Prairie School Essays

I’ll never forget how I felt the first time I walked into Prairie Ridge High School. I was surrounded by approximately sixteen hundred other students and I knew exactly none of them. I had never been that alone before and when I walked through the cafeteria doors, I felt the first seed of doubt that maybe I should have stayed in Union, with my mom. At that moment, I wanted to turn around and run out of Prairie Ridge, hop in the car, and drive the four hundred miles back to my friends, my teammates

then met the “father of skyscrapers”, architect Louis Sullivan. Sullivan was a leading American architect and considered to be the founder of modernism. Along with famous architects Henri Richardson and Dankmar Adler, he was a member of The Chicago School, which was a group of architects

Human beings: wonderful creatures who must rely on others from time to time, and occasionally become overconfident in their abilities. In Walden; Or, Life in the Woods, Thoreau encourages self-reliance by articulating the benefits. Thoreau’s experiences influenced Chris McCandless, whose untimely death in Alaska inspired the book and movie Into the Wild. The book and movie about McCandless in turn drove others to become overconfident in their abilities to try to live in the wild, which led to dangerous

Cape Refuge is a very intriging book series written by Terri Blackstock. Cape Refuge is a crime and murder mystery series with 4 books, which I have listed in release order for your convenience, that are called Cape Refuge, Southern Storm, River’s Edge, and Breaker’s Reef. The setting of this interesting series is on a fictious Island named Cape Refuge. The made-up island replaces Little Tybee Island, which is a little uninhabited marshland and wildlife refuge. Author Terri Blackstock got the

I would immediately think of all the terms that we are learning in class. Things I remember most are aspects of stories such as setting, plot, characterization among others. These terms are what describe literary analysis. According to arrowhead schools, literary analysis is the practice of looking closely at small parts to see how they affect the whole. It focuses on how plot/structure, character, and many other techniques are used by the author to create meaning. My writeup will focus on parts

prairies are an area from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba down to southern Texas and Mexico, and approximately 1,000 miles from western Indiana westward to the Rocky Mountains. The American prairie covers about 1.4 million square miles, and is home to many plants and animals. The North American Prairie is considered a grassland, savanna, shrub land biome by scientists, Most of the plants in the north american prairies are small grasses and wild flowers with some type of thorn on them. There are

James Wright was born in December 13, 1927 to March 27, 1980 in New York. He’s known as on of America’s finest contemporary poets. Some of his books that he published were called: Above the river Two a blossoming pear tree Moments of the Italien summer A Blessing James Wright wasn’t an only child. He had two brothers (Jack and Ted) and later on his parents adopted one girl named Marge. In 1953 James married “LIberty Kerdules”. They had two sons named Franz and Marshall. Years later Liberty and

Barn owls are a medium size predator found all around the world, however are prominently habitat across North America. Barn owls typically hunt at night using sound to catch available prey. Since most rodents are commonly nocturnal, the availability of owl’s diet is dependent on rodent food source in contrast to nonrodent food source. Over 95% of the barn owl’s diet consists of mostly rodents, and the rest consisting of bird remains (Ingles, 1995). Barn owl species prey primarily on a diet that

plowing into the ground. There are five different species of the prairie there is black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah, and even Mexican prairie dogs. These rodents carry many many diseases within their hair and feat. We have millions of these rodents across the nation. They have brown fur and white tails. Prairie dogs are a type of ground squirrel found in the united  states,mexico, and florida. The smallest one can be

I don’t normally like to say I am blessed, because I am a believer that you make what you want out of the world. But, I am truly blessed to be apart of Eden Prairie High School’s choirs. It is a place that teaches not only excellence, but provides one with skills to find and enhance the beauty in life. At times, it can be hard to see the beauty in life. Whatever is obstructing that view, stress, current events, mental health, I find that those can be relieved, if only for a moment in choir.

Tempest Williams, is describing us first the massacre of the prairie dog that occurred at the Cedar Ridge Golf Course, where over 400 prairie dog where gassed to death. There are 5 species of prairie dog and they are now threatened and might be in extinct in couple of years. The people wanted to exterminate the dogs because they were running the range because they consume a large amount of green grasses and forbs. According to Williams, “Prairie habitat not only for themselves but also for other grassland

paper about Black–tailed prairie dogs. The scientific name for them is Cynomys Iudovicianus. Prairie dogs were once found from the great plains from southern Canada to northern Mexico. They were once eradicated from Arizona. In the United States today they survive on the plains of Montana, Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and Wyoming. Us humans have no use for them at this time. Its hard for me to say yes or no if the prairie dog would be considered

In 1882, when she was fifteen, she received her teaching certificate. Laura Ingalls taught for three years at a school in De Smet, South Dakota. Almanzo Wilder began courting Laura Ingalls, who would become her husband. On August 25, 1885 they got married. The first years of their marriage were difficult. Laura wrote about the hardships in The First Four Years. Some

brains out and then took a test. If she passed it, she would qualify as a teacher! She passed the test with flying colors, and even received a document saying “You are a teacher”. Changes were ahead for Laura though, because she would be teaching at a school that was a little bit out of town. Her Pa couldn’t drive her to the new, little schoolhouse and back every day, so Laura’s former teacher’s brother Almanzo agreed to do it. Almanzo was beginning to fall in love with Laura, but he was almost 10 years

The story, along with one of Laura’s other book “Little House on the Prairie” exhibit cases of hatred and fear towards Native Americans, as well as manifest destiny, and American exceptionalism that were common during the time period that the family lived. Pa, especially, portrays most of these traits as the patriarchal leader

“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it” Garrison Keillor, a prominent narrator of Prairie Home Companion, expresses his belief that people 's vision to believe that something really will happen probably will not happen. Jay Gatsby, a love-struck character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, he believed that he could create a new reality for himself and the love of his life, Daisy. Throughout the novel Gatsby makes choices to try to pursue a relationship with Daisy Buchanan, although

performance, and overall well-being. Schools play a crucial role in providing a supportive and safe environment for students who have experienced trauma. Prairie Ridge Elementary School uses trauma-informed care practices to support the social and emotional needs of the students. Prairie Ridge Elementary School recognizes the importance of trauma-informed care in understanding the impact of trauma on students' behavior and providing supportive environments. The school has implemented various trauma-informed

As the end of my time at Prairie Ridge High School draws near, I have begun to reflect on how my life has changed throughout the course of the two short years that I have spent at this school. Prairie Ridge is the third―and last―high school that I have attended and it is safe to say that it is a school that I wish I had attended for the entirety of my high school career. From both an academic and personal aspect, I know that without the time that I have spent at Prairie Ridge, I would not be the

Imagine a school cafeteria with delicious food, healthy lunches, and all on a small budget. Now imagine that same cafeteria but with not delicious, not nutritious food, and tons of money wasted. Which would you choose? Unfortunately, prairie elementary school’s cafeteria is much like the latter. Both the taste and nutritional value of this food is very bad. Also, too much money is spent on these half eaten lunches. This really needs to change. First of all, the nutrition of the food in this cafeteria

I chose Prairie View A&M University not only because of how historical the university is but, because of the outstanding number of students that have graduated from the college of nursing. Also, because I was chosen to be a part of the phenomenal dance team known as the Black foxes, then I decided that prairie view was the perfect school for me. After making this decision, things just started falling into place more and more each day. Prairie View has given me numerous opportunities as well as being