Homestead

Originally land claimed in Chase County by settlers in the 1862 Homestead Act was intended to develop large family farms. Since 1870, with the railroad moving into Kansas, the land has moved from private ownership into corporate ownership with absentee landowners. Today the absentee landowners and corporations still own much of Chase County and the largest money making industry is from tourism. William Least Heat-Moon writes about the change in land ownership in PrairyErth in the chapter,…

Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest poets. She was born in the family Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. The Homestead might have been the first built brick house in Amherst. It was built for Emily’s grandparents, Samuel Fowler Dickinson and Lucretia Gunn Dickinson. Her family consisted of her parents, Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson, and her siblings William Austin Dickinson and Lavinia Dickinson. “For school, she attended Amherst Academy for seven…

throughout the Viking period. These stories are clear cultural relics that discuss the important issues facing the Norse people at the time; the changing political landscape, the change in law precedence, and the shift away from the traditional homestead gods to ones of magic and travel. These shifts in society are important because it reveals that the Vikings were not simply one group of warriors but rather a multi-faceted group of people with a wide range of political, cultural, and…

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wages, shorter hours and greater worker control in the face of increased mechanization. Then the Homestead Lookout occurred. Henry Clay Frick locked workers out of the mills and prepared to bring in strike breakers. The workers sounded the alarm and they were armed with rifles, hoes and fence posts. When they escaped they started killing people and killed at least thirty strikers. This action of the Homestead lookout, workers struck at the heart of the capitalist system, pitting the workers’…

color. Although slaveowners risked their own lives when slaves retaliated, they themselves and/or their family members still had the opportunity to abandon their plantation and find other various forms of work, such as “blue-collar” jobs. Since the Homestead Act allowed whites to claim their own property signifies as to the reason whites are so financially comfortable. The fact that the wealthiest four hundred Americans are white and “about 56 percent of the wealthiest four hundred Americans had…

family members and certain well-respected friends (Amherst College). Dickinson suffered from a severe eye condition called Iritis, which most likely pushed her towards separation from society. She also enjoyed several benefits from saying in the Homestead, such as a large conservatory where Dickinson could cultivate various types of plants…

and pastures of Texas ranch country. Exhausted, David and I fell asleep in the back seat. After some time we were jostled awake when Steve turned off of the pavement onto a bumpy dirt road marked only by a gnarled old tree. His spread was a small homestead of 80 acres. Hardly a spec in the vast open plains of Texas but it suited us just fine. We settled right into ranch life. David worked with Steve in the barnyard and out in the fields. He learned to ride horses and rope cattle. His hands…

The Dawes Act of 1887, despite its negative implications, was necessary to guarantee Native Americans the right to citizenship, which the Civil Rights Act of 1866 failed to accomplish. In principle, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 guaranteed all people born in the US and not subject to any foreign nation the right to citizenship. The vice president, Andrew Johnson, attempted to veto the act, but the Republican-dominated Congress overrode the veto and enacted it. At the same time, there was a…

My desire to pursue a master’s degree in social work was fueled by the outcome of my experiences of learning about domestic violence in my undergraduate course. It was also influenced by my active role different organizations where I was able to provide care for child victims of domestic violence. The desire of furthering my studies started way back when I was volunteering at a non-profit organization with an objective of becoming more familiar in working with children that were coming from a…