Indus River

RainForest My biome is the rainforest. I chose the rainforest because it seems like a very interesting biome to do my report on. There are many locations for rainforest the ones I found are the amazon rainforest, the rainforest of asia, the central american rainforest, and the australian rainforest. All these rainforest are different some are big and some are small. Although all of these rainforest do have something in common they are all tropical rainforest. The climate of a rainforest…

The Papaschase Land Claim is a battle that is still currently ongoing today. What was it that sparked such a major event? It is events such as the Papaschase Land Claim that show us the flaws in our judicial system, and allow us towards the betterment of society. What is the cost of such a learning curve? It all started when Chief Papaschase and his brother, along with their individual families started moving in the late 1850s. Over the next few years, the band moved through the Lesser…

guidance and a place to go when times get hard for students on campus. From the tree surrounding the river to the silent movement of the Mississippi River provides silent answers. Different shades of brown, blue, and green intertwine and provide a beautiful paradise known as the bluff. The lush green forestry outlines the river. Trees standing tall and mighty, as if they were declared guardians of the river. The smell of freshly cut grass interlaces with the smell of the river’s fresh water. As…

“dead zone”. A dead zone, also known as a hypoxia zone, is an area with little to no dissolved oxygen in the water. It is believed that these areas are depleted of oxygen because of the pollution in the runoff delivered by the mighty Mississippi River. A fair amount of this pollution comes from fertilizer runoff from Midwestern farms that leach into…

Mark Twain was a brilliant author liked and loved by many people. It did many great thing and wrote many great stories. He had many achievements and succeded through all of the good and bad. Mark Twain’s stories will be noticed and remembered forever. This is how it all happened. Mark Twain’s parents were Marshall and Jane clemens (Aller 7). He was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. Mark was born two months early (Aller 9). Mark had four siblings in 1835 Orion, Pamela,Margrete, and…

A major symbol in the novel was the Mississippi River (The Adventures). “So in two seconds away we went a-sliding down the river, and it did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river, and nobody to bother us” : to Huck, the river symbolizes freedom, not just from rules of society but also from child abuse (Gise 204). The river also symbolizes freedom from captivity and transportation leading them to freedom (The Adventures)…

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is a satiric novel written about the antebellum South. In the novel, a young boy, Huck, goes on a journey with an escaped slave, Jim, up the Mississippi river. Along the way, the two form a friendship that crosses the line set out by society. The major theme of the novel is the conflict between the individual and society. Within the novel, Huck battles with his conscience and societal pressure over his decision to help Jim escape the bondage of…

The Kyrie is possibly the oldest part of Christian liturgy, used in the Eastern Orthodox Church as well as in Roman and Protestant rites. Kyrie Eleison is a Latin transliteration of the Greek Lord, have mercy on me. Today’s Gospel reading gives us ten lepers who are standing a bit of a distance away from Jesus (as prescribed by Jewish law and custom) and shouting at him, “Lord, have mercy on me!” Our OT lesson story of the healing of Naaman and the healing of 10 lepers are very unique healing…

mountains in large numbers. By 1820, Missouri, on the western side of the Mississippi River, had enough people to apply for statehood! The idea of “the West” constantly changed as Americans pushed the farther and farther away from what had been the original 13 colonies. In the early 1800’s the "West" was generally considered to be the area west of the Appalachian Mountains to the territories and states in the Mississippi River Valley. Some people moved west because the eastern states were…

This wet seasons covers the entire Amazon floor and makes this remarkable Jungle into a flooded river way through the giant canopied trees. In the National Geographic documentary on the Flooded Rainforest points out that these new waterways brings in several different types of fish that wouldn’t usually be there. According to film fish that are usually found in the main portion of the Amazon River come to the inward parts of the newly formed Flooded Rainforest. One…