Omaha, Nebraska

This system still allows for small rural states to have an impact and creates more competitive elections in strong red or blue states. An example would be the 2008 election where Barack Obama won one electoral vote in Nebraska, which allowed the group of people that voted for him in that district to have their votes actually count. This isn’t a perfect system as minority citizens in certain districts will still have votes that don’t count, but it is a much fairer system…

Land for Sale Nebraska – Oil Field Areas The oil and gas boom that the nation has experienced in recent years has got potential land buyers focusing on the profit possibly lying just under parcels of land in Nebraska. Although the state has ranch land and hunting property, prospective buyers may not be as interested now in those uses of the land. Counties with land for sale in the western border and a few in the southwest, in particular, are located in a good-sized portion of the Niobrara Shale…

Nebraska has many natural resources. Nebraska’s most important products are beef cattle, corn, soybeans, and hogs. Livestock products account for about 2/3 of Nebraska’s farm income, and beef cattle are the most important source, followed by hogs. Corn is Nebraska’s most important crop, with much of it going to feed cattle and hogs. Petroleum, sand and gravel, clays for bricks, tiles, and pottery are also important resources. Two thirds of the High Plains Aquifer lie under Nebraska. Nebraska may…

Christopher Columbus landed in the new world in 1492, he discovered a group of peoples and named them Indians. The Natives seemed to be uncivilized and lack humanism, often thought to be savages. However, the English were the real savages in their crusade to inflict their religion on anyone who wasnt English. Indians were unevolved compared to the mighty English. At this point Native Americans have yet to discover the horse. Due to the primal behaviors of the Indians, hunting and farming was…

“Boys Don’t Cry” was written by Kimberly Peirce and Andy Bienen and is based on the true story of Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena was born Teena Brandon, in Lincoln Nebraska. He is a transgender male and none of his family or people from his home town understand. In the opening scene Brandon is going on a date. Things go very well and when he takes the girl home they kiss. Unfortunately, some guys find out and chase Brandon back to his cousin’s house shouting obscenities, threatening him, and…

During the early 1800s, land, in general, was of precious value to most Americans as farming was the key to success. Along with moving westward, land was seen as a new opportunity for American settlers to build a better life. The land was already occupied by Native Americans though, therefore, the American settlers pushed for the federal government to pass laws that gave them rights over the lands. Then, Indian Territory kept getting smaller and smaller due to the federal government laws that…

Jimmy William Buffett, a well-known folk country singer, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman, is one of the most famous Mississippians of all time. He was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi on Christmas Day, December 25, 1946, and was raised in Mobile, Alabama, where he attended catholic high school. (Bio.com #1) Buffett watched his father develop Alzheimer’s disease and his mother suffer from a crippling stroke. This gave Buffett the incentive he needed to become the Jimmy Buffett that is…

Should the Electoral College Be Abolished? For a long time, Americans have questioned the way that the Electoral College system is run and how many hoops a person must jump through to become the President of the United States. The Electoral College system was set in place by the framers of the Constitution because they did not like the idea of a direct vote but wanted the citizens of the United States to have a say in the way the country was run. Not only do the Presidential candidates have to…

Kristin Armstrong Idaho. The City of Boise, Idaho, renamed one of the city’s oldest and most popular parks after 43-year-old mother and full-time career woman Kristin Armstrong, who recently won her third-straight gold medal in the women’s cycling individual time trials at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. After overcoming a diagnosis of osteoarthritis in 2001, Kristin is now the most decorated female cyclist in U.S. history and a leader in her community. The Kristin Armstrong…

Reflective Analysis “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives -Jane Austen.” When reading this quote two women stand out in the minds of readers as women who did not want to be in calm waters, stay with the status quo, and be behind the scenes as men ran the country and were given the best, Maxine Hong Kingston and Mari Sandoz are it. These women went out of their way to point out how…