Prairie

Being only 13, Yoshitaka Kawamoto witnessed one of his classmates’ skull cracked open, one eye left. Michihiko Hachiya, a Japanese physician instantly started bleeding on one side of his body. Once a great city, Hachiya describes it as a flaming prairie. Obviously both horrific experiences, but these experiences could’ve been avoided. To this day, survivors from the bombing are still struggling to live out their lives. Some of the survivors of the bombing experience nausea, diarrhea, and…

thinking about how it feels to be free as he stands by the window. The way he says, “The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon…I watched the big Oregon prairie moon above me put all the stars around it to shame…” is a metaphor for the patients in the ward always being stuck so close to…

successful president, he wasn’t always seen that way. His stance on slavery were very unpopular during his time, most wouldn’t think he would have any success. He was born February 12, 1809, and died in April 15, 1865. He was a hard working self-educated prairie lawyer, who didn’t go to school for longer than about 8 months, due to his constantly working to support his family. He was a very smart man, who was able to pass the Bar with nothing but self-taught knowledge. Lincoln got engaged to…

of Giants in the Earth gives us knowledge of how life was like for an immigrant to start all over again in an unfamiliar, unknown, and unexplored area. It also talks about the hardships and consequences that the unknown settlers dealt with on the prairie land. It takes place in the unsettled Dakota Territory in the 1870s. Some topics in the novel are the mental state of each person after living in the total desolation of the wilderness, along with the manual labor of survival. Per Hansa, his…

The community of Leawood, Kansas is located in the northeast region of Johnson County. Leawood, being the established and sophisticated community it is today was first owned by a retired police officer, Oscar G. Lee. In 1922, Lee purchased land that started the foundation of Leawood consisting of the streets of 79th, 103rd, Stateline and Blinder Road. Then in 1948, with the help of the Kroh brothers establishing the housing development, Leawood became an incorporated city. Today, Leawood is a…

Aboriginal gangs are a phenomenon sweeping across Canadian communities, most notably in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Aboriginal gangs have arisen due to a multitude of reasons, such as welfare, high rates of socio-economic disadvantage, Intergenerational dysfunction in families, and discrimination. It is important to note, Aboriginal Canadians are those who have been approved under the Treaty Indian status, been registered under the Indian Act of Canada, or those who have membership in…

In the book, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz, the author deconstructs various types of stereotypes and myths embodied by television shows that romanticize family life and gender roles. Coontz (1992) states that these idealizations promote the “traditional family” myth which she describes as “an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in time and place” (p.9). The notions derived from this myth are a…

Dr. Seuss once said, “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” Trying to remember what happened to four years of my life and what those four years were filled with is tough. It’s so easy to remember the valleys and not the mountains. However, looking back on my years at Unity, I learned something incredibly valuable. Unity has taught me what it’s been trying to teach me since I walked through the door for the first time freshman year. I see how God walked…

cultures, it is the other way around, as the man is considered the head of the house and the women and children are below him. In some aspects, Bruchac’s novel reminded me of Wilder’s children’s novel Little House on the Prairie, but for very different reasons. In Little House on the Prairie it is clear that the father is the head of the household, and his wife and children are forced to bend to his will unquestionably. It was very refreshing to see women portrayed as the head of the household…

Even in secluded areas of the world, people still crave human interaction and long to find somewhere they belong. When the quota for meaningful relationships isn’t met, the isolation can either stifle a person’s potential or force them to make meaningful connections. In literature, small towns are often synonymous with murmurs of gossip and loneliness; Plainsong by Kent Haruf is no different. The environment Haruf places his characters in shapes their personalities and situations implicitly.…