Location and Geography
Located in east-central Indiana is Muncie. It is about 50 miles northeast from Indianapolis. Muncie was incorporated in 1865, and is located in Delaware county. Delaware county is named after the Delaware Indians. Delaware county is a total of 395.91 square miles. 0.95 percent of that land is water. The surface is very level, and the soil is pretty fertile.
Population
The current population of Muncie, Indiana as of 2013 is 70,316. Population shrinkage has been a feature of Muncie and Delaware county for years. As people and residents of Indiana moved into other parts of the state, Indiana’s population had grown by over 9.7 percent, while Muncie’s population had contracted. Muncie’s unfortunate weakness, is that
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With over 140 graduate programs, Ball State University is a medium sized college, although it may feel like a big campus. It has a great academic program, along with great great internships and job opportunities. Students here also have a chance to interact with their career field before actually having to go into it. It has a great graduation rate and the campus not being too small or too big, it is a wonderful university to attend for all of these great reasons.
Climate
Muncie, Indiana, gets around 41 inches of rain per year. The US average is about 39 inches. Snowfall is 23 inches. The average US city gets 26 inches of snow per year. The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 121 days. On average, there are about 185 sunny days per year in Muncie, Indiana. The July high is around 85 degrees. The January low is 19 degrees. Muncie, Indiana has a humid continental climate with hot summers and no dry season.
Sports
Muncie is home to the Ball State Cardinals. A few of the notable sports include football, men’s basketball, and baseball. Muncie wa also once home to the Muncie Flyers, which are also known as the Congerville Flyers, a professional football team. They played in the National Football League from 1905 to 1925. They were also once home to a minor league hockey team named the Muncie Flyers. For a single season, that hockey team played in the International Hockey League from 1948 until
Theda Perdue`s Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835, is a book that greatly depicts what life had been like for many Native Americans as they were under European Conquering. This book was published in 1998, Perdue was influenced by a Cherokee Stomp Dance in northeastern Oklahoma. She had admired the Cherokee society construction of gender which she used as the subject of this book. Though the title Cherokee Women infers that the book focuses on the lives of only Cherokee women, Perdue actually shines light upon the way women 's roles affected the Native cultures and Cherokee-American relations. In the book, there is a focus on the way that gender roles affected the way different tribes were run in the 1700 and 1800`s.
It is likewise an Original Six establishment, alongside the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs. The Bruins have won six Stanley Cup titles, tied for fourth above all else time with the Blackhawks and tied second-the majority of any American NHL group likewise with the Blackhawks behind the Red Wings, who have 11. In 1924, at the persuading of Charles Adams, the National Hockey League chose to extend to the United States. Adams had begun to look all starry eyed at hockey while viewing the 1924 Stanley Cup Finals between the NHL champion Montreal Canadiens and the WCHL champion Calgary Tigers.
Anderson, Indiana used to be an exciting town full of businesses and factories. It was a great place to live and many people wanted to live here because there were many opportunities and places for people to get jobs. In the last thirty or so years, Anderson has become the exact opposite of what it used to be. There is not much of anything here now and everyone who currently resides here is looking for a way out. There are a few to no successful factories like there used to be in Anderson years ago.
The relationships between the three major settlers and the Native Americans differed in many ways. All the evidence needed is in the seven documents shown. Each of the documents provides insight to one of the three nationalities. It is fair to assume that the English were focused more on friendship, the Spanish set their eyes on the gold, and the French were insistent on converting the Native Americans to Christianity. Though they may have been cruel to their enemies, the natives were very kind and friendly towards the English colonizers, as stated in Document One.
As a result of the booming timber industry, Wisconsin served as the idyllic autonomy in the eyes of everyone who dared looked. Wisconsin’s cities leaped in both size and population as its major production fields symbiotically erected and evolved them from the ground
The Mississippian Indians lived settled lives as they were organized into chiefdoms, which were a form of a political organization united under a leader and organized by families or differing social rank and class. Social ranking and class served as a fundamental part of their structure as people belonged to one of two groups, the elites or commoners. Many families laid under commoners, where men and women played specific roles in the social organization. The Mississippian indian women were “horticulturalists” who grew much of their food in small gardens and cultivated agricultural plants such as corns, beans, squash, sunflowers, and sumpweed. Traditionally, women would raise these crops and prepare food for daily meals.
Indian removal President andrew jackson signed a law on may 28, 1830. The law was called the Indian Removal. A few tribes went peacefully but some did not want to go and leave their home. In 1838-39 the cherokee were forcefully removed from their homes. 4,000 cherokee died on this trip which became known as “The trail of Tears”.
A tension between Indian parent and their children is how close of a family they are as opposed to American Families. In American society it’s not rare for teenagers to be autonomous, but children from different backgrounds (immigrant families) face a problem when they try to be autonomous. “Young Indian- Americans of high school and college are comparing themselves with their non-Indian classmates, and repeatedly express frustration at their own parents efforts to restrict their movements, monitor their behavior and make decisions for them”( Lessinger, 109). Indian immigrant children are more exposed to the cultural and agree that the cultural of growing up early is unknown to their parents. This sheltered, nurturing life cause problem for
For the last 170 years, maybe longer, there has been a recurring displacement of local inhabitants from their native land or community. Motives ranging from greed in relations to an expansion of land and wealth or just wanting a change in “scenery”. While such actions can indeed have a positive outcome on the person doing the action it may not work out for the people it's happening to. Such examples are The Trail of Tears & the modern day Gentrification of the Chicago South Side. The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans from their native land in Southeastern U.S to the Mississippi River.
Southeast Region Tribes In the Southeast region there are five tribes that were considered civilized. The tribes were Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. There were other tribes however these were the main five of the region.
On average the sunshine coast has approximately 7 hours of sunshine a day, the seasonal variations are very minimal. The temperatures are generally warm year round with summer temperatures averaging between 17 – 28 °C, and autumn temperatures falling between 13 - 25 °C. However the coastal location benefits from cooling sea breezes on warmer days. The during the winter season the temperature ranges between 7 - 22 °C. Spring is similarly mild with temperatures reaching between 13 - 25 °C.
After imposing political and military action on urging the Native American Indians from the southern states of America, President Andrew Jackson decided it was time to enact the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Indian Removal act of 1830 proclaimed that all Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River were to be forced to move west of the Mississippi River where the region of the Louisiana Purchase remained. This land set aside for these Native Americans was known as the “Indian colonization zone”. Because some of the Indian tribes refused to leave their homelands, “As a result, wars broke about between the U.S. Government and Indian Tribes”(xbox360). The Indian Removal Act was originally created to have the Native Americans vacate
The family in my example is a Native American family whose household consists of grandmother, grandfather, daughter and her five children ages 17, 15,12,8, and 5. Both the grandmother and mother work at the local casino. The mother is a supervisor there and often has to work long hours to cover shifts or for special events. The oldest child is female and is in special education with a diagnosis of FASD and has become an active addict using alcohol and prescription drugs. The fifteen year old is an avid anti-drug advocate and very active in sports and school.
Expectations often impose an inescapable reality. In the short story “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie, Victor often struggles with Indian and American expectations during school. Alexie utilizes parallelism in the construction of each vignette, introducing a memoir of tension and concluding with a statement about Victor’s difficulties, to explore the conflict between cultures’ expectations and realities. Alexei initially uses parallelism to commence each vignette with cultural tension. In second grade, Victor undergoes a conflict with his missionary teacher, who coerced Victor into taking an advanced spelling test and cutting his braids.
Sherman Alexie writes the story “Indian Education” using a deadpan tone to build and connect the years of the narrator 's life together in an ironic way. Alexie is able to utilize irony through the use of separate, short sections within the story. The rapid presentation of events, simple thoughts, and poetic points made within the story enable the reader to make quick connections about the narrator’s life to draw more complex realizations. The art that Alexie uses to write this very short story is poetic in nature through the meaning and structure of his writing. By the fact that the reader can draw deeper conclusions about the narrator 's life from Alexie’s writing is evident that his writing is poetic.