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Horizontal World Even though the midwest is not as sought after as other states, there are certain aspects that make it just a unique. Its ability to provide a home to many immigrants from other countries looking for a new start is one of its qualities that make it so amazing. The midwest is a vast open land in the middle of the United Stats. Many of the resident rely on agriculture as a primary source of income. In the expert from The Horizontal World, Debra Marquart creates vivid imagery,…

When I went to Jamestown North Dakota a medium sized city in the absolute middle of nowhere land. This place is so much in the middle of nowhere you didn't see anything until a mile a way. The way there took a long time it took four and a half hours.when we were there we went to a hotel there were we were staying it was a nice hotel on the edge of the city. The way home was less boring because we did more on the way back. We went out to eat a lot we didn't go out to eat one time while we…

King Philips War was the last Native American attempt to push off the invading whites from America. Their efforts were left in vain; however, it did inflate the most destruction on a white population in American history. The Native Americans problems and reasons for getting rid of the colonists were based from the lack of land, since more settlers kept pouring into their region, and competition for resources needed for survival. Nevertheless, the biggest problem, and what I believe became the…

1984 is North Korea. The society that main character Winston Smith lives in is characterized by overbearing government surveillance and mind-control of the population. Independent thought is completely outlawed, and people are regularly detained and severely punished if there is even the slightest suspect that they have performed “Thought Crime”. This extreme exercise of power and complete lack of privacy is justified by the state as being for the greater good. This is eerily similar to North…

The Vietnam War began in 1957 and ended in 1975. The Indochina War was a phase of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam war was called the second Indochina War, Because the fact that it was over the same thing in the same place. The war started when the North was mad that the South was in a region with them. One reason of the war was the capture of Fort Sumter, that was a rich Vietnam citizen. Another reason was the Korean war in 1950. The other reason was pearl harbor in 1941. The Native American…

MacArthur had reacted to the events that were in Korea so he had the UN troops help him since he had the okay from Truman. He had surprised North Korea when he and the UN had attack them, but he was also going to invade China. Truman had given the job to MacArthur because Truman wanted peace between North and South Korea but Truman had not wanted the Chinese to have a reason to join the war so he had told MacArthur to stay away from the China border. I believe that it would be Truman's because…

The continued mistreatment and discrimination against Indigenous people is apparent in light of the Standing Rock protests taking place in North Dakota. Oil companies in North Dakota seek to put a pipeline near Standing Rock, which will ruin water supplies and sacred tribal sites. Although these companies say it will be safe, they altered the location of the pipeline from a city center to Indigenous lands. Protests have continued to take place since April 2016. The protest signifies what has…

impression of North Korea? Some people may say it's militaristic, whereas others may say it's isolated from other countries. These ideas are considered as conventional wisdom, which people can misunderstand depending on topics. Suzy Kim's book Everyday Life in The North Korean Revolution 1945-1950, and Hazel Smith’s book Markets and Military Rule support or challenge conventional wisdom. However, ways to analysis North Korea are different between two authors. Suzy Kim explains North Korea by…

The Sioux Indians came to North America from Asia about 30,000 years ago. The name Sioux actually means “little snake”, which was given to them by the Chippewa Indians. Sioux were nomadic, meaning that they never stayed in one place for an extended period. Typically they followed the pattern of the buffalo, making sure there would be food and clothing wherever they traveled. The Sioux made the mistake of becoming close with the westward thrust of American expansion at a time when the American…

It was since the period of the Stone Age and up to the greeting with Europeans, the first colonizers in North America dwelled primarily as huntsmen and collectors. Throughout the most primitive ages, the Stone Age, the North American pioneers had the identical cultivation transformations as well, when approximately twenty-thousand years before, a band of natives relocated to lower regions of North American and stayed there. These individuals acknowledged sharing distinctive beliefs which were in…