Bangor, Maine

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. His parents were divorced when he was still knee high to a grasshopper. His mother’s name was Nellie King and his father’s name was Donald king. He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When he was eleven he moved with his mother to Durham, Maine. Stephen king began to look for a job and eventually found a job in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. Stephen king went to two schools, he went to grammar school in Durham, then graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966. Then He married Tabitha Spruce in January of 1971. He met her at the library at the University of Maine. He graduated from the University of Maine at…

Maine has a variety of resources and tools to use at its disposal, However, the state was not always reliant on industries such as commerce, tourism, and other recreational facilities which have become a facet in everyday life for Maines. For example, in the 19th century, over two-hundred years ago, Maine’s industry for the most part revolved around natural resource products such as wood, fish, and even ice. If Maine is to continue to progress forward on into the rest of the 21st century, then…

sixteen counties in the state of Maine. 153,414 out of the 1,330,089 individuals who live in Maine reside in here. Penobscot County is rated worse than the state of Maine in many measures of health. Overall, in health it is ranked 12th. Demographic factors in the county that are related to the heath status include age and race. Penobscot county has less individuals who are below 18 years of age. 18.7% are under the age of 18 while state wide 19.5% of the population are under the age of 18. This…

Dorothea Dix is an American social reformer with a huge impact of saving lives before and during The Civil War. In her early life, she opened a school for children including poor and neglected to help out on their reading and writing. Dix is more compassionate to teach the poor and neglected children, who can’t afford or able to make it to school, by coming to their houses because she felt the same connection during her childhood years under her strict and alcoholic father. Luckily her wealthy…

In the late 1400s, when Christopher Columbus stumbled across North America, the world was altered. Many countries established colonies, but the only ones that stuck were the English colonies. Jamestown was first, and 12 others followed. Everyone had different reasons for migrating and the culture of these colonies showed that. Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin, their reasons for settling, their government structures, and their…

embarrassed or reluctant to tread on perilous grounds and swim in profound waters, and can live without bounds. Be gutsy and set out to appear as an individual not like a puppet controlled by strings. This movement is gaining momentum, but resistance is still a factor. In 2001 approximately 12,000 Somali refugees were displaced, after an awful political war in their East African country and eventually relocated to Maine. Thousands first settled in urban communities, for example, Atlanta before…

Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem, “Richard Cory,” is brimming with irony. The brilliant use of situational irony takes the seemingly perfect life of Richard Cory and surprises us all once we reach the last line of Robinson’s poem. In fact, this poem seems eerily similar to Robin Williams’ situation. Richard Cory and Robin Williams both appeared to have their lives together; both rich, always smiling and making other happy, and were both held to higher standards. However, much like Richard Cory,…

While North America was settled in the majority by Englishmen of the same nationality, by the time of the 1700s, the New England and Chesapeake regions developed adversely from one another. England sent over numerous groups to these two regions. From the start, New England and the Chesapeake had different values and identities. These differences originated from the reasons that they decided to come to the New World in the first place, and where on the coast they were. This affected the colonies…

A toothpick is a tool used in everyday life that ordinarily after its use, is immediately thrown away. In Albert H. Baird’s patent description on his own composition of a toothpick, he states his design’s “...cost of manufacture is so low that [the] improved tooth pick can be economically thrown away after being used but once (Baird, 1910).” Although he associates this idea with his own design, it’s a commonality of the current view of toothpicks. Before the last toothpick factory in Maine…

Hampshire is known for many achievments. Whether it is natural beauty or man-made, New Hampshire has a lot to offer. Many visitors become stunned with its beauty and enjoy its natural resorts. New Hampshire , abbreviated NH, has a capital of Concord, and was originally named North Virginia and New England. It was established in 1788. New Hampshire has four nicknames. NH.Gov explains the these names. “ The Granite state” for its overabundant quantities of granite stone. “ Mother of Rivers” for…