Lawton, Oklahoma Essays

  • Essay On Lucille Mulhall

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    Lucille Mulhall was born on October 21, 1885 in Oklahoma and died December 21, 1940 in Oklahoma when she got in a terrible vehicle accident. She is the first born child of Zach (1847-1931) and Mary Agnes Mulhall (1859-1931). Her sister’s name is Margaret Reed (1906-1925) and she was the last child born. She married her first husband in 1916 and his name was Martin Van Bergen. Lucille then divorced this man and married a man named Thomas Loyd Burnett (1871-1939). He was born in Denton County, Texas

  • Guy Ferry Research Paper

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    Guy Ramsay Ferry was born on Jan, 22, 1968, in Columbus, Ohio. He is the son of Penelope Anne Ferry (Price) and Lewis James Ferry. He grew up in Ferndale in rural Humboldt County, California. In high school he was a foreign exchange student to France and that is where he developed an interest in the Culinary Arts. Guy Ferry changed his last name to Fieri to honor his great grandfather, Giuseppe Fieri. His first job was a tricycle food cart that him and his father built at the age of 10, They named

  • Oklahoma Geography

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    Oklahoma Hannah Pace-Murphy 5th Grade Ms. Whaley May 6,2016 Table of Contents Introductory History Geography and Climate Natural Resources and Industry Conclusion Introduction The state Oklahoma was entered on November 16, of 1907. The state abbreviation for oklahoma is Okl. or Ok. The state capital is Oklahoma City, also the state population is 3,850,568; rank. :28 of 50. The state nickname

  • Hurricane Andrew

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    about after Andrew. Only hours after Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida, looting began. People were taking advantage of others in this moment of crisis, stealing the few possessions that were left. The Clintons, President Bush, at the time, Governor Lawton Chiles were the leaders that came to see the magnitude of this disaster. Seeing the situations in the aftermath of Andrew, troops were sent in to protect and help distribute food, water, clothes and supplies. They also provided medical help. People

  • White Man’s Prejudice against Native Americans in the Film, Dances With Wolves

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    White Man’s Prejudice against Native Americans in the Film, Dances With Wolves The Movie "Dances With Wolves" shows the stereotypical view of American Indians as uncivilized savages who murder innocent settlers, but most Indians are kind, caring people who were driven from their homes and land as discovered by John Dunbar, the film's main character. John Dunbar was stationed at a small abandoned fort located in the Great Plains where he was to monitor the activity of wildlife and Indians. He

  • Quanah Parker Research Paper

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    Quanah Parker was born in 1845, the exact date of his birth is not known due to the times and the lack of recording dates like birthdays back then. Also the exact place of his birth is unknown, it is thought to be somewhere along the Texas-Oklahoma border, but there are conflicting reports. Quanah himself said that he was born on Elk Creek south of the Wichita Mountains, but a marker by Cedar Lake in Gaines County, Texas says otherwise. There are still other places where he was supposedly born like

  • Comanche People

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    Comanche People In the western part of Oklahoma, ranging south on the Plains, a courageous people, known as the Comanches, roamed. They were a nomadic people who lived in skin teepees, which were easily moved from place to place. They had strong friends among Indians, such as the Kiowas and Apaches, as well as many enemies. This is only a minute view into the Comanche tribe, however. Before learning about the tribe's history, one must learn first, who the Comanche people were, and then who

  • Minimum wage

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    Mary Fallin signed into a law a bill that would banned cities within Oklahoma from creating a mandatory minimum wage and employees benefits. The minimum wage issue is a microeconomics issue because it mainly effects a single individual of a household, a group of consumers, and businesses. According to United States Department of Labor the State of Oklahoma is under the states with minimum wage rates that same as the federal. Oklahoma has employers of ten or more full time employees at any one location

  • water rights

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    legal issues. In Oklahoma water is very sacred to its people especially to Native Americans. Both Choctaw and Chickasaw nations are suing the state of Oklahoma for the regulatory authority over Sardis Lake and the water resources it holds. The Choctaw and Chickasaw nations deserve the rights over Sardis Lake because it is their main water supply and they own the rights through the treaty of the Dancing Rabbit Creek of 1830. Sardis Lake is located in the southeastern part of Oklahoma. Since the lake

  • Good Ole Oklahoma

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    Oklahoma is located in the south central United States. Oklahoma is placed in the south, but is partially in the Great Plains by definitions of hypothetical geographical-culture regions. Oklahoma is the 20th most expanded state and also the 28th most populous out of the total 50 states in the United States. Residents living in Oklahoma are often referred to as “Oklahomans” or “okies”. A major part of Oklahoma is its capital city Oklahoma City, which is where I was born and raised. Much of the western

  • Southeastern Native American Literature

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    region home. While the tribes most integrally associated with the Southeastern U.S. in the American popular mind--the FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole)--were forcibly relocated to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) from their ancestral territories in the American South, descendents of those tribes have created compelling literary works that have kept alive their tribal identities and histories by incorporating traditional themes and narrative elements. While

  • Moving as a Child

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    me to grow up and these objects I loved so much were toys that would interfere with learning. So fate took them away, and in their place I was handed Texas. Now, to hand an eight-year-old something like Texas, especially when she had possessed Oklahoma, is like taking the crown jewels from the royals and giving them cubic-zirconium. It just didn’t work. At the first hint of moving I'll admit that I was excited. The imagination of a little girl can run wild with possibilities when she is catapulted

  • The Relationship Between Oklahomans and Native Americans

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    the name Oklahoma is mentioned, there are certain things that come to the minds of many people and one of those things are Native Americans. Native Americans and Oklahoma share a special bond that neither one of them ever thought would come into fruition. This special bond between Native Americans and Oklahoma is something that started with great hesitance but has blossomed into something great. During this paper, the evolution of this relationship between Native Americans and Oklahoma will be discussed

  • Bessie Coleman

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    she was very intelligent and excelled at math. Then, in 1901, when Bessie was nine, her life changed dramatically, her father George Coleman left his family. It was said that he was tired of the racial barriers that existed, and so he returned to Oklahoma (Indian Territory as it was called then) to search for better opportunities. When he was unable to convince his family to come with him, he left Susan and his family. Shortly thereafter, her older brothers also moved out, leaving Susan with four

  • THE TRAIL OF TEARS

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    same year, Congress passed the Indian R... ... middle of paper ... ...h Oklahoma is still the Cherokee National Headquarters today as it was established in 1839. Works Cited Brill, Marlene Targ. The Trail of Tears: The Cherokee Journey From Home. Brookfield, CN: Millbrook Press, 1995. Foreman, Grant. Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Tribes of Indians by Grant Foreman. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Garrison, Tim Alan. The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern

  • Wilma Mankiller's Influence on the Lives of Native Americans

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    rights. Wilma Mankiller was born in 1945 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma where she lived with her father Charlie, a full-blooded Cherokee, her mother Irene, of mixed Irish and Dutch ancestry, as well as her four sisters and six brothers. Their surname is a traditional Cherokee military rank. Wilma was a fifth generation Mankiller, with ancestry traced back to the Cherokee forced to move west along the Trail of Tears (Mankiller 3-4). She grew up in Oklahoma on land granted to her family by the federal government

  • Descriptive Essay On Kansas

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    One might assume Kansas is merely nothing but fields. Endless fields of goldenrod-colored wheat swaying gracefully with the soft wind. Some may also think of Sunflowers. Millions and millions of tiny yellow specks filled with fuzzy bees doing their natural work, giving life to the wonderful little things, but no. Kansas is filled with bright, busy cities and streets too, people from across the globe, and places from museums to small local coffee shops. Kansas is certainly a special state, propped

  • The Pain of the Okies Exposed in The Grapes of Wrath

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    was an ecological and human disaster in the Southwestern Great Plains regions of the United States in the 1930's. The areas affected were Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. The poor handling of the land and years of drought caused this great disaster (Jones "History"). During this time the "Okies"--a name given to the migrants that traveled from Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, or anywhere in the Southwest or the northern plains to California--encountered many hardships. These hardships are brilliantly

  • Cause and Effect Essay - Christianity Causes Divorce

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    you come to your senses. “I had this vision that this is just what people do; Get married, have kids and Christ comes back,” one Oklahoma divorcee told the New York Times. She remarried, but a great many Oklahomans apparently prefer living in sin. (Religion may not cause marriage after all.) According to the Times, the number of unmarried cohabitating couples in Oklahoma increased 97 percent in the past ten years. It increased 125 percent in Arkansas and 123 percent in Tennessee. The average national

  • Man's Relationship to the Land in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath

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    Man's relationship to the land undergoes a transformation throughout John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. Initially, back in Oklahoma, each family feels a strong attachment to the land because the ancestors of these farmers fought and cleared the Indians out of the land, made it suitable for farming, and worked year after year in the fields so that each generation would be provided for. Passing down the land to successive generations, the farmers come to realize that the land is all that they