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be regarded so highly as the explorers were not the first “non-Indians to explore the area, did not find an all-water route across the continent, and failed to publish their journals in a timely fashion” (Buckley, Jay H.). Despite not finding the Northwest-Passage, the expedition paved the way for the idea of Manifest Destiny-a 19th century belief that stated that Americans were destined…

state of Israel and many people want to achieve Hebrew Language Learn. The history of the Hebrew Alphabet The Hebrew language was the original language of the Bible. It belongs to the Canaanite group of languages which again is a branch of the Northwest Semitic family of languages. The Hebrew language is regarded to be the language of the Hebrews or Israelites who were Jews but it was also used by other Israelites who were officially not Jews. The Hebrew language is still used today as the…

The creation of Eli Whitney revolutionized America and changed the way people valued others. The cotton-gin was a machine that removed the seeds from the cotton about fifty times faster than a slave per day. The cotton-gin mostly affected the eastern-southern part of America because of the large cotton farms. From 1800 to 1820 annual cotton production quadrupled and unfortunately the amount of slaves increased as well. In thirty years (1800 - 1830) the number of slaves doubled being 2 million.…

located in the Mediterranean region. Italy is a peninsula that has the Tyrrhenlan Sea to its west, the Adriatic Sea to its east, and the Lonian Sea to its southeast. Austria and Switzerland border Italy to the north. France borders Italy to the northwest. The Capital of Italy is Rome, also the largest city. The official language of Italy is Italian. About 98% of the people in Italy are Roman Catholic. The pope lives in Rome. Italy is 116,320 sq. miles. In 1994 the population estimate was about…

Shel Silverstein Sheldon Allan Silverstein was born on September 25, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois to Nathan and Helen Silverstein. Shel’s sister Peggy was born 4 years later. Shel grew up in Logan’s Square a working-class neighborhood in the northwest side of Chicago. No one knows very much about Shel’s early years. We know that he started drawing strange pictures at an early age, he also wrote stories to go with them. As a teenager Shel was not much of an athlete himself but he became a…

Who was the best president? Thanks to George Washington, we can answer that question fully. George Washington was born on February 22nd, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia and passed away on December 14th, 1799 in Mount Vernon, Virginia. George Washington was the first president of the United States of America as an independent politician .He served two terms that lasted from 1789 to 1797. From signing the first copyright law in 1970 to signing the Jay Treaty in 1794 George Washington is…

Microsoft has been a successful company throughout the years of its existence. The owners of Microsoft who are Paul Allen and Bill gates have created this company to change the lives of many citizens in society. It is amazing of the things these two men have done. However, Bill Gates, Co-Owner of Microsoft, has made greater impacts in the world such as by advancing society, donating to charity, and just by simply being an influence on the people. Bill Gates has made a huge significance in the…

Here I think it is necessary to compare the two films from the prewar and postwar period, Shadow of a Doubt and The Man Who Knew Too Much where the mother figure symbolize both the household and the image of America. At the same time “These two Hitchcock films show clearly how the domestic ideology that is evoked to counter the fear of the maternal desire for independence ends up evoking the thing it fears” (Michie 30). For a brief moment, the maternal figures in both films refuse to be…

Sacagawea, me, and others were sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Louisiana Territory. Our expedition into the Louisiana Territory was not only to explore but record information about the land and find the source of the Missouri-northwest passage- make peace with the Indians as well. This expedition started in 1804 and ended in 1806 which is two and a half or twenty eight months. The expedition was from St.Louis , Missouri to the Pacific Ocean along with the Missouri River,…

Kilimanjaro rises approximately 4,877 metres (16,001 ft) from its southern base in the plains near the municipality of Moshi to its summit height of 5,895 metres (19,341 ft).[2] Kilimanjaro is the highest volcano outside South America.[7] Kilimanjaro is a large stratovolcano and is composed of three distinct volcanic cones: Kibo, the highest; Mawenzi at 5,149 metres (16,893 ft);[8] and Shira, the shortest at 4,005 metres (13,140 ft).[9] Mawenzi and Shira are extinct, while Kibo is dormant and…