Pour la première question il faut dire si c'est au sud ouest des états unis, ou au nord est, ou au nord ouest etc...
Pour avoir des textes anglais il faut taper en anglais la demande sur internet. On tombe sur des sites anglais ou américains ou canadiens et on est sur d'avoir du BON ANGLAIS. Alors c'est vrai qu il faut faire un effort pour lire l'anglais, chercher les phrases qui conviennent. Mais si on ne comprend pas, on peut traduire l'anglais sur Google traduction et chercher les bonnes phrases.
Mississipi river:
Mississippi, river,is the principal river of the United States, c.2,350
mi (3,780 km) long exceeded
in length only by the Missouri river.
During
the American Civil War, the river played a pivotal role as a route for trade
and travel.
The
Mississippi River, meaning the “father of waters”, provided much inspiration to
famous author Mark Twain.
Steamboats played a major role in the 19th-century
development of the Mississippi River and its
tributaries by allowing the practical large-scale transport of passengers and
freight both up- and down-river. Steamboat, any watercraft propelled by steampower,
but more narrowly, a shallow-draft paddle wheel steamboat widely used on the Mississippi River. In the 1810s there were 20 boats on the
river; in the 1830s there were 1200 hulls. By the 1820s, with the southern
states joining the Union and the land converted to cotton plantations so
indicative of the Antebellum South, methods were needed to move the bales of
cotton, rice, timber, tobacco and molasses
The
roots of American Music history run through the Mississippi River Country.
Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Country and Folk music can all find their origins in
American’s heartland.
Cotton and rice are
important crops in the lower Mississippi valley; sugarcane is raised in the
delta. The Mississippi is abundant in freshwater fish; shrimp are taken from
the briny delta waters. The delta also yields sulfur, oil, and gas.
orThe
Mississippi River rises in small streams that feed Lake Itasca in North Minnesota and flows
generally south to enter the Gulf of Mexico through a huge delta in SE
Louisiana. A major economic waterway, the river is navigable from the
sediment-free channel maintained through South Pass in the delta to the Falls
of St. Anthony in Minneapolis, with canals circumventing the rapids near Rock
Island, and Keokuk, Iowa.
Along the
river's upper course shipping is interrupted by ice from December to March;
inThe Mississippi River receives the Missouri River near St. Louis
After
receiving the Arkansas and Red rivers, the Mississippi enters a birdsfoot-type
delta, then discharges into the Gulf of Mexico through a number of
distributaries, the most important being the Atchafalaya River and Bayou
Lafourche.
Regarding the delta, fish and wildlife populations are threatened as their
natural habitat slowly disappears
