Northwest Passage

imperialism pursued at the expense of others due to events similar to the removal of Indians. William Henry Harrison was a congressional delegate from the Northwest Territory in 1799. He was also an indian fighter at age twenty-six. These qualifications enabled Harrison to help with the development of the west. In 1800, Harrison played a big role in the passage of the Harrison Land Law, which allowed…

Scientists have spent decades in search for the causes of global warming. Over the years, they have learned that global warming is due to the earth’s surface temperature. The earth’s surface temperature increases because greenhouse gases collect in the atmosphere. Ultimately, creating a shell around the earth that thickens, keeping in the sun’s deadly heat, causing the planet to heat up. In fact, there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point in the last 800,000 years.…

North and South America have transgressed into the countries they are currently in today’s society due to the historical events that date back to the 1500, and 1600’s. The America’s are vastly diverse due to the continuous changes in the populations through out 1492-1677. During this time period, many immigrants from around the world made the journey to the America’s. One of the most significant events that led to the start of the re-peopling of the America’s was Christopher Columbus’ voyage. As…

aggressive types of hunter in the ocean. They are the biggest dolphins in existence and are fierce carnivorous predator that can be found around the world, but much commonly in highly productive areas of cold-water upwelling, such as the Pacific Northwest, along northern Norway’s coast in the Atlantic and the tiger latitudes of the Southern Ocean. Killer whales favour cold waters, they can stay submerged for more than 5 minutes and occasionally for more than 15 minutes in a single dive. Orcas…

During the westward expansion of the 1860’s and 1890’s geographical maps show that railroad connections played a huge role in growth. During the early 1860’s when railroad connections also known as the “Transcontinental Railroad” were in the beginning stages, states did not develop at a high rate of speed. Amplifying the railroad connections bolster the reach of products fashioned agriculturally both for the production and sale. Increasing railroad connections west of the Mississippi River…

Manage care organizations (MCOs) are types of health insurance that involve the creation of provider networks as well as prevention benefits, utilization review for medical necessity and standards of care, and often care management (Kongstvedt, 2013; Medline Plus, 2014). The beginnings of managed care in the United States reaches back to the early twentieth century and continue to thrive, but managed care has not been born from a single force or entity but from many sources seeking differing…

reclaim Jerusalem. The land road to Asia was generally dangerous and expensive, but the European desire for fine goods caused a race to find another route to that continent. Ships from Spain, England, and France sailed westward in search for the Northwest Passage, and though the Europeans were unable to expand their riches with trade, they were able to expand their riches through conquering civilizations in the Americas. Mercantilism was the dominating economic idea of the time,…

Thus, the Americans from the front northwest of Verdun and the French from eastern Champagne, the former on the west bank of the Meuse, the latter west of the Argonne Forest, were to launch attacks on September 26, with Mézières as their objective, in order to threaten not only the Germans’…

European explorers came to what was known as the “New World” of America in the 1500s. Before this time the continent was an unknown place. They saw it as an entirely new land with animals, plants, and landscape to discover, they had never seen nor heard anything like this before. Over time they learned to adapt to the new and different environments, and their lives changed. The American Indians were extremely creative, they learned to adapt to places like the desert, in forest, along oceans,…

for African-Americans who get frisked by cops. More specifically, the author argues that cops should not put as an excuse that they shot because of “self-defense”. The author asserts, “The shooting of McDade has opened long-festering wounds in northwest Pasadena, where a majority of African-Americans say they have a bad relationship with police .”(Pelisek). The quote is suggesting that the cops had the reason to shoot because the authorities did not get along with African-Americans, and there…