What do you believe the most important element of a piece of literature is? Is it the characters? The plot? The use of imagery? These are all-important elements and add to the overall piece to give the reader some understanding of the story. One thing many readers pass over though is the underlying context of a story. Context is defined as anything beyond the specific words of a literary work that may be relevant to understanding of the story's meaning. Context can include but is not limited to:
Echo Flight Dakota Meyer Dakota Meyer was born on the 26th of June, 1988 in Colombia, Kentucky and raised in Greensburg, a small town where alcohol sales are illegal and farm work is the most popular work. After his parents were divorced, his dad raised him on a farm next to his grandparents’. His dad was a farmer and Dakota helped out and learned how to be a farmer himself over his high school days. According to him in an interview he “was not a model student”, as he described foolish happenings
Final Summary Paper (Midwest) The Midwest region of the United States consists of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Indiana. A major source of the Midwest region of the United States is agriculture. The biggest issue the Midwest faces due to climate change is the effect of flooding on agriculture. Without agriculture the Midwest would not be what it is today. Over the years as flooding has increased planting and crop
Tatanka-Iyotanka, better known as Sitting Bull, was born in 1831, in the Grand River located in what’s now South Dakota. He was a Teton Dakota Indian who became chief under whom the Sioux tribes united in their struggle for survival on the North American Great Plains. He was the son of a chief, a man who was a very admirable Sioux warrior in his times by the name of Returns Again. Sitting Bull sought from his father and had the eagerness to follow in his pace. However, he never showed a particular
Americans is crucial, but in order to prompt serious change, the public needs to be educated about how decisions regarding the pipeline affect everyday life on the reservation. When the pipeline was proposed, it initially traveled through Bismarck, North Dakota, where the residents complained about the potential hazardous effects of the pipeline. Immediately, it was rerouted towards the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, where residents suffer a much lower quality of life than non-reservation counterparts:
The Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,172 mile long underground pipeline spanning from North Dakota to Illinois, is purposed to transport shale oil previously brought in by rail in order to reduce costs and increase readily available feedstocks. Concerns surround the destruction of Native American Indian
Sitting Bull was born around 1831 into the Hunkpapa people, a Lakota Sioux tribe that roamed the Great Plains in what is now the Dakotas. He was initially called “Jumping Badger” by his family, but earned the boyhood nickname “Slow” for his quiet and deliberate demeanor. The future chief killed his first buffalo when he was just 10 years old. At 14, he joined a Hunkpapa raiding party and distinguished himself by knocking a Crow warrior from his horse with a tomahawk. In celebration of the boy’s bravery
Hunkpapa Lakota chief who was led his people against the resistance against the government. The quote means “Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.” It is very popular with the people who are protesting for the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Lakota and Nakota people are fighting the injustice of a replay of the Trail of Tears. Fighting to keep their water supply uncontaminated as a private company tries to drill a 1,172-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline underneath
North Dakota Pipeline Plans Interfering the Tribe of Standing Rock Sioux Imagine being an ancestor to Native Americans who were forced to live in reservations lands by European ascendants just so those people can build more industrialized things. As time grew on and on, the Indian reservations in America kept growing smaller and smaller. Each Indian had to grab everything they own and move hundreds or thousands of miles away from their home. Then once they got settled into the place they were moved
dedicated to a president? Theodore Roosevelt National Park was established in 1947. The Mountains are over 55 million years old. The badlands of Theodore Roosevelt national park is dry with occasional monsoon showers. The park is located in Medora, North Dakota, and is home to some amazing animals including wild horses, reptiles and mammals. GEOLOGY The Little Missouri River eroding the mountain range is the reason that the park is as it looks today. The park is believed to be <60 million years old. Over
culture, the red is the color of faith, and represents communication. The short story The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich is more than an emotional story about the lives of two Chippewa brothers who grew up together on an Indian reservation in North Dakota. Erdrich uses metaphor, symbol, vivid imagery and a simple writing style to allow the reader to understand the text while also providing the opportunity to read a lot into the story. Written in the first person by Lyman Larmartine, The Red Convertible
It always amazes me how our forebears managed to find their way to Oklee, Minnesota. There were no roads, no cars, and no railroads. People from France, Norway, Sweden, and other European countries landed on the east coast, as they flocked to our country. When it became crowded, they moved west using the waterways and rivers for transportation. Much of the land was still wilderness. Many traveled up the Mississippi River and along the Red River, settling in the Red River Valley. To stimulate growth
duration of his early years, Louis attended public school, dabbled in carpentry and assisted his family on the farm. In 1885 he moved to a farm north of Hewitt, Wisconsin. During the next four years, in May 1886, Louis married Anna Meidl, a girl born in Newmark, Bohemia, and had their first child, Theresa, in 1887. In 1889 Louis Baumann purchased a property on North Central Avenue in Marshfield, Wisconsin to build a saloon and hall. Sanger, or Singer, Hall became a community gathering place and was later
and a geometric extended metaphor, she paints a picture of perhaps the most boring place on Earth. Throughout the excerpt, Marquart utilizes unconventional imagery to solidify the dreariness of the plains. In the very first paragraph, she describes North Dakota’s interstate as “one long-held pedal steel guitar note”. While also alluding to the country music ever prevalent in the Midwest, she personifies exactly how it feels to pass through such a bland area: an endless boredom and monotony, never punctuated
the flat lands. Debra Marquart in her 2006 memoir “The Horizontal World” illustrates those memories in a hint of nostalgia. Through the use of imagery, allusions, and satirical yet nostalgic tone Marquart’s memoir demonstrates a lucid dream of North Dakota as an area of no interest that yet emboldens an American ideal of the Jeffersonian farming could occur for those who are willing to take up the offer. With that in mind, Debra’s use of imagery is akin to a children’s mind, describing
After a few days, have passed since the newly elected president, Donald J. Trump, was put into office and he has already put out an executive order on the continuation of the Dakota Access Pipeline. This order was a major upset for the Native Americans, for they had just finished protesting it and succeeded when former president Barrack H. Obama had set out an executive order to halt the construction of the pipeline. In the song, Hook in Mouth by Megadeth, the verse “A little man with a big eraser
• Introduction o I’m going to tell you about some aspects of my life so maybe you can get a clearer picture of me. o This presentation will mainly focus on things I am very passionate about. • Piglet o The first thing in my bag is a stuffed Piglet from Winnie the Pooh because not only is he my favorite Winnie the Pooh character, but he also represents my favorite animal. o I’ve loved Piglet since I was a little kid. o One time when I was still crawling around my family went to Disneyland, and I saw
Before researching this topic I had not known what the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAP) was about or where it was located. The pipeline is not directly being built on the Standing Rock Reservation; however, it will be located on the Missouri river that borders the reservation. The Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) approved the DAP and so the disapproval from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) didn’t stop The Corps from building the pipeline. This is why the topic has become a major controversy for
The Dakota Access Pipeline is a controversial project that extends over 1,800 miles, transporting more than 580,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota to southern Illinois. The Pipeline crosses paths with Native American territory including an ancient burial site, runs underneath the Missouri River and Lake Oahe, and may possibly cause many environmental and health issues. As a result, environmentalists and Native Americans have started protests and set up camps at the Standing Rock Sioux
of the production of the Dakota Access Pipeline. This pipeline is projected to be built right through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Many people are concerned about the effects of this pipeline as well as the Native Americans whose land it might destroy. It is currently being debated whether or not the Dakota Access Pipeline should go through the reservation. The Standing Rock Indian Reservation should be left alone and not be disturbed by the creation of the Dakota Access