were living in Grand Forks and Harvey. George particularly talked about on the railroad that there would be enough snow piled up that it would make the trains get stuck. Ada’s writings were mostly about day-to-day tasks like chores, homework, and again how cold the weather was in North Dakota during February and the winter months. The Soule family collection captured the life of North Dakota in the late 1890s like a picture, the severe weather, and the hardships of money. North Dakota is a very hard
Nursing “Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, It requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter´s or sculptor´s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God´s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.” Spoken by a true nurse, Florence Nightingale; a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. I have many goals
the leading philanthropists in America. Ralph was most widely known for his numerous donations to his former college and for his devotion to the handicapped. Born January 28, 1930, he grew up in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, about 70 miles from Grand Forks. He was the grandson of a Norwegian immigrant farmer, second in line in a family of five children born to Christian and Madeline Engelstad. The son of a salesman, Ralph attended St. Bernard’s Catholic School and began working when he was just twelve
case 2 was the text, the photos and further investigations indicated that Anderson withdrew $200 on August 11, 2009, from a cash machine in Walhalla, North Dakota, where he worked. He withdrew another $200 from a cash machine in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, on August 12, 2009. Funds from the same account were used to pay for a room at the East Grand Inn on August 12, 2009. Facebook was used as a method to trick the defendant in thinking that the person he is communicating with is one of the adolescents
Have you ever had that person in your life that you never thought you could live without? For some people that were their moms, dads, uncles, and aunts for me that was my grandma. My grandma was the person that I can always count and deepened on if something was ever wrong or I just need someone to talk to. In this essay, I will be talking about who my grandma was, why she has had such an impact on my life, and how she kept fighting till the end. My grandma’s name was jean Mack was born June
James Rosenquist was born November 29 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. In junior high James won a scholarship that allowed him to attend Minneapolis School of Art at the Minneapolis Art Institute. James studied at the University of Minnesota alongside artist, Cameron Booth and at the Art Institute of Chicago. He left for New York after receiving a scholarship to the Art Students League, where he studied with artists including Morris Kantor, George Grosz, and Edwin Dickinson. The education gained from
Texting and Driving Teenagers and adults day after day suffer from the wrath of texting and driving. The National Highway Traffic Administration reported that in “2010, texting and driving was the cause of eighteen percent of all fatal crashes with 3,092 people killed. Texting and driving also resulted in crashes that cause 416,000 people being wounded” (Par. 6). Cell phone use in cars starts to become an issue when the number one driving distraction reported by teen and young adult drivers is texting
Globally it appears that the toll of death and damage in natural disasters is increasing (Natural Disasters 1). On Friday, April,1997, the Red River flooded over the dikes into Grand forks, North Dakota. At the end of Saturday, the 19th, the flood waters had spread over a large area of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks was left in flames.The damage was so extensive that is was weeks before people could return and rebuild their homes and their lives. Natural disasters are something the government
This paper will discuss what it takes to become a teacher in America and what challenges a teacher will face in their career. I will be taking a look at basic requirements to become a teacher, as well as how many teaching jobs are out there right now. Once a teaching job is acquired, this paper will take a look at what kind of salary can be expected. Finally, this paper will look at issues can arise in this field, as well as what changes may be happening with this career in the future. Numbers used
composition contributes to all of the membranes major functions, which again allows the red blood cell to survive and perform its duty. References Solberg, B. (Composer). (2013). The Erythrocyte Part 2: Structure and Components. Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. Stoeme-Martin, E., Lotspeich-Steininger, C. A., & Koepke, J. A. (1998). Clinical Hematology. Philadelphia: Lippincott.
With games, the majority of them, the players have a chance of winning. Some of these games are based on luck, with an example of a State lottery or casino games in Las Vegas. Although, the odds are usually in the favor of the house (owners), sometimes the players try to even the playing field and change the odds of the game. Or, in some cases the house removes any chance of luck in the games. If either of these happen, than the crime of gaming fraud had been committed. With this report, I would
When comparing the two main strategies of the civil rights movement, peaceful direct action and armed resistance, it becomes clear that the more productive method of protest is the nonviolent objection to the restriction of rights placed on African Americans. Through the thorough examination of these two strategies both by themselves as well as when used in conjunction with one another the facts clearly point to one strategy becoming more effective than the other in the case of advancing civil rights
Leonard Peltier, a man who many believe was wrongly accused and charged with the shooting and killing of two FBI agents during the summer of 1975. Peltier was sentenced to life in prison, ordered to serve two consecutive life terms for something that even the government can’t prove he did. To this day, he still sits in a high security prison in Florida. Leonard Peltier is an activist humanitarian, political hero to the Native Americans and some will even say a martyr. He is an active member of the
them to understand. I told them that great grandma was in the hospital and she wouldn 't be with us much longer, so we were going to say our last goodbyes. They were all very confused and couldn 't wait to see her in the hospital. We stopped in grand forks to pick up my older brother who had his own apartment there at the time. After driving for a few hours the weather turned really bad, and there was very low visibility in the cities along with a lot of black ice. I almost lost control a couple of
Introduction The American Northern border with Canada is 4,000 miles stretching from Washington State to Maine with 115 border crossing points that are manned (U.S. Border Patrol 2014). Likewise, the Southern border with Mexico is 2,000 miles stretching from Texas to California with 61 manned border crossing points (U.S. Border Patrol 2014). The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has worked diligently to emplace a wall and vehicle barriers to prevent drug smugglers and illegal immigrants from crossing
countries that make up Scandinavia. Norway sits just west of Sweden and is bordered by the North Atlantic Ocean on the west side. Due to this geographical layout, Norway has an overall warmer climate than most countries at that latitude. The warm sea air helps keep the temperature at a tolerable level throughout the year. During a previous interaction with U.L. I had asked him if he was enjoying our cold Grand Forks winter and he just shook his head and said, “It is cold in Norway during the winter, but