image even without his waist length hair. Although rumored to have been instrumental in the early organization of the KKK, he had a great influence on the early courts of Arkansas and as an influential member of the free masons. Albert Pike was a lawyer who played a major role in the development of the early courts of Arkansas and During the Civil War, he commanded the Confederacy’s Indian Territory. Albert Pike was born December 29, 1809, child of Ben and Sarah Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield
traditional dress, worship same God, express same manners and share same culture and tradition. A discourse community helps find your own identity and makes you feel convenient in a group. There is a humongous group of Indian people residing in Fort Smith, Arkansas. As a part of this discourse community, I share certain body language, dress, manners and beliefs. We also speak a mixture of two languages, English and Tamil, called “Tanglish”. Tanglish is most commonly spoken with my family, relatives and
Territory in Arkansas. In the novel True Grit, the character Mattie Ross, shows an interesting example of “The Hero’s Journey.” As we read we learn she is very outspoken and strong willed, she always wants things to be her way. Mattie shows us a great example of being very independent at the age of fourteen, but after her journey does she truly change as a person? “I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed
As white settlers poured across the mountains, the Cherokee tried once again to compensate themselves with territory taken by war with a neighboring tribe. This time their intended victim was the Chickasaw, but this was a mistake. Anyone who tried to take something from the Chickasaw regretted it, if he survived. After eleven years of sporadic warfare ended with a major defeat at Chickasaw Oldfields (1769), the Cherokee gave up and began to explore the possibility of new alliances to resist the whites
The career I have chosen is a Teacher. Every since I was a kid I’ve always wanted to be a teacher. It’s something I put my mind to and it never changed. What appeals most to me about this job is the thought of inspiring someone else to be a teacher much like someone did to me. I wanted to change at least one students life for the better, even if it’s just having someone to talk to. I remember sitting in Mrs. Daniels class, my fourth grade teacher, and thinking. I want to do this. I want to be a teacher
History of Arkansas Tech University Est. 1909 Arkansas ranked 42nd out of the 46 states in annual per capita school funds at a mere $4.97 per student. Citizens started to feel the need for secondary education for their children most ardently. The Washington County Farmers’ Union started the concept of agricultural boarding schools. H.S. Mobley was one of the most fluent spokesman for the Union. He believed in vocational education, and he pleaded for schools where students might learn partly by working
and return...each stage must be completed successfully if the initiate is to become a hero"(Harris and Thompson 50). This process has been around for years and will be around for years to come but have you noticed it? Mattie Ross a young girl from Arkansas goes on a hero
The Journey of Becoming a Hero Most people think that superheroes in fairytales are the only one’s who go through a “hero’s journey” for the simple fact that the name hero is what they called after they defeat or take down the “bad guy”. But a hero’s journey is an event that can happen to anyone. It is when a person’s life changes from their everyday ordinary day and are confronted against obstacles that change who they are and their perspective in certain aspects of life at the end of their expedition
John Brown University, founded in 1919, is located in the Northwest Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Made up of the cities of Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville, the area consistently ranks as a top 10 place to do business and live. In addition to the main campus, there are three educational facilities, one located in Fort Smith, a second in Little Rock, and the third in Rogers. The university was named after John E. Brown Sr. an entrepreneur, evangelist, and radio broadcaster
Myra Maybelle Shirley also commonly known as the “Bandit Queen” was born on February 5, 1848, on a farm near Carthage, Missouri. She was one of six children, but the only daughter of her farmer parents, John and Elizabeth Shirley. When her family moved into Carthage her father became a prosperous innkeeper and slave holder. Belle attended the Carthage Female Academy, where she excelled in reading, spelling, grammar, arithmetic, manner, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and developed a love for playing the piano
down stream. The following day Farragut returned and bombarded the city for 12 hours (Miles 194). The civilians left to live in the country until things calmed down (Foote 395). Van Dorn, leader of defense for Vicksburg, sent the "Arkansas" to Vicksburg. The "Arkansas" destroyed three warships for an estimated loss of $3,000,000 (Foote 386). The ship was later grounded and her own crew destroyed her (Miles 224). The process of trying to run past Vicksburg's guns became too difficult. The Union tried
or put up a shelter. Why can’t this campus be more like the bus stops that have to protect us from getting completely soaked while we wait? I attended the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. They have half of the students that University of Arkansas in Fort Smith has. They have buses go around and shuttle people from buildings to parking lots twice an hour during classes, along with having bus stops ...
Mattie personifies these traits of the quest hero type. One way she fits the quest hero archetype is that she realizes the need for change when she learns of the lack of effort being done to imprison Tom Chaney, her father’s murderer. When she visits Fort Smith’s deputy, he shows her the long list of desperadoes to be caught before Tom Chaney. Shirking responsibility, he claims that Tom Chaney “‘is now the business of the U.S. Marshals’”(26). Clearly, his apathy towards working to apprehend Tom Chaney
go way down there and get home sick then, I be trying to run back home to my parents or to my home town. I’m debating on whether to try and finding a closer welding school or even a welding school down here in Arkansas. It’s a welding school in Fort Smith, Arkansas also one in Camden, Arkansas. I even heard we had a welding school down here in Jacksonville but I have not seen it yet or found it I even drove around looking for it but I could not find
those with multiple comorbidities who need mechanical ventilator weaning, administration of intravenous antibiotics, and those with complex wound care (Munoz-Price, 2009, p. 438). According to Landon Horton, CNO of Select Specialty Hospital in Fort Smith, Arkansas, “The services provided by LTACH facilities allow the patients to get home who would not otherwise, have a higher level of functioning at discharge, and increase their quality of life” (personal communication, March 7, 2014). The role of the
of the Colorado Volunteer Cavalry raped, looted, and killed the members of a Cheyenne tribe (Brown 86-94). Hearing the story of Sand Creek, one of the most horrific acts in American History, begs the question: Who were the savages? The Treaty of Fort Laramie
society, women have been given the same rights and freedom as men; therefore changing the tradition of the weak woman to the one just as powerful as a man. Works Cited Koci, Katherine. “Feminism in a Patriarchal Society.” University of Arkansas – Fort – Smith. http://www.uafortsmith.edu. Nov. 10, 2009. Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1993.
All branches of public safety tend to involve a high stress environment and it takes the right personality traits to handle these situations appropriately. My mother accompanied me to the University of Arkansas Fort Smith to assist me in signing up for college classes. “The most natural way to organize the events of a narrative, of course, is chronologically.” (K. Flachmann and M. Flachmann 110). I looked over the course catalog and degree plans and saw a course
Two events took place in the mid-19th century in the United States that set the stage for a third which became an historic turning point in American history. The settlement of Mormons in Utah and their pursuit to establish their own government coupled with explorations to develop the transcontinental railroad laid the groundwork for the massacre of Captain John Gunnison and his explorers in 1853 which took eight lives. As massacres go, the loss of eight people was not numerically remarkable. What
eternal cycle of change within us…The hero journey is a symbol that binds …. (Phil Cousineau).” Mattie Ross learns this in True Grit, by Charles Portis, when she experiences the death of her father. She says, ”…Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas and robbed him of his life and his horses and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band(11)”. Frank Ross, Matties’ father, who was shot to death, by a man named, Tom Chaney. Mattie Ross is just 14