Essays on South Dakota

Like many other United States National Parks, Badlands is unique unto itself with physical attributes that when they are seen one knows it is Badlands National Park. Located in an area rich with history, the Badlands was created and founded as a national monument in 1939 by President Roosevelt before officially becoming a national park in 1978 (Steiner, 1993). The landscape of buttes, ravines, and hills found in the midst of the prairie of Southwestern South Dakota influenced the Lakota Sioux to call the area, ‘mako sica’ or ‘badlands’ (“South Dakota Legends,” 2003). The Sioux Pine Ridge reservation lies ...

Delegation can be said to be a major tool used in contracts law. Delegation tends to occur when a party to a contract transfers the authority or responsibility given to perform a certain duty to another party. The settling of the case between South Dakota and the Department of Interior was a constitutional delegation of power. According to section 5 of the Indian recognition act, ‘’ the Secretary of the Interior is at this moment authorized, in his discretion, to acquire through purchase, relinquishment, gift, exchange or assignment any interests in land within or without existing reservations, including trust’’ through ...

The Dawes Act (1887) The Dawes Act of 1887 was intended to assimilate Native Americans, with the intent of making them more like white Americans. To do so, various Native American tribes were removed from their homelands and relocated to areas called Indian Territory. Upon arrival at their new lands, they were told that the land they now occupied was to be owned communally, whereas, prior to the Dawes Act, Native American tribal communities individually owned their own familial lands. On February 8, 1887, the 49th Congress went on to specify in detail, how these communal lands were to ...

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Corrosion refers to the partial and gradual dissolution of materials used in water treatment and supply systems, pumps, pipes, tanks and valves. In most circumstances, almost all water is corrosive and this may lead to structural failure, water leaks, capacity losses and deterioration of the microbial and chemical water quality (WHO 2011). The pipes used in water distribution are made of different materials such as plastic, metals (galvanized steel, copper, lead and iron), and even concrete. Pipes made from concrete and plastic tend to be corrosion resistant. In piping systems, however, there are several water quality factors working singly ...

A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Mainstreaming is described as the process of integrating disabled children in the normal education program. This entails presenting special needs children in the normal school curriculum apart from their special education program (Jones, 200). This consists of putting the special needs students in a regular class with the rest of normal students and making sure that they interact with the normal students. In the past ages, physically and mentally handicapped children were shunned away by the society. Most of them did not even attend schools and on often occasion, some were closed in hidden places the rest of their lives. ...