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    direct way. The dialogue hits with full force within the context of the play and the drama plays out between the characters. Additionally, the most realistic factor in the play was the set design. The setting is in a large county home outside of Pawhuska, Oklahoma which reflects the society and culture in which people live. The set design fitting in with the play being almost a three-story home with a kitchen, dining room, Violet’s room door and an attic. This everyday setting helped contribute to

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    The Midwestern Crime Wave All across the nation during the Great Depression people were jobless, homeless, and starving; nowhere was this truer than in the American Midwest. Not only did the farms and cities of the Midwest have to deal with the poor economic conditions but the Midwest's main source of income, agriculture, was being ravaged by the natural phenomenon now called the Dust Bowl. On top of low crop prices and a lack of employment farmland was ruined, went unplanted, and was often foreclosed

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    The confirmation class of 2013 was officially confirmed in May. These students were in a two year confirmation program after receiving feedback that the students needed more biblical knowledge. Their final year focused on the Re:Form curriculum, finishing with their confirmation service. After receiving feedback from the previous program, we have adjusted the Confirmation class that began in Fall 2015 to be one year long. This class will mainly focus on the Re:Form curriculum, including the Re:Form

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    Prologue: The play begins by revealing the setting as Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Seemingly important details are that the play is taking place during a scorching month of August, the home where the scene takes place is run down, and that any source that permits sunlight to come in has been taped down. The three characters revealed are Johna, Beverly, and Violet. Johna is a young, Indian woman who is being interviewed by Beverly. Her duties around the house will be to clean, cook, to take Violet to the clinic

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    plot, but the way that each one them move through the story can certainly tie together the whole idea that the writer is trying to get a crossed. In the very first line of the prologue, the house is explained as, “A rambling country house outside Pawhuska”. With that very first line you can already get an idea that it is not a normal family life and the hustle and bussle will already cause problems. In the beginning of the prologue Beverly became an important character. Beverly connects not only to

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    Walters assisted in the making of millions. As the official auctioneer of the Osage Nation, he had primarily dealt in cattle and real estate exchanges, but by 1920, a new commodity dominated the auctions held adjacent to the Osage Indian Agency in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The discovery of oil beneath the rolling hills of the Osage Reservation in northern Oklahoma generated tremendous profits for the tribe, and made the reservation one of the highest concentrations of wealth in the world. Between 1910 and

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    the field to have a chance to get to finals in the State Championship. It was June 18th, 2010, and we had clawed our way out of losers bracket to get to the semifinals. We had come too far to give up or fail now. We came across a team called the Pawhuska Huskies, a team we had creamed in an earlier tournament 23-3 in one whole inning. The team joked back and forth about how easy this would be and how we already made it to the finals. But while

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    the field to have a chance to get to finals in the State Championship. It was June 18th, 2010, and we had clawed our way out of losers bracket to get to the semifinals. We had come too far to give up or fail now. We came across a team called the Pawhuska Huskies, a team we had creamed in an earlier tournament 23-3 in one whole inning. The team joked back and forth about how easy this would be and how we already made it to the finals. But while

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    An ambitious female newspaper reporter and Federal agents investigate a series of Osage Indian murders. BRIEF SYNOPSIS After a series of Osage Indian Murders, Edgar J. Hoover plants undercover agents in the town, including agent Joe Chermack. He goes undercover as an insurance agent. A local newspapers reporter, Susan Mcculley, who wants to make a name for herself also investigates the murders. She grew up with Laura Reed, an Osage Indian, who gets romantically involved with John McAlister, a

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    The economy of Oklahoma during early statehood, from the period 1907 to 1929 can be divided into two main economic sectors: the economy from the land and the economy from beneath the land. Both of the economic activities have driven and shaped Oklahoma’s history from statehood to now. Although through most of Oklahoma’s history the state’s economy has been an extractive economy using the resources from the land and exporting the raw products out of the state for modest, yet profitable returns. As

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