Little House on the Prairie

common garden beet,) the mangel-wurzel (a fodder crop for feeding livestock) and Swiss chard. It was Andreas Marggraf, a German chemist, who first, in 1747, identified sucrose in the beetroot. Yet, for the next fifty years, Marggraf’s discovery was little more than a factoid that drew mild interest until one of Marggraf’s former students, Franz Achard, took it to the next step in 1801 by constructing a beet processing factory in Silesia, Germany (now in present-day Poland) funded by King…

In order for me to identify my family values I had to interview three of my family members as well as to utilize my experience in life. My family is a and African American family and as far as anyone in my family can remember we have always been in America. However I do not believe that is true, after doing several days of probing I wasn’t able to discredit that statement. We are a Christian base family and we try really hard to live by the rules in the bible. Just like the other millions of…

understanding the Fallingwater. Frank Lloyd Wright was born in a small town in Wisconsin, and developed early idea of architecture with toy building blocks that have geometrical shapes when he was a little. He was trained in the Chicago style,but later open his own, and he “concentrated more on private houses and smaller structures rather than office buildings and other monumental structures. Yet like the architectures of large buildings, Wright utilized modern materials, including steel…

indicating a new attitude in his poetry. Collins's breakthrough to national prominence came with his next book, Questions About Angels, which won the 1990 National Poetry Series competition. As a result, the book was issued by the major Morrow publishing house in 1991, giving Collins access to an audience beyond academic readers and poetry specialists. As Collins's fame grew, the university presses that issued his first books jockeyed with commercial publishers for control of his poems; the…

small little pleasures every once in awhile. The only reason my family and I have these journals is to write about the Oregon Trail and all of our adventures, which means we need to bring some pencils. It’s a little tacky, I’ve heard everyone is bringing at least one, and we need all the space we can get since we are bringing all of our farming tools and some animal supplies. Or my husband’s that is, my sons are too young to farm, with the oldest being four. My husband Sam got one for little…

In Willa Cather’s novel entitled My Antonia, she writes about several female characters that, in essence, challenge the stereotypical women’s role in a male-dominated society during the early 1900s. In Trifles, a play written by Susan Glaspell, she depicts her female characters as crafty and bright and not simply inferior intellectually to their male counterparts. Upon closer examination of these two pieces of work, Cather and Glaspell demonstrate that these female characters defy the existing…

Venice is one of those places in LA that you want and have to visit -- if you’re not from LA. I’ve already seen it. The canal, the body builders, and the ridiculous tshirts that only someone stoned would buy. But I’m not from Venice. fourteen miles down south of the beach is South Central, my home for the first eighteen years of my life. Now, during holidays and breaks, I live in the middle of northern LA County in a desert called Palmdale. It’s important to note the differences. One that I…

A Life No One Should Live The wheels of family discontent were set in motion before I was even born. They could have come screeching to a halt only if they knew where to draw the line. My dad mentioned bringing bean hash to a family potluck, a common family dish, but just the thought made my mom gag. She said she had been feeling strange and told my dad she thought she was pregnant. He didn’t believe her but at 4:30 in the morning, on his way out hunting, my mom took the test. She was pregnant…

Have you ever divinely connected with a particular landscape that associated with your current feelings? In Willa Cather memoir, “My Antonia” the setting and landscape throughout the story mirrors the characters feelings, foreshadows events changes, and past memories. Jim, just one particular character made many connections with the Nebraska landscape. Willa Cather the first child of a farm family was in born Virginia in 1873. At the age of nine, Cather moved to a farm in Nebraska, and then…

the farms, set up woodshops, hunt and to make tools, the women usually handled the clothes and prepared the food, and as for the children, well they helped out in any way they could. Most of the time their houses were made out of prairie grass due to the lack of trees, so they called their houses “soddies”(Smith,Throne 1). The winter time was the toughest for the people on the frontier, they quickly put up shelters in hopes of blocking out the cold winds. It got so…