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My grandparents are/were indescribable. I have been blessed to have the greatest grandparents. I was devastated when my mother 's parents passed away. To this day, I feel as if they left the world entirely too early. My mother 's parents were Floyce and Harper. My father 's parents are Barbara and Robert. Since I am unable to interview my mother 's parents, I would like to give you some information about them. If it wasn 't for them, I wouldn 't be here today. Floyce was born on June 24,…

Turf vs. Grass: The Controversy The 2015 Women’s World Cup is being held in various cities in Canada this year. Women’s soccer teams from all around the nation have travelled to compete against each other, all aiming for the ultimate prize of being crowned the 2015 FIFA World Cup Champions. The Women’s World Cup, an event that occurs every four years, has been around since 1991, yet the 2015 World Cup is the most controversial one to date. The fact is that no FIFA World Cup, men's or women's,…

Cultural Genocide: Destroying a Way of Life In her novel, Mean Spirit, Linda Hogan depicts violence against Osage people during the oil boom in Oklahoma in the early 1920s. Greed of the EuroAmerican system creates a crisis in cultural identity for those Osage who have tried to live among the white people. Ways in which the white characters corrupt the world of the Osage at that time include degrading their native beliefs in the things they hold sacred, the damaging relationships among…

American Indian was reinforced because of these conditions, from the actions of the Native American warriors during World War II to the continued presence of the Native America culture and leaders of today. The Carlisle Indian School was created in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Platt in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.…

Carlisle, in this case demonstrating extraordinary loyalty to his king even if he knew the king was wrong spoke of King Richard as the anointed of God and spoke: "...And if you crown him, let me Prophesy: the blood of England shall manure the ground, (4.1…

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was way more than just a battle. The events that led up to the battle may be more important than the battle itself. In 1874, gold was discovered in the Black Hills of Dakota. Let it be known that in 1851 the Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed and it protected the Black Hills from white settlement and miners. The Black Hills was considered holy land by the Sioux Indians. The government offered to buy the Black Hills from the Sioux but they refused to sell. Then…

The Odyssey, a Liberian flagged oil tanker operating in the North Atlantic, exploded and broke in two, catching fire as it sailed from Sullom Voe, Shetland Islands, nearby the coast of Scotland, to Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland. Just before the tanker burst, it was travelling through 44 mph winds and 25 foot waves (Reuters). The ship was built in 1971 (Reuters) by the Diamond Port Shipping Corp of Monrovia, Liberia. Its length overall was 275.00 meters and the beam was 43.00 meters (Cedre).…

squeezing them to cut off their blood supply so the heart and brain starve. That means the famous method that boas kill their prey by preventing them from breathing is a myth. Scott Boback is an animal ecologist and a professor at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. Boback explains to his students that boas are extraordinary hunters, that they do not…

I have had some amazing family members. I have always been very close to both sets of grandparents. When my Mother 's parents passed away it devastated me. To this day, I feel as if they left the world entirely too early. I have had the greatest set of grandparents of all time. On my mother 's side was Floyce, and Harper. On my father 's side is Barbara, and Robert. I am not able to interview my mother 's parents, because they passed away. However, I would like to give you some information…

Televisions affected our grandparents’ time in the 1950s As the world is getting more developed day by day, we can not imagine how different our lives would be without Iphones or Netflix. As people seek new innovations, products that were previously attractive became obsolete. For example, many people nowadays would prefer to watch Netflix on their Macbook rather than watching shows on televisions. Televisions used to be an important part of people’s lives. The 1950s were considered the Golden…