Salisbury Plain

In this T.E.K, we will cover information about the Native Tribes that lived in the Gulf Coastal and Central Plains. We will also go over the housing that they had and the modifications they had to make to live in their set areas. For all the Glossary words for the T.E.K continue reading until you get to the Glossary. In the Gulf Coastal plains, there were two different Native American Tribes: the Karankawa and the Coahuiltecan. Karankawa: The Karankawa were a Native American Tribe that lived…

In early 1931, farmers in the southern plains were at their highest peak of money making. While the rest of the nation was being affected by the Great Depression, farmers were producing wheat in masses. The land was described as green and lush and the soil rich. Nobody had realized what they were witnessing would only last a short time before tragedy struck. Railroad companies and states released advertisements to lure settlers to move to the south. Not conscious of the drought to come, farmers…

but farmers in the Great Plain states were losing their land. In Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie frequently discuss their dream of owning their own piece of land. While George and Lennie have almost nothing but the dream in their possession, they have a plan on how they are going to achieve a little piece of the American Dream. George always gave great detail about exactly…

its inhabitants was The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s. This name was given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in depression-ridden America (Dust). In Stinging Dust & Forgotten Lives, it is mentioned that [The Dust Bowl] was a benchmark between human complacency and changes that would protect the landscape from further degradation (Stinging). When drought plagued the land from 1934 to 1937,…

for America. Times were rough from the New York City streets to the Great Plains. Banks began to close on an everyday basis. In Donald Worsters book "Dust Bowl" he writes about the Great Plains and how the people have struggled through out "the dirty thirties". In Chapter 9 "Unsettled Ground" George Taton Believes that if people would have just gave up trying to plant seed in dust that mother nature would have fixed the Plains in half the time it had took. The 1930s were a hard time on America…

The Inuit and the Dene people are very different people. But they have some similarities. I’m going to tell you about the Inuit and Dene peoples. I am going to tell you about the similarities and differences between the Dene and the Inuit. I’m going to tell you about the inuit. The inuit live in the arctic and they use to speak Athabaskan & Algonquin. Some of the words that are similar to us are Moccasins, Inuit, Lacrosse kayaks. The art that the inuit like to do are carving designs in wood…

The Dust Bowl In the 1930’s and the early 1940’s, the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States suffered a severe drought in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and Kansas. Once a semi-arid grassland, the treeless plains became home to thousands of settlers when, in 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act. Most of the settlers farmed their land or raised cattle. The farmers plowed the prairie grasses and planted dryland wheat. As the demand for wheat…

A Perspective of Rock and Roll’s Impact on Society “Rock and roll keeps you in a constant state of juvenile delinquency,” stated Eddie Spaghetti; this quote captures the essence of Rock and Roll. It speaks its truth about the influence on attitudes towards authority and implies how society reacted to the new revolution created by Rock and Roll, transforming the world into what it has become today. The music of rock and roll influenced the social and cultural beliefs of youth and threatened the…

Early Jamestown Imagine landing into a new place, a new world, a place filled with opportunities. Next thing you know, by the end of December most of your friends and family have died. Living in early Jamestown sure wasn't easy. In 1607 colonists from England came to make the first permanent settlement in the New World. Out of the 110 colonists that came only 40 were alive by the end of December. A resupply ship came in January but two- thirds of the settlement died in the winter of…

graduation, I want to serve as an educator on the domestic or foreign mission field. Specifically, I wish to serve low-income students on a Native American reservation. In addition, I am currently serving as the Summer Ministry coordinator for the Great Plains Chapter of Child Evangelism Fellowship in South Dakota. I pray God continues to call me to service through CEF and allows me to take up full time ministry with them after graduation. • Your involvement in leadership, service and ministry…