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    Daniel Boone was born on November second, 1734 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He was the sixth child of Squire and Sarah Boone. Daniel’s great-grandparents, George and Mary Boone, had sailed to America from Bradninch, England, in 1717. From the time Daniel was a small boy, he loved and appreciated the wonders of nature. He jumped at the chance to venture deep into the woods and explore the vast wilderness of this glorious new land. Boone was remembered as having never liked school. Rather, he

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    States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the state of Kentucky. Despite resistance from American Indians, for whom Kentucky was a traditional hunting ground, in 1775 Boone blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky. There he founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Before the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 people entered Kentucky by following the route marked by Boone

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    Pat Boone Net Worth Introduction One of the greatest American singer Pat Bonne is also famous as a composer, writer, actor, motivational speaker, television personality and spokesman. This highly successful pop singer has a net worth of around $30 million. Biography & Wiki Pat Boone, whose full name was Charles Eugene Patrick Boone, was born on 1st June 1934 in Jacksonville, Florida. He joined high school in Nashville for study where he was voted as the student body president. After completing

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    Arjunn Shastri #20 Ms. Chan Research Paper 3/3/17 Forts along the trail How did the pioneers get what they need? How did the pioneers stay safe? Well back in the day pioneers could find a break. Small buildings called forts were there. The pioneers could trade and be protected. This is what we call forts along the trail. Forts are fortified buildings or a strategic position. But in the days, they were not just used for war and fighting, but some were. One of the more famous forts is Fort Laramie

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    The Cumberland gap The Cumberland gap, everything I own strapped on my back, On one sunny morning as I walked into my AP class, I see on the board in big dark bold words “The The Cumberland gap The Cumberland gap, everything I own strapped on my back” What could this possibly mean? As we went further into a class discussion I came to realize that this gap has a significant meaning to our nation. The cumberland gap was a mysterious gap found in the middle of nowhere in the United States by explorers

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    poem “Cumberland Gap” is an excellent example of her desire to recapture the heritage of the many faces that traveled through the mountains that stretched from Virginia to Kentucky. This poem captures the sadness of a history that cannot be recaptured because it was never recorded. She exposes the heartache and sadness of the results of what we once considered progress and now know the great price paid in trampling another’s culture to establish the American frontier. This

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    materials.” (McNeal, 59) Deciding to return to Kentucky, Allen began publishing his works in magazines in 1886, his work primarily focusing on Kentucky as two distinct regions, the civilized Bluegrass Region and the rough Cumberland Mountains. In James Lane Allen’s Through Cumberland Gap on Horseback, the mention is made to the beauty of the land and that the climate was just the same but that traveling to the mountain region was not only difficult as they had to take a train then a wagon ride, followed

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    Gap Analysis : Gap Inc.

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    Introduction The Gap, Inc. or just Gap inc. was incorporated on the fifteenth of april 1988. Gap may be a +multinational company that deals principally in attire retail. aside from attire the corporate offers a good array of each accessories, and private care merchandise for men, girls and kids of all ages beneath the names Gap, country, Old Navy, Piperlime, Athleta, and mingle brands. The Company’s brands ar distributed through multiple channels and geographies within the international retail marketplace

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    definitely seen a store owned by Gap Inc. such as stores like Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, Etc. These stores represent an ionic and proud American store since 1969 which has multiplied since they opened their first store in San Francisco. This marked the first of many stores that would open and take over America. Gap became an icon as it started to multiply as larger variety stores came about. Such stores as Old Navy taking over the lower budget gap clothing to Gap as a middle budget and on to Banana

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    I constantly do volunteer work due to the company I work for, Gap Inc. has an organization for employees Be What’s Possible and donates money for the hours I volunteer to the non-profit organization of my choice. My good friend is part of the education department here at UHD and said that some students from other classes were volunteering at juvenile facilities and I was intrigued, therefore I teamed with my volunteer leader for Gap and reached out to see if volunteering there would be an option

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