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    As For Me and My House is a novel written by Sinclair Ross. The focus of the novel is mainly on the struggling marriage between Mrs. Bentley and her husband, Phillip, who recently moved to a small and lonely prairie town named Horizon nearing the end of the Great Depression. Due to Phillip’s frustrations tirelessly working as Preacher instead of pursuing an artistic career that he would enjoy appreciably more, he isolates himself from most of the town, including his wife. He keeps to his study room

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    The purpose of this study is to document the implications of density dependence in crawfish frog populations in two different environments: restored prairie and disturbed farmland, to find out equilibrium population size is most sensitive to which life stage and to study whether the strength of density dependence varies with environment. We hypothesize that strength of density dependence will determine the equilibrium population size. Strength of density dependence can vary from weak to strong depending

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    Endangered Animals

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    Endangered Insects The term “endangered” is used to describe a species that is at a serious risk of extinction. The amount of species that are considered at risk is continuously increasing. Because of pollution and/or global warming, multiple different species have become, and are becoming, endangered; thus also causing issues in their environments. The purpose of this essay is to shed light on the current situation of endangered insects. It will be focusing on bumblebees and Hine’s emerald dragonflies

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    world, this included USA, Europe, and Asia. People from the Americas were looking to settle in big cities like Toronto because of the affordable electricity, which was part of Canada's urbanization and economic uprise. people in Europe settled in the prairies to farm, we wanted them because they were known to be hardy and could farm in harsh conditions. People from Asia were coming to Canada to work on the most treacherous parts of the railroad. There was plenty of discrimination against the Chinese

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    Canadian Economy History

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    most beneficial exports, after lumber Government and law-The British Columbia Fruit-Growers' Association, found in 1889 by the government, was the first organization of makers in the province. Its goal were to investigate possible shops in the Prairies and ways of controlling fruit marketing. Clothings includes established breeches, which usually reached just a bit below the knees. Later on they were replaced by trousers, and waist-length jackets were common. Beginning early in the 19th century

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    Arctic The Arctic region has a very harsh climate with very short cool summers; while the most northerly locations experience an extremely cold winter that lasts almost ten months. This climate region has an annual precipitation of 35-50 cm each year. Precipitation is low because the Arctic Ocean and other bodies of water are frozen for most of the year, and there is very little evaporation. This region includes most of Nunavut as well as northern parts of the Northwest Territories and Quebec. Pacific

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    Grassland Research

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    sitting on carpet around the teacher. This lesson is to introduce to students the idea of a grassland and the things that make grasslands different from a different habitat. Along with a brief introduction of the two different types of grasslands prairies and savannas. Teacher: "Does anyone know what a grassland is?" Wait for student responses and discuss responses

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    (mainly English-speaking and Protestant) the majority was British. In the Prairies, it was a mixture of everyone but with mostly First Nations. In total there were seven British colonies, two large areas controlled by Hudson’s Bay company and only one British government territory. There was scarce trade between them and little to do with one another.

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    Throughout “Solitude,” Thoreau uses a wide variety of rhetorical devices and complex diction to support his claims. Some of those rhetorical devices include: personification, simile, and rhetorical questions. These writing tools help Thoreau convey his message of living in solitude and self-reliance in nature. Thoreau uses massive amounts of complex diction throughout his writing. For example, Thoreau says he is “a part of herself” in reference to nature. He states this because he wants to express

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    O Pioneers by Willa Cather sets itself apart from other novels of its time because of what its stands for, feminism. It exemplifies women’s equality, represented by the main character, Alexandra, by showing her survival in a male dominated society. She succeeded in building her female identity and achieved a sense of female attainment by revolutionizing the wild land and struggling for her equal rights with all that surrounded her. This paper focuses on the feminist thoughts and the positive attitude

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