Elfie Huntington Bagley Introduction Elfie Huntington Bagley (fig. 1), a Springville, Utah native, produced a vast number of photographs between the years of 1892 and 1949. Elfie, while primarily working in Springville, Utah, traveled the entire state and the Mountain West making photographs. Her photography tells a story of life in Utah at the turn of the twentieth century. In her work, she shows a particular interest in photographing the lives of women. Her photographs of women and girls shed light on a female culture of exploration, adventure and sisterhood in Utah during a formative time in the state’s history.…
Mindy McCready was born Malinda McCready in Fort Myers, Florida on November 30, 1975. She began singing at her local church at the age of 3. By the time she was 9, McCready began to study opera singing with a retired Juilliard Professor. After studying opera for some time, she realized that she preferred the country music that she would sing along to with her karaoke tapes. She especially liked Trish Yearwood and Reba McEntire.…
This court should find that Kathleen Bosko presented nondiscriminatory reasons that were pretext for intentional discrimination. Pretext can be proven by showing that the reasons proffered by the defendant did not actually motivate the defendant’s challenged conduct. Latowski v. Northwoods Nursing Ctr., 549 Fed. Appx. 478, 486 (6th Cir. 2013)(unpublished)…
On a dark and stormy night, a baby with jet black hair and baby blue eyes was born in a little cottage in Ireland. His parents (not knowing what he would become in his adult years) named him Grant Tobias Gustin. He wasn't an only child, he had an older sister. Her name was Liz Ashley Gustin. From a young age, Grant was interested in the ways of Tap dance.…
Eve Roxane Howard is one of the founding members of Yum Yum Doggy Treats. She comes from a family that loves to bake. Every holiday she was always in the kitchen with her mother baking cookies, cakes and pies for family and friends. She took up cooking classes in high school and watched cooking shows on tv to better her cooking skills. Eve did this so that she could learn how to make nutritious and healthy treats for her own two pets, Mocha and Pj.…
Short Paper 2 Elizabeth Pitts was born in Leflore county Mississippi, on October 24, 1928. Pitts earliest memories from growing up was that she was born, raised, and went to school on the same plantation. Miss Pitts would go on to say that it was the same plantation that her child was born on. Then the interview said ( how did share cropping work back then?) (scales, Mausiki s)…
All my life I have used my arms and hands. Never before have I thought what it would be like to lose them. In fact, never has it occurred to me how important it is to have a functioning body. A task that seems to be normal and every day can be excruciatingly difficult for those who have lost parts of their body. Our bodies are a symbol of health; our bodies must maintain optimal health.…
Summary: One of the more interesting readings in Behrens and Rosen’s Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum was “Many with New College Degree Find the Job Market Humbling”, by Catherine Rampell. She reveals just how severe our job market truly is. She explains that employment for recent college graduates strikes a low point. Also, the opening salaries for these scarce jobs plummeted compared to the previous years. Likewise, most jobs that these college graduates are taking do not even require a college education, such as waiting tables or working in fast food.…
The Story of Michael Oher and Leigh Anne Tuohy is a story full of strain and hardships. It takes a lot of courage and effort to create a relationship between two people that would normally never even look toward each other. Michael is an poverty ridden orphan who is ripped out of his deprived life and into the world of the rich, all because of his size. Leigh Anne is a rich white republican with a passion for football and her family. When they meet both lives are changed forever.…
Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War would prove to be a challenging endeavor for the United States having to literally re-create an entire portion of the nation. This couldn’t be any closer to the truth in the case of New Orleans, where political reform and overhaul of its past principles, was a change that would come slowly and with a lot of time. One incident during the Reconstruction period that helps underline how hard these changes would be to achieve was the kidnapping of Mollie Digby, it is from the early “facts” about the case that help ignite turmoil in the city, state, and eventually the entire country. Before, and during, the time of the actual kidnapping of Mollie Digby the social structure and the political system…
REXBURG- Stephanie Nielson, mother of four and survivor of a plane crash that burned 80 percent of her body, is scheduled to speak about journalism in the Taylor Chapel next Thursday, Oct. 15 according to the University Forum from byui.edu. Christian and Stephanie Nielson were involved in a plane crash that killed Christian’s friend Doug Kinneard, according to ABC News. ABC News also said that “Medivac helicopters raced all three to the Arizona Burn Center at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix,” where Kinneard died from his injuries. Nielson shared heartbreaking experiences she had with her children after waking up from the crash.…
Around 1100 people have disappeared throughout the woods in America over the past 100 years. (Hiltner) People go missing in the woods for numerous reasons: runaway, jokes, kidnapping, shortcuts or become lost hiking in the woods. In the book, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King, Trisha Mcfarland, a nine-year-old girl, goes missing in the woods, which puts her in a position to use prior knowledge she learned from her mother to survive. When lost in the woods, her ID begins to take over her actions; she also reverts to atavism, and the line between reality and fantasy becomes thin. Further, as a result of the harsh wooded environment, she suffers many illnesses as she tries to face the many challenges thrown at her, these obstacles…
The Selection America Singer. She is a musician, sibling and artist. She lives in North Carolina with her parents and siblings. She also could become the princess of her country. Big change comes with big decisions.…
In a world where college is seemingly becoming a necessary prerequisite for every job, tuition fees continue to skyrocket. Within the article, “Higher Education went from being a Public Good to a Private Good” published in The Washington Post in 2014, Catherine Rampell reveals the true culprit behind the increasing costs to attend college. Throughout her article, Rampell claims that attending and graduating college is becoming a greater feat for the students who need college the most. Multiple times in her article, Rampell describes how the state legislators are behind making college go further out of reach for those the countries future depends on. To support her argument, Rampell uses a combination of logical appeal, credible sources for…
Do you imagine Reba McEntire as an elementary school teacher? Apparently, the legendary country singer holds a degree in elementary education. Including a minor in music, McEntire graduated from the Southeastern Oklahoma State. Currently at 61 years of age, she holds a degree that surprises people. Does she plan on pursuing a career in teaching?…