...Portal Entry Essay: The Adirondacks The history of the Adirondack Park in Upstate New York is a prime example of people taking responsibility for their actions. Companies exploited the forest for many years. The state recognized the importance of the Adirondacks, thus establishing a strict forest protection Act. Now the Adirondacks are being affected by climate change. I live in Upstate New York on the northern border of the Adirondack Park. The Adirondacks have always been part of my life, from my childhood summers canoe camping on the lakes, to hiking and skiing in the Adirondack Mountains. I wanted my portals to revolve around something I had a personal connection to. I chose my three entries mainly based on my previous knowledge. I knew the Adirondacks had been clear-cut long ago and that resulted in a protection act to preserve the area. I had considered looking at when the Park officially became a state park. I also...
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...been renovated multiple times by prior ownership and will need only minor repair (see plan). I would like to provide a homey vacation atmosphere for the outdoor enthusiasts enjoying all seasons in the Adirondacks. The State of NY has awarded the Pharaoh region almost 10 percent of development dollars, which will roughly be around $7.1 million dollars. It was stated and recognized that this area is well known and frequently visited by travelers due to its many diverse hiking trails, pond and lake clusters, and skiing slopes. The Pharaoh region already has multiple chain hotels and a handful of small Inn’s, I want to offer a unique combination of hotel and Bed and Breakfast feel. With the hotels 50 accommodating rooms, convention room and private pub, I will be able to turn it into a successful Inn. Shopping and hospitals are located about 15-20 miles from the property for those who enjoy a shopping experience or for those who might be in need of medical assistance. I will offer and serve breakfast which will be complimentary and dinner at extra charges. Kayak and ski rentals will be available upon request as well as a local trained and certified hiking guide for those guests who are not familiar or comfortable venturing the mountains alone. With the State revenue coming in and my managerial background, this hotel will be successful. I invite you, the reader, to stay there a weekend and understand why it is such a popular place...
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...Must one argue that America was built on the values of freedom? If this is true, which history has already proven it is, then why are we stripping the rights of our youth by requiring them to participate in mandatory volunteering? Before one can even begin to answer this they must also ask what is volunteering? In short it is offering to do something “freely”. Schools should not force our students to participate in volunteering, because they are inevitably causing the youth to be rebellious and devaluing the appreciation for true volunteering. While volunteering may be a seemingly good thing, mandatory volunteering causes young adolescents to rebel against community service and volunteer work. According to the Cognitive Evaluation Theory study, people tend to resist and lose interest in what is being asked of them when they feel they are being controlled by an outside source because of the human nature of individualism(Pearce 1).This is already seen in other school situations, such as with homework. Many children will often refuse to do rudimentary or simple homework assignments. Throughout history, volunteering has evolved into a cultural connection; a common characteristic of humans on a local, national, and global level is the desire to help one another. Although this statement is not necessarily true for every individual, most people feel an urgency to assist friends, family members, coworkers, and/or strangers in need or in crisis. Why should we volunteer? Many people...
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...Walmart in Saranac Lake In the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, there is a quaint village named Saranac Lake. Saranac Lake has a population of roughly 5000 people that reside there year around. It has been proposed the Wal-Mart open a store in Saranac Lake. I have been hired by the Saranac Lake local government to consult on whether or not to allow Wal-Mart to move into their Adirondack community. As expected, there are opinions both for and against Wal-Mart moving in here. There are many advantages and disadvantages to take into consideration before making a firm recommendation to this community. I, for one, believe that the disadvantages of a Wal-Mart opening in Saranac Lake far outweigh the advantages. ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES: There are advantages and disadvantages to a Wal-Mart opening in Saranac Lake. A few advantages are: 1. Residents of Saranac Lake wouldn’t have to drive roughly 50 miles to get to the nearest department type store. 2. The opening of a Wal-Mart would bring lots of jobs to Saranac Lake and would therefore boost the economy. 3. The potential for a green Wal-Mart to open would allow the Saranac Lake community to continue being environmentally friendly, as it currently is. A few disadvantages to opening a Wal-Mart in Saranac Lake are: 1. The population of Saranac Lake is roughly 5,000 people. 2. In an effort to refute Wal-Mart, the residents of Saranac Lake opened their own department store in town, which the residents...
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...Practice final exam/guide PART A: Multiple choice and short answer questions 1) The branch of economics that examines the functioning of individual industries and the behavior of individual decision-making units is a. behavioural economics. b. microeconomics. c. macroeconomics. d. normative economics. 2) You own a DVD of the film 'A Beautiful Mind'. The opportunity cost of watching the DVD the second time a. is zero as you already own the DVD. b. is one-half the cost of the DVD, since this is the second time you have watched it. c. the amount of money you could get from selling the DVD after watching it the first time. d. is the value of the best alternative use of the time you spend watching the DVD on this 3) A new fast-food restaurant offered a free meal (valued at $5) a week for a year to its first 100 customers. Ramona camped out for 48 hours before the opening to be one of the first 100 customers. The cost of the free meal a week for a year for Ramona was: a. zero. b. $260. c. The value of whatever she would have done with those 48 hours. d. The cost is impossible to determine. 4) If the supply curve for a product shifts to the right, which of the following could have caused this shift? a. A rise in wage costs. b. A rise in price of the product. c. An expectation that price will rise in the future. d. An improvement in productivity. 5) The price...
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...endlessly and day and night blended into each other - the water dripping from the eaves and rain tapping at the windowpanes. I could hear that branch scratching at my house at night as the winds that accompanied the spring rain bent the old birch tree at whim. My time to leave was nearing and I filled with excitement and anxiety. The frantic packing began. I brought home copious amounts of boxes…large ones, medium ones, small, tall, wardrobe and television ones. I brought home dish packing kits and endless feet of bubble wrap. Every free moment the kids and I had was spent putting a lifetime of memories into cardboard cubes. Some of our time packing was spent reflecting back and thinking about how we will miss our home in the Adirondack Mountains. But mostly, our time was filled with laugher as we reflected upon those special memories just before tucking them temporarily away. As the time drew...
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...about 40 inches annually. Variation in topography and proximity to bodies of water causes large climatic variations and these deviations have created distinct ecological zones, which are home to a complex web of biological diversity. The Landscape New York’s land forms were shaped by the recent glacial stage which disappeared not more than 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. Thompson (1977) identified nine major land form regions within the state. The Adirondack upland in the northern-most portion of the State includes New York’s highest point, Mt. Marcy, hundreds of glacial lakes, and rich mineral deposits. Other upland regions include the Appalachian upland, which occupies nearly half the state, and the Tug Hill Upland, which is the least settled part of the state due to its poor soils, bad drainage and excessive precipitation. There are many distinct physiographic features within the Appalachian upland region. The Finger Lakes, Helderberg Escarpment, and the Catskills have been shaped by the recent glaciation but the Allegheny Mountains in the southwestern end of the State were not glaciated and its angular terrain and exposed bedrock are characteristic features. The other parts of the state are mostly low-lying...
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...These two painters wrote each other letters everyday and even more than once a day sometimes. Stieglitz and O'Keeffe met in 1916 when he was 54 while she was 23. He was very famous at the time with an avant-garde gallery in Manhattan and she on the other hand was unknown. When O’Keeffe arrived in New York, Stieglitz was educated in Berlin studying engineer and photography. After Georgia O'Keeffe arrived in New York Alfred took her to the Stieglitz family home at a lake in the Adirondack Mountains. They then made a plan to return to that lake house every summer as long as they were together. Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887. She was the second of seven other children. She grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. O'Keeffe was known to be one of the greatest American artists in the twentieth century. “She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago Rodriguez...
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...York city with a population of 57,866 according to the United States Census Bureau in 2013. Residents can enjoy the humid continental climate and the best amenities including easy access to numerous parks, recreational facilities, excellent medical facilities and well-organized transportation system. Three major non-profit hospitals of the city are White Plains Hospital Center, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital and New York Presbyterian Hospital. Downtown White Plains is looked upon as one of the most advantageous place to live in New York. The clever location is its biggest advantage; less than an hour drive from four major city airports (Newark, Westchester County Airport, JFK, Laguadia). Further, Metro-North Railroad, Bee-Line bus system, Adirondack Trailways and Coach USA connect White Plains well. White Plains' biggest attraction is its schools and universities providing the finest education to students. The White Plain Public School District is governed by its chosen school board. However, when it comes to sharing services and benefiting the taxpayers it works together with the District government. The White Plains Public Schools serve the inhabitants of the city and also those who are relocating in the metro area of New York. White Plains maintains five elementary schools, couple of middle schools. According to Controlled Parents' Choice Program, the parents of elementary and middle school students can choose the school where they want to send their kids. The White Plains High...
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...The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature William Cronon This will seem a heretical claim to many environmentalists, since the idea of wilderness has for decades been a fundamental tenet-indeed, a passionof the environmental movement, especially in the United States. For many Americans wilderness stands as the last remaining place where civilization, that all too human disease, has not fully infected the earth. It is an island in the polluted sea of urban-industrial modernity, the one place we can turn for escape from our own too-muchness. Seen in this way, wilderness presents itself as the best antidote to our human selves, a refuge we must somehow recover if we hope to save the planet. As Henry David Thoreau once famously declared, “In Wildness is the preservation of the World.“’ But is it? The more one knows of its peculiar history, the more one realizes that wilderness is not quite what it seems. Far from being the one place on earth that stands apart from humanity, it is quite profoundly a human creation-indeed, the creation of very particular human cultures at very particular moments in human history. It is not a pristine sanctuary where the last remnant of an untouched, endangered, but still transcendent nature can for at least a little while longer be encountered without the contaminating taint of civilization. Instead, it is a product of that civilization, and could hardly be contaminated by the very stuff of which it is made...
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...The Story of the Fourth of July The Declaration of Independence We celebrate American Independence Day on the Fourth of July every year. We think of July 4, 1776, as a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776). It wasn’t the day we started the American Revolution either (that had happened back in April 1775). And it wasn't the day Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence (that was in June 1776). Or the date on which the Declaration was delivered to Great Britain (that didn't happen until November 1776). Or the date it was signed (that was August 2, 1776). So what did happen on July 4, 1776? The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. They'd been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd and finally agreed on all of the edits and changes. July 4, 1776, became the date that was included on the Declaration of Independence, and the fancy handwritten copy that was signed in August (the copy now displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) It’s also the date that was printed on the Dunlap Broadsides, the original printed copies of the Declaration that were circulated throughout the new nation. So when people thought of the Declaration of Independence...
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...New York City The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century--among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia--but none settled there until 1624. That year, the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement on “Nutten Island” (today’s Governors Island) that they called New Amsterdam. In 1626, the settlement’s governor general, Peter Minuit, purchased the much larger Manhattan Island from the natives for 60 guilders in trade goods such as tools, farming equipment, cloth and wampum (shell beads). Fewer than 300 people lived in New Amsterdam when the settlement moved to Manhattan. But it grew quickly, and in 1760 the city (now called New York City; population 18,000) surpassed Boston to become the second-largest city in the American colonies. Fifty years later, with a population 202,589, it became the largest city in the Western hemisphere. Today, more than 8 million people live in the city’s five boroughs. New York City in the 18th Century In 1664, the British seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and gave it a new name: New York City. For the next century, the population of New York City grew larger and more diverse: It included immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France and Germany;...
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...Supernatural: The Life of William Branham Book 6: The Prophet and His Revelation 1960 – 1965 by Owen Jorgensen 1 Acknowledgments: In a project of this magnitude, it is understandable that I should owe many people a debt of gratitude for their help. First of all I want to thank Pearry Green for his vision, his encouragement and his efforts in publishing and distributing these books. I also want to thank Saundra Miles, David Buckley, Jay Weber, and the other people who spent many hours editing and proof reading the six manuscripts in this series. Their suggestions helped to make this a better book and a more accurate account of William Branham‘s life. Also, I want to thank Steven and Kathy Strooh, who put these books into audio format for all those people who would rather listen than read. I must certainly thank those people who have translated these books into their native languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Norwegian, Hindi, and many other languages. Supernatural: the Life of William Branham took me 17 years to complete. I was 34 when I started and 51 when I finished. To put that into perspective, my four children were in grade school when I began writing this biography. By the time I finished, three of my children were married and I had nine grandchildren. During the 17 years I worked on this project, my life had its ups and downs. I want to thank everyone who prayed for me during those 17 years. Finally I want to thank my four children—Benaiah...
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...500 extraordinary islands G R E E N L A N D Beaufort Sea Baffin Bay vi Da i tra sS t a nm De it Stra rk Hudson Bay Gulf of Alaska Vancouver Portland C A N A D A Calgary Winnipeg Newfoundland Quebec Minneapolis UNITED STATES San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Phoenix Dallas Ottawa Montreal ChicagoDetroitToronto Boston New York OF AMERICA Philadelphia Washington DC St. Louis Atlanta New Orleans Houston Monterrey NORTH AT L A N T I C OCEAN MEXICO Guadalajara Mexico City Gulf of Mexico Miami Havana CUBA GUATEMALA HONDURAS b e a n Sea EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA Managua BAHAMAS DOMINICAN REPUBLIC JAMAICA San Juan HAITI BELIZE C a r PUERTO RICO ib TRINIDAD & Caracas N TOBAGO A COSTA RICA IA M PANAMA VENEZUELA UYANRINA H GU C U G Medellín A PAC I F I C OCEAN Galapagos Islands COLOMBIA ECUADOR Bogotá Cali S FR EN Belém Recife Lima BR A Z I L PERU La Paz Brasélia Salvador Belo Horizonte Rio de Janeiro ~ Sao Paulo BOLIVIA PARAGUAY CHILE Cordoba Santiago Pôrto Alegre URUGUAY Montevideo Buenos Aires ARGENTINA FALKLAND/MALVINAS ISLANDS South Georgia extraordinary islands 1st Edition 500 By Julie Duchaine, Holly Hughes, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin, and Sylvie Murphy Contents Chapter 1 Beachcomber Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Aquatic Playgrounds 2 Island Hopping the Turks & Caicos: Barefoot Luxury 12 Life’s a Beach 14 Unvarnished & Unspoiled 21 Sailing...
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...Answers to Conceptual Integrated Science End-of-Chapter Questions Chapter 1: About Science Answers to Chapter 1 Review Questions 1 The era of modern science in the 16th century was launched when Galileo Galilei revived the Copernican view of the heliocentric universe, using experiments to study nature’s behavior. 2 In Conceptual Integrated Science, we believe that focusing on math too early is a poor substitute forconcepts. 3 We mean that it must be capable of being proved wrong. 4 Nonscientific hypotheses may be perfectly reasonable; they are nonscientific only because they are not falsifiable—there is no test for possible wrongness. 5 Galileo showed the falseness of Aristotle’s claim with a single experiment—dropping heavy and lightobjects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. 6 A scientific fact is something that competent observers can observe and agree to be true; a hypothesis is an explanation or answer that is capable of being proved wrong; a law is a hypothesis that has been tested over and over and not contradicted; a theory is a synthesis of facts and well-tested hypotheses. 7 In everyday speech, a theory is the same as a hypothesis—a statement that hasn’t been tested. 8 Theories grow stronger and more precise as they evolve to include new information. 9 The term supernatural literally means “above nature.” Science works within nature, not above it. 10 They rely on subjective personal experience and do not lead to testable hypotheses. They lie outside...
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