Personal Essay : Overview Of The River

When the Canal was built towns all along the route from Buffalo to Albany prospered from the revenue and the attraction the Canal brought with it. Whether the Canal was being used for business people, immigrants, settlers of the region, or tourists, the border-towns all had some appeal to these persons. After some time the state was continually asked to expand the Canal from the original route to include connecting canal routes. However, the same towns along the route from Buffalo to Albany had already been established along the lines of the original canal. These towns would need to be relocated in order to obey these new requests. This presented a major problem because the people in these towns had formed a life around the Canal and many of them made their income based of the Canal. The inhabitants of the towns changed their mentality from not wanting the Canal to invade on their lives, to it being an essential part of their lives they depended upon.

This is a book about a young woman named Sundara who is from Cambodia. Chamroeun is a guy who Sundaras parents want her to marry because it is custom in Cambodia that the parents pick who their children will marry. Sundara falls in love with Chamroeun but that has to end because he goes off to fight in the war. It is about how she lived with a group of people (tribe) and one day Khmer Rouge came and tried to take over their village, Phnom Penh. Sundara, her family and the rest of Phnom Penh ran to a boat and they sailed away, planning to go to America. Back then people from different countries were lead to believe that America was a perfect place and you could be or do anything you desired, well that obviously isn't the

Have you ever needed easier access to the essential items to stay alive? This is specifically what the residents of the North-East thought around the year 1817. Carol Sheriff argues in her book, “The Artificial River” that the residents of the canal corridor actively sought after long-distance trade and therefore consumer goods that markets brought to their homes. The fact that people supported the Erie Canal at all "suggests that at least some aspired to engage in broader market exchange" (p. 11). The transformation of this region because of the Erie Canal is organized around six topics, each of which is covered by a chapter. They include the; Visions of Progress, the Triumph of Art over Nature, Reducing Distance and Time, the Politics of Land and Water, the Politics of Business, and the Perils of Progress.

Characters in the text The Secret River by Kate Grenville represent a variation of attitudes and views towards the colonisation of Australia and the Aboriginal Australians. While many characters are indecisive about their opinion on the natives, some characters have a clear mind-set on how they are to be treated. The characters of Thomas Blackwood and Smasher Sullivan represent the two very different sides of the moral scale, and the other characters fit between these sides. Smasher is a vicious, cold-hearted man who shows no respect or humanity towards the Aboriginals. On the other hand, Blackwood’s character contrasts Smasher with his humanity and general respect to the original owners of their new home. The

Is it fair to hold individuals responsible for a choice society pressured them to make?

Tim O'brien's "On the Rainy River" is a true story told by a 41 year old of his life at the age of 21. The fact that O'brien is writing this 20 years later adds a new aspect to the story. He describes himself as a young man with the world in his back pocket. O'brien has just graduated from Macalester College and has a free ride to Harvard. Unfortunately, his storybook world collapses when he receives a draft notice for the Vietnam war, a war that he has "taken a modest stand against"(44) in 1968.

Relationships created with others have often a direct effect on your very own personal identity. In Tim Brian’s “On the Rainy River,” he tells about his experiences and how his relationship with an elderly man affected his life so dramatically. It is hard for anyone to rely on their own personal experiences fully when there are other people who have experienced different acts them their self. It takes knowledge and experience of others to help you learn and build from them to create your own personal identity. In the essay, O'Brien speaks about his experiences with an elderly man by the name of Elroy Berdahl, the owner of the Tip Top Fishing Lodge; the lodge he stays at while finding himself. The experiences O’Brien has while at the lodge

The Withlacoochee River Park lies on four-hundred and six acres of land, however, the area it is essentially part of is much larger system known as the Green Swamp, a 560,000 acre area that supplies a massive amount of drinking water to our state’s population. In addition, the swamp provides habitats for a plethora of Florida’s native wildlife, including alligators, white-tailed deer, and black bears. The Green Swamp is also contains one of the largest cypress swamps in the state of Florida, meaning Withlacoochee River Park is a highly important ecological asset to Florida’s natural environment.

Wow! When we ride around on dirt roads every weekend, we always see people with nice and exciting fourwheelers or golfcarts going to the sand pit.Sometimes people will take their fourwheeler to the sand pit in Axson, even a new fourwheeler.They will go in deep water with it. If I had one I would not go in water with it, at first anyway.But in Axson now, there is water over the roads, because the Satilla River is out of the banks.The water is so much out of the banks, you can not go under the bridge at Axson.

It was the 1800’s, and common people called stampeders, went searching for gold in the klondike. The stampeders did this because, they wanted to strike it rich! The stampeders had to walk miles to get to the gold. The stampeders had to walk up The Golden Stairs, that were made out of snow and ice, and there were like a billion steps. They got to the klondike by either boat, train, or walked. 100,000 people went to the klondike to become rich, but only 4,000 people found gold there.

Good afternoon. My name is Camryn Orosco and I am a junior at Immanuel. Mrs. Kriegbaum informed me that I could potentially write for Kings River Life, and I should contact you for more information. I am very interested in this opportunity and would appreciate if you could get back to me at your nearest convenience.

The theme of A River Runs Through It , a book written by Norman Maclean and a movie directed by Robert Redford is that people want to help those they are close to, but they have to let them live their lives as individuals even though they may be in the wrong. Basically, you have to let people make their own choices in life, and the theme is supposed to give us an overall message of how to live life in this way. Therefore, the traits of pride and acceptance that the lives of Norman, Paul, and the people around them, who are foils, show impact the message of the theme and prove it. Pride is a true element to the story that Paul, Norman, and other characters show to relate to the theme. One example of this is when Paul has gambling debt, and refuses to let Norman help pay it off.

“Gold!! Gold!! Gold!!” I heard a newsboy crying out the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s morning headline in the Puget Sound area on July 17, 1897. The Puget Sound’s residents who gathered at the small waterfront area were attracted by the tempting title. The message had sent shock waves across entire North America. Within days, I saw thousands of fortune seekers risking their lives for the unknown adventures of finding gold. The stampeders eagerly bought supplies and then boarded ships bound for the wild unknown of Alaska and Canada. As a lumber worker, I did not have as much interest in gold as that of those fortune seekers. As

Through our exploration within class, Andrew Bovell’s adaption of The Secret River has shown us its righteous place as a remarkable Australian play. The various themes throughout the novel highlight issues revolving around ownership and dispossession as well as reiterating how important reconciliation amongst white and indigenous Australians is. Bovell’s adaption is captivating, poignant and opens the door for a conversation of our nation’s history that has been silenced on many occasions.

It went on this way for the next several outings. Each starting with ardent research, planning, and prepping, only to fall short of expectations that were continuing to diminish along with my success rate. After three weeks into my eight-week stretch at Fort Jackson, my optimism and resiliency had pretty much tanked, and all expectations of finding a bunch of gold had faded into hopes of finding just a speck of gold. Although my analysis constantly pointed to proven locations which suggested great potential, as I traveled to site after site and sifted through pan after pan, I consistently came up empty. I sat in my room one Sunday evening after another long, hot, prospecting flop, confused why nothing was coming together, and angry