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Costa Rica Atlantic Coast
1,201 wordsHuman habitation can be traced back more than 10, 000 years but it appears Costa Rica was sparsely populated and a relative backwater in the pre-Columbian era. There is little sign of major communities and none of the impressive stone architecture that characterized the more advanced civilizations of Mesoamerica to the north and the Andes to the south. When Columbus arrived near Limn on September 18, 1502 on his third and last voyage to the Americas, there were probably no more than 20, 000 indi...
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Endangered Species Atlantic Coast
1,438 words(Charadrius Melodus) Introduction The piping plover, a bird now going extinct, was once very bountiful. When an animal is going extinct, it could mean a lot of things. The Piping Plover is an endangered species. An endangered species is a name for a plant or animal that is slowly dying out. This bird is experiencing population drops, so it is called endangered. It is known to scientists as the Charadrius Melodus (ES: Piping Plover). It mainly resides around the Great Lakes and sometimes lives al...
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Womens Diaries Of The Westward Journey
982 wordsJust after the depression of 1837, many Americans were attracted to move westward, where the prospect of free land was encouraging them to settle in the states of Oregon and California. Between 1840 and 1870, many writings were describing the struggle of conquering western frontier. Journeys of people moving to new land were often described as mystic adventure. Lillian Schlissel paid close attention to the lives of women during this period of migration. She has determined that If ever there was ...
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Late Twentieth Century United States Economy
4,835 wordsEntrepreneurial Adventure: The Development of Economics in The United States? Capitalism came in the first ships. ? -Carl N. Dealer Barit Brown United States History Saturday, March 18, 2000 4, 753 words The United States was a nation of development. It was a nation of growth and of innovation. From the signing of the Declaration of Independence, to the end of World War II and so forth, complex dilemmas called for complex solutions and complex solutions called for innovation. While, many aspects...
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Men And Women Values And Beliefs
1,675 wordsFrederick Jackson Turners text The Significance of the Frontier in American History, was and still is an important American document. In this article Turner discusses all aspects of the frontier, and what it means to many different types of people. He explains American development as the movement westward, and how we used, and what we did with the free land that was available beyond the frontier line. One of the main points that I extracted from this article is the fact that a distinguishing fea...
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Teddy Roosevelt Wallace Stevens
1,356 wordsPanama Canal It didn t take long for the world to realize that Panama is the narrowest strip of land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. From the early sixteenth century, explorers, conquerors, treasure seekers, settlers, the military and engineers have descended on Panama to find a route that would join the two oceans. A modern day Panamanian anthropologist says, A road, a railroad, or a canal; they didn t concern themselves with the rest. That s been the story here for hundreds of years. ...
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