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Even though I had gotten a cab, I didn’t want to waste Phoebe’s Christmas dough like that. I love her so goddam much, it kills me. So that’s why I was here walking the rest of the way. Fresh air is always good for clearing my head, so it wasn’t too bad. I changed my route just a bit so I could walk through the park. It always gives me this sense of comfort. It just reminds me of the times I actually had fun. I thought about what Phoebe said, how I don’t even like anything a goddam lot. She sort…

United States. The features that became Niagara Falls were created by the Wisconsin glaciation about 10,000 years ago. The same forces also created the North American Great Lakes and the Niagara River. You can visit Niagara fall by driving to New York or you can fly there it really depends on your budget or on you location. In Niagara Falls you don’t only go to see the falls there is a lot of different places you can visit along the way. There are places like Maid of the Mist boat,…

After his book was published, Osborne was appointed Warden of Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, on December 1, 1914, replacing Judge George S. Weed. Sing Sing was built on the east bank of the Hudson River, approximately 30 miles north of NYC. The original cell block was built by prisoners from Auburn Prison in 1825. Although Osborne had tried to change the worst conditions in New York state prisons while he was the chair of the governor’s commission, still when he arrived at Sing Sing it…

The Hague and Paris before settling in Padua, Italy, to study geometry, mechanics, and astronomy. While in Italy in he wrote Vera Circuli et Hyperbola Quadratura in 1667. He used a modification of the method of exhaustion of Archimedes to find the areas of the circle and sections of hyperbola. In his construction of an infinite sequence of inscribed and circumscribed geometric figures. He was one of the first to distinguish between convergent and divergent infinite…

First, they stop in New Orleans where they receive official papers stating that Solomon is a free man. Then they travel to Washington, D.C. to bring some justice to the case of Burch. While there is evidence against Burch for kidnapping and selling Solomon into slavery, Burch is let off free. The main reasoning is that because Burch is white and he can testify while Solomon cannot take the stand. In the end, no justice is served. He reaches New York to reunite with wife, daughter, and…

Virginia and Massachusetts founded a little more than two decades apart have one in the south, and one in the north have different types of methods onto why and how they settled in the Americas as of two of the thirteen colonies to first come into the new world. Virginia, being a colony for economic growth, differs from Massachusetts which was settled purely for the sake of religion. Two colonies derived from Europe, but having very different colonies with few similarities. By analyzing these…

native tribes having to be forced out of their homes and turned into refugees, the author provides evidence using a book called The Middle Ground by Richard White. Chapters within the book provides the story of Algonquian peoples putting together a new identity from the ruins caused by the Iroquois, the French settlers being the glue to helping the…

writer, teacher, editor, social activist, community organizer, and "product of the nineteen-sixties spirit" was born in 1939 and died of colon cancer in 1995” (Casmier). Bambara herself would have learned growing up during the 1940s and 1950s in New York City 's Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant communities. (Heller)Sylvia gives a sassy narration from a twelve year old on a learning experience that Miss Moore took a few kids from the Harlem ghetto neighborhood on a trip to FAO Swartz in downtown…

1. Area: The community in which I live is an urban setting located in Central New York. The City of Utica is located in Oneida County. 2. Demographics: With an estimated 61,332 people in the City of Utica according to the U.S Census Bureau, the city has seen a decrease in residency since the formal census conducted in 2010 (Census Bureau). Even with the estimated decrease in population, the city is home to a multitude of races and ethnicities immigrating to the U.S from various countries…

Long ago, Native Americans were a threat to caucasian settlers in the new America. In the realistic fiction novel, White Indian, by Donald Clayton Porter, he tells the story of the Seneca tribe. At the time, the Seneca was a powerhouse of a nation, raiding any town in their way, slaughtering innocent people. The leader of the Seneca, Ghonka, also known as The Great Sachem, was not one to be messed with. While invading a settlers town, Ghonka was raiding a specific house, about to kill everyone…