Allegheny County

I graduated high school in 2014 with a 4.0 GPA, was in the top ten percent of my class, and was accepted to Pennsylvania State University. Everything had gone right for me, and I was excited to begin my college career. The only problem was, I did not know what I wanted to major in, let alone what I wanted to be in my life. I chose Penn State because they had a great program for students who were undecided. My hope was that I would suddenly have an epiphany and realize what career I wanted to…

government, with George Washington as acting President, had passed an excise tax on whiskey. The farmers mostly grew the grains, however giving their location in the western counties of Pennsylvania, made grain shipments near impossible to the east. Traveling with shipments were difficult and very time consuming because the Allegheny Mountains separated the west from the east. Almost all farmers, from small to lager, kept their whiskey stills and continued to make whiskey with their extra grain.…

Lately, politics in American might seem more like entertainment than something of actual substance but it’s importance is still prevalent. We are not only voting for the person who we decide we like best, we are voting for the future leader of our entire country. The president of the United States is always one of the most well recognized people in the world. With this comes great responsibility as the president isn’t only seem as one human but instead as a representation of our entire country.…

I grew up in a small, rural community in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Recently I returned to visit my high school where I saw my former band director. He asked me an interesting question; one I had never been asked before, “What is the most important thing you have learned from your experiences?” Without dwelling on the question much I replied, “People are more similar than they are different.” I surprised myself with this blunt statement that streamed out of my mouth. After reflecting, I believe…

school and had an extraordinary intuition, a trait which would go toward his favor in his adulthood. William McKinley Sr. was not impressed with the simple education style in Niles and moved the family to Poland, Ohio in 1852. He briefly attended Allegheny college for one year and then went back home where he became a school teacher. When the Civil…

While the United States has been known as the land of opportunity inexpensive, quality healthcare has been an unobtainable dream for many Americans. When compared to other industrialized counties, The United States’ healthcare is more expensive, less efficient and more difficult to obtain (Mahon & Fox, 2014). Americans pay nearly twice as much for their healthcare, however the quality of care they obtain is only average. It is these troubling statistics that has lead for a push to monitor health…

Journal Nine 1. Title: Hunger in Children in the United States: Potential Behavioral and Emotional Correlates 2. Authors: Ronald E. Kleinman, J. Michael Murphy, Michelle Little, Maria Pagano, Cheryl A. Wehler, Kenneth Regal, Michael S. Jellinek 3. Source: Kleinman, R. E., Murphy, J. M., Little, M., Pagano, M., Wehler, C. A., Regal, K., & Jellinek, M. S. (1998). Hunger in children in the United States: potential behavioral and emotional correlates. Pediatrics, 101(1), e3-e3. 4. Summary: A study…

For example, the Court made two different rulings on two identical Ten Commandment cases in the same year. In McCreary County v. ACLU, the Court rejected a display of the commandments in a Kentucky courthouse because it did not have a secular purpose. In Van Orden v. Peny, the Court granted the state of Texas the ability to display the commandments on public capitol grounds…

This study investigated adult child caregivers existential experience providing care to their parents at end-of-life (EOL). A literature review identified limited research about the existential experience of adult child caregiver populations providing EOL care. For instance, Totman, Pistrang, Hennessey, and Martin (2015) identified existential domains as receiving very limited attention, despite a large amount of research focused on caregiver needs. In addition, Totman et. al. reported…

Cultural landscapes are everywhere in our world today whether we are aware of them or not. Before we can look at the cultural landscape if the city of New Kensington, we must understand what they are and what we can learn from them through observation. Cultural landscapes are defined as the places we, humans, live. A cultural landscape is the cultural properties that represent the combined works of nature and man. Other definitions include a geographic area, including both cultural and natural…