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    the Little House series, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was a mother, a teacher, a farmer, a journalist, a loyal democrat, and an active political protester extraordinaire. However she is also the mysterious writer with her fans always asking what is true or fake in her books. ⅝ of her “Little House” books won Newbery awards. Laura even has a literacy award named after her called the “Laura Ingalls Wilder Award”. She was the first awarded in 1954. l. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born to Charles Philip and Caroline Quiner Ingalls on the 7th of February, in 1867. She was one of five children, she had an older sister named Mary Amelia, and two younger sisters, Carrie and Grace. (article 3) Carrie was born August 3, 1870, and Grace was born May 23 1877. They also had a little brother named Charles, who was birthed November 1, 1875, but died at nine months old. (article 6) As a child, Laura moved around quite a lot and really only settled in some places for a year and moved again. She was born on a farm frontier around Pepin, Wisconsin.…

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    Laura Ingalls Wilder likes to read and write. Another thing she likes to do is make books. She was the one who made the book series The Little House on the Prairie. Her series had nine books about two little girls and her family living on a prairie. Her connection to MIssouri was that she lived in Missouri when she was a little girl. That is where she published the book series The Little House on the Prairie. Childhood This…

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    Laura Bullion Outlaw

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    Have you ever heard of the outlaw Laura Bullion, well now you will. Laura Bullion had different names, she used the names Della Rose, Freda Lincoln, Freda Bullion Lincoln, and Mrs. Maurice Lincoln and more. She was born in Knickerbocker Texas near Mertzon in Irion County, in October 1876. The actual date of her birth is not known. Laura Bullion died December 2, 1961. When she died, she was about 84 or 85. Laura Bullion was an outlaw that was known for robbery and forgery of banknotes signatures.…

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    book is near the end of her series and takes place in 1880. Laura is fifteen years old and lives on the prairie. Her series brings to life what the day to day life of pioneers. This is a really great series because all of her writing is very vivid and you can imagine everything she is going through. I enjoy this book, because you feel all of her emotions and you feel like you living with her. In the beginning of the book, Laura is driving to her first job as a school teacher. She has a lot…

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    In the show, The Little House on the Prairie, Laura was spanked light heartedly. While, the spanking in the film was light hearted the spanking that happens today is not. It has been a controversial in the media about if parents should spank their children or not. Parents should not spank their children because it causes disorders, it’s ineffective and it’s inappropriate. Many parents agree after doing research about child punishments. First of all, Spanking tends to cause disorders like drug…

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    against the background of the wild land she came to love, therefore she became known for her depictions of the American frontier- again something that we see in “A Wagner Matinee”. The main characters in the story are Clark, who lives in Boston, and his Aunt Georgiana who gave up her life there to move to Nebraska. In her youth during a visit to rural Vermont, Georgiana met a very charing country boy who she became quite fond of, his name was Howard. He promoted her to make the move so they went…

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    Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the most prominent architects in the twentieth century, was very influential in the field of stained glass windows. He designed over 160 buildings containing many stained glass windows, of which almost 100 were built, which amounts to around 4,000 windows in total. Many of Wright’s houses had many windows, including the Dana and Martin houses with around 200, and the Little house with around 300. Wright also developed new styles of stained glass windows, including…

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    Jim's Prairie Case Study

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    could also be concerned about how Jim’s prairie has no trees, and they would possibly want tress for their lawn to create shade. Also, in order to manage a prairie, it needs to be burned every year. This is a concern that could possibly be made by both the neighbors and the city inspector because it is very dangerous even though it would be a fire that is controlled by fireman. There is the possibility of the houses and other lawns catching on fire. The city inspector could be also concerned…

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    Otto Fuchs calls for Jim and tells him that he is in charge of driving him to his Grandparent’s farm. With very little memory of the long drive that night, Jim arrives at his Grandparent's house early in the morning. The first couple days upon arrival, Jim settles in and tries to make the new farm feel like home. Early Sunday morning, Otto Fuchs drives Jim and his Grandparents over to meet their new Bohemian neighbors, the Shimerdas. During the ride, Jim anxiously examines the prairie wondering…

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    Times were tough when Wilder came into the world. She grew up on the prairie with her family of five. Laura Ingalls Wilder stories reflect her life in the midwest. Her pioneer lifestyle and the struggles of raising crops and a family are often the subjects of her work. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born February 7, 1876 in a log cabin close to Pepin, Wisconsin. This was the home her first book “the Little House in the Big Woods” was written about. She was the second of five children born to…

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