...Critical Analysis of Westward Expansion “Go west, young man”. It was the phrase of the 19th Century advocating for Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the idea that settlers were destined to expand to the west. “Americans not only considered Westward expansion a desirable objective but an endowment from God through which they could take their democratic republicanism across North America (Dobson, 2013). There were many factors that urged westward expansion, but the most common reasons for settlers were for the social environment, the natural environment, and the economic opportunities. The social environment of the west included the idea of freedom and the idea of Native American interaction. The natural environment was thriving in the west as gold and other precious minerals were discovered throughout westward expansion. The economic opportunities in the west were almost endless. As settlers took adapted Manifest Destiny, opportunist and businessmen took it towards their advantage...
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...In all the following text and paintings the authors talk about westward expansion. All the text mention one of their great figures in that time. If the United States didn’t expand westward there wouldn’t be enough room for the all of us. Robert Morgan’s central idea is that he wants the United States to stretch from coast to coast across America. “Thomas Jefferson, the quintessential American dreamer, whose vision of the future republic had from the beginning stretched over the mountains to the Mississippi Valley”. Robert Morgan stated this to show that Thomas Jefferson favored western expansion. In every text the author’s favor westward expansion. “We may confidently assume that our country is destined to be the great nation of futurity”....
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...individuals and events to reveal his purpose. Cite specific textual evidence to support your analysis. Thomas Jefferson took Oath of Office as the third president on March 4th, 1801. Jefferson had a marvelous imagination, and many ideas about Westward Expansion. He used individuals and resources along the way for the expansion. Without the expansion, we would not have our roadways, faster travel, or shipping like we do now. An author Stephen Ambrose, reveals his purpose of informing through language, choice of individuals, and his choice of events included in “Thomas Jefferson’s America, 1801.” Ambrose talks about how Jefferson used individuals to expand the West. Jefferson sent two men named Lewis and Clark to discover the U.S. territory. As they were traveling, they came into contact with Indians. Jefferson was fond of the...
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...Pan-Europa Foods Case Analysis Executive Summary Pan Europa foods is a European producer of yogurt, ice cream, bottled water, and fruit juice. With stagnant gross sales and decreasing stock value, the company needs to increase its net income and increase confidence in its shareholders to avoid a takeover. With this in mind, the company decides to allocate $80 million Euros out of its $656 million asset base to capital spending in investment projects. There are currently 11 proposals on the table totaling $208 million from which the Senior Management Committee must choose from. Currently the company has two financial measures to determine if projects are economically sufficient for the firm, minimum acceptable IRR and maximum acceptable payback years. Considering these and other non-quantitative tools, the management committee will decide between these 11 projects proposed by various upper level managers within the firm. 1.) Strategically, in order for Pan Europa foods to not become victim of a hostile takeover, it must take steps to increase their stock price. In order to do so, they have to focus on becoming more profitable, which would mean increasing their sales and gaining more market share. Critically Important Categories in Exhibit 2: * Net Income * Earnings per Share * Market Value of Shareholder’s Equity After winning the price war, Pan Europa foods made serious gains in their market share. After doing so, it should now be time...
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...Dunkin Brands Group, Inc. Intro Dunkin Brands Group, Inc. went public on July 27, 2011 at an offering price of $19.00 per share. Over a year later Dunkin trades around $29.13. This represents an increase of 52.63 % since the company went public. After evaluating the company and preparing a DCF model we found the price to be valued at only $24.17. Dunkin Brands also has a price to earnings ratio of 64.88. These indicators signal a company that is vastly overpriced, however its explosive growth prospects might somewhat justify the high multiples. What is nerve wracking is the lack of financial records stretching back further in time, due to the recent offering of shares. Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis Dunkin’ Brands Group headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts consists of two of America’s most recognizable brands: Dunkin Donuts and Baskin-Robbins. The two brands both have a rich history dating back to the 1940s when Bill Rosenberg founded his first restaurant, subsequently renamed Dunkin’ Donuts, and Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins each founded a chain of ice cream shops that eventually combined to form Baskin-Robbins. Incorporated on November 22, 2005, the combined companies were renamed Dunkin’ Brands Group, Inc. The company went public on July 27, 2011 at an offering $19.00 per share. Dunkin’s plan was to use the money to pay down debt and expand the chain. Upon the completion of the IPO, the common stock became listed on the NASDAQ Global...
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...As the United States entered the period of Jackson’s presidency, the country was progressing at a rapid rate. In order to do so, westward expansion was viewed as not only a necessity, but a right the country undoubtedly possessed. The United States inherited the European “‘right of discovery’” and used this notion to carry out a brutal ethnic cleansing, stripping the American Indians of their culture, land, and people in drastic number (66). Jackson’s way of thinking resonated with the people of his country at the time, many of whom desired land. The historian Theda Perdue provides a modern reflection of the cruelty toward such a fundamental group of the country in her essay entitled “Indian Removal.” On the other hand, Andrew Jackson himself...
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...Chicago about his theory of the American West. This Statement made a bold case that the closing of the westward expansion was the end to a glorious and influential chapter in the history of the nation. Throughout the decades there is one thing for certain, the Frontier thesis has just as much impact today as when produced. It may be studied today for its purposefulness as well as its theories, but his work ultimately inspires one to open their mind for critique, discussion, and praise. He believed that westering American individuality helped assure our democracy. Turner has many influences during his career like his father, teachers, students, and other historians. He continued to be an avid student as well, always reading and educating himself. The center of his thesis was to state that the American character, including such traits as equality and acquisitiveness, and the “American character” derived from the frontier experience. His historical value was in understanding America’s inner workings. Looking at all aspects of the American life, their past, where their future was heading, their economic, political, and social belongings. It was this forward thinking that elevated Turner’s status in his profession and our teachings today. If you studied who Turner was you would come to find out that he lived as a frontiersman and experienced that America’s uniqueness of expansion first hand. History was around Turner as a child, his father was an historian and journalist. Andrew...
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...27 January 2011 THE ELUSIVE REPUBLIC The period spanning the American Revolution and the War of 1812 was marked by a controversial, difficult, and painful effort to define the terms of a flourishing economy in the United States. Drew McCoy’s, The Elusive Republic discusses the ideological origins upon which many eighteenth century thinkers developed their rationale for America’s “young” economy. During a time in which Europe was a dominating force and America was still in its infancy, the political economy in Jeffersonian America struggled to define itself as an independent republic and not just a replica of its oppressor. England had grown to be an old, corrupt, and overpopulated land where, “the people who cloathe the whole world are in rags themselves.” (McCoy 47) Seeing its counterpart in such a state of decay, Revolutionaries in America forged a commitment to republicanism that would soon lead to an ongoing public debate over superior ideologies. The two conflicting visions that spurred the post-war vision of a republican America was that of developing across space, which was supported by Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson, and that of Alexander Hamilton’s vision of developing through time. As America progressed through its post-war stages, it was evident that one vision had surpassed the other in dominating the economy. According to Madison, “…The United States might be forced into manufacturing as an alternative source of employment even...
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...CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Current trends in electric energy generation are moving towards the utilization of the environment friendly sources of energy, represented by the wind and solar energy ones as a supplementary energy resource. The solar based one is the more attractive because it is characterized by being free, incur no fuel cost, abundant, limits less, distributed all over the world, pollution free, and require little maintenance. Maximizing power output from a solar system is desirable to increase efficiency and in order to maximize power output from the solar panels, one need to keep the panels aligned with the sun. As such, a means of tracking the sun is required. Efficient collection of maximum solar irradiance (MSI) on a flat plate type photovoltaic solar panels or a cylindrical parabolic solar reflector requires adjustments of two parameters of the energy collecting surface namely the angle of Azimuth, and the angle of tilt, of the surface to be illuminated. As the elevation angle of the sun remains almost invariant in a month and varies little (latitude + 100) in a year, there is no need for automatic adjustment of the tilt angle. Everyday, the sun rises in the east, moves across the sky and sets in the west. If one could get a solar panel to turn and look at the sun all day hours, then it could receive the maximum amount of sunlight possible and convert it into the more useful energy (electricity). The current of the solar module is very sensitive...
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...Primary Source Analysis The sudden change from a subsistence to a commercial agriculture in the Old Northwest in the beginning of the 19th century, and the Transport-, as well as Market Revolution attracted many new migrants to the area. One of them was Ferdinand Ernst, a German colonist and “wealthy promoter of a colony of German settlers in frontier Illinois.”[1] The constant opening of farmland encouraged mobility and everyone was wanting to get land 60-80 miles northwards of what would become the capital of Illinois, Vandalia, upon the river Sangamon. Ferdinand purchased land in Vandalia, and then traveled and surveyed the then-western United States. In his letters Travels in Illinois in 1819, written for future and potential colonists, he talks about the Sugar Creek land, the Richland Creek land, the Sangamon and Onaquispasippi River, and the Shoal Creek land. Ferdinand described Sugar Creek as a land of “high degree of fruitfulness [that] attracts men to bid defiance to the various dangers and inconveniences that might, up to this time, present themselves to such a settlement.”[2] Since the treaty at Edwardsville in 1819, in which the Natives ceded the land to the United States, it was quiet and safe; therefore, no more risk of being captured, killed, or driven out during the great annual hunt of the natives made the land more desirable for many. Corn grew enormously in this region, from 10 to 15 feet high, and Ferdinand made the prediction that “no region...
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...CPEC- STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES FOR PAKISTAN AND CHINA INTRODUCTION 1. Economic corridors have appeared as a significant tool of local cooperation and development in a globalized world. The name ‘Corridor’ suggests a passage that connects the two separate countries or regions. ADB defines ‘Economic Corridor’ as “they join economic lumps along a distinct landscape”. The impression is to increase economic expansion by connecting backward regions with more developed industrial hubs and to expand access to markets through the merger of trans-border production networks. 2. During the visit of Chinese Prime Minister to Pakistan from 22 to 23 May 2013, China proposed a ‘China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’ (CPEC or C-PEC) to connect Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang...
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...The international community has not legally admonished the United States for genocidal acts against Native Americans, yet it is clear that examples of genocidal acts and crimes against humanity are a well-cited page in U.S. history. Notorious incidents, such as the Trail of Tears, the Sand Creek Massacre, and the massacre of the Yuki of northern California are covered in depth in separate entries in this encyclopedia. More controversial, however, is whether the colonies and the United States participated in genocidal acts as an overall policy toward Native Americans. The Native-American population decrease since the arrival of Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus alone signals the toll colonization and U.S. settlement took on the native population. Scholars estimate that approximately 10 million pre-Columbian Native Americans resided in the present-day United States. That number has since fallen to approximately 2.4 million. While this population decrease cannot be attributed solely to the actions of the U.S. government, they certainly played a key role. In addition to population decrease, Native Americans have also experienced significant cultural and proprietary losses as a result of U.S. governmental actions. The total effect has posed a serious threat to the sustainability of the Native-American people and culture. Ideological Motivations Two conflicting yet equally harmful ideologies significantly influenced U.S. dealings with Native Americans. The first sprang from...
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...Mexico. President Polk justified his war by saying in his message that Mexico had attacked American troops and invaded the United States. He also brought up the issue that initially brought about all of the tensions between the U.S. and Mexico, which was the Mexican government had not been cooperative in negotiations over the Texas boundary. Polk, as well as most of the rest of Americans at this time, saw the declaration of war as a legitimate and natural expression of America’s Manifest Destiny, which will be later explained. The question remains, however, was Polk’s declaration of war on Mexico really necessary, let alone justified? Was peace what he really wanted, or was his true intention just to acquire more land and expand the U.S. westward as fast as he could? President Polk did appear to have taken several steps to try to avoid an armed conflict with Mexico. First, Polk tried to reopen diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Mexico by sending an envoy, Mr. John Slidell of Louisiana, invested with full powers to make adjustments to the current state of affairs between the two countries. He sent this envoy, seemingly, as evidence that he did not want war, but peace and harmonious engagements between the U.S. and Mexico from there on forth. At first, Mexico’s minister stated that they would be willing to receive an envoy form the U.S. under the condition that the U.S. would withdraw its naval forces from Vera Cruz. The minister said that its presence there seemed to be...
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...TExES I Texas Examinations of Educator Standards Preparation Manual 133 History 8–12 Copyright © 2006 by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). All rights reserved. The Texas Education Agency logo and TEA are registered trademarks of the Texas Education Agency. Texas Examinations of Educator Standards, TExES, and the TExES logo are trademarks of the Texas Education Agency. This publication has been produced for the Texas Education Agency (TEA) by ETS. ETS is under contract to the Texas Education Agency to administer the Texas Examinations of Educator Standards (TExES) program and the Certification of Educators in Texas (ExCET) program. The TExES program and the Examination for the Certification of Educators in Texas (ExCET) program are administered under the authority of the Texas Education Agency; regulations and standards governing the program are subject to change at the discretion of the Texas Education Agency. The Texas Education Agency and ETS do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, or disability in the administration of the testing program or the provision of related services. PREFACE The State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) has developed new standards for Texas educators that delineate what the beginning educator should know and be able to do. These standards, which are based on the state-required curriculum for students—the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)—form the basis for new Texas Examinations...
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...that it allows continuity to the reader when studying the frontier. For instance, Slotkin notices in his analysis of “The Adventures of Col, Daniel Boone that: “Filson creates a character who becomes the archetypal hero of the American frontier, copied by imitators and plagiarists and appearing innumerable times under other names and in other guises -- in literature, the popular arts, and folklore -- as the man who made the wilderness safe for democracy” (Slotkin 268-69) This shows how his character became an archetype to himself and all other frontiersmen. Because of this, the circumstances may change in the frontier, but its actors do not. As Slotkin describes the character of he furthers this argument and identifies “the most distinctive trait of Boone’s character was his love for the wild land” (Slotkin 298). While this approach is valuable due to minimal historical documentation, its methodology is intrinsically too simple to be taken seriously. Additionally, “Old West” perspectives usually only interpret the traces of the “white imperialist”. However, starting in the 1960’s a new wave of American historians sought to uncover the “untold” immigrant and minority past as well as exposing the truth of the “American Experience”. These “New West” historians refer to Slotkin and others as part of the "consensus school" because their narratives of American westward expansion are so...
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