Tales From My Back Porch Book Report

Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Illinois Prairie, a monograph written by John Mack Faragher discusses the life of settlers in Sugar Creek a town of Sagaman county, Illinois. Faragher argues the discoveries of the environment, society, culture, and economy in Sugar Creek throughout the nineteenth century and the changes, development, improvements with it. There are four common themes throughout the monograph: First, the kicking out of the Kickapoo and other Indians in place of Anglo-Americans. Second, the relationship and changes between men and women’s roles throughout the nineteenth century. Third, the community life and the sensibility of bringing the town together. Finally, the transition of agriculture and the innovations that changed the town. Faragher uses many censuses, charts, and records to get an idea of the transition of life in Sugar Creek and the affects it had on the community. Although Faragher presents many arguments he does not entirely discuss the men’s involvement in contrast to women’s roles in the household and town.

Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American community in California 1919-1982 by Valerie J. Matsumoto presents a close and in-depth study of social and culture history of Cortez, a small agricultural settlement located in San Joaquin valley in California. Divided into six chapter, the book is based primarily on the oral interviews responses from eighty three members of Issei, Nisei, and Sansei generations. However, many information are also obtained from the local newspapers, community records, and World War II concentration camp publications.

My book Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie, was writing by Kristina Gregory. I choose this book, because I thought it would be cool to read about a girl traveling the Oregon Trail back in 1847.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which originally was published on March 20, 1852. Under the background that the country had been divided over the issue over slavery, the south states of the country are slaves states, and the north states of the country are slave free states. Different sides of the country have distinct views over slavery system in south. The north, specially abolitionist, views slavery system is villainous and immoral, it takes away the basic right of human which is freedom, and it againsts God which is Christian believes. The theme of the novel based on the abolitionist views. The purpose of the novel is that tell the world what is slave life like, especially for those northerners never been to the south.Their life will be strenuous or comfortable is depend on what kind of slave owner they meet. The book is appeal people to face and deal with the issue of slavery which lasted in the history for a long time.

Many things could be said about childhood on the homestead seeing as it was cut short in eighteen eighty-three. Notwithstanding, the children who survived childbirth was more often than not settled into a life of risk. During this time era, children were at constant risk of illness and disease. With this in mind, as chores came into play, an abundance of risks came into existence. As a result, children often became the victim of infection if the wounds were not properly cleaned. In the end, a risk was like a person’s life long companion. In spite of all of the risks and danger, it was the life they lived. Albeit, there was one way for a child to escape their chores and parents’ rules. In other words, a sanctuary of sorts. What is it? Well,

This book is an honest account of life in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas based on interviews with notorious inmates and numerous other individuals. The book begins with introducing inmates such as Carl Bowles, Dallas Scott and William Post and offers insight information on the cultural aspect inside the prison itself. Once the basics are known to the reader, the author Pete Earley, develops the character of the prisoners and thus of the penitentiary as a whole.

When you or somebody listen to the word Texas their is 100% you or the fellow will say the Alamo or Cowboys, every person is more likely to remember the Alamo fight or the, civil war, but if you go way back what was Texas before, what started Texas, And how did it end to where is at in my concern Texas did not start one day and the next day was strong and one the most important state of the U.S, every person forgets that Texas stander up by their agriculture and also with their cattle ranch and Texas still remains as one of the states that has a strong agriculture.

Exposition- The exposition in Dirt Diary is modern day in a town where there are a lot of wealthy people and big houses.

The book starts out as Jeannette seeing her mother on the streets of New York digging through a garbage can, and how embarrassed she is of who her mother was. But when you get to the second chapter it starts out with her earliest memory, of being on fire at just three years old. Right from those two chapters you can tell she had a crazy life as a child.

The Amish have only white people in their group. The Amish goose back to the 16th century.The Amish ride in horse and buggy and bikes just like the Giver community but unlike them Darlington people drive car, trucks and motor bikes .The Giver community has just white people because they can't see color. The Amish grow their food.The Giver community they don't have to grow their food they get there future microwave that made it for then.Darlington they grow the food to sale to stores that the people buy.The Amish goose to church and there not allied to do things that the book says and if they don't do what the book says they will get kicked out.The Darlington community

I arrived early at 4:25pm to the Good Neighbor Settlement House to go to HEB and buy what was needed. I bought some three compartment foam meal trays for $12.89 total. When I put the plates down and made sure to check on tables and chairs. Students from the class were setting the dining room and for cleaning up the tables.

The keypad to the barn door was cold to the touch as i entered the code into the lock. As i entered the barn, the smell of hay and horses flooded the air. The smell reminded me of why i love this as much as i do. I walked to my horse's stall with a handful of apple flavored treats, and waited until her velvety nose and cat like whiskers filled the palm of my hand to take her treats. She blew her warm breath at me and the musical munching of the treats filled the crisp air around us. The horses in the stalls around us are creating the white sound munching on their hay, and the barn cats run silently past on the pads of their feet, hunting for their next meal. All the tack closets sit full of freshly oiled bridles and saddles, and freshly washed

She had a vision. A vision every little girl dreams of. He had a Lindsay shaped hole in his heart. The two spectacular souls became one on July 18, 2015 at the beautiful Avon Century Barn.

When I moved to Boston 13 years ago, I knew I had arrived somewhere special. I immediately loved the brick sidewalks and cobblestone streets in Beacon Hill. I was impressed with the massive scale of the homes in Back Bay and I enjoyed walking through the perfectly manicured Public Garden. With only superficial knowledge of Boston’s rich history and culture, I quickly became captivated by my new environment. I was fascinated by the “lavenders”, which are purple tinted glass windows in the old brownstones of Beacon Hill. initially, these windows weren’t a stylistic choice, but a mistake made by the glass manufacturer in the mid-1800s. I thought it amazing that a piece of glass could survive all these years and appreciated that it was unique

Clayton Riddell: a graphic artist separated from his family in Boston as the Pulse destroys civilization. Clay heads north with a group of survivors and tries to find his son, Johnny.