Great Falls; the pride of Northern Virginia, an awe-inspiring work of nature, has essentially been the non-stop work of geological events that occurred over many million years ago. The Great Falls is located along the boundaries of the Piedmont and the coastal plain of the Atlantic Ocean. A coastal plain is a flat land that sits next to the ocean. Also, the Potomac River that flows through the Falls has been a key factor in the creation of the gorge and the falls as we see them today. Dating rocks
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Reading Does a Culture of Appalachia Truly Exist? Really made me think about the Appalachia culture and norms that I see today. Like things that you really see on the mountain. And Denham brings up many topics that I agree with and see on a frequent basis. Like the religion and health, in Boone alone there are many churches for a town so small. Even being a student when a classmate sneezes majority of the class says bless you, or god bless you. In this area religious terms are used on a daily. Which
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written by Washington Irving. It is about a man named Rip Van Winkle who lives in a village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains in the state of New York. One day, he and his dog venture into the mountains, Rip falls asleep and awakens twenty years later. He soon discovers many shocking changes have occurred in his absence. Using
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Irving describes the setting in great detail by saying, “ At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape” (Irving 62). Irving uses imagery
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Many people did not believe industry was developed enough and this idea was plausible. The doubts stemmed from the obstacles of finance, natural barriers such as the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Mountains and the Mississippi River, and sheer impracticability. As years passed, the mass migration to the West especially due to the Gold Rush made the requisite for a transcontinental railroad crucial. “The project for construction of a great
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As Rip helps the stranger that he meets with his load of liquor, he “marvel(s) greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg of liquor up this wild mountain” (453), but concedes that there is a beauty to not knowing, and “something strange and incomprehensible about the unknown, that inspired awe and checked familiarity” (453). During the enlightenment period, the emphasis in literature was not on the
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American Revolution war. The Appalachian Mountains gave the United States great leaders and major battles that changed the outcome of the war. Great militia leaders like Shelby Isaac, McDowell brothers and Elijah Clarke fled to help the southern states during the worst of the fighting (72). The most important leader out of the group of men was Shelby Isaac. Shelby united a majority of the southern militias to attack the British at Kings Mountain (71). Kings Mountain was a major battle for the Patriots
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The myth ¨A Blackfoot Legend¨ came from the tribe named Blackfoot (siksika). They got the name for the dark colored moccasins they wore.They lived on the Great Plains of Montana and Canadian provinces. The tribe originally came from Asia and later moved to northern Montana. The Blackfoot people still live there today, a total of around 25,000. Blackfoot is a common Native American group. One of the most common chiefs was Crowfoot, who lead the people in Canada during the 19th century. He created
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As part of a national movement many dog parents are walking their pets to work today. Did you know that Alaskan Musher and renowned dog sled mail carrier Ed Biederman (pictured below with his wife, Bella) did that and more for 40 years in Alaska? And let us tell you...it was no simple walk to work for him! Biederman, a 13-year-old Bohemian immigrant, settled in the United States in 1874 as the Yukon Gold Rush in Nome, Alaska was just heating up. At that same time, approximately 100,000 hopeful miners
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Physical Geology: Term Paper The break that now separates the Ouachita Mountains from the Appalachians, a feature known as the Mississippi Embayment, constitutes one of the largest and least understood landforms of the central U.S. In the article, “The Mississippi’s Curious Origins” the authors, Roy B. Van Arsdale and Randel T. Cox shed light on the mysterious Mississippi Embayment. They begin by explaining the origins of the horseshoe-shaped lowland that is underlain by massive quantities of
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