence North…

The Hudson Valley has a direct and significant impact on the economic progression of New York State. Statistics show that the Hudson Valley yields an unprecedented “$227 billion dollars” to assist the state’s economy (newyorktimes.com). This phenomenon is driven by the International Business Machine Corporation (IBM) providing numerous benefits due to its vast employment rates; thus both positively and negatively affecting local real estate and commercial markets in the Hudson Valley. The IBM…

now were over the water at one hundred feet. We were climbing fast and on our way up to 30 thousand feet, we were climbing over New York city. As of now it was just a normal cold day takeoff. The buildings were flying buy quick and I could see the hudson river in the distance. I thought how cold the water could be down in the river, little did I Know that I would be in that water. It was 3:26 we were climbing out of one thousand feet above the city. It was now 3:27:02, I saw geese I yelled…

John Rutherford wrote this article about the Erie Canal to the people of New York informing them of the recent concerns about who is in control of the canal, who can transport goods by the canal, and how the canal will operate. He uses examples and details telling New York that some Citizens of the Western States will not use the canal because they believe it will be to be trafficked by the big cities’ trade instead. This causing them to continue using other waterways including the Welland canal…

America but a useful tool for interpreting contemporary culture. The Hudson River school is an art movement that emerged in the mid 19th century. It is named for its origin in the Hudson River Valley area of New York but it quickly built a presence across all of New England. The location of the movement is central to an understanding of it due to its focus on the beauty and sanctity of nature. Prominent painters of the Hudson River school style saw North America as a manifestation of God and…

The Hudson River School was a group of artists based in New York City in the mid 19th Century. Primarily known for painting landscapes, the group belonged to many of the same clubs and in 1858 many of them worked at the Studio Building on West 10th Street, the first building in New York City to be built primarily as a workplace for artists. Thomas Cole, considered to be the founder of the movement, was born in England in 1801 and emigrated to the United States in 1818. In 1825 he moved to New…