Fargo, North Dakota

No Country for Old Men tells a story that appears to focus on a satchel of money that everyone is trying to take, but the true meaning of the movie lies buried underneath all the lies, drugs, gun fights, and psychotic actions of a psychotic killer. Llewellyn Moss, a cowboy out for an evening hunt, stumbles across a drug deal gone wrong. After further investigation of the shootout he searches for the money. After Moss takes a satchel of money he goes from being the hunter to the hunted. Moss may…

My connections examined the portrayal of alienation in mainstream society. I chose to use texts from a modern time period to help create more concrete conclusions about mainstream society. My texts were Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy, Sad Joke on a Marae by Apirana Taylor, District 9 directed by Neill Blomkamp and Barton Fink directed by Joel Coen. I expected all of my texts to be able to reflect one another as they were all from a similar time period. In particular, I expected…

When I went to Jamestown North Dakota a medium sized city in the absolute middle of nowhere land. This place is so much in the middle of nowhere you didn't see anything until a mile a way. The way there took a long time it took four and a half hours.when we were there we went to a hotel there were we were staying it was a nice hotel on the edge of the city. The way home was less boring because we did more on the way back. We went out to eat a lot we didn't go out to eat one time while we…

called Energy Transfer Partners wants to build a pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois to transport oil. They say that this is the safest way to carry oil. The pipeline would be near the Stand Rock Sioux tribe, and could negatively affect them. The Native Americans believe that the pipeline would destroy their land and contaminate their water source. Thousands of people have come to protest the building of this pipeline. Should the North Dakota pipelines be built near Native American Land? A…

In North Dakota, thousands of people stood together to protest against the production of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The protesters’ main camp was on government land, so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineering said that they would start arresting them. The purpose of the pipeline is to connect oil rich areas from North Dakota to Illinois. The pipeline is being built near an American Indian Reservation, and they feel that by building the pipeline their environmental and economic well-being would be…

William Ury’s The Third Side is about conflict management, fighting and conflicts are natural and normal aspects of life. Ury explains that violence is not inevitable, there is an alternative to being violent, and that is the Third Side. Violence and war is not inevitable, we don’t have to fight and kill each other off. The Third Side offers a promising new way you will view conflict going on in the world and around us. The Third Side is our community that we live in and our surroundings. It…

Marnie Reed Crowell is what the North Country is all about! Marnie is a conservationist and a natural history writer and poet. She received her master’s degree in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Marnie is a believer in using art to speak for nature. She writes an environmental column in the St. Lawrence Plaindealer. Growing up from a young age Marnie learned to appreciate the natural world. In her first book, Greener Pastures she writes about her life with her husband on their farm…

I am writing to you for help to keep Bears Ears a National Monument. I think it is important to protect this land. There are people out there that are destroying this area in Utah. The Natives have a lot of history on this land and I think it is important to protect it from those who are destroying historical artifacts. Native Americans to this day are still performing ceremonial traditions and to keep it sacred for them. Ranchers are becoming upset because they want to use this land for…

The beginning of August 2016, a national issue occurred in a remote corner of North Dakota over the construction of a new 1,200-mile pipeline across Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. It is a great fear to the tribe in the Standing Rock Reservation that if the pipeline is to be built in this location near Missouri river a leak is probable. If an oil spill were to happen, it will not only destroy the water supply for Standing Rock Reservation but it would also destroy 50% of South Dakota's potable…

The Missouri River, in what is now North Dakota, was once considered the heart of the world by the Mandan Native Americans. Here, the Mandan thrived for centuries. Their rich cultural heritage has been long studied for rightful reasons. They were masters at commerce and lived in agricultural villages where the women led the field work and men led the yearly hunts. The Mandan people’s spirituality is shown in their daily lives through customs such as bundles and age-based societies. It is no…