Omaha, Nebraska

In 1932 at The University of Kansas four women-Agnes Thompson, Amida Stanton, Rose Morgan, and Hannah Oliver made it their mission to designate an area known to many at KU called the Prairie Acre, as a space to be protected for future generations. The plot of land that is located on the southeast corner of campus behind Blake hall is the only vestige of native prairie that has been untouched by modern landscaping and maintenance techniques. The importance of preserving and restoring the prairie has

Sioux County Iowa isn’t so different from any other rural county in the Midwest. We have rich and poor towns, public and private schools, good and bad police officers, and plenty of rowdy teenagers. The Midwest however is a very unique place to live. I lived in the country, about ten minutes outside of Orange City, Iowa. One summer Wednesday night at about 9:00p.m., after I had just gotten back home from work, I received a text message from my friend Jon, “Get the truck ready. Be at your house in

that is needed in everyday life. It fuels creativity, brings people together, and it even helps people learn. In Bruce Springsteen’s song, “Nebraska”, it tells the story of Charles Starkweather, the most notorious killer in Nebraska. Charles Starkweather symbolizes fear for many people, and will forever haunt not only Nebraska, but the whole world. Lincoln Nebraska seemed like the perfect place to live. It was a quiet town where everybody seemed to know each other, and nobody needed to lock their doors

about the possibility of doing a favor to her cousin, Brenda convinced her boyfriend to reconsider their stance during the events of the School Year of the Steamroller. She argued to him that their rise to power in the Jackbooter trade in Lincoln, Nebraska was only because of their collaboration with the RGA, and that to knowingly do business with the other factions–at the RGA’s detriment–was a contradiction to the last piece of advice the Nebraskan Dutchman gave them. Siegfried eventually agreed with

The Pawnee tribe is a Native American tribe that was originated from Nebraska and had very unique cultural elements. The cultural elements I chose to go more indepth are Social Organizations, Customs and Traditions, Language, and Religion of the Pawnee tribe. For the Social Organizations I will discuss the social classes, and the political organization of the tribe. For Customs and Traditions I will examine the rules of behavior, as well as the food they consumed. For Language I will discuss the

then but now, four years later, I realized that it actually happened and I am here, in Lincoln, Nebraska, about to spend my second Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in another country, thousands miles away from home. For me, getting used to a new life was difficult for the first two months. I had problems with a time distribution because the time in my home country is ten hours ahead of time in Nebraska. I could not sleep and eat, and became depressed. My first year I

In our world today if one were to look into languages they would find that there are around 6,000 languages. So how did all these languages come to be, how come we have so many? Well to answer that we need to look at some of the most popular languages in the world. Today the majority language spoken is Chinese followed by Spanish and then English. These languages all came from another language and then evolved as the world got bigger and grew older. All languages are divided into a “family.” The

owners and others in the Nebraska and other states feel differently on the position of eminent domain for the building of pipelines. I would have to agree that decisions and positions of the past should not be used to blindly decide on the future. Within the court cases by private land owners, their attorney David Domina stated “The legislature is not empowered to delegate power to a private company at the expense of its residents.” The eminent domain suits in Nebraska is about the separation of

provide funding to the construction of a railway that would cross through hundreds of miles of native land in order to more proficiently trade, sell, and give military access where seen fit (Loc.gov; Senate.gov). The Pacific Railway was set to run from Nebraska to California. Non native people saw the railroad as a possible way of uniting the nation; as Jeffrey David expressed: “I have thought it

With tension on the rise, American farmers continue to demand reforms to lift their burden of debt as well as greater representation in government. Recently, with the tremendous growth in industrialization of oil and steel, migrants have felt the difficulties associated with farming and continue to fall into arrears. New organizations have been formed to attempt to resolve the debt issue. One of these organizations, calling themselves the Populist Party, is proposing economic reforms to increase