Showing posts with label USA HISTORY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA HISTORY. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Movie Reviews: Only Sharing the Ones I Loved

Go to Review on Butler's Cinema Scene

Buck (2011)



Viewed on Netflix Instant Que (1.16.2012)also on Show Time (until 1.17.2012)
Genre: Documentary
Age Group Best: Highschoolers hanging in the parking lot to Old Men Playing Checkers
Length: 1:28:48


Short Summary-No Spoiler

Buck Branaman is a great horseman, who learned to harness his own pain from his abused youth, to train people how to treat their horses with love and respect.

"God had him in mind when he made a cowboy."

Friday, August 20, 2010

50 States of Reading: Periodic Table




DE
1777
De Los Santos
Belong to Me
NJ
1787
Walter Dean Myers
Me Mop and the Sundance Kid

 
PA
1787
John Updike
The Early Stories

 
CT
1788
Joseph Plumb Martin
Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier
GA
1788
Olive Ann Burns
Cold Sassy Tree
MD
1788
Edgar Allen Poe
Complete Stories
MA
1788
Lehane
Drink Before the War
NH
1788
John W. Blos
A Gathering of Days
NY
1797
Henry Miller
Sexus
SC
1788
Peter Matthieson
Shadow Country
VA
1788
Randy Singer
Fatal Attraction

 
NC
1789
Marisha Pessi
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
RI
1790
H.P. Lovecraft
Collections
VT
1791
John Irving
Hotel New Hampshire
KY
1792
Sharon Creech
Chasing Red Bird

 
TN
1796
Cormac Mc Carthy
Suttree
OH
1803
Sherwood Anderson
Wineburg Ohio
LA
1812
Anne Rice
Interview with a Vampire
IN
1816
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
MS
1817
Wm Faulkner

 
The Hamlet
IL
1818
Philip K. Dick

 
The Man In the High Tower

 
AL
1819
Harper Lee

 
To Kill a Mocking Bird
ME
1820

 
Heidi Julavits
Uses of Entertainment
MO
1821

 
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
AR
1836
Maya Angelou

 
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
MI
1837
Christopher Curtis

 
Bud Not Budy

 

 

 
FL
1845
Zora Neal Hurston
Their Eyes Were watching God
TX
1845
Larry McMutry
Texasville
IA
1846
Denis Johnson
Jesus's Son
WI
1848
Carl Sandburg
Poetry
CA
1850
Frank Portman
King Dork
MN
1858
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gentry
OR
1859
Ken Kessey

 
Sometimes A Great Nation
KS
1861
Wm S. Burroughs

 
The Ticket that Exploded
WV
1863
Glenn Taylor
Marrowbone Marble Company
NV
1867
Sally Denton
The Money and The Power The Making of Las Vegas and Its hold On America
NE
1867
Willa Cather
One of Ours
CO
1876
John Fante
A John Fante Reader
MT
1889
A.B. Guthrie
The Big Sky
ND
1889
Leif Enger
So Brave Young and Handsome
SD
1889
Wilder, Laura Ingles
First Four Years
WA
1889
Shermon Alexie
Ten Little Indians
ID
1890
Marilyn Robinson
House Keeping
WY
1890
Proulx
Wyoming Stories
UT
1896
Edward Abbey
Fools Progress
OK
1907
Jay Hjoro
In Mad Love and War
AZ
1912
Barbara Kingslover,
Animal Dreams
NM
1912
Jon Nichols
Magic Journey
AK
1959
Nancy Lord
The Man Who Swam with Beavers
HI
1959
Kiana Davenport
Song of the Exiles
DC
1800
Edward Albee

 
Zoo Story and other Plays
GU
1898
?
FM
1947
?
PW
1994
?
VI
1917
?
PR
1898
Dr. Rosario Ferre
The Youngest Doll
MH
1899
?
MP
1978
?
Watauga
1778
?
Frkln
1784
?
Msk
1803
?
WstFl
1803
E.O. Wilson
Anthill
RVt
1791
?
IsStm
1835
?
RioG
1840
?
RTx
1845
?
CaR
1846
?
CSA
1865
?
Conch
1982
Hemingway
Old Man and the Sea
?=Books Not Found Yet for Country or Republic so Suggestions Helpful!!!
Stand Alone Republics/Federations Untill Incorporated into the United States
Date is the death of the Republics.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

United States History of States Periodic Table





D
1777
NJ
1787
Pn
1787
C
1788
G
1788
M
1788
Ma
1788
Nh
1788
Ny
1797
SC
1788
V
1788
NC
1789
RI
1790
Vt
1791
Ky
1792
Tn
1796
O
1803
L
1812
I
1816
Ms
1817
Il
1818
Al
1819
Me
1820
Mo
1821
Ar
1836
Mg
1837
F
1845
Tx
1845
Wi
1848
Ca
1850
Mn
1858
Or
1859
Ka
1861
WV
1863
N
1867
Nb
1867
Co
1876
Mt
1889
ND
1889
SD
1889
Wa
1889
Id
1890
Wy
1890
Ut
1896
Ok
1907
Az
1912
NM
1912
Al
1959
H
1959
Gu
1898
NMI
1947
UVI
1917
PR
1898
AS
1899
CSA
1861
Frkln
1784
Msk
1803
WstFl
1803
IsStm
1835
RioG
1840
CaR
1846
Conch
1982
Stand Alone Republics/Federations Until Incorporated into the United States
Date is the death of the Republics.

  I thought this would be a good way to look at all of the States at one Snap Shot.   I know it was nerdy of me but hey I am what I am... but I hope y'all like it anyway.  I hope someone might find it useful,   if so let me know.



  • Light Blue: the first Thirteen Federal States
  • Green Frontier Expansion First Wave, Vt, Ky, Tn, Oh,
  • Grey States Southern Slave Owning States
  • Orange: Agricultural Resources of the Frontier States
  • Gold: Mining States Drawing People for wealth of Mineral Deposits.
  • Purple States: Missionaries first outsiders to populate state.
  • Green States: Territories of the United States
  • Red States Former Republics of the United States until physically annexed to the continental United States.
  • The red box: Civil War

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