Fargo, North Dakota

3018, a great year to be alive. Waking up to the same faces everyday, going to work at the same job with everyone, and returning back to a home that is identical to seven thousand, three-hundred, eighteen people’s home. Living in Tronoville, under rule of a seemingly perfect dictator, Dixon Sever. At seven in the morning, sharp, everyone wakes up and listens to Dixon give the orders for that day. The message is the identical to other messages received everyday, “ Good morning, and greetings from

North Dakota to Hollywood The famous actor, Josh David Duhamel once said, “ North Dakota a lot of the times we don’t get a voice when these other states do, I feel like it’s a good opportunity to sort of extend help on behalf of the people of North Dakota.” Josh’s life has been influenced by the state, and he returned to a favor back to his home. Duhamel has starred in many movies, and has done wonderful things for North Dakota. Josh was born on November 14, 1972. Duhamel was about 9 when his parents

In North Dakota, oil is a great source of revenue. Since the oil boom, transporting that oil has been done through pipelines as well as rail cars. Recently, the Dakota Access pipeline has attracted attention from celebrities and other civilians that are not even residents of the Dakotas, such as Shailene Woodley, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda, and Mark Ruffalo. Pipelines can be both efficient and dangerous. The efficiency can be read in the ability to transport the oil to other states, while the

automobiles such as cars, buses, truck etc. Without oil, transportation, business and economic trade wouldn’t be possible. “The Dakota Access Pipeline Project is a $3.78 billion conduit being built from the oil-rich Bakken fields in North Dakota. .transport up to 570,000 barrels a day of crude to refineries and markets in the Gulf and on the East Coast” (Ablow). The Dakota Access Pipeline is funded by Energy Transfer Partners. They believe that will have a huge impact on the economic state of the

This may be a problem because one third of adults thought teen drinking was legal and acceptable. North Dakota reported that there were an estimated 3 traffic fatalities and 68 nonfatal traffic injuries caused by underage drinking. In 2012, there was an estimated 2 homicides, 1100 nonfatal crimes, 1200 property crimes, and 22000 public order crimes were committed due to underage drinking. In 2013, there were very high costs to the state by the underage drinking problem; in total, it costed the state

For the most part, everyone is pretty familiar with the Dakota Access Pipeline and the protests that surround it. A 1,172 mile pipeline project running from North Dakota to Illinois. The proposed pipeline will run directly through the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's land, threatening the water source as well as desecrating sacred lands. Mainstream media has downplayed the concerns of the Sioux Tribe, calling them merely "anti-energy protesters"- however, the issues at hand are far greater. The

reader through her life in North Dakota, travelling all the way back to between the years of 1885 and 1911 when her immigrant, Russian grandparents, first arrived in America. Marquart, from a more modern point of view, feels like her grandparents were deceived by a facade that enveloped the Midwest- claiming that the area is not as exciting as the media made it out to be. She uses intense diction to condemn the state, proves the deceitful tendencies of the North Dakota through juxtaposition, and

In The Horizontal Word written by Debra Marquart was a memoir to North Dakota and the Midwest where she states “The Midwest is a place that’s been considered devoid of stories, a flyover region one must endure to get to more interesting places”(Marquart 31). In her memoir to North Dakota as well as the Midwest, she given in-depth example of stereotypes and views of that many Americans believed surrounding the Midwest. Then Marquart also gives a description of the Midwest history and even our ancestors

New York Sept. 17 and has since spread like wildfire across the world has made an undeniable impact on the social and political climate of the Upper Midwest. | With various Occupy protest committees continuing to spring up across Minnesota and North Dakota, many working people in the region who, previously, might not have come together on other political issues say they have found common ground in the Occupy Movement. Union, non-union, white collar, and unemployed workers are learning to work

NDSU vs. ASU The total student population of North Dakota State University as of 2015 is 14,516 students, while the total student population of Arizona State University as of 2015 is 83,301 students. There are many differences between NDSU and ASU, but each of them have their own special upsides. However, they each have their own special downsides as well. NDSU and ASU are both very good schools who offer quality education, and hopefully by the time I am a senior I will have figured out which to