Diana's Descriptive Essay: Diana Vs. Arizona

When she was finished, she knew what she had done had been awful. She stood up, did her curtsey, and slowly walked back to her seat. She tried not to cry as she felt every eye in the room fixed upon her, and as she endured the pain from some of the negative comments some people sitting

The Great Plains is a grassland that went through the western central area of the United States.

The author utilizes words such as “flyover region that one must endure,” “easy inclines,” “square states”, and “farmable plains.” Marquart’s description characterizes the landscape as plain and dull. At the same time her diction recapitulates a landscape which is calm and serene. The upper Midwest has “easy inclines” and “farmable plains.” It is a place that is eye-catching to those who are farming, like her grandparents, who received an portion of land.

It was on July 22, 1975, I can remember it as vividly as if it was yesterday. I was having lunch with my 2-year-old goddaughter, Tiare, and suddenly a fire broke out in our apartment. We tried to find a way out but the fire escape had already collapsed. I went to the balcony and found a crowd of people, pedestrians, firemen, policemen and even photographers. Everyone was hustling to help us but it was nearly impossible to reach us on the upper floor. Eventually a firefighter came to rescue us. As they were placing a ladder, the balcony suddenly fell. I grabbed the firefighter’s legs as he held onto the ladder. In a glimpse of an eye I found myself mid-air with nothing to do but pray that my daughter would be fine as she we were just inches apart. This is my story, I am Diana Bryant. I’ve heard plenty of conversations about the pictures that were taken of me in this

The Plain Indians had interesting geography and landscape to learn about. The Plains were located from Texas to Montana and all the way to Canada. The location causes good weather for farming year round. In the exhibit the location is shown by the Rocky Mountains on the bottom of the exhibit and the Mississippi River on the top of the exhibit. Trees were scarce in the Plains. The trees supplied wood for the Indians so they could make new weapons. In the exhibit this is shown by the Mississippi River. Rivers helped out the Indians by supplying them with fresh food, water, and good soil for farming. In this exhibit the river is shown on the top. In conclusion the Plains Indians rely on natural resources to live a structured

The great plains are a vast region of North America that spreads from Canada nearly down to the Coast of Texas. This region is comprised of primarily flat grounds with the exceptions of the larger mountain ranges including the Rockies. Within this region is the Little Bison Basin, a stretch of the Great Plains where glacial rivers feed into the larger Whiskey River. Nevin Feneman in his 1916 study defines this region as, "The term "Great Plains", for the region west of about the 96th or 98th meridian and east of the Rocky Mountains, was not generally used before the early 20th century." As vast as the region is, there are many trends that run throughout not the least of which is the obvious glacial carving.

further more towards the west marquart shows, the grid was foiled by steep valleys, rivers, foothills, and mountains(53). She shows further past the midwest region someone can encounter the beauty of nature, showing there is more to see then just being the state that is avoided seen by others. Along with the even squares and the neat land, other parts of the midwest can be described as, a war on roots….. fix it with geometry, democracy,

Arizona’s historical development dates back to thousands of years ago. Arizona holds the second largest amount of indigenous/ Native American population of any other state in the United States. One of the first groups of people to live on Arizona’s land was the Native Americans, or otherwise called the American Indians. These Natives came much before any of the Europeans, or the Spanish settlers came to Arizona. There were three main Native American groups that truly began the exploration of Arizona. These groups include the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mogollon tribes. Each of their tribes settled in different sections of Arizona ranging from Northeastern to Southeastern parts of the land.

The Omaha Tribe was a unique tribe mainly because of what they practiced. The Omaha Tribe practiced polygamy, which was the practice of one man having multiple spouses. In the Omaha Tribe, the maximum number of wives that a man could have was three. “Their [the Omaha Tribe] religion was associated with the practice of medicine, and with their war customs, and with their gentile systems (https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/omaha-tribe.htm).” Originally, the Omaha Tribe commonly lived in bark longhouse villages. However, they then started to become accustomed more to living in tepees, and that is what they mostly still live in today.

She states “as the expedition moved west, the neatness of the grid was foiled by steep rivers, valleys, foothills, and mountains, but here in the monotonous square states…” The juxtaposition of these two elements creates a stark contrast between the orderly and flat Midwest and the jagged, valley-filled states to the West. By creating such a stark contrast, she emphasizes the upper Midwest’s flat landscape. Her juxtaposition conjures images of flat squares compared to mountainous and majestic landscapes. She also juxtaposes how it was easy to subdivide the Midwestern states for The Land Ordinance of 1785, whereas the expedition was “foiled” by the difficult terrain of other states.

Walking out of the bathroom, she picked up the sweater she’d worn yesterday, and slipped it on, gently pulling her long blonde hair out from underneath the back of the sweater.

As settlers began to enter Iowa they would encounter woodland areas in the extreme southeastern corner of the state, and then move on the grasslands that covered most of the state. Iowa served as a transition zone from the wooded East Coast to the Great Plains of the west. In Central Iowa the grass the prairie grass would measure from

In life, everyone experiences a time of hardship, and for the most part, those affected find methods of overcoming the adversity. The idea of getting through hardship is best reflected in; Sherman J. Alexie’s story “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” (274). In the story, victor whose father had recently died from a heart attack has to travel to phoenix Arizona to reclaim his father’s ashes and his truck. Victor is joined by his former childhood friend “Thomas Builds-the-fire”, who finances the trip to phoenix since Victor did not have the means. They drove back truck from phoenix to the reservation. Throughout the trip, Thomas is always telling stories mostly

A few hours before their date, Tripod calmed her nerves by brushing out her coat until it looked fluffy and white, the best it ever had. Meanwhile, Driftwood planned the perfect evening for

In the trenches of the front line, a different type of cultural norm formed with the people of the war. Since the war had been going on for four years, the norm had become not to help others stuck in the trench, for fear of their own life. In this type of culture you leave the lost child, the cripple, and wounded people behind and do not give a second thought. However when Diana was in the trenches, Diana could not accept this type of treatment to this society. The reason Diana could not accept this, is because her cultural norm was to help and protect the weaker people. The cultural norm for these people had been turn into negativity toward one another because of the war. In the words of Diana “If I only I defeat Aries…”, if only the evil was not around the people would not have turn into careless actions toward each other. So as the men kept pushing