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to know “why?”. I soon found these answers in a place of learning, interests and so much more, my biology classroom. Hello, my name is Christopher Pellinger and I’m interested in your pre-college pre-med biology summer program. I am a freshman at Lenape Valley Regional High School in Stanhope NJ. Although my transcript does not show it yet I am going into my third marking period with a strong backing receiving straight A’s in all honors over the last marking period. Taking all honors for the…

I chose this book because this book tells a story like no other story that I have heard before. Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan is Mary Pope Osborne's story of a young Quaker girl living in the city of Delaware Valley in the state of Pennsylvania during the time of 1763. In her diary entries, Catharine tells her life with her strong believing Quaker family that they have lived the importance of their religion as a Quaker family should live and sharing…

Geographic Location The College of New Jersey is located in the Ewing Township, a suburb of Trenton, New Jersey. The neighborhoods can be traced back as far as the 1500’s by the Lenape tribe and was first settled by Europeans in the early 17th century by William Green, whose farmhouse is part of the college campus. TCNJ is home to over 289 colonial acres, which includes attractions, such as The Benjamin Temple House and Mountain View Golf Course. The surrounding Ewing has direct access to…

on Sandy Hook on behalf of the Dutch, who at the time had the greatest mercantile fleet in the world, however, it was not until 1624 when Dutch colonialist first settled on the island of Manhattan, which was inhabited by various tribes notably the Lenape and Munsee people who belong to the Algonquain family group. The Dutch founded New Amsterdam and before long the sprawling metropolis that is today New York City came to fruition, the history that ensued and unfolded contains battles over…

France, Spain, and England all rushed to colonize the ‘New World’,each with different motives and intentions. Despite England winning colonizing, France was the one that most strategically approached attempting to colonize the ‘New World’. It shows in the way they have relations with the Natives, differences in their religion and their government. On first arriving to the ‘New World’, all but France made inadequate relations with the Native Americans. Originally, England was cordial and…

the beginning. However, some Native people were skeptical about trading with Europeans and changing their way of life. One man that was truly skeptical about changing their way of life was Neolin most commonly known as the spiritual leader of the Lenape. He had encouraged the Native People to stick to their old ways of life and to do things the way they had grown up. Neolin had wanted his people to stop trading with the Europeans and to live the life they had lived before the Europeans showed…

Long before European settlers took hold of New York City, the Lenape tribe were natives to this land. “Around 11, 000 years before the first Europeans sailed through the Narrows, the Lenape people foraged, hunted and fished the regional bounty”¹. In the early 1500’s a man named Giovanni da Verrazano was the first European explorer to ever land on New York’s soil. In the ear of 1609, a man named Henry Hudson discovered and created the first settlement while sailing up and down the Atlantic coast…

I went to the same private school from first grade till tenth grade. For my last two years of high school I chose to go to Lenape Tech, the technical school in my school district. This school gave me many options of study such as cosmetology, carpentry, welding, biomedical, and various other options. I chose the allied health/sports medicine shop. This not only gave me training in physical therapy but through it I became certified as a CNA. With help from the teachers and faculty I discovered…

In The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter, True Son who is a white boy raised by the Lenni Lenape Indians has to return home to his white family in Pennsylvania. He had been raised by the Indians since he was four. He did not like the white man, and has to change from his Indian customs to the new ways of the white man. He did not want to return to his real family, but has to anyway. True Son is rebellious, strong-willed and brave. True Son is rebellious. When he was first taken from his…

New Jersey is full of places where historical events have occurred. One of these places is Journal Square, which is located in Jersey City, NJ. Its history starts when the Lenni Lenape Indians first settled there. In the 1650s, General Peter Stuyvesant had everyone under his rule. Two years later, Stuyvesant engineered the purchase of most of present-day Hudson County from the Indians in return for materials. On November 1660, the Dutch moved in and claimed Bergen Square (now known as Journal…