Stony Point Battlefield Is a good way to spend your time with family and friends. It is a hidden gem in a park. Beautiful views, interesting historical exhibits and clean winding footpaths make this a lovely way to spend a day. Read this and i'll show you why it is the best place to visit. Stony Point Park is located high on the Palisades along the Hudson River. It's a small park with a lighthouse, picnic facilities, museum and at times, a Revolutionary War encampment.The museum
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States Of America. As an anfrition of this Country, It is important to remark our values and culture that we all have. The importance to spread the world, that everybody is welcome to visit us, and how many and beautiful places this Country have. “Mi casa,” is a Spanish word, that means, “My home.” “Mi casa,” however, is California. California is better known for its wonderful weather, testy wines, the famous Silicon Valley, the bright- red Golden Gate, Alcatraz island, and many more beautiful places
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Freedom is the thing that describes America. It's what we fight for, it's what we strived for, and what some of us die for. Freedom separates us from each other, or combines us together. After all if we didn't have it, we would be in no position to fight. It's just how we strive! But sometimes we have to think, “if I do this, what would be the reaction”, the thing is, we don't know, until we try. We Americans DO try, and that's what makes us, our nation unique! We can't predict the future, and that's
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is the piece of land that divides the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean and also joins North America and South America. After analyzing this theories I realized that the Isthmus of Panama have a very, very important role in the world. To understand the geography of Panama we first have to know that the Isthmus of Panama was formed by a Central American peninsula which collided slowly with South America by a tectonic plate movement. The geographical position of our country is our principal Natural
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our world, beautiful architectural cities, their Mayan calendar and their mysterious disappearance. II. TYPE Body Paragraph 1 Topic: The Mayans A. ORIGIN 1.they settle in Yucatan Mexico are between 2600 BC and 1800 BC in 250 ad and 900 ad they moved down to other cities and build up new buildings .they spread thru central America 2. The cities they lived in where Yucatan Mexico, Guatemala located in Petén B. 3 MAJOR CITIES 1. Tikal a. located in Guatemala central America in the state
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The Roman Empire was one of the greatest Empires known to mankind, and many say the United states of America is following in Rome’s footsteps. However when looking closer at the fall of the Roman Empire there are terrifying similarities to present day America. It seems like America is making the same mistakes that the Romans made. However of Americans work fast we can avoid the ending the Romans met. The Romans fell because they had too much land and not enough control, their economy was slowly
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family was aiming to start a new life to better their future. Their dream was “AMERICA”, the most wonderful, beautiful place in the world. Were you could be one, be free, create your future, but most of all to have a new start. The more difficult
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Josephine Baker is a dynamic revolutionary performer, movie star, fashion icon, hero of the French Resistance, humanitarian, and a mother of twelve adopted children of various ethnicities. And importantly she is a legacy of imagery and symbolism. From the start, the African American Josephine Baker, was a survivor. Far from the glitter and gaiety that characterized her beloved Paris, Baker’s beginnings were harsh and difficult. Born in the slums of St. Louis, Missouri in 1906, she grew up sleeping
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The book was first published in 1998. It is based off of Adam Smith’s, The Wealth of Nations, written in 1776. The moral of this book describes how the writer explores the differences between the West and the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The book explains how our people got to a certain place in the world and the difficulties getting there. David Landes believes that this topic is overdue for discussion and feels he should step up to the subject. Landes starts with discussing the
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Mr Deeprose October 10th, 2012 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Reading Response The novel The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald is a book that deals with the American Dream: an ideal presented in American literature where the dreamer rises to wealth, very present in the twenties. In this bestseller, Gatsby – the protagonist – embodies the evolution of one to greatness. Beginning his life as a simple, poor farmer’s boy. James Gatz, upon meeting the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan who is
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