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The Louisiana purchase was Spain’s territory of about 828,000,000 square miles. Louisiana being Spain territory made it extremely difficult to move goods because, without access to the Mississippi River, the goods had to be moved through the mountains. With access to the Mississippi River, the goods could be taken by boat. Thomas Jefferson knows that Spain is struggling, so he knows he is more likely to be able to purchase Louisiana from them because they needed the money. Spain signed the Treaty

The memorable mornings of waking up on a rocking ship in the vast ocean cannot be properly described without experiencing it first. When I look off the balcony of our ship and see rolling waves of deep blue water, I imagine the strange and wonderful creatures of the ocean. The miles and miles straight down into the abyss can only be imagined, yet can never be understood or fathomed by the mind. While the ocean is incredible, so many other things are happening around you on the cruise ship. My family

John Clemens, Samuel's father, was a farmer, merchant, and postmaster in a Missouri town, called Florida. His wife, Jane Clemens, was a stirring, busy woman, who liked to get her work out of the way and then have a real frolic. Her husband did not know what it meant to frolic. He was not very well to begin with, and when he had any spare time, he sat by himself figuring away on an invention, year after year. He spent a good deal of time, too, thinking what fine things he would do for his family when

The Outcome Is Worth The Struggle In 1803 Thomas jefferson made a life changing decision that altered the course of America for the better. He purchased 828,000 square miles of land for 15 million dollars from France. France sold the land to the United states because they needed money to pay their debt, to pay for the war they were in, and they didn’t want an alliance between Great Britain, the country they were in a war with, and the United States to form. The land that was bought is known today

When the movie Sully first came out, it received a wide range of mixed reviews from both critics and normal movie goers alike. Although everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not everyone agrees with what other people think. Because Sully is a movie that is based on a true real-life event, society has mixed reviews about how the movie was played out because it was based on a real event. Three movie critics gave their thoughts on the movie and each one has different views then the other reviewer

the text, in order to uncover where Twain received his inspiration. Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30,1835 in Florida, Missouri. At the age of four his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a port town along the Mississippi River. Clemens’s dreamed to be a steamboat pilot, so he could sail up and down the Mississippi.

Throughout our class we have been learning to tie difference civilizations and their cultures together that seemed to be very different. We have seen may different civilizations with some of the same qualities that existed many years apart from each-other. Such as the Art of War which was written in the 5th century and the Law Code of Hammurabi that was written in 1772 B.C.E but they both can be compared to the Magna Carta with its views of kingship. First, the Magna Carta is a legal document that

Deep in the mountains in the southwest corner of North Carolina is a river unlike any other. Halfway through my perilous rafting journey, there was a moment when time stood still. I witnessed a natural phenomenon which displayed the beauty of nature at its finest. During that moment, I realized the insignificance of humanity, and why we should respect the overwhelming power of nature. The Nantahala is a whitewater river nestled in a valley with steep mountains flanking it on all sides. The forest

visited and stood on it’s bridge many times, there is no way to describe the incredible power that one feels just setting foot near the place. In 1922, the Reclamation Service presented a report calling for the development of a dam on the Colorado River for flood control and electric power generation. Even before Congress approved the Boulder Canyon Project, the Bureau of Reclamation was considering what kind of dam should be used. Officials eventually decided on a massive concrete arch-gravity dam

Within literature, greed and fraud have always been topics that have presented themselves. These topics are commonly discussed, as they are something that is dealt with on a daily basis. In America, this is something that is seen very often with authors. The novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain is no stranger to greed and fraud. Mark Twain expresses the topics of greed and fraud within Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the characters of Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, and