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1. Winter of 1913 Theodore Roosevelt took a trip to the river of doubt in brazil.
2. During the trip they came across many obstacles and Theodore thought about suicide but never did.
3.The men on the expedition were faced with many creatures such as poisonous snakes, piranhas, mosquitoes with diseases such as malaria.
4. During the trip most of the men got malaria and Theodore got a potentially deadly bacterial infection by slicing his leg open on a boulder.
5. Had to abandon their canoes and leave the river and head into the jungle, and proclaimed every man for himself when Roosevelt could barely walk with his leg.
6. That night in the jungle George Cherrie, naturalist, and Kermit, watched over the ex-president as he said that they could go on without him.
7. Roosevelt set to sail to South America in the fall of 1913, while there in his secluded home in Ostermier Bay New York he struggled fighting off depression and despair from his permanent diseases.
By: Lucas haberkamp, Nick Nowakowski, Ava Crawford, Eric Hotchkiss
Sources: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1207799-1,00.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986859
http://www.enotes.com/topic/Kermit_Roosevelt
1. Winter of 1913 Theodore Roosevelt took a trip to the river of doubt in brazil.
2. During the trip they came across many obstacles and Theodore thought about suicide but never did.
3.The men on the expedition were faced with many creatures such as poisonous snakes, piranhas, mosquitoes with diseases such as malaria.
4. During the trip most of the men got malaria and Theodore got a potentially deadly bacterial infection by slicing his leg open on a boulder.
5. Had to abandon their canoes and leave the river and head into the jungle, and proclaimed every man for himself when Roosevelt could barely walk with his leg.
6. That night in the jungle George Cherrie, naturalist, and Kermit, watched over the ex-president as he said that they could go on without him.
7. Roosevelt set to sail to South America in the fall of 1913, while there in his secluded home in Ostermier Bay New York he struggled fighting off depression and despair from his permanent diseases.
By: Lucas haberkamp, Nick Nowakowski, Ava Crawford, Eric Hotchkiss
Sources: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1207799-1,00.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986859
http://www.enotes.com/topic/Kermit_Roosevelt
Theodore roosevelt paper
In the beginning Theodore lost the election. He was sad and upset so he decided that he was gonna go to south America to see his son Kermit. When he got there he saw Kermit, and he was offered an offer to explore the river of doubt in Brazil. Rondon discovered the river but it has never been mapped. Kermit told his father Theodore that he was bringing him back with him on the expedition whether he was dead or alive. Kermit kept an eye on his father day and night while he was ill. Kermit saved Theodore’s life, when the expedition turned into a bad ordeal. Kermet himself too came close to death by Malaria. He faked his own sickness and pretended be okay until the doctor forced him with injection. When Theodore finally came to civilization he was so sick that he had to be pulled and taken out by a stretcher. He had lost 50 pounds. His temperature was up to 103. The other men’s health in the expedition suffered too. In the end Kermit's courage dogged determination. On his return ship to New York his coming back results we disgusting because he was so full of energy and healthy; and he came back, weak, and with no energy. He was smaller, and different than when he left.
hands, with there being doubt of them owning the claim of really discovering the river. They had to fight for recognition that TR and Kermit did discover it, they were the Rio Roosevelt. In the beginning Theodore lost the election. He was sad and upset so he decided that he was gonna go to south America to see his son Kermit. When he got there he saw Kermit, and he was offered an offer to explore the river of doubt in Brazil. Rondon discovered the river but it has never been mapped. Kermit told his father Theodore that he was bringing him back with him on the expedition whether he was dead or alive. Kermit kept an eye on his father day and night while he was ill. Kermit saved Theodore’s life, when the expedition turned into a bad ordeal. Kermet himself too came close to death by Malaria. He faked his own sickness and pretended be okay until the doctor forced him with injection. When Theodore finally came to civilization he was so sick that he had to be pulled and taken out by a stretcher. He had lost 50 pounds. His temperature was up to 103. The other men’s health in the expedition suffered too. In the end Kermit's courage dogged determination. On his return ship to New York his coming back results we disgusting because he was so full of energy and healthy; and he came back, weak, and with no energy. He was smaller, and different than when he left.
hands, with there being doubt of them owning the claim of really discovering the river. They had to fight for recognition that TR and Kermit did discover it, they were the Rio Roosevelt.
hands, with there being doubt of them owning the claim of really discovering the river. They had to fight for recognition that TR and Kermit did discover it, they were the Rio Roosevelt. In the beginning Theodore lost the election. He was sad and upset so he decided that he was gonna go to south America to see his son Kermit. When he got there he saw Kermit, and he was offered an offer to explore the river of doubt in Brazil. Rondon discovered the river but it has never been mapped. Kermit told his father Theodore that he was bringing him back with him on the expedition whether he was dead or alive. Kermit kept an eye on his father day and night while he was ill. Kermit saved Theodore’s life, when the expedition turned into a bad ordeal. Kermet himself too came close to death by Malaria. He faked his own sickness and pretended be okay until the doctor forced him with injection. When Theodore finally came to civilization he was so sick that he had to be pulled and taken out by a stretcher. He had lost 50 pounds. His temperature was up to 103. The other men’s health in the expedition suffered too. In the end Kermit's courage dogged determination. On his return ship to New York his coming back results we disgusting because he was so full of energy and healthy; and he came back, weak, and with no energy. He was smaller, and different than when he left.
hands, with there being doubt of them owning the claim of really discovering the river. They had to fight for recognition that TR and Kermit did discover it, they were the Rio Roosevelt.
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