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“Chokka-chaffa' chokma” means “Hello my family”. This phrase comes from one of the world’s exceedingly endangered languages, Chikashshanompa’, the language of my ancestors. When I was young my family and I would travel to Tulsa, Oklahoma to visit Great Papa and Great Mama, my great-grandparents. While my memories of the majority of the trips are foggy from my young age, I still have one distinct and clear memory of one of these visits. While sitting on Great Papa’s lap, I was playing with an…

Knowledge of the most common anatomic characteristics and their possible variations is fundamental, because the nontreatment of one canal can lead to endodontic treatment failure.1 The main objective of endodontic therapy is to eliminate infection from the root canal and the prevention of reinfection.2 The achievement of this goal depends on several factors:3 -elimination of surviving microorganisms in the root canal system through effective cleaning and shaping procedures -creation of a tight…

Many African Americans risked their lives for our country either fighting overseas or creating weapons for the war. Even the army was segregated. When the war heroes returned, they hoped that they earned the respect that they deserved, but they just got spat on. These African Americans had a new battle to fight in, but this time it was against their own country. They had the mind set that if they could save democracy in France, they could save it in the U.S. too. Insults, lynching, and pure…

Before reading the test book and watching the documentary Into the Circle: An Introduction to Native American Pow-wow. I thought a Pow-wow was just a party like celebration for the Native Americans. In which they dress up for a night around a fire where they would dance and sing. But after this class, I realized I was wrong, the Pow-wow contains a lot of the Native American traditions and their history. After viewing the segment from the documentary Into the Circle: An Introduction to Native…

The Outsiders S.E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders takes place in 1960’s Tulsa, Oklahoma where the town is separated into Socs and Greasers. Ponyboy, a young greaser, is a young boy who is still considered innocent. However, after Pony witnesses one of his friend’s murder a soc, his life changes forever. He must grow up and mature after a series of unfortunate events. One theme the novel suggest is to cherish your innocence, before it’s too late. In chapter 4, Ponyboy and Johnny realized they…

in economics and was even voted the permanent president of his class. Three days after graduating college, he joined J.C Penny as a manager. The position paid him 75 dollars per month. He then resigned to work at the DuPont munitions factory at Tulsa in anticipation of being drafted into World War 1. Soon afterwards, Walton joined the military in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps, supervising security at aircraft plants and prisoner of war camps. In this position he served at Fort Douglas in…

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is more than just a sit-com; it reveals issues that are still in the news today for example: Tulsa officer charged with manslaughter for shooting an African-American man, Shooting of Philando Castile and Tyre King (sparked Black Lives Matter). In the episode Mistaken Identity, Will and Carlton are driving Mr. Furth’s (Carlton’s dad’s legal partner) car down to Palm Springs for him. On their way down, they get lost and eventually pulled over for going two miles an hour.…

Have you ever felt like an outsider? S.E Hinton wrote a book called the outsider. She was inspired by her high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her school had different types of social groups and she didn’t like that. So she wrote a book about it she was 17 when she wrote it. She put her name as S.E because she didn’t want anyone to prejudge her for writing about a book about boys. In (Doc.B) Ponyboy forgot he was in one of the socs classes. So when the razor wouldn’t cut the frog he got out…

ENGL 1113 Student: ________________________ Grammar Assignment #2 Before beginning this assignment, log on to the grammar web site: http://www.niu.edu/writingtutorial/index.html . Some of the words in the grammar exercise can be found on the web site; the others you will have to find in a dictionary. Log onto the grammar web site; go to the Home page; click on Get Started. Then click on Grammar at the top of the page; click on Review Grammar at the bottom of the page. Click on Commonly…

Ida B Wells, the feminist we all should aspire to be like. She began her anti-lynching campaign in 1892. She wrote many articles to bring light to the racial injustices in the world at that time. She worked hard to dismantle the stereotypes of African American people but apparently, not hard enough. Ida B Wells spent all of her adult life trying to bring justice to those who were lynched and to black people everywhere. She worked to dismantle the stereotypes of black men and women because they…