Acadians

Renee. To compare, Silver maple trees grow along swamps, creeks, and rivers and being that I was born and raised along the Mississippi river as well as being instilled in the swamp life early by taking many tours and trips to Alligator Bayou and Acadian Swamp tours in my younger days. Furthermore, I would like to talk about the location of where the Silver Maples are and how it relates to me. Indeed, it is stated that Sliver maples are highly located in the Eastern half of the United States,…

The Atchafalaya River The Atchafalaya River is a distributary of the Red River and Mississippi River section in part of the southern portion in central Louisiana. The Atchafalaya is a one hundred and thirty seven mile long distributary of the Mississippi and Red Rivers. The name "Atchafalaya" comes from the Choctaw language and translates to long river from hachcha, “river" and falaya, "long.” During the fifteenth century the Mississippi River and the Red River were separated. These two rivers…

Place In Barry Lopez’s “Losing Sense of Place” he talks about how Americans basically take our landmarks and geological features for granted. Lopez says, “In 40,000 years of human history, it has only been in the last few hundred years or so that a people could afford to ignore their local geographies as completely as we do and still survive.” This is very true over time the ideal of place is less meaningful; when America was discovered explores could not wait to map it out and now no one even…

of artwork involving the kings and deities they worship. For example, Ancient Egyptian King Narmer was represented as a bull destroying the walls of his foes on the Palette of Narmer, created in Early Dynastic Egypt around 2950 BCE. Similarly, the Acadians that settled…

Societal Issues Concerning Women Romanticist writer Kate Chopin became a voice for women in the late 1800s and early 1900s, using topics such as marital discord, adultery, identity, sexuality, and morality to explain both the defiance that comes from revisionist patriarchal restraints that hinder feminine selfhood and also the consequences that can stem from such defiance from any given individual as it pertains to the individual and her surroundings. Chopin uses adultery and the sensations…

metabasaltic amphibolite and exhalative chemical metasedimentary rocks of the Middle Silurian age (Hammarstrom et al., 2001). The bedrock beneath the Ely mine site is part of the Gile Mountain Formation. The Gile Mountain Formation formed during the Acadian Orogeny during the Lower Devonian period. Originally deposited as sedimentary rock, the bedrock underlying the Ely Mine site is highly metamorphosed. It is largely comprised of noncarbonaceous quartz-mica schist and feldspathic quartzite,…

French and Indian wars were four wars fought one after another in North America between 1689 and 1763. The wars were fought between France and England, which became part of Britain during the second war. Spain, at times, sided with the French. All fought with the support of Indian allies. In the end, France lost nearly all its land in North America. Britain gained most of the French territory, and Spain acquired the rest. Battle of Monongahela Location of Acadia Causes of the French and…

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostel, a hostel is a budget friendly accommodation. Usually, the guests can rent a bed, which is often times found in dormitories. The rooms are typically shared. However, private rooms may also be available. The guests will share bathrooms, lounges, and sometimes even a kitchen. Elderhostel is a not for profit educational travel organization for elderly adults that has been around since 1975. The program is for elderly folks that are age 55 years…

She suggests that because a pregnancy is such a great sacrifice, that, while women should carry a child to term after becoming pregnant, we cannot require them to do so. This argument also requires that the fetus’ right to life is subject to the mother’s whim and does not carry as much weight as the first two arguments. Thomson concludes the article by saying that she is not attempting to delineate the circumstances in which a pregnancy might be morally permissible and those in which it isn’t,…

Huey P. Long – As Illustrated by Ken Burns Huey P. Long was one of the country’s most illustrious figures not only in Louisiana history but also in American politics. He was a man who was hated by some and beloved by many. He was the consummate salesman – he saw a need and he filled it. A man of superior intelligence, he remained a man of the people. Huey lived his life on the run, filling it up with ideas and projects, programs and people. He seemed to know his time was limited and he…