... environment. It has wings, which makes it able to fly around to different caves, and bodies of water. Its fur color is brownish gray, which makes it blend in well to the inside of the caves in which it lives in. Gray Bats reach sexual maturity at the age of 2. Spermatogenesis is initiated in late summer and completed by early fall. Females also store sperm ... soon after they leave hibernacula. Females stay pregnant from 60 to 70 days. FACTS The Gray Bat lives in caves all year long. They are not really gray! Fewer than 5% of available caves are suitable for Gray Bats to live in. A Bats...

• Word Count: 344
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... species list because the lower 48 states had very few if any wolves at all. The gray wolf is a mammal in the Canidae family. They are also part of the Holarctic historic range. These wolves have gray and white pointed hair and long pointed ears. They way approximately 150lbs and have very sharp ... canine like teeth. These wolves are stay in the den for the first six weeks. During this time they are fed fragments of meat brought to ... the den and try to find a mate. They have been known to travel nearly 500 miles in search of a new den or new mate. Humans are what threaten the gray wol...

• Word Count: 467
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Raymond Gray Lewis, Canada's first African-Canadian Olympian, was born on October 8th, 1910, in Hamilton Ontario, to a third generation "Canadian" family. He began his career, in track and ... peers. He says this first started to come about when he was ten years old, because this was the first year he did not receive any Valentines from any of the white children in his class, or school. During the Great Depression, Lewis, briefly attended Marquette University in Milwaukee. He returned and became a porter for the Pacific ... meter relay. Since he has retired, he's been an official for track a...

• Word Count: 302
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... has it that a 16th century Spanish galleon bound for South America was torn asunder off the shoals of Assateague Island during a violent storm. After escaping from the cargo hold, the horses it carried swam to the safety of the island's nearby shore. Another legend would place the horses on Assateague Island in the 17th century, turned out there to graze by mainland ... possible perfect horse. The Miniature comes in all possible horse colors. Miniature Horses are seen in performance classes - halter obstacle, hunter jumper, showmanship, costume, liberty, and driving. A variety of driving...

• Word Count: 2405
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... the First Amendment. But, as in all truly great and profound ideas, there exists the dreaded area where black and white mix, giving over to gray; where our deep-rooted beliefs tend to tangle with the bramble of human emotion. Do ALL Americans deserve to be heard? Did Americans Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy deserve such a right? What about ... Court where Preferred Position Balancing is the favored First Amendment philosophy, a law such as theSon of Sam? would be well intentioned enough to warrant a trial run, so to speak. But, when the gray fades, American's must look d...

• Word Count: 1561
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... an emergency room at Parkland Hospital, the President was pronounced dead at one o"clock.(Parmet 346)" After the shooting Oswald walked out of the building and took a taxi ride to his house. While at his house he changed into a gray jacket and picked up his Smith & Wesson revolver. Oswald's housekeeper witnessed him, "While he was changing, Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper at the ... rooming house, heard a car horn and, looking out the window, saw a police car stopped in front of the house. Then it slowly drove away. A moment later Oswald strode ... J.D. Tippit was bleeding to death by...

• Word Count: 598
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... which claimed that "Jim Beckwourth, a Black mountain man adopted by the Crow tribe of the upper Missouri River had procured an infected blanket and sold it to the Blackfeet, the enemies of his adopted people"(Mayor, 60). Furthermore, Backwourth's story was described elaborately to a legend, and then some people blamed on him for being responsible for it. A missionary stated ... Related Incarceration And Treatment." American Indian And Alaska Native Mental Health Research (Online) 13.3 (2006):1-22. MEDLINE. Web. 1 Mar. 2014 Fialkowski, Marie K.,Titilayo A. Okoror, and Carol J. Boushey. "...

• Word Count: 2968
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

... and its beauty, and easily expresses a great respect for nature through his vivid description. Columbus' writing can also be compared to that of Native American authors in that in their writing they both seem to have a great respect for the land and its importance. Columbus' descriptive ... comparison shows that he has a great respect for the land, but we also must consider that he was writing this journal for the benefit of the king and queen of Spain. This journal was a way to "advertise" the newly discovered land and promote colonization. Columbus still believed that he was in the ......

• Word Count: 306
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... 1819 and published in 1820. The Sketchbook was written largely in England, at first as Irving was inheriting the family law business from his infirm brother. Rankling under the confines of business that can seem insufferable to the creative mind, Irving turned his full energy to writing. An American author, Irving was a short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer ... , and columnist, best known for the short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle". These stories can be found in the Sketchbook along with about twenty-eight more. The Sketchbook ......

• Word Count: 281
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... The Spain Among Us records many historical facts on the significance Spanish colonization has had on the Americas. America's identity is made up of many cultures put into one. Spanish colonization has had huge impact on the Americas in ways such as shaping the American character, contributing to ... American ranching practices, and by obtaining vital territory for its survival. The heart of the American character lies within the urge to discover the unknown and go to places that man has never seen before. As mentioned in ... Texas called Galveston. Literature also shaped the view Amer...

• Word Count: 689
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... That these, "Robber Barons", did what they could to provide for their family and themselves. The facts are true that these powerful men boosted the economy of the United States, but did they do what they could for the common man? Capitalism in general does not look very appealing to an outside eye. After ... to take care of him and his siblings, his mother ran a taut ship. While Morgan came from a merchant family on his father's side and a New England Clergy on his mothers. It is no surprise that these two men hated each other. Men like these were very cunning. They stay in the gray area...

• Word Count: 560
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... filled with poor, hopeless people who haven't been so fortunate. The giant eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg were "above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust" (23), watching over the Valley of Ashes that represents the real American lifestyle. Symbolically, they see the truth that the ... American Dream is false and not realistic. They see the ugly, poverty stricken part of New York that no ... on John Cougar Mellencamp's album, American Fool. This fact would be considered irrelevant when listening to the song, but when analyzed with Fitzgerald's portrayal of the American Dream, the albu...

• Word Count: 1195
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... in public court, as well as stating the federal government couldn't regulate slavery in territories acquired after the creation of the United States, it was one of the first clear examples of due process of law. Yes, Dred Scott was a slave, and had no real rights as a citizen because he wasn't ... important when speaking of the Fifth Amendment for the simple fact that it demonstrated one of the strongest and most influential principles of it, that being due process. Another event of controversy surrounding the Fifth Amendment is the case of Jack McCall. Jack McCall murdered Old West leg...

• Word Count: 953
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... striking it down in 1935. Three years later, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act, as a result, a minimum hourly wage of 25 cent was inaugurate. Over a century later, Americans are still debating the merits of this fundamental portion of the New Deal. The question is, is it necessary for government to ensure that, low skills worker receive a decent paycheck, or would ... address, Obama stated, "No who works full-time should have to live in poverty raise the federal minimum wage to $9. This single step would raise the income of millions of working families" (O...

• Word Count: 558
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , hairy, swarthy, and with big black eyes. It lived in the woods and had a rank odor and a deafening shriek." There were natives of the land who had lived there long before the explorer had reached it. They were known as the Beothuck. These people may have closely resembled Bigfoot ... It might be done, but we would have to say that it would be almost impossible" (Gaffron 76). The whole basis of the reality of the Bigfoot legend rests largely on the hundreds of footprints collected. The tracks have lengths ranging from 7 to 22 inches (Parkash). A man named Jerry Crew found large footprint...

• Word Count: 1785
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... , now is no time to let our guard down. The president is right to remain focused on eradicating terrorism and keeping the people of our nation free from harm. Congress is committed to working with the president to eliminate terrorist threats against America."" In addition, Bush said ... weaken our economic future. It will create huge, permanent deficits that will raise interest rates, stifle growth, hinder homeownership and cut off the avenues of opportunity that have let so many work themselves up from poverty-. Equally important was debate about reforms in Medicare. For example, Rep. C...

• Word Count: 717
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... the Southern lifestyle with its slaves and plantations against the more liberal north with its industry and abolitionists. The War would determine whether the United States of America would remain united and if slavery would be allowed in the nation that proclaimed that every man has the right to equality under the law ... ideals. However, the struggle pitted brother against brother and friend against friend. Whole households were divided over the blue or the gray. These very ordinary men had stories and struggles of their own but they all had one thing in common; they all were willing t...

• Word Count: 627
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... of The Scarlet Letter occurs in the Boston of 1640's, a somber, gray, violently moral community founded as a kind of Puritan utopia." In this book the Puritan lifestyle is clearly misrepresented. Hawthorne's words clearly express his distaste for the Puritan culture and lifestyle, which he shows through his depiction of the townspeople's hypocrisy, and also through his representation of ... and ridicule her for what she had done. They repeatedly stress their desire for Hester to receive the death penalty instead of the sparing sentence that she received. Hawthorne later in the book make ...

• Word Count: 756
• Approx Pages: 3

... Americans gained a new respect for Indians, seeing them as "holders of wisdom." Most of the literature from the romantic period is fiction. Washington Irving was the first romantic writer out of New England. He wrote Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Rip Van Winkle has a fairytale appeal to it. ... It kindles our imagination, as if it is forcing us to consider "What would you do if you woke up after all those years?" That is not the only thing this story does. This fairytale is a glance into the hearts and minds of ... different time, while others were fully in touch with ...

• Word Count: 1835
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... Horse, and Gall have not been celebrated like white leaders, such as George Washington, who have led their people to war. There are good stories of these Indians, stories that are more interesting and true than any cherry tree stories. Raised by traditions that honored their people and land, Sitting Bull, Crazy ... wiped out and he alone stood against eleven others. Gall ducked down behind a ridge and as the eleven boys were advancing a gray wolf leapt to the top of the ridge. The boys, thinking that Gall had transformed into the wolf ran away, while Gall slipped out the other side ... ...

• Word Count: 1788
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... that made headlines about being pregnant by Thomas Jefferson and her self and her name was Sally Hemings, born in 1773 in the state of Virginia, a slave of African and European descent; Hemings, along with her mother and siblings, moved to Monticello where Thomas Jefferson lives. When Hemings arrived as ... by the stars and singing traditional songs like "Follow the Drinking Gourd," most runaways traveled at night on foot and took advantage of the natural protections offered by swamps, bayous, forests, and waterways. Others who escaped from the South traveled into the western ... of them...

• Word Count: 3713
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

... and were some of the key points in the eventual division of the union. The second issue of the Constitution painted not in black and white, but in many tones of gray, was the issue of slavery. The Constitution only addressed how slaves were to be counted in terms of population; it didn't settle the idea of slavery. As a result of the roundabout addressing of slavery in the ... Constitution, it became a huge issue of sectional disunity ... in the United States. Slavery progressively became a topic of controversy that was slowly reaching a boiling ... ...

• Word Count: 760
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... raiding and trading with the Pueblos. Since the fabled mineral wealth of the region turned out to be a legend, the principal reason for the Spanish Crown to maintain the impoverished colony was the large population of natives, who represented a substantial harvest of souls for the Church. However, the over-zealous methods of the Franciscan fathers entrusted with the project led to the 1680 ... Pueblo Revolt, which totally restored native religion. After the reconquest of 1692 and the resettlement of the province, ... their own culture. These tribal owned business are paying the artists a...

• Word Count: 1505
• Approx Pages: 6

... in which nothing can be classified as "black or white" and there are many areas of gray. Therefore, it is difficult to label anything as a singular extreme. This is the case for the leaders of the industrial period. While they made unprecedented advancements that greatly helped the public, they also ... have industrialized or taken a significantly longer time to do so. Carnegie, Rockefeller and other such industrialists were adamantly seen as Captains of Industry by many because of their success in conquering the "American Dream." At that time, immigrants from many countries were pourin...

• Word Count: 1166
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Americans gained a new respect for Indians, seeing them as "holders of wisdom." Most of the literature from the romantic period is fiction. Washington Irving was the first romantic writer out of New England. He wrote Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Rip Van Winkle has a fairytale appeal to it. ... It kindles our imagination, as if it is forcing us to consider "What would you do if you woke up after all those years?" That is not the only thing this story does. This fairytale is a glance into the hearts and minds of ... different time, while others were fully in touch with ...

• Word Count: 1778
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School