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    can adjust the ways we can view things in the past, present and future. Kevin Rudd’s Sorry speech confronts Australia with the truth of past wrongdoings that have taken place against aboriginals. Robert Gray’s Coast Road voices confronting viewpoints of forthcoming change in North Coast Town, and also disturbing discoveries relating to current proceedings in The Meatworks. These many forms of discoveries can potentially, have

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    rivals in North America because France controlled Canada. The French claimed the Mississippi Valley and wanted to expand economic influences among the Native Americans from the east to the west. England controlled the eastern coast of North America. They wanted to expand colonial settlements further to the west. French policy in America was sent to only limited numbers of colonists to be in the trade. The English policy was to send large amounts of numbers colonists as settlers to build new towns and cities

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    The Naval Battle of Port Royal was fought on November 3rd-7th 1861. Port Royal was a Confederate city on the South Carolina coast. It was defended by 2 forts at the entrance to its harbor named Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard. On November 3rd the attack under Union naval officer Du Pont led a navy attack of 14 warships, 26 supply ships, 25 transports for 12,000 troops, and the flagship The Wabash. The Confederates also had some small ships to defend the harbor including a converted tugboat which

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    Superstorm Sandy, or as nicknamed Frankenstorm, caused a lot of pain and suffering to millions of people on the eastern coast of the United States. Superstorm Sandy lasted three days along the eastern coast starting on October 29th, 2012 and ending October 31st, 2012. The storm originated south of Cuba and was described as a “hybrid” storm. The storm was originally listed as a tropical storm and lasted for a total of five days. Winds ranged from 39 miles per hour (mph) to 105 mph. On October 24th

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    Maps are vital geopolitical tool that represents the borders, conflicts over territories, citizens and resources. In fact maps are social constructions that are linked to politics; the viewers of maps can change its implications as they add many different factors throughout experiences and geographical knowledge as this maybe a representation of the world to them. However it can be considered that maps can be more then representations of the legitimacy of nations, it can create geographical understanding

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    Logging town to tourist town In the Mid-1850s a group of trappers ran into a small group of native Americans with a cart of whitefish. They caught it in a long narrow lake. And about 40 years later that lake had a name and a town to match it. This is small town, Whitefish, Montana. It is in the northwest corner of Montana. It has a reputation for being a big tourist town, with a ski resort and the 36 hole golf course. Who wouldn’t want to spend time here. But this town hasn’t always been a big attraction

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    His crew guarded the coast not letting any cargo ships pass into the harbor. Teach went to the Charleston people and asked if he could us there medicine to heal his crew, they refused. He knew Charleston was very big port city, and he and his crew invaded all coming cargo ships

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    England. His mission was to attack the town of Nombre de Dios. With 73 men and two ships Sir Francis Drake was able to capture the town of Nombre de Dios, but was severely wounded during it. After Sir Francis Drake’s wounds were healed they then attacked several other Spanish Towns receiving tons of gold and silver. Sir Francis Drake and his crew returned to Plymouth in

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    Starting in the early 1600s, the first significant non-Spanish colonizers began finding their way to the coasts north of the where the Christopher Columbus had first appeared in North America, mainly in hopes of practicing their own religion without persecution and in search of a fresh start in the New World. Left and right in England, Puritans and other Protestant religions faced discrimination by royal authorities, and they were determined to have a place where they were free to worship how they

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    RG #3 Ch.6-8 Question 1: The opening of trade on the Silk Road was caused by China’s desire for upgrade for top-tier horses (technological), the Parthian state’s desire to control the Mesopotamian markets (political), and caravan cities that are between these two empires that help support and supply traders (geographical). An important industry that also started was the breeding of hybrid camels. These camels became critical for trade, because they held favorable traits that made them stronger and

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