Little House on the Prairie

The Transcontinental Railroad The Transcontinental Railroad was a legendary Civil Engineering feat that created an entirely new way of settlement and trade in the West that had hardly been imagined. The Railroad changed the life of the travelers and settlers in America. A trip from the East Coast to the West Coast that used to take six months then took a mere seven days. Without the intelligence of great men like Theodore Judah and Grenville Dodge, who were Chief Engineers of the Railroad, the…

interest in the country girls, even those he did not know. He has always admired Antonia, but he also begins to admire the other country girls too, such as Lena and Tiny. He said, "these girls have grown up in the first bitter-hard times, and has got little schooling themselves, but the younger brothers and sisters, for they have made such sacrifices, never seem to me, when I met them now, half as interesting or as well educated. The older girls, who helped break up the wild sod, learned so much…

talk about the type of boss one could get. It had to be hoped to get a farm owner who would take good care of the immigrant and pay the salaries. They knew of cases where their compatriots did not get their fair share. Oscar felt vulnerable. He had little English and how could he defend himself if things didn 't go well?…

There was a point in my life not so long ago when I struggled to separate an actor from the role he played. In fact, I can remember intimating to my mother that I didn't like the character "Will" in Cedar Cove, and I wasn't sure if I liked the actor who played him either. In fact, when I found out that Will figured into the plot more principally in season three, I was a bit disgruntled at first. However, the reviewer within me compelled me to watch season three with an open mind. And I will…

World War two, before Japan attacked Pearl harbour in 1941. He has served as an adviser in the aviation industry from the days of the wood and wire to the supersonic jets. Lindbergh was born on February 4th, 1902 in Detroit. He grew up on a farm near Little Falls, Minn, and was the son of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Sr, who was a lawyer and his wife, whose name was Evangeline Lodge Lan. In Lindbergh’s childhood, he has showed exceptional mechanical ability, and entered University to study…

that the hall not only excites him but also comforts him, something school could never do. This appears in the dressing room when Paul “[is] quite beside himself… [the boys are] telling him that he [is] crazy…Paul [dashes] out to the front of the house to seat the early corners” (“Paul’s Case” 2). When the orchestra finally appears, Paul takes his seat and “the first sigh of the instruments seem[s] to free some hilarious and potent spirit within [Paul]” as he “[feels] a sudden zest of life”…

known as a California painter, George Henry Burgess was from a vast group of craftsmen. A long-lasting inhabitant of San Francisco, he likewise made intermittent visits to the Hawaiian Islands. Conceived in London in 1831, he learned at the Somerset House School of Design in London, and worked in a lithography shop in the city. The California Gold Rush pulled in George's two siblings, Charles and Edward, and in 1850, he and his more seasoned sibling, William, went along with them there. In any…

speak of Indians, I speak only from my own understanding of Yankton Dakota heritage, passed down from all the generations before me. With a dash of artistic license, of course. The Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation was first established by the Treaty of Prairie du Chien of 1830, which set aside land for the mixed-race descendants of French-Canadian trappers and women of the plains tribes,…

Adult Hunt 2 Book 2 Holodeck Maze Games Unpublished work Copyright 2015 Roselinda Johnson, Ed.D. Adult Hunt 2 Finally, all the 50 contestants and their parents had arrived and were in their appointed room assignments. I am sure that all the technical equipment and luxury of their surroundings impressed them all. The parents did not know what was in store for them because they were not given all the information that the contestants were given. After the time for the Holodeck…

INTRODUCTION This paper work presents the American society and the way it is reflected through theater. The twenty century was a time of changes in America, changes which were reflected in different areas of American life. People were affected by the two World Wars and they were scared by the idea that a new war could start. This changes not only affected the social and economic life, it affected people and their ideas about life and wealth. Important changes happened within industry, scholar…