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.... years passed, and I was now a twelve year old who remembered Disneyland as a place where “little kids” go to meet Mickey Mouse. Fortunately upon arrival to the park I realized I was wrong. I soon realized that that my mature height of five feet and one-half inch had given me a golden key to the doors of some of the biggest thrill rides the world will ever know. I was now seeing Disneyland in a totally different way. I ran from ride to ride, my level of excitement raging as never before. My stomach was being twisted, juggled, and tossed like never be .....

.... Lenzen was given the job to reconstruct the church a third time in 1869. On April 23, 1875 the church was completely destroyed by fire. This time an architect named Bryan Clinch was given the job to completely redesign a whole new church. Clinch’s design still stands today after a recent 3 year 17 million dollar restoration. Theodore Lenzen was born in Prussia in 1883. He came to the United States with his family when he was 21 years old. Before he designed St. Joseph’s he was known for a few other local buildings: City Hall; Auzerais House; Vendome Hotel. .....

.... money then the blacks, and this causes some racial tension. Although English is the official language of Botswana, most people speak Setswana, a Bantu language. Eighty-five percent of Botswana's people practice traditional African religions, while the rest are Christian. Most Botswanan children attend elementary school, but only fifteen percent will go on to high school. The small percent of people that go to college attend the University of Botswana in Gaborone, the nation's capital. Great Britain once had control over Botswana. South Africa wanted Botswana, t .....

.... people began to domesticate animals and rely on agriculture.1 In only a short time a mixed farming-herding economy had developed in this area.2 Although the land was fertile, irrigation was essential. Because the n climate didn’t have rain for almost eight months of the year and the flood stage was so late in the season, it was essential to prepare dikes and levees to protect the fields.3 Irrigation is the artificial watering of land to sustain plant growth by diverting water from it’s source to the field, providing not too much nor too little moisture. Irrigatio .....

.... published in 1962 by Paul Kemp titled The Wonder City. Interestingly, Kemp started the book with a statement that really piqued my curiosity. "Indians who once roamed the area had known that the spring had medicinal qualitites, but, with characteristic reticence and secretiveness, they did not reveal this fact to the white man. They held the secret in their hearts as they gave ground and moved westward from the surging horde of white immigrants . . . " (1). To my mind, this sounded like a fallacy; how did they know the Indians knew if they never told anyone? .....

.... rag picker of snarled streets: everybody lost heart, anxiously waiting for death, the short death of every day: and the grinding bad luck of every day was like a black cup that they drank, with their hands shaking.(Bly 71) In the early 1400's the Colhua-Mexica, Mexica, and Tenochca tribes migrated into the Valley of Mexico which is present day Mexico City(World Book 1004). The valley was about 7,000 feet above sea level and covered, for the most part, by water(World Book 1006). These three tribes united as the Aztec Empire following several concert .....

.... convinced they would never reach their destinations on time. On the elevated train, faces contorted in distress and I heard laughter and loud sighing. The flash of an Indian woman's purple sari caught Holzman 2 my eye. The different facial expressions, personalities, and wardrobes present added sparkle to the otherwise dull and uninteresting dimension of public transportation. While watching these different characters, I was drawn to the highest floor of the Sears Tower, where lights illuminated the sky and blended art .....