Little House on the Prairie

least four hours not including the breaks for gas, snacks, and restroom breaks. When we finally arrived I noticed that there were distinct differences. For example, we were able to bike to school in as little as five to ten minutes, and the park and library were in walking distance from our house. After the summer ended I wasn’t I was not sure if I was ready to meet my people at my new…

The novel opens with Alexandra, a strong and independent woman, visiting a doctor’s office in the town of Hanover, Nebraska, a town that looks out of place on the vast prairie. The streets are empty except for one young Swedish boy named Emil, Alexandra’s little brother. Emil is distraught; his gray kitten was chased up a telegraph pole and has no way down. Emil and the shivering kitten wait for Alexandra to return. Upon her arrival, Alexandra disciplines her younger brother, then goes to find…

The ground was like a stone mattress, but Luke somehow managed to fall asleep with the sounds of coyotes yipping across the prairie—the sounds of home, a little familiarity and comfort. He even dreamed all night—weird dreams. Now he was dreaming he was hunting dinosaurs—dreams are funny that way. In the dream a herd of duckbills were charging toward him like the scene in Jurassic Park. He had his homemade bow ready, but he doubted his arrows would penetrate their hard skin. As they grew closer,…

Part I - The Community and School Culture My school of choice to do my observation is Lorenzo de Zavala Elementary Science Environmental Academy located in Grand Prairie south of Interstate 20. Zavala sets on a land adjusted to Jackson Middle School. The school is directly impacted by residential houses and an open field. In the back of Zavala there is a garden and a greenhouse. Next to the garden there is a gated play area that has a basketball court for the public and remains open daily…

are complete opposites. Even before knowing Dorothy was in Oz we can see the contrast in the settings, one of the first thing she noticed was that it wasn’t dark. It was described as the “…bright sunshine coming into the window” and “flooding the little room.” (Baum,9). The sight of Oz filled Dorothy with excitement and she marveled at a city so different from what she was used to. Instead of Kansas’ non-green, burnt grass, Oz’s grass is described as “lovely patches of greensward” (Baum, 9).…

What used to be adjacent to the Mississippi River, Fort de Chartres is located roughly four miles west of the village of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois. The original fort that was Fort de Chartres deteriorated after the banks of the Mississippi consumed the fort piece by piece. The recreation of the fort lies further away from the Mississippi river today, and is as of 2016 not a complete rendition of how the site was. Fort de Chartres was also not a single fort but a succession of four forts. The…

you make us come out for,” said quietly by Matt “Well there's a cabin down there that we can check out to see if there’s anything there to eat”. “Okay then let's go check it out then” said by Luke Moving along the prairie with Luke, Matt, aiden,Kaiden and me. Coming up to the house from the north Aiden points out that he saw a head through the window. Thinking in my head there might be some humans in there, that would be better than nothing to eat. Looking around at the cabin I spot the to…

family changed again to nuclear family. Nuclear family means a heterosexual couple in their own house hold rising a child. The term family according to our text book is defined nowadays as a social group where the members are bound by some type of tie like legal, biological,…

Many years ago, laying out on the trampoline late at night, I remember hearing the coyotes howl and yip in the field bordering my friend’s house. The sound so frightened us that we promptly rushed inside. To children that grew up never truly in the country, only on the edge of town, coyotes seemed so wild. However, as Dan Flores illuminates in his book, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History, that encounter was not an unusual experience at all. In the past century coyotes have spread…

All appearances of characters in novels have their different roles developed, even if they are minor. Mr. Quiring in the novel, A Complicated Kindness, is no exception to this convention. Although Mr. Quiring rarely appears in the novel, he plays a crucial role in making the readers understand more about the protagonist, Naomi, whom may be thought that she hates Mr. Quiring in the readers’s first reading. The readers may mistake that the protagonist, Naomi, does not like her teacher, Mr.…