Minnesota

Umar Malick 2SW, IWA, Q2 In her memoir Debra Marquart writes about her heartfelt and sincere love for the upper Midwest even though this region is often critically stereotyped in the media; the people, the land and even fictional characters hailing from that region. The area is described as "uninhabitable" and yet Ms. Marquart still avers that the upper Midwest is not as second-rate as it seems to be. Throughout the passage Ms. Marquart uses multiple rhetorical strategies to profess her…

The Midwest, a place in the world where communities are closely aligned to one another. These small, rural communities rely on every person in order to create that community. It seems as though that knowing everyone around the small communities was what made a person successful in life. Additionally, these communities valued hard-work and honesty when it came with almost everything they did in their lives; whether it was working in the farmlands or spreading information throughout the…

Reflection Two Things I Didn’t Know The first thing I learned about the social work practice while at Mille Lacs County is that not all situations will play out how you want them to. Of course I knew that in a general sense; however, there were many situations that I was a part of and/or heard about at the county where things didn’t go down how they were expected to, wanted to, or maybe even should have. This job can be unpredictable with clients as well as with judges and that is something that…

Laura Ingalls Wilder, an author renowned for her stories of pioneer life, wrote about her childhood memories of traveling aboard wagons in what would come to be known as The Little House on the Prairie series. Millions of people have read Laura’s books and they still hold relevance to this day. However, perhaps one of the most overlooked factors of her books was the significance of the wagon used by the Ingalls’ family during their travels. For the Ingalls and many others, the wagon represented…

basketball league) process worked. It was very confusing and hard to get used to at first, but after about a month it got easy. The hardest part was choosing an organization to play for, and I was lucky enough to find an amazing program called the Minnesota…

If you've ever thought of the Midwest state wise, you've probably heard of the term "Minnesota Nice". The social construct of helping one another whether they're your neighbors or complete strangers. From the outside, "Minnesota Nice" sounds like an impressive trait that other states should pick up, but when looked from the inside you can see inter-webbed rules that outline that phrase. "Minnesota Nice" is a cover word for underlying, subtle, and passive aggressive racism against those not like…

trafficking cases have occurred in Minnesota over the past several years. One case that occurred in 2010 consisted of investigators from three states, who determined that Minneapolis was the home base of a large domestic sex trafficking ring that comprised of three generations of one Minnesota family (Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, n.d.). This sex trafficking ring was known for trafficking mostly young girls throughout the U.S. (Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, n.d.). Another case was an FBI…

Mesoproterozoic Depending on what part of Minnesota you would have been in during the Mesoproterozoic there would have been different things occurring. In Northern Minnesota, the greenstones and granites were eroding away along with the gneiss and granite in north central Minnesota. This erosion created a lot of quartz, which was eventually turned into quartz sandstone (Ojakangas, and Matsch 1982). These quartz sandstones are the Sioux Quartzite of southwestern Minnesota, the Nopeming…

The scene where Jane discovers the rubble that was once Thornfield Hall is a momentous one which marks the completion of her maturity and the beginning of the next and final stage of her story. In this passage, Brontë shows how Jane has outgrown Thornfield and left her old self behind. When she first arrived at Thornfield, Jane was a naïve and submissive girl, new to the world outside of her family and education. Mr. Rochester was a cynical, selfish, and spoiled aristocrat. Jane must leave so…

Harris Teeter began as two independent grocery stores. Along with his brother Paul, Willis L. Teeter opened Teeters Food Mart in Mooresville, North Carolina in 1939. In 1949, W. T. Harris opened his own grocery store in Charlotte. Both stores consolidated to form Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc on February 1, 1960. They opened with fifteen stores. The first store was opened in Kannapolis, NC. By 1963, Harris Teeter operated twenty-five stores. Harris Teeter bought five stores from Tillman’s…