Little House on the Prairie

the government feared. Little Crow watched the same thing happening to his band of Lakota as was happening with other Indians. A treaty would be made with big promises. White settlers would move in by the thousands. Gold would be found. More whites would move in ignoring the treaty. Buffalo would be exterminated. The Indians began to starve. But, rather than fight the whites, Little Crow thought he could save his people by giving into their demands. People like Little Crow were distrusted by people

In the third video, The Revenant, mountain men are portrayed as ruthless, persevering killers. In the beginning of the clip, it shows one man being almost mauled to death by a bear. He tries to fight back and even gets a shot off from his rifle but is still attacked. The other people in his camp find him almost dead and one of them thinks they should just finish him off. When the half-dead man’s son tells everyone not to kill him, he is choked to death. While this is happening, his father tries to

over with the passage money they earned. When they settled, they cleared the lands and made the houses from the land, for et cetera, lumber. Usually the houses are incomplete before the winters of Canada and when they rest of the family arrived.. P6: Life of Woman Women helped with the load of the work that men did. They helped with clearing the land in addition to watching over the chores of the house. The women didn’t expect the cold as the old country as said from the interview of Mary Prokop

unforgiving. During the winter all of citizens are hiding in their nice warm houses trying to avoid the harsh cold. Due to the citizens’ perseverance and hard work their town is able to thrive. The Winter is the opposite of summer, during the winter not only does the winter change but the town's appearance. The houses that once looked artificial were exposed and looked abandoned. “Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie...The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops...they

Jennifer, great discussion post on humility as a leader. After reading your introduction to the class I can see that you are working as a Human Resources Specialist at a Technical College, and love NASCAR. Let’s narrate today’s professions as a demonstration in this arena with the concept of a humble leader. How can a person become a successful leader by being humble? Dr. Steven Riser (2004), writes in his book Cultivating Christian Convictions, a person can become humble by remaining true to his

Ever since the first time songs from the soundtrack of Newsies appeared on my Pandora app, I was immediately in love with it. Of course, when I found out that it was recorded with the original cast to be put on Netflix, as soon as I got home that Friday afternoon, I immediately watched it and was completely hooked. The beautiful set, the amazing makeup, costumes, the songs, harmony, and cast everything was absolutely perfect, as if I was watching a Broadway show right in front of my eyes, and not

Nicole Marie Pummel . . . sister, mother, and definitely a great friend. Nicole is my big sister, and best friend. Even though she is much older than me, age 30, we have never been mad at each other. She has a husband named Spencer, and a son named Maverick, which I’m sure almost everyone has heard about Maverick. Spencer is 30 and Maverick is 1 year old. Before Nicole got pregnant with Maverick, she had been working in Atchison, Kansas as a Special Ed. Teacher for preschooler’s. Now she is a stay

public perception of farming culture is outdated, as revealed by gender roles in the mainstream representation of agricultural living. When people think of the farming movies, a couple of generalizations come to their mind. The women are inside the house cooking meals, cleaning and putting everything in order, sending the kids off to school, and helping with their homework, as well as making a chore list for them to help the men out. The men, on the other

Little House in the Big Woods is a memoir written by Laura Ingalls Wilder that encompasses a year of her life when she was a very young girl. Beginning in the late fall, Wilder tells of endless preparations for the winter. Her family lived deep in the woods of Wisconsin, and her father would go hunting and butcher some of their animals so that her family would have lots of provisions to last them until spring. When winter set in, her father would still hunt during the day, but because the nights

Being a woman in pioneer times wasn’t necessarily the ideal gender of that era; they did, however, hold a lot more power than most people would think. Women had quite a few balls in the air at a time, such as being a mother, wife and housekeeper. These three roles are also quite time consuming ones, even with the advanced technology in modern-day life. Just imagine the differences between now and then…its mind boggling. Sadly, if they happened to not like that lifestyle, there wasn’t that much they