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Many people say that Renewable, and Alternative energies are going to be the only viable options for energy in the future. Others believe that these new types of fuels will only harm the planet more. This research paper will cover topics such as: what are the different types of Alternative/Renewable energy? What are the pros and cons of the different types of Alternative energy? Is it a long term solution? Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Solar power, and Wind power are some of the more common…

Salem Witch Trials Salem Witch Trials Between the months of June to September of 1692 the infamous witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts resulted in the deaths of twenty men and women as a result of witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations and dozens were jailed for months during the process of the trials. There are a variety of explanations for the hysteria that overtook the population of Salem. A combination of religious, political, and…

who owned a large forge and rolling mill near the mouth of the creek. It was he who laid it out in 1814 and suggested that it be called New Cumberland. Its primary source of revenue was lumber processing from rafts floated down the Susquehanna to sawmills along the…

Introduction “A Dog’s Way Home” is a fictional story by Bobbie Pyron about a young girl named Abby, who loses dog Tam, in a car accident in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Abby and Tam were inseparable and did everything together. Now that Tam is lost Abby is determined and is going to do whatever it takes to find him. But along the way, Abby encounters situations that slow her down from finding him. But luckily for Abby, her family and friends help her along the way. The main characters…

It all started when James Marshall, a worker at John Augustus Sutter’s Fort of fifty thousand acres, found pieces of gold while working on the construction of sawmill on a new piece of land that Sutter did not yet have a title to. Marshal noticed glittering flakes at the riverbed and couldn’t believe what he just saw.” I reached my hand down and picked it up, it made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold”…

Louis L’Amour; the man who wrote the west into history. Throughout his exceptionally eventful life, Louis Dearborn L’Amour penned some of America’s most exciting adventure tales witnessed in modern times. Ranging from soldiers, to prizefighters, to the ever popular western anecdote, L’Amour took children and adults alike on tales of heroism, villainy, bravery, and connivery through the eyes of marvelously-lifelike characters. Basing all of the locations described in his novels on actual…

drought, with sandy topsoil overlaying a large deposit of gravel. Rain water quickly passed through the layers beyond the reach of crops.34 Nevertheless, with entrepreneurial resolve, Charley sold gravel to supplement his farm income and built a sawmill, which produced another source of revenue with the sale of lumber.35 Due to lack of information pertaining to these business enterprises, supposition is a requisite for elaborating on details. In a recently settled locality, still growing and…

Early settlement in Mississippi came as a surprise to many Mississippians who already lived here. Hernando De Desoto traveled to these lands not knowing who was here or what he would find, looking for precious metals in 1540. Although when he arrived Indians, known specifically as Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians, occupied these lands. They were not very happy about the invasion that they brought on their land. The Chickasaw’s led an attack on De Soto’s men, many of them were killed in the Pontotoc…

Henry Ford: An Influential Figure From the days of Leonardo Da Vinci until the days of Karl Benz, many cars models were introduced. Steam, electric, and gasoline models were invented. No one knows to whom exactly lays the credit of inventing the automobile, but on the other hand, no one doesn’t know the Ford Model T car.When “the time production ceased for the Model T in 1927, more than 15 million cars had been sold --or half the world's output” (Lacocca, 1998). All this industrial glory…

United States by causing mass migration, but it also had an impact on the idea of mining, women, African-Americans, and Chinese immigrants, and it even had lasting effects on the 21st century. Gold-seekers' migration started when James Marshall, a sawmill worker, discovered fragments of gold in a stream. Eventually, word got out to all Americans, and suddenly everyone wanted to become millionaires. The first migrants were people from Latin America, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands (Hawai’i).…