Little House on the Prairie

Katrina whipped through the Miami area, snapped trees and power lines the National Weather Service clocked wind speeds of 87 miles per hour. Katrina was already a level 1 hurricane. The storm was stronger than many people expected. Siding came off houses, and wind scattered debris. Sheets of rain flooded the streets, Before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Governor Katrine Babineaux Blanco declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on August 26, 2005, and asked President Bush to do the same at…

In the book, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz, the author deconstructs various types of stereotypes and myths embodied by television shows that romanticize family life and gender roles. Coontz (1992) states that these idealizations promote the “traditional family” myth which she describes as “an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in time and place” (p.9). The notions derived from this myth are a…

As I was sitting on the couch over the past weekend, I decided to search for a good move on Netflix. As I began my search through the drama options I ran across the movie “Freedom Writers.” I was introduced to this movie during my freshman year at Prairie View A&M. It was a boring weekend on campus, and none of my friends were leaving to go back to their home towns so we decided to go to the theater on campus, that particular day they were playing “Freedom Writers,” and since none of us had ever…

We were out of the mountains by midday and just got past the village that lay at the foothills of the mountains. The winding hills sloped and swirled around us. Prairie dogs scurried across the land and the wind brushed the short grass making the green sea look animated. When they saw the carriage they stopped and watched as we passed them. The carriage shook as the wooden wheels rocked over the small pebbles that made up the road. I never tore my eyes from my window as I watched the world I…

There was a two front battle against two formidable forces of Nature being fought in a poorly built cabin on Blackstone in the early '50s. On one front, freshly replaced and fortified floor boards ,tried with only partial success, to keep out porcupines but these determined pests still threatened. For them, plywood was meant to be eaten. And so was rubber. Carefully placed tires bumpers on the side of a dock were just as carefully eaten by avoiding the nails, leaving bits and pieces of mangled…

of new lands along the Atlantic coast of the North America. In 1604, a few Frenchmen embarked on an expedition to the New World, which was largely unpopulated by the French at the time. Justice Chisholm explains, “When the brave DeMonts with his little flotilla entered Passamaquoddy Bay in 1604 to put into effect his great scheme to colonize Acadia, by which name Nova Scotia.” Chisholm continues his vivid illustration of the territory through the testimony of Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburto:…

Learning to read is one of the most important lessons which we as humans learn to do, and most people have a “literacy story” with moments they consider memorable. In an effort to better explain the role literateness plays in the development of life choices individuals make, Marcy, an English teacher, gave her own story. Throughout Marcy’s life she learned many life lessons concerning literacy. From early on in life Marcy’s reading abilities would go through many changes. She would gain…

This paper examines Case 7 in our text “Is Birth Control Bad for One’s Health?”. This is quite an old case (1970), but nonetheless applicable in several ways to ethical and moral issues we face in today’s society. We will examine the original case and some of the applications to similar situations today. We also recognize that in today’s society, legal charges would likely be brought against the physician who acted in a similar manner as Dr. Browne. To summarize the case described in our…

women in a way that they are sexual objects for men. Back to the television of my childhood, you didn’t have any naked scenes and in most cases that included men not taking their shirts off. Take the time and think back to the Walton’s, Little House on the Prairie, or even more recent The Cosby Show. I do not remember those shows showing anybody in a naked setting. We have allowed our society to dictate what we as families watch. It is now common practice to see the whole backside of a man…

get together with their parents. They recently went on a two-week family vacation to visit his brother and his family in Arkansas. Andrew says he has very positive memories from his childhood. He loved spending summer days over at his grandparents’ house where all of the cousins would get together and play outside. His grandma would make homemade bread and cinnamon rolls (from scratch). Sometimes…