Tar Creek and the destruction of the Quapaw Nation This is a play to help us remember and learn. Written By: Kashia Whittle‚ Tammy Huffman and Stephanie Neely. Research by: Doug and Stephanie Neely and Ashley Sheldon Edited By: Laura Hunt and This play is set with a Quapaw elder sitting with children around a fire and telling them the story of their land and their people. Cast: Narrator one: Elder Narrator two: Elder Narrator three: Elder Narrator four: Elder Narrator five: Elder
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article shows just how many students are dropping out of schools all across the nation‚ from small rural schools to big suburban schools. They focus on a town called Shelbyville‚ IN to show us about students who dropout and why it happens. They also talk about how America is very oblivious to the dropout rates because many schools cover up the actual dropout rate using the GED trick. They talk about how at this high school in Shelbyville they had what they call “push-out” students rather than dropout
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Dialectical Journal – Fast Food Nation 1. “Hundreds of millions of people buy fast food every day without giving it much thought‚ unaware of the subtle and not so subtle ramifications of their purchases. They rarely consider where this food came from‚ how it was made‚ what it is doing to the community around them. They just grab their tray off the counter‚ find a table‚ take a seat‚ unwrap the paper‚ and dig in” (Schlosser 10). In this passage from the introduction‚ Eric Schlosser directly states
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Lecture Two: Early Settlement of North America I. The Vikings: First European Visitors to the New World: --Vikings: groups of seafaring warriors from Scandinavia region (modern day Sweden‚ Norway‚ Denmark) most of them small farmers. --Between 750-1050 A.D. clans and family groups unite and begin raiding expeditions to Russia and Western Europe in search of agricultural produce and other riches. --By the end of the first millennia AD (late 9th century-10th century) a small group of
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Digital Nation or Digital Disaster? In the Frontline video titled Digital Nation‚ Rachel Dretzin and Douglas Rushkoff explored the impact of digital media on today’s society. In the video they cover everything from it’s impact on the brain‚ to it’s impact on students‚ to it’s impact on the military. Nothing is spared in this investigation on the effect of digital media‚ and growing up in a wired world. However the main thing I managed to take away from this film was it has had a dramatic effect
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Effects of poverty on a nation Poverty which can lead to complex effects on many fronts is becoming a focal point of social issues. Even though the global economy is developing faster and better‚ poverty is still a significant issue concerned by many people because it’s still an unsolved worldwide problem that can result in a series of effects on social‚ political‚ and cultural fronts. Basically‚ poverty is a stumbling block to a country’s economic growth. It can result in high unemployment rate‚
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A Comparative Study on High School Students Between the United States and China With the development of global economy‚ the competition in education is becoming an important part of the international competitions. Students all over the world are competing with not only the students in their country but the students in the world. To some degrees‚ the future competitiveness of a country relies on how great their students are. As for students‚ their high school time is the critical period in their
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In The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and some are so Poor‚ David Landes sets out to elucidate the causes of the divergent destinies of different economies. In doing so‚ he presents economic history as a profoundly Eurocentric anecdote. He posits that Europe’s industrial revolution is the epicenter of modernity and the means of how some--largely western Europe and northwest Europe’s settler ex-colonies--have grown rich. He also conceives‚ that relative poverty elsewhere is
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BatesBD English 112 Ms. Day 17 October 2013 Desegregation within a Nation During the early 1960’s African Americans faced hardships so that maybe one day they could be considered equal. They were banished‚ shunned and even killed by the white race in the South. During non-violent protests they were treated like animals and were ridiculed by people who were against them having equal rights. In the novel “The Help”‚ written by Kathryn Stockett‚ she goes in depth of what it was like during this
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During the ratification of the Constitution‚ it created a new system of government for the United States (US). One of the most pressing issues and topics of the Constitution was the idea of federalism‚ which describes the basic relationship between different levels and groups of governments within one nation. For the past 228 years‚ the US government has balanced the powers of state and national government on multiple domestic and foreign issues. Although‚ there have been issues where the idea
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