Oklahoma

gathering ammunition the date had to be pushed back to April twentieth. April nineteenth was the four year anniversary of the Oklahoma city bombing and the date of the Waco Siege,and considering the fact that both “Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had said in their homemade videos that they hoped for their plan would take more lives than the one hundred sixty-eight lost in the Oklahoma bombing four years earlier.” (The Columbine shooting 10 years later,William Bowmer)the Whatever the reason Eric…

Quanah Parker Quanah Parker was a Comanche indian tribe leader. He was born around 1850 (no exact date), to Cynthia Ann Parker, a white girl taken captive during the 1836 raid on Parker’s Fort, Texas, and Comanche chief Peta Nocona (Biggs). He was raised on the reservation by both parents. Quanah often witnessed his father brutally abuse his mother, and forced her to be sexually active with him. His mother did have a daughter with her husband before she was kidnapped, Quanah witnessed his…

leader of a country your fellow countrymen aren’t the only ones who need to trust you, your allies must also trust you. When the southeastern Native Americans were forced to move to the area that’s now Oklahoma, the U.S. government promised they wouldn’t take that new land. Nevertheless, in 1907 Oklahoma became a state and the aforesaid promise was broken because that area was no longer Indian Territory. Native Americans could’ve been great allies, but instead our leaders chose to break many of…

people to live in the 104,185 mi² land area. The state is located in the southern region of U.S. It is almost in the center of the United States like Oklahoma is but it is a list more to the south. There are 7 representatives for the state. They have a few bordering states such as Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas to the east, Oklahoma to the southeast, New Mexico to the south, Utah to the west, and Arizona to the southwest, at the Four…

Melvin Morris, a famous Medal of Honor recipient, was born on January 7, 1942. The town he was born in was Okmulgee, Oklahoma. He was a U.S. army soldier during the Vietnam War. He was a Staff Sergeant which is the highest rank of the sergeant first class. Before entering the army, he was a national guard at the Oklahoma army. He then entered the army in 1959 after making a request to join. He volunteered twice to be dropped off at Vietnam to fight. This is one of the many ways he displayed the…

At the turn of the twentieth century, a Native American group, the Osage were forced off of their lands and forced to sell. The group moved to what would soon become Oklahoma and bought the land from the federal government for all it was worth, especially what was bellow it. When oil was discovered under the land, the Osage leased their lands to the highest bidder and became some of the richest citizens in America almost overnight. Due to the prejudice towards Native Americans, the government…

With this information I would probably not be working in Oklahoma. Comparing a recent college graduate to a person with five year it would be about the same with the factor of the degree and state. “The national outlook for a school psychologist is 19.7 % increase”. (OK Career). It is really reassuring when there…

In America, we love to gamble. Whether it is on sports, dogs, horses, or cars, or even if it is in a casino- we cannot get enough of it. There are about fifteen hundred casinos in the country, scattered from one side of the continent to the other. That is more casinos than any other in the states, and most go all out to make each and every patron welcome and go the extra mile to make everyone feel like a superstar. Most are more than just a simple place to gamble, but they also have shows, a bar…

started off in Oklahoma selling only one type of cookie in a specific area. Now, they are world wide and with more than 12 cookies with different recipes. As the world has been advancing, so has the distribution of girl scout cookies. Girl scout cookies have been a huge hit in America and known as America’s beloved cookies. First of all, girl scout cookies started in 1912. A lady named Juliette Gordon Low started these cookies, then in 1917 the Mistletoe Troops in Muskogee, Oklahoma. They…

Diplomat Kofi Annan once said, “I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present”. This famous quote, is true to its words. Throughout history, refugees of old and young have gone through tough times which led them to flee. That cause of them to flee, whether it was major or not is just another obstacle into greatness they pursued somewhere else. The book that has inspired the hearts of millions of readers about the Dust Bowl and the Great…