Sioux Falls, South Dakota

(Michelle Reads) It was a normal quiet day in the mundane town of Sioux Falls South Dakota. The streets were empty and the lights were turned out. But all of a sudden you could hear a loud cry coming from the Gonzalez’s house. “What was that noise?” asked Sierra.” “It sounds like Jennifer” implied Diego.” ( Noah) ( Michelle Reads) Jennifer was upstairs by herself so the family all rushed up the stairs to see what was wrong. When the family got upstairs, they saw that Jennifer was gone and…

land, which they could previously not have afforded). Following its passage, the Homestead Act allowed nearly half a million families a chance to move to new land, or expand into the wide west. However, the lands the Homestead Act advertised seemed to fall flat from expectations. The rain-scarce Great Plains provided new farming families with the obstacle of drought, suffered extreme temperatures, and could not provide for many of the families moving out west, forcing two out of three families…

to understand, it is still the work of the Holy Spirit (I Corinthians 12:3b, ESV). Today’s audience is Jaime, a Native American 16 year old girl from Sisseton, South Dakota. She has been born and raised on a reservation in northern South Dakota learning two cultures. One side of her family has taught her the traditional Dakota Sioux ways while the other has brought her up in the Catholic religion. Jaime has mild cognitive deficiencies and is a teenage drug addict with a preference for pills…

Food insecurity, hunger, and poverty exist even within the local communities of South Dakota. In attempts to combat hunger, the United States has greatly benefited by the use of food pantries, emergency kitchens, as well as soup drives and banquet meals. Established and funds by a network of private organization and federal support…

About four years ago my family and I decided to go on a trip to visit some family, friends, and just to go on a vacation. We started in South Dakota of course, and all of my family came up to our house from Iowa to car pool before we left. As soon as everyone was at our house, we all got in the car and left. It was a short trip to our next stop, compared to how long it took to get to all of the other stops. Our first stop was outside of Emporia, Kansas, to see my Grandma and spend some time with…

My internship took place in Sioux City, Iowa, at a local restaurant that goes by the name of Minerva’s. Minerva’s has multiple locations, where it started in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The restaurant itself is considered an Americano, which serves a variety of dishes from different cultures. The position in which I worked was in the back of the kitchen. I did not get the chance to work on the line as much was I would have liked, where the plates are put together, during my internship. I mainly…

struggles. And now here Tennessee is, one win away from the Final Four, something very few expected after the regular season. What makes it even more special to me is that the game is in South Dakota, it truly means the world to me that the NCAA allowed the women 's basketball Sweet 16 and Elite 8 to be played in Sioux Falls; and for Tennessee to be there, well that 's just an example of how God works in mysterious…

Either if it is Wednesday or Sunday, varieties of religion have service to give value to the purpose of the religion. In Sean Carroll’s “The Meaning of Life”, he states, “Most people who turn to religious beliefs do not do so because they think it provides the best theory of cosmology or biology. They turn to religious beliefs because it provides them with purpose and meaning in their lives, with a sense of right and wrong, with a community, with hope.” Religion, by itself, has its own influence…

I can clearly say that during the fall of 1803, Lewis and Clark Expedition embark on from St. Louis, Missouri. In the book and in the documentary we are able to see that on May 14, 1804, the expedition's boats departed their path up the Missouri River. Going up the journey progressed extremely slowly because they were going up against current of the river. During the expedition they faced a lot of adversity but they faced a lot of discovery as well. I can point out that one of the initial…

I played one whole season of volleyball there and ended up tarring a disc in my back. I came here to South East Tech because my boyfriends and friends when here also. My boyfriend and I have been dating for four years now. I believe that I’m very good at sports, I was born an athlete. My father played college basketball, I almost played college basketball…