April 7th‚ 1999 is when I was born on Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. I only lived there for two weeks after I was born. While we were in South Dakota my parents had bought my cat Sadie. She is actually still alive to this day! My mom had told me that the night I was born the doctor had an emergency Cholecystectomy and came to check on us the next day wearing a gown and pushing his own IV poll. After living in South Dakota for a couple of weeks‚ we then moved to Indiana. We only lived there
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Dakota Dreams is a novel by James Bennett. The story follows the life of a lonely fifteen year old foster child named Floyd Rayfield. Since Floyd has no parents he had to live in multiple foster or group homes for most of his life. One day Floyd had a dream in which he saw himself as a Dakota warrior‚ a fierce warrior in Indian tribes. When Floyd awoke from his dream‚ he was certain that becoming a Dakota Warrior was his destiny. Floyd undergoes a name change to Charley Black Crow and‚ he learns
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The Dakota Access Pipeline is a big deal. These past months people have been protesting and debating on whether to let the pipeline be built or not. What is the Dakota Access Pipeline? The Dakota Pipeline is a new underground pipeline that is made by the Dakota Access‚ LLC. The Dakota Pipeline conveys 470000 barrels of oil per day. This pipeline goes through Bakken/ Three Forks Formation North Dakota near Patoka. The Dakota Access ‚ LLC claims that the project will create up to 40 permanent jobs
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WORLD ECONOMY South-South cooperation and development Introduction Basically speaking‚ the biggest bottleneck in the development world economy is the unbalanced development of developing countries. Over long time‚ the unequal distribution of resource wealth and resource result in the vicious cycle of developing countries. Thus‚ accelerating economic and social development of developing countries is the important way to achieve prosperity of the world. South-South cooperation is now playing
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The Dakota Access Pipeline is a 1‚172-mile-long underground oil pipeline that runs from North Dakota down to Illinois. The pipeline costs $3.8 billion and is owned by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners LP. It is supposed to carry approximately 470‚000 barrels of oil a day and the pipeline makes that move in oil a more cost-effective and environmentally responsible manner. The plan is to construct it through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Those lands are considered sacred to the native people
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"What You Need to Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community." Common Dreams‚ www.commondreams.org /views/2016/09/09/what-you-need-know-about-dakota-access-pipeline-protest. Gail Ablow shares what is happening among the Sioux and the Dakota access pipeline with her personal analysis‚ to inform individuals what they should know about the event. She clarifies the threats and dangers that the Dakota Access Pipeline can bring to the Sioux Native
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“Our Summer Trip” North Dakota is not one of those glamorous states that everyone wants to go to. It is not even one of the top forty-nine states on most people’s list. It was at the top of the list for my family‚ though. Out of all the states that we have been to as a family‚ somehow we skipped over North Dakota‚ so we made it our mission last summer to hit this elusive state that we missed. Our vacation was very special to me‚ not only because North Dakota was the last state that we had not
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the U.S. government should do more to help today’s Native American tribes solve problems like high unemployment‚ poverty‚ and alcoholism. Because 310 Indian reservations are where many of America’s poorest 1% live this explains the poverty of the reservations‚ people usually point to alcoholism‚ corruption or school-dropout rates‚ not to mention the long distances to jobs and the undeveloped land that doesn’t seem good for growing much. Prosperity is built on property rights‚ and reservations often
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Bibliography: Freehling‚ William W. The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. New York: Oxford UP‚ 2001. Print.
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story comes out of North Dakota. Despite ts reputation of being a fly-over state with little to see or do‚ it played a major role in the Cold War. The state was home to one hundred fifty Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles. The presence of such a large quantity of nuclear missiles put North Dakota on the Soviet Union’s radar‚ as well as made civil defense in the state higher priority. Only one evaluation of the effectiveness of civil defense in North Dakota has been done‚ despite
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