Homestead

in-depth book about something Kansans are very proud of, the homestead. Not only with a chance to prosper but a chance to start a new life is why most American flocked to Kansas during the territorial days; pre-Civil War. After the war many war Veterans used the homestead act as the way to start a new life. John’s father Henry Ise, Eisenmanger…

No homestead is really complete without a cow or three. Cows serve a few different important purposes on the homestead. Not only do they provide milk, which can then be used to make cheese, yogurt and a number of other dairy items, but cows provide much-needed meat products for the homestead family as well. Of course, there are a large number of different cow breeds, so how is the new homesteader to know which is the best dairy cow breeds? My favorite types of cows for dairy products are as…

Emily Dickinson was born on December/10th/1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. Dickinson’s family originated from New England. Dickinson’s grandfather Samuel Dickinson, was widely known as the inventor of Amherst College. Dickinson’s father worked and served in Amherst as a state legislator. Dickinson has 2 siblings named William Austin, Lavinia Norcross. Dickinson was a great student at Amherst Academy for 7 years and then went to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for 1 year. The real reason on why…

Hurricane Andrew was the third largest hurricane that struck the southeast part of the United States on August 24, 1992. “Andrew was a small and ferocious Cape Verde hurricane that wrought unprecedented economic devastation along a path through the northwestern Bahamas, the southern Florida peninsula, and south-central Louisiana” (Rappaport, 2014). Before Hurricane Andrew struck land it was reported as being a category 4 storm, but was later updated as a category 5 that pass through the…

back home to Nebraska, to a life with no music in it. She warns Clark by saying “Don’t love it so well, Clark, or it may be taken from you” (112). She misses her old life in which she was a music teacher in love with music, now she is living in a homestead and having to take care of a bunch of land without music at…

"Really? Drool? Do you know how hard that is to scrub out?" She fired the gun into the tree above her, still moving her feet back towards the Homestead now that it was almost completely dark. "Now you haveta die." She fired the gun again, chasing the demon around the branches of the tree with bullets; it growled when she finally launched one in its shoulder, and in its clamor to the next tree…

With the settlement of the American West, trends and key events were the settling in the West, Homestead Act, and mining and forcing Native Americans off their land onto reservations. After the Civil War people started moving West for coal, gold, and silver. In 1862 was the Homestead Act was created. The Homestead Act allowed U.S. citizens to claim 160 acres of federal land if they occupied and farmed the land for five years to establish title. It was a challenge for the Native American…

When I graduate from high school in 2018, I want to have done my academic best during my four years at Homestead. During freshman year I was able to maintain a 4.0 grade point average and I felt I understood what I was taught. However, I occasionally struggled when managing time. This year I am working to improve how I use time by organizing what I need to…

Having a good relationship, one’s nuclear unit can result in taking good care of the livestock. In the Navajo culture, it seems that family is what keeps the homestead going and operating because it is difficult to complete certain tasks on your own. "Thus dipping, shearing, shifting of pastures or emergencies such as droughts, during which water is hauled to the herd, require the presence of as many members of the family as possible" (Downs, 89). Having a helping hand from your family members…

conditions by going on strike for months. This was called the Bread and Roses strike. (Bread and Roses article)The Triangle Shirtwaist fire showed how terrible conditions were, which caused people to start wanting improvements. On the other hand, The Homestead strikers were not so fortunate. It ended with Carnegie slashing wages,(again) cutting 500 jobs, and proposing a new 12 hour workday. The steel workers believed that they pretty much…