Jonathan Hardin Analysis

This family faced countless challenges as they homestead on America’s Great Plains during the 1800's. Years of hard work develop the land and improve the quality

When the opportunity to attend the local Peteetneet Schoolhouse Museum transpired, many historical facts would be discovered. Upon arrival the large two story stone building resembled something from a pioneer movie. The museum guide quickly came to escort myself through the exhibit and shared her mass amount of information. The historical building housed the information of local Mormon settlers and the steady cultural clash between the Ute, Paiute and Navajo Indians. Along with interesting information and artifacts, the museum brought to life the struggles of early settler’s.

Strolling through the woods one day with my husband we stumbled across a head stone for the late Mrs. Bessie Vanburen, age 19, beloved wife and mother, died July 11th 1835. Our minds started to wonder back to a time long passed and the days before Mrs. Bessie was placed here.

In fitful sleep, she dreamt dreams of Indians, palmettos, cotton, tobacco, rice, indigo, and eagles flying through the skies calling to her, telling her to take this trail or that, and her reaching up, trying to catch them before they flew away. The next morning, she helped Nancy build a fire under the big, black iron pot out back of the cabin and then fill it with water so they could wash clothes. About an hour later, as they hung the first of the wash on the line, they heard a rider coming up the back trail; the trail that led down to Fort Charlotte.

The sound of gun fire echoed across the central plains like deafening crashes of thunder. The rich green grass was slowly turning red with blood, as Native Americans and the United states army were waging war at the battle of the Little Big Horn. Many people know that the Native Americans were victorious over the United states army, which was under the command of General George Custer, but few people know that Custer’s long journey to the Little Big Horn started in the heart of North Dakota, at Fort Abraham Lincoln. Today this beautiful Fort has been reconstructed to have both historical significance as well as a variety of recreational activities, and has been renamed Fort Abraham Lincoln state park. I will be talking about the reconstructed

Pioneer life in Kansas was tough. In fact, many didn’t make it and those that did survived

Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State. Brooks Blevins. Fayetteville, AR. 2009. 242 pages

[3] Perhaps the answer lies within a series of other, more precise questions. Who was the “real” Daniel Boone? Why was this person chosen over other similar frontiersmen by early hagiographers to be the next American hero? Who distorted the story of Boone’s life and why? What societal factors went into the making of the Boone legend? Why was this legend still immensely popular in the 20th century? How did With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness represent, or misrepresent, the story of Daniel Boone, and why is that important? What does all of this mean to Americans today as this nation continues to redefine itself in the early years of the new millennium?

Born to poor cultivating folks in 1933, Joycelyn Elders experienced childhood in a rustic, isolated, neediness stricken pocket of Arkansas. She was the eldest of eight youngsters, and she and her kin needed to join work in the cotton fields from age 5 with their ordinant dictation at an isolated school thirteen miles from home. They conventionally missed school amid harvest time, September to December.

Our tale first begins southeast of New Mexico in the 1870s with the rugged frontier territory dotted with a few small towns, cattle ranches and mining settlements. Although historians are not sure where William Henry Bonney was born, they do believe that his family came out of the Midwest. However, when William was a young boy at the age of fourteen his birth father died at the end of the Civil War from an unknown cause. As time passed, William’s mother grew lonesome and married miner, William Antrim, who was never reality there as a father figure for Catherine two children. Soon enough, Catherine and her new husband William Antrim moved to Silver City in New Mexico because of

Jefferson is telling us that our actions define us. If we need to know someone, his actions will tell us everything. Jason Hays defined himself as a dumb criminal because of his actions. He tried to kidnap and rob an old women at gunpoint. He enters the victim’s house through the window on Jan. 3. Then woke her up by poking her with the gun. When she didn’t have cash, he made her drive to an ATM and he wanted to withdraw $2.000, but the ATM only let him withdraw $460. After pointing the gun at them for another hour, Hays told them to him in a parking lot with $1.500 by the next day. Eventually he did show up with the same clothes he was wearing the day before and the police were there instead of the old woman and her

The short story, “Treasure State” by Tin House, is full of reflection, guilt, and loneliness. Mainly, the story entails the journey of two brothers fleeing their hometown after their incarcerated father, Old Man, is granted mercy due to his terminal cancer to return home. The brothers, John and Daniel, would rather leave town than to live with the Old Man so they set their eyes on the “treasure state,” Montana. The story details their journey to wild destinations and fleeing their past while making it by any means necessary. Along the way, readers are introduced to a few minor female characters: Gwen, the mother of the boys, and “the lady on the bed.” The importance of these minor characters is grossly underappreciated. This is because while the main themes of this story are readily apparent, there are some equally important themes driven by this group of more underrepresented female characters.

The Big Blackfoot River wasn’t just some river to the McClain’s family and became a way to stay in touch with one another. The impact it had on the brother’s relationship with their father, their own relationship, and Paul’s life in Montana made the river a sacred place for them. The shared many memories, laughter, and love on the Big Blackfoot

In the short story “The purloined Letter” one major difference in how Dupin succeed when he use Inductive method of detection is the way he found the letter through his own technique. One example of Dupin using inductive detection is when he begins to observe the little details in a logical way, Dupin finds the letter by wearing green sunglasses and talking to Minister D all while observing the apartment behind the lens. Something on favor for Dupin is that the police have used too much cleverness, and in doing so they have overlooked the obvious, and did not find the letter. This can relate to the way Dupin succeed because he use his own techniques and logical thinking to find the letter by calculating where the letter can be and observing

In his paper published in 1974 entitled ‘Living on a Lifeboat’, Garrett Hardin condenses the issues of foreign aid, growing populations and immigration amongst other things to a metaphor of people living on a lifeboat. In the paper Hardin’s premise is that each country represents a lifeboat, which can only hold a certain capacity depending on the relative size of the country that the boat represents. The capacity of each boat symbolizes the weight of responsibility that is placed on a state when caring for its citizens as well as the possibility of allowing new citizens onto the ‘boat’. This essay will discuss Hardin’s thesis for lifeboat ethics by outlining the problems faced in maintaining a stable lifeboat by examining the issues of immigration,