Your Questions About Windmill Lakes

Help with old west in american history?

Match the following to the description that best fits.
here are the descriptions:

1. Believed that if they did their dance and wore a special shirt no bullet fired from a white man’s gun could harm them. If they were true and believed, the buffalo would return and the white man would go away. Soldiers in charge ended up in the massacre of over 100 Indians in Wounded Knee South Dakota.

2. Government land grants and enterprising individuals like Leland Stanford made it possible.

3. At first they were very welcome because they helped build the Transcontinental RR. Later though, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act banning any further immigration to the US from China.
Central Pacific from the West and the Union Pacific from the east.

4. Between 1912 and 1925.

5. Save the man, kill the Indian.To accomplish their motto they cut the hair of the children, made them dress like proper white people and forbade them to speak their native tongue.

6. The Steel plow invented by John Deer. Barbed Wire invented by Josef Glidden and the windmill powered well pump.

7. The only one to stand up for Native Americans at the time; wrote a book called “A Century of Dishonor” showing how badly Native Americans had been treated.

8. “Kill and Scalp them all”

9. The extinction of the Buffalo and the establishment of national parks.

10. Two monuments carved out of the granite of the Black Hills.

11. Promotory Point, Utah, just outside Salt Lake City

12. Allowed farmers and others to move west faster than before, but they also would spell the doom of the plains Indians.

13. Freed slaves moving west to Kansas to start life all over again.

14. Was trying to run away with his tribe, the Nez Perce, to Canada. He ALMOST made it. He gave up just short of the Canadian Border.

15. Geronimo and he lived in Arizona.

16. Gold in land that was supposed to belong to the Lakota forever.

17. In reality the cowboy could be black, white, or Mexican and probably bore very little resemblance to John Wayne.

here are the terms:

a. link between the ghost dance and the battle of the wounded knee

b. effects of western movement

c. where the 1st transcontinental railroad met

d. three “tools” that helped the farmers in the west do their job

e. chinese in the west

f. the last native american to lead the good fight

g. the “Exodusters”

h. mt. rushmore and the crazy horse memorial

i. companies that built the 1st transcontinental railroad

j. how the reality of the american cowboy lived up to the hollywood verison

k. how railroads were built

l. when most farmers took up their homestead

m. effect the railroads had

n. custer “discovered” that this in the black hills caused trouble

o. chvington’s attitude toward native americans

p. chief joseph

q. helen hunt jackson

r. motto of the carlisle indian school

Is Capitalism a system destined for failure?

Although U.S. is part Capitalism/Socialism, with the higher percentage based on capitalism, it sure seems that it is destined for failure. The greedy are sure bearing their fangs by just holding the money that needs to flow through the system. Obama gives 700 billion to the banks? Why not put that toward creating jobs? With construction workers out of work, that money could have trained people to build and maintain solar panels, or windmills, or whatever. Feed the people with work and they feed themselves. It’s is like teaching someone to build a well and you don’t have to give them water anymore.
Homes in california that people bought for 400k are now worth 200k yet the banks wont adjust the 200k that’s upside down that they capitalized on through 2006. They will take what is owed and put it on the backside of the loan but not correct the false market of ’05, ’06, and ’07. How is that helping? It’s not and that is why people are walking away. How long will it take for people to make up that 200k that is upside down? Some can’t in their lifetime so why bother. What banks don’t realize is that these homes that are sitting are also deteriorating as homes must be maintained on a regular basis. Hence, they will lose the money anyway; so why not keep the same owners in them? Many homes have been sitting for years so they are all fixer-upers now. The banks have repo’d them, sat on them for too long, and now they can’t sell for top value. Perhaps they are losing more due to their stubbornness to budge. I think their greed is coming back to bite them.
They cant hold the value up when the value is not there. Houses are not like diamonds that you can store in a basement to keep the demand higher than the supply; when the supply keeps deteriorating the value keeps dropping overall. Comps keep dropping, and in the long run the banks are shooting themselves in the foot-not to mention the country and the backbone of the country-the middle class. Greed seems to be blinding these fools. I see them walking around blindfolded with arms extended straight ahead blundering through through the fog. The money is there is just not circulating. It has had an affect on jobs, mostly construction, and has domino-ed down through the whole economy. The best jobs now seem to be government jobs from county to federal. I don’t ever remember this being the case. Small business’ were popping up all the time. That is much more rare now. Every strip mall has vacancy banners up.
This is on a much grander scale, but it reminds me of the early 80′s when I lived in Mammoth Lakes California. A booming town in the Sierra Nevada’s that almost turned into a ghost town because of an earthquake prediction/scare. Construction was at a standstill almost overnight. There was never an earthquake. The only thing that happened was that the economy was killed.

It appears to me that this dormant countries economy is much caused by greed. There is probably more to it, but is this Capitalist system destined to fail?

Poem? What do you think? :]?

Shadow

Before you became a shadow, you were a tree, tall with gnarled branches reaching to the skies. You were a daffodil sitting in a vase on a bright yellow kitchen table. You were an orange without its peel. Your eyes looked up from the bottom of a bottomless lake.

And when you were a cupboard, you watched the world through the crack between your doors. You were listening, from the garden, sitting in the dirt with the flowers and weeds. You were a deer, frozen in the headlights. You were a teal crayon on the floor of a kindergarten classroom. A mouse hiding under a chest from the cat trying so hard to catch it. A chair sitting abandoned in the back of an antique store. A windmill spinning 50 paces away from a farmhouse. The foam atop a latte from Starbucks. A deserted island in the middle of the ocean. A tennis court at a villa in Brindisi, Italy. A strawberry milkshake. An eight-year-old boy flying his kite. A dancer performing for a queen. Palm trees placed along a beach in Hawaii.

And when you closed your arms and attached yourself, you would not let go, no object could shake you, no object would try; you followed behind, loyal and servile, embraced your fate and became the shadow.
english assignment- write model of poem: cloud by sandra cisneros

strange dream of exploring?

i just dreamed this last night, what do you think? me and some people (i have no idea who they are, i’ve never seen any of them before) seem to be going around exploring things on what appears to be earth. seems like there are 4 other guys in my dream (2 of which keep causing trouble for the group for some reason) and 2 girls, and 1 of the girls is the “leader” of our “explorer group”. the only thing constant in the background is it is day and there is a light gray overcast. I am constantly in the foreground acting as a “scout” or so it seems. The landscape looks like poland/hungary/russia, kind of a grayish old looking landscape, with small lakes and gray forests. The lady who is our leader is constantly orating to us on where to go and yelling at those 2 guys who seem to stick to the back, one of them is associated with the color red for some reason, and i am a little distanced from the group constantly up ahead looking around. i think that there are old windmills, and gently rolling hills with small streams thoughout most of the dream. the most vivid part, towards the end, we come upon what appears to be the ruins of an old castle?, or cathedral, or possibly old abondoned university. it is buried halfway in the ground where you cant see any doors that would lead to the interior anymore, made of gray or brown stone, but the windows towards the top towers still lead inside. There are 2 very large towers as part of it for sure, and we walked/flew over towards this area, both looking kind of cathedral like, half buried in the earth, and very large, seeming each tower is like 75ft diameter. We crossed towards one of the towers, walked on the “meadow” (the immediate sort of landscape around the towers) and were heading towards another, when I went to a “balcony” overshoot extending from the second tower (they were connected, seemed there would have been a port-cullis gate beneath the earth where they connected or something) and there were a ton of flying insects on this balcony, what appeared to be green dragonflies, different sizes and a ton of them. i was the first one to turn the bend around towards where the balcony connected to the tower, and being the first person they spotted, they swarmed me. most of them just brushed by me and flew past me, but i remember one of them landed on the left side of my head and i kept trying to shew it away and it just wouldn’t fly off me. that’s where it ended
around that area there was only the gray of the skies and the green of the trees it seemed, green and gray

american history questions?

Match the following to the description that best fits.
here are the descriptions:

1. Believed that if they did their dance and wore a special shirt no bullet fired from a white man’s gun could harm them. If they were true and believed, the buffalo would return and the white man would go away. Soldiers in charge ended up in the massacre of over 100 Indians in Wounded Knee South Dakota.

2. Government land grants and enterprising individuals like Leland Stanford made it possible.

3. At first they were very welcome because they helped build the Transcontinental RR. Later though, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act banning any further immigration to the US from China.
Central Pacific from the West and the Union Pacific from the east.

4. Between 1912 and 1925.

5. Save the man, kill the Indian.To accomplish their motto they cut the hair of the children, made them dress like proper white people and forbade them to speak their native tongue.

6. The Steel plow invented by John Deer. Barbed Wire invented by Josef Glidden and the windmill powered well pump.

7. The only one to stand up for Native Americans at the time; wrote a book called “A Century of Dishonor” showing how badly Native Americans had been treated.

8. “Kill and Scalp them all”

9. The extinction of the Buffalo and the establishment of national parks.

10. Two monuments carved out of the granite of the Black Hills.

11. Promotory Point, Utah, just outside Salt Lake City

12. Allowed farmers and others to move west faster than before, but they also would spell the doom of the plains Indians.

13. Freed slaves moving west to Kansas to start life all over again.

14. Was trying to run away with his tribe, the Nez Perce, to Canada. He ALMOST made it. He gave up just short of the Canadian Border.

Geronimo and he lived in Arizona.

15. Gold in land that was supposed to belong to the Lakota forever.

16. In reality the cowboy could be black, white, or Mexican and probably bore very little resemblance to John Wayne.

here are the terms:

a. link between the ghost dance and the battle of the wounded knee

b. effects of western movement

c. where the 1st transcontinental railroad met

d. three “tools” that helped the farmers in the west do their job

e. chinese in the west

f. the last native american to lead the good fight

g. the “Exodusters”

h. mt. rushmore and the crazy horse memorial

i. companies that built the 1st transcontinental railroad

j. how the reality of the american cowboy lived up to the hollywood verison

k. how railroads were built

l. when most farmers took up their homestead

m. effect the railroads had

n. custer “discovered” that this in the black hills caused trouble

o. chvington’s attitude toward native americans

p. chief joseph

q. helen hunt jackson

motto of the carlisle indian school
r. motto of the carlisle indian school ********
17. Geronimo and he lived in Arizona. *******

sorry for confusion.