Lake Superior

The Sioux expanded in order to capture furs, which could be traded for guns, and the guns allowed for more expansion. As the Sioux traded with white settlers and gained European goods, they were able to use these superior goods to conquer more neighboring groups. In the late seventeenth and early and mid-eighteenth centuries the Sioux conquered the following neighboring groups: Omahas, Otos, Cheyennes, Missouris, and Iowas (White 322). This demand for more resources…

the Americans over the British.British General John Burgoyne led a large army southward from Canada in the Champlain Valley,hoping to meet a similar British force marching northward from New York City and another British force marching eastward from Lake Ontario.The southern and western forces never arrived, and Burgoyne was surrounded by American forces in upstate New York. He fought two small battles to break…

There are times when chance takes a hold of the things we do in life, when we just cannot explain the unexplainable but we accept it anyway because of the extra ordinary results. For me this was never more undeniable than just last month, when I was granted an opportunity to go to Verona, Italy, as a part of something the army likes to call a staff ride. It is a great opportunity as an organization, were we as service members have an opportunity travel, learn something new, build esprit de corps…

in Duluth through the role of Operations Director at HOPE Clinic. HOPE Clinic serves low-income people without access to health care who are often homeless and living at CHUM. My goal is to connect these patients with primary care services at Lake Superior Community Health Center, an affordable option with sliding-scale fees for care. In the future, I intend on training with RPAP to maximize my effectiveness in rural settings. Together my passion for preventing chronic disease and experiences…

of different groups trades goods over extremely long distances. Burial mounds in the Ohio Valley, for example, have yielded obsidian from western Wyoming, shells from Florida, mica quarried in North Carolina and Tennessee, and copper from near Lake Superior. Yet how ever advanced the Native America cultures of the south and Mississippi Valley may have been, both cultures disappeared rather mysteriously just before the arrival…

In 2012, John Koenig created The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows to propose new words assigned to complex feelings previously without a name in an attempt to compensate for shortcomings in the English language. He constructed fresh words that strove to help people better connect with one another by communicating emotion through language. Among many others, he coined the word sonder to describe the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. By most…

Robert Wittenberg sat at the kitchen table in his lakeside condominium apartment, sorting through his mail which had accumulated over the last seven days while he was in Las Vegas. Aside from the standard bills that came every month, there was an assortment of junk mail which he culled from the pile and deposited in the wastepaper basket. He almost threw it away along with the rest of his junk mail,, but on closer examination, he decided that the letter didn't look like most junk mail that…

(Walvin 1987). The large number of different ethnic groups waiting in a line connotes to the international demand and appeal the stove has on other nationalities (The British Empire [sa]). The depiction of British scene with the lady roasting by the lake represents national pride to demonstrate how the stove is typically used in their domestic environment and its reinforcing their practices (Walvin 1987). The African man on his knees connotes the ideas of superiority in the British has a…

aspect of terrorism is that it is asymmetrical warfare that is unique and falls outside of the context of traditional warfare. Terrorism is the irregular use of violence by non-state groups against nonmilitary targets and personnel for political ends. (Lake 2002) The…

it. That is when I realized why my mother made me want to think school is important. My mother wanted to stay in school to have a better future for us and herself. Likewise, she left Mexico at a young age with my father to give us, her children a superior future. So I should take school and my education more…