North Platte River

Page 2: Option A The first of my relatives who move to the United States is my mother, who then was followed by my father. My mother moved to America when she was around the age of 20. She decided to move to America to get a job so she would be able to support the needs and wants of her family. She was born and raised in India where she was surrounded by poverty struck conditions, so to better her standard of living she decided to move. She didn’t believe it was going to be a difficult change…

Mounds can be found throughout the Midwestern part of the United States. Almost every mound was man made by the early Native Americans mound builders. The history of the mound builders can date back thousands of years. Many wonder why they built the mounds and what were there purpose to these people. History of the ancient mound builders along with their religious beliefs can help get an idea of the purpose the mounds. Mounds were built with mud and wood to support the structure. Native…

1800s, the Mississippi River was a huge factor in transportation (Center for Global Environmental Education). This significant body of water gave people the freedom to travel to places they had never been to before. It allowed people to explore the world around them they could not previously do. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, Jim and Huckleberry Finn are two runaways who take the Mississippi River towards their own freedom. Throughout the novel, the river plays a…

New Zealand’s longest river is the Waikato River, which runs down for 425 kilometres until it meets and flows out into the sea; not only is this the longest river in New Zealand, but it is also one of the most polluted waterways in the whole entire nation. The Waikato River start at Lake Taupo, and in a study (Waikato Regional Council, n.d.) showed that the clarity of the water passes 10 metres far in the beginning, this quickly shifts very shortly beyond Lake Taupo. Even just by the Ohaaki…

Due to these factors, poverty has continued on for decades. Approximately, 16.3 percent of the Delta population is living in poverty, alone. High volume of poverty is devastating the great fertile land of the Delta. As we all know, poverty is still alive even in the 21st century. Just as the Mississippi Delta is known as the land of the rich and abundant, it can also be characterized as poor and abandoned. Just like reminiscing on the soft music and sweet words from the authors of this…

structural trough that has been dropped down as a graben along regional scale normal faults that separate it structurally from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the west, and the White Mountains to the east (Pakiser, et al. 1964). Measured at 121 km north to south and it encompasses roughly 1400 square kilometers, the Owens Valley includes such features as hot springs, the basal Bishop Tuff from the Long Valley Caldera eruption which occurred approximately 750,000 years ago (Southworth, 2012), the…

It was a multi-cultural frontier. According to the purchase agreement in 1803, the inhabitants were given "all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens" -- and in the meantime were protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and religion (the Louisiana Purchase). Indians at the time were ignored citizenship. The westward migration was destroying native life and culture. Protestant missionaries urged Indians to adopt European American religious and social practices. There…

Throughout history, many wars have been recognized such as the Civil War, French and Indian War, and the Cold War. One war has been considered the forgotten or unnecessary war because it was a war nobody wanted; this war was called the War of 1812, also known as the Second War of Independence. Two weeks after the War of 1812 ended with the signing of a peace treaty called the Treaty of Ghent, the Battle of New Orleans began. The Treaty of Ghent was signed on December 24, 1814, and restored the…

Terms within the treaty stated that the Sauk and Fox tribes would cede their lands east of the Mississippi River to the United States (Lewis, 2014). In return for their land, the Sauk and Fox tribes would immediately receive over $2,000 in goods and a combined annual payment of $1,000 (Trask, 2006). Article II of the treaty outlines the territory the Sauk and…

that helped formed today’s modern state system. The Louisiana Purchase was a deal between France and The United States that led to the exchange of a large portion of land in the Western hemisphere. France explored the land around the Mississippi River and settled in many different places around the region…