Minneapolis

The play, “For The Loyal” was chosen to be read for our semester final. “For The Loyal,” was written by Lee Blessing. The play has not been out for very long, it was first performed on April 24, 2015 at the Illusion Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “For The Loyal” takes place at a College University where the young married couple of the play, Mia and Toby reside. Mia is a graduate student whom is with child, while her husband Toby is an assistant football coach for the University football…

In both “The Big Cat” and “You’ll apologize if you have to”, we see stories that are about having control of your life and to not be afraid of change. They follow very similar narrative structures that led from an initial problem to a conflict in the middle of the story and finished with an open ending. In the open ending the readers were allowed to control the end of the story, which I believe ties into the main world idea of each story. “The Big Cat”, by Erdrich, started the exposition with…

MYTH: It is better to adopt a Pit Bull puppy instead of an adult. Reality: It’s a fact that puppies are adorable! But the thing about puppies is, well, they grow up. And as they mature, their personality develops and that’s when you really find out whether your Pit Bull is dominant or submissive with people, or whether she is aggressive toward some, none or all dogs. Dog-intolerance and dog-aggression are traits that do not develop in some dogs until they are fully mature. It is possible that…

John Allyn Smith Jr., more known as John Berryman, was born on October 25, 1914 in McAlester, Oklahoma, United States. He was born to John Allyn Smith and Martha Little Smith. John Jr.’s childhood wasn’t the best one I child could ask for. Depressed and intoxicated, John Jr.’s father committed suicide by gunshot on June 26, 1926. Three months later, his widow married Berryman, the Smith’s landlord. Young John Jr. was soon officially adopted by Berryman, and he therefore got his new stepfather's…

smaller projects. The bigger leather scraps are given to a gentleman who makes leather ornament moose out of them, that are sold in the store. Duluth Pack tries to be green. The company isn't just conscious about waste in their factory. After the Minneapolis Metrodome roof collapsed in 2010, about three acres worth of Teflon-coated fiberglass was going to be dumped in a landfill, were it would have taken and estimated 1,500 years to decompose. The material is waterproof and durable, and…

passing. I. About Prince and his Childhood (sequence) Prince’s life as a child was very musically influenced, which is what jump started his career. Prince, or his birthname Prince Rogers Nelson, was born on June 7th, 1958 in his hometown of Minneapolis,…

People think that football originated from softball, but that’s not the case. The first game of softball was due to a football game. On Thanksgiving, 1887, some alumni were at the Illinois Farragut Boat Club in Chicago waiting for the outcome of the football game of Yale vs. Harvard. Yale won, and when this was announced one of the Yale fans tossed a boxing glove at one of the Harvard supporters. They swung a stick, and the rest of the people in the group became intrigued. A reporter named…

Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna Pennsylvania, a small town located on the Susquehanna River about twenty-three miles away from New York. As a youngster Skinner showed an interest in building different types of gadgets and contraptions. After spending his last six years being a professor of psychology at Harvard, Skinner was diagnosed with leukemia in 1989 and ended up dying on August 18, 1990 at the ripe old age of 86 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In his later…

had risen to 52%. Workers saw legislation passed to protect them, such as the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which banned discrimination on the basis of disability. Native Americans fought for their rights by forming the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis in 1968. However, all these groups also faced setbacks, such as the continued high rates of poverty among both Native Americans and black Americans while the feminist movement started to fragment which weakened it and reduced its influence.…

One person that has influenced my life, career and leadership skills would be my mother, LaDawn Lundstrom. My mother is the leading role in my life and I could never thank her enough for her dedication to my life. My mother has raised my brother and I alone and has always shown unconditional love for the both of us. When my mother was 21 when she had my older brother Dante and was completely unaware of the difficult life changes that the future would hold as a single, young mother. My parents…