Pend Oreille River

Why is the Mississippi River important to U.S.A The Mississippi River is the fourth world largest and the U.S.A second largest before the Missouri River. It is the second longest river in America after the Missouri. The length of the Mississippi River is 2320 meters which is 3730 kilometers. The Mississippi and Missouri rivers combined will form the largest River system in U.S and North America. The Mississippi River spreads in 10 states in America and the states are…

Kevin Fedarko’s The Emerald Mile takes readers on a journey through the Grand Canyon behind the eyes of boat guides, who all seem to have a special connection to the canyon and the river. The boatmen in the book are used to convey a message that there is so much beauty to be seen in the canyon. The characters Martin Litton and Kenton Grua are examples of boatmen that share a special connection with the canyon because of the canyon’s beauty. When humans began building dams and using technology to…

Great Mississippi flood of 1927 the author, John M. Barry communicates his fascination of the river. He began to mention the unique characteristics of the river. “The river’s characteristics represents an extraordinary combination of turbulent effects, and river hydraulics quickly beyond the merely complex” Barry quote a physicist about the astonishing quality of the relatively and turbulence of the river. He intends to convince the audience that not even an expert can explain its uniqueness…

– INTRO Saint Francis Dam, constructed from 1924-1926 was a concrete gravity arch dam in Southern California. It was constructed to provide water to the rapidly growing population of Los Angeles. In 1929 the dam burst after the foundations of the dam were eroded by leaking water and additions were made to the dam without adequate structural compensation. The collapse caused the release of over forty-five billion litres of water, the loss of the area’s water supply and the loss of over 450…

The Mississippi River has many features such as the depth, width, and length. At the widest part of the Mississippi River it is over 11 miles wide. The Mississippi is the second longest river in North America next to the Missouri River.This river is running over 2,300 miles long. The Mississippi River’s volum is 16,792 cubic meters of water per second into the Gulf of Mexico. These are some of the features of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi river begins it’s passage from Lake Itasca in…

Hurricane Katrina levee’s along the Mississippi River were essentially sturdy and strong; however, the levee constructed to hold back Lake Borgne, Lake Pontchartrain, and the waterlogged swamps and marshes to the city’s west and east were less reliable. Since Hurricane Katrina, it has let other states to observe, verify, and inspect their flood control systems and implanting this catastrophic event if it happened in their cities. Sacramento has implemented and introduces an overhauling flood…

to freedom on the Mississippi river. The river has its good times and bad ones to, but Huck pushes through like a good friend would. He also meets his childhood friend Tom but ultimately leaves all of this to go out west. Friendship plays a very important role; Huck develops many new friendships throughout the text including those with Jim, a runaway slave, Huck’s friend Tom Sawyer, from a previous book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and the mighty Mississippi River, a friend one minute and an…

The Westward expansion skyrocketed yet again, eventually allowing settlers to move even past the Mississippi river while still being directly connected to the eastern shore. We call the dramatic increase in land and population manifest destiny, claiming that it was our right to be able to expand across all of America. The railroad heavily encouraged the agriculture…

his two ways of seeing the river? Twain first refers to the river as something absolutely beautiful. Twain admires the river and appreciates all of the small details, as he describes the “broad expanse of the river; in the middle distance the red hue brightened into gold, sparkling upon the water” (1). After Twain sees the river everyday and gets used to it, he begins to not appreciate the beauty as much, as he says, “the romance and beauty were all gone from the river” (3). 2. What point…

It has taken millions of years to create Louisiana. Many things have contributed to the growth of Louisiana. One of the only things that creates land are rivers. In Louisiana, the river that builds land is the Mississippi river. It has created what we now know as Southern Louisiana. The Mississippi River creates land by depositing sediment into the Gulf of Mexico and whenever it floods, sediment would be left behind which builds up land over time. However, although it takes a very long time to…