Little House on the Prairie

Garner, Freddie Gray and Sandra Bland. Young black lives lost so earlier at the hands of white police officers” (Modern Day Lynching?” 1). “The most recent death occurred on July 13, 2015 to a black woman.” (Truesdell 1) “Sandra Bland was stopped in Prairie View, Texas, by Trooper Brian Encinia for failure to signal…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first a book is a well-known story about a girl name Dorthey who an orphaned girl. Who one day when a tornado swept her and her little dog Toto into the world far from Kansas called the kingdom of Oz. There she met a straw Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and coward Lion, who help her find her way to home. Many see the Wizard of Oz and think of it as just another movie meant to entertain families. However, very few actually understand the political concept and symbolism behind…

so-called “promised land”. "But I like to think how nice it's gonna be, maybe, in California. Never cold. An' fruit ever'place, an' people just bein' in the necest places, little white houses in among the orange trees. I wonder- that is, if we all get jobs an' all work- maybe we can get one of them little white houses. An' the little fellas go out an' pick oranges right off the tree"(Steinbeck 124). The Joad family set off they camped wherever they could, despised as white trash and rousted…

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American Democratic Architect who shaped modern architecture as we know it today. He possesses many prominent credentials, including infamous structures, vast writings, intricate theories, and scholarly teachings. Wright is most well-known for his original designs and the individuality that they displayed. He broke the mold of American Architecture during his time. Wright’s sole focus within his designs was harmony with humanity. He coined the term organic…

around my desk, to see the boy who was not reading a very boyish book. Babies, of course, were the realm of moms — of women. I wasn’t sure what to say. It was a story. I wanted to find out what happened next. There was never a restriction, in my house, of what a boy should or should not consume. I read Nancy Drew and the Hardy…

From roughly 1870 - 1900, the United States expanded into the American West from to a so-called “Geography of Hope”. This move West was sparked mainly by the concept of the Manifest Destiny. This essentially gave people the idea that the act of moving West was both essential and inevitable. Some advancements that made the move easier and more accessible were the railroads and overland trails. There was also the drive that moving West would fulfill one’s life with opportunity and would…

The first scene starts with the eastern train "whirling onward" (Crane 79) from San Antonio through Texas, going west toward Yellow Sky. Jack Potter, Yellow Sky's town marshal, is on the train with his new wife, who "was not pretty, nor was she very young" (Crane 79). They are happy but uncomfortable, the bewildered them with all the amazing things. They were not used to it, and they are unnervingly aware of the proper surroundings. The travelers, and the waiter, and porter, look at them…

where the sold-out show was about to begin. The lights went dim, on stage sat a little old woman whose hair was slicked back into a tight bun with a pioneer style dress, that flowed down to her ankles. She stared blankly into the distance while she turned the crank over and over repeatedly. I distinctly remember the props on stage, the large wooden wagon with a huge hay bail set on top accompanying a quaint prairie style house. Looking at the props, I was able to foreshadow that the story being…

My mother, Wendi Briseno, is a 35 year-old woman. She was born in 1981 Ogden, Utah. My mom was only 19 years-old when I was born. She is the youngest of three girls. She and her family were a very poor family, and they grew up travelling around. Her home town is Ogden, Utah. They moved to Washington for awhile. They lived there a few years before moving back down to Utah. Ogden, Utah is right next to the Wasatch Mountains. She remembers and loves the four seasons; Utah had cold winters, and…

Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle, opens with a description of a Lithuanian wedding taking place in the Chicago meatpacking district. The novel follows the couple from the wedding, Jurgis and Ona, through their struggles in the meatpacking district of Chicago. The novel is organized in such a way that highlights the issues of industrialization through the personalization of the meatpacking industry. I decided to read this book after it was referenced in class, as I had read excerpts of the…