Oklahoma City University

The news has spread like wildfire. Kevin Durant is now a member of the Golden State Warriors. Twitter exploded like the Fourth of July on Monday, which just so happened to be THE Fourth of July, and people and NBA players alike lost their minds. Several opinions have been thrown around these past couple days; Durant is a ring chaser, Durant is a traitor, and the list goes on and on. Not every opinion was bad though. A lot of the positive feedback came from Warriors fans — duh — and analysts…

for UCLA in college and so did his wife. Russell is becoming a really successful person. Russell Westbrook lll scored an average of 32 points a game. He was born November 12, 1988 is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Russell played for Leuzinger High school he was not a big name in high school. He didn’t play for any special teams he was just a regular high school player with a few offers. But then…

that they could do and they do it. Usually people who commit the most violent crimes, like murder and assault, have something wrong with their psychology. Some people believe that Timothy McVeigh was mentally unstable when he decided to do the Oklahoma City Bombing. Many people live a hard life in this world and one of them was Timothy McVeigh. He “was the middle child in a blue-collar family in rural New York state” (“McVeigh”). McVeigh’s parents got…

Black Robe gave its audience a depiction of early colonial times when missionary work was a prominent goal in colonization. Upon first contact, the Native Americans were an essential resource for survival. As the years came the Native Americans became major trading partners with colonists, at least until their resources ran out. Over the duration of these relations each tribe reached a point of dependency on European goods. Black Robe provided us with an understanding of how misunderstands…

Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a Cheyenne Indian and past U.S Senator, once said, “treaties are promises between two nations. And whether they are going to be valid or not, and whether they are going to last or not, is based on the heart and belief of the people that are participating.” (Harjo,221). This short statement is packed with reference to historical treatment and intent of American Indian treaties, acknowledgement of the continued power of treaty making in the present and the lasting social,…

There will always be a factor that prevents people of different ethnicities from integrating with each other. Whether it is the color of a person’s skin, their economic status, or their religion and culture. Ethnic relations are the relations between race and economics as well as the relations between different ethnicities. In the past, segregation was a part of everyday life. White people held the majority of the population and therefore felt that they were superior to those who were not white…

Cherokee Tragedy: The Story of the Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1986. Thurman Wikins discusses how the Cherokee Indians traveled during the Trail of Tears period and what their conditions were like. Thurman Wikins argues that several of the Cherokee Indians traveled by boat…

The Shawnee Indian tribe originated in the Tennessee region. They migrated to many other parts of America including Pennsylvania. They adopted lifestyles that were best suited for the regions that they lived in. Many of the Shawnee tribes lived in Wigwams which was a temporary shelter that are small cone-shaped houses made of wooden frames with arched roofs. Some wigwams were covered with buffalo hides if they were available in the area. The Shawnee tribes in Pennsylvania ate fish and game…

drove out to Pawnee to visit the Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum. This site is considered to be a significant site because it includes Pawnee Bill’s ranch, his house, the site of his Wild West shows, and a museum over his life and career. If I was an Oklahoma History teacher in secondary school I would use this site as a field trip while talking about Pawnee Bill and his career. It would also be a good site to use while covering ranches, and how they worked. It would enhance the class by giving…

For this assignment, I decided to attend a training session at Oklahoma Blood Institute, at 901 N. Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Since I am interning at Oklahoma Blood Institute as a Human Resource Assistant, I felt as though this was the perfect opportunity for me to get a better understanding of the non-profit organization. At Oklahoma Blood Institute, they offer their employees training on phlebotomy technology, component manufacturing laboratory and testing laboratory processes and…