Prairie

The Grand Slam of Soil Conservation Just imagine, you’re in a softball game, you have just rounded third base and are trying to beat the ball home. In a desperate effort to score; you slide, and dust flies- making it momentarily impossible to see. Your eyes, nose, and mouth are covered in the freshly raked earth of the ball field. This scenario is something that most of us today can relate to. But in the early 1900s, in several counties across Oklahoma and throughout the Great Plains, many days…

Canada is a country that has been constructed by its natural resources; and it is Canada’s natural resources that continue to have a great deal of influence on the economy, political system, and social interests. Resource management in Canada has long been viewed as merely a technical exercise performed by the state, when in fact resource management had been central to the creation and maintenance of the state since the beginning. Resources are aspects of the natural environment that we as…

just a really good read. When I got into the third grade I began reading the Magic Tree House books, In which I fell in love with the mysterious books with a meaning behind them. Also in the third grade we began reading the series, Little House on A Prairie. Everyday after lunch the teacher would pick someone to sit infant of the whole class and read a chapter out of the book. I was always so excited to read to the class! The series was also a great read. Once I got into the fourth grade I…

In the story “Desiree’s Baby” we are introduced to a character by the name of Armand Ambigny who was Desiree’s husband. When one first reads the story, at the beginning it can be assumed that he is just a minor figure in the story and there’s a bigger picture. However, further reading helps to show how Armand is the antagonist of the story in the end, or in other words, he was the villain. He doesn’t originally come off as the villain because he was so swoon by Desiree and so in love, the…

about relationship between form and function. Wright thinks that architecture should be loyal to not only structure and purpose of itself, but also time, site, and the environment. Based on the idea of organic architecture, combining his practice in “Prairie Style,” Wright had further developed Sullivan’s idea forward it to a more throughout theory of “organic architecture.” In the article “ In the Cause of Architecture” in 1908, Wright wrote, “A sense of the organic is indispensable to an…

Bos bison, or the American bison, is the largest land mammal native to North America. It is placed in the same genus, Bos, as the domestic cattle. However, some taxonomists categorize it in the genus Bison, arguing that there is a substantial number of differences to separate it from domestic cattle. The American bison can be separated into two subspecies: B. Bison bison and B. Bison athabascae. B. Bison bison, or the plains bison, is more common in western United States. The plains bison also…

The Mandan’s of the Great Plains Region The Mandan Indians were a tribe living among other Indians within the Great Plains region. The Great Plains is basically the central area in North American. The Great Plains region consists of various states like Iowa, the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Missouri. It ranges from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The general region of the Great Plains has a geography typically described as “miles and miles of flat land and gently…

Wisconsin,it started out as a very small city. Madison became the Capital of Wisconsin in 1837,named after the president James Madison this city was chosen because it was located halfway between two rapidly growing cities,Milwaukee in the east and prairie duchan in the west Landmarks: Wisconsin State Capital The Wisconsin State Capital was completed in 1917, the building is fifth to serve as the Wisconsin State Capital since the first territorial legislature convened during 1836 and the…

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” A book always seemed to be in my hand when I was growing up, and whenever I got the chance, the pages were open, and I was immersed into whatever world the book allowed. I fell in love with everything about books. The pages, whether they were crisp and clean, or they were stained by coffee, and I knew they had been held and loved before me, could entertain me for hours as I flipped…

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…