Lake Simcoe

Examining Henri Matisse’s painting, Vase, Bottle, and Fruit, Van Halen’s song “Jump,” and Swan Lake, they appear to be three distinctly different pieces of art, however analyzing these pieces thoroughly, one can see the many similarities between the three. Resembling Van Halen’s song which is composed of notes, pitches, and beats, Vase, Bottle, and Fruit is composed of colors, shapes, and lines and Swan Lake is comprised of footwork, gestures, and pirouettes. Similar to rhythm in music and…

Cosmic Chargers Essay By: The Cosmic Chargers Grade 6-7th Grade _________________________________________ Our city will be located on the coast of Lake Erie, where the land is flat and where there is a large amount of water and natural resources. There will be a diverse population and there will be lots of necessary jobs like services, shops, and industrial jobs. The buildings will be obliquely shaped. Long transportation will be underground on platforms with wheels. These would help for…

The Inca empire. The Aztec Empire. Empire. A very large group of people ruled over by one person. The Aztec and Inca empire were both different empires but they did have things common. Today I will be sharing and comparing the similarities and differences between the Aztec empire and the Inca empire. Although the tribes came from different locations and don’t have much in common, they do have different things that make them alike such as the fact that they both have important events that occur…

The Aztecs and the Spanish, they came in contact with each other and started a war. A war that was never forgotten, the fall and defeat of the Aztec empire. It was unavoidable, this is because Cortes and his men had the determination, also the Spanish were more powerful than the Aztecs in combat. Another reason is if Cortes and his men didn’t defeat the Aztecs, the King’s army searching for him would come in contact with them and kill them off if they didn’t convert to Catholic. Also when Cortes…

This body of water was very important to the Aztecs because it was the closest constant source of water. This lake would cause surrounding area to be fertile enough to hold a variety of plants than what is normally planted in the rest of the desert conditions. This would not only benefit the food aspect from a view of plants alone but animals that ate certain plants…

researchers come up short (Kreuter & De Rosa, 2004). The Great Lakes ecosystem is the largest body of freshwater in the world. This ecosystem holds 18% of the worlds freshwater supply in the world, it covers 95000 square miles of shoreline; includes 5000 tributaries and has an area of drainage of 288000 square miles. The Basin is populated with more than 35 million people and they depend on its natural resources to sustain their lives (Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Team). The…

to find a sign. What is the sign you might ask? Well it was to find an eagle sitting on a cactus eating a snake. It took more than a century for somebody to spot the sign! One lucky priest put an end to their search. He found the sign located near Lake Texcoco. To Aztecs disappointment there was a tribe already settled…

deadly. It might be too late to save the aquatic animals in the Great Lakes from migrant species that have come to take over, and make a new home. Shipping vessels coming from other waters carry many unwanted guests, known as invasive species, to make home in our waters in the United States. Invasive species hiding in the ballast of ships entering the Great Lakes damage the Great Lakes’ ecosystem. Invasive species enter the Great Lakes in the ballasts of shipping vessels. Shipping vessels are…

I picked from the bucket. My first topic I picked was Trovants from Contesti, Romania. I looked at a couple of sites, but it didn’t look interesting to me. It was living rocks that can move, grow, and reproduce, so I drew again. I drew the Anjikuni Lake in Canada. I looked through a couple of sites and decided that I would keep it because it looked interesting to me. I looked at more sites and each site helped me understand the disappearance of the people more and more. It is an unsolved…

The Aztecs originated in Northern Mexico. The Aztecs were in the 14th, 15th, and 16th century. They came to rule up to 500 small states, and 5 to 6 billion people. The Aztecs were the most powerful kingdom of all time. They formed an alliance with two other cities Texcoco and Tlacopan. Tenochtitlan was the heart of the Aztec civilization. The Aztec didn’t rule connected territories. They were conquering cities, and powers over areas. Europeans arrived in 1519. Reaching from the Pacific to the…