Appalachia

Both teens and adults have the same criteria and amount that needs manifested. For these ages’ groups, there must be 2 of the 6 manifested to be considered gender dysphoric. A person may experience/expressed disagreement with their biological sex and their assigned gender. A strong desire to rid or remove their primary and/or secondary sex characteristics to be the opposite sex. A strong desire to want the sex characteristics of the other gender. The person may desire to be the opposite sex.…

Red, yellow, and orange blended into a single swath of color as I drove north along the Blue Ridge Parkway on an autumn day in Appalachia. I slowed down as I passed by a row of trees noticeably smaller than the rest, reflecting back to what was visible before their growth. Six years ago, as a high school student, I used a graphical information system (GIS) to conduct a viewshed analysis of undesirable vantage points on this scenic byway. Alongside this data I created before and after imagery in…

to talk about the neighborhood where he grew up. His block was entirely middle class but just a block over you could find, “…African Americans, Native Americans, and “hillbilly” whites who had recently fled post war joblessness in the South and Appalachia” (Graff 958). Graff provides insight into the wide variety of people he encountered in his town and how a line must be drawn between the varying social classes. He states, “On the one hand, it was necessary to maintain the boundary between the…

Hillerville Mansion In the mountains of Eastern Kentucky once existed the Hugarian community of Himlerville. In a way the house was so creepy, but also beautiful. I never understood why no one lived there. As I grew older everyone around town had the myth that the old house was hunted. No one ever knew much about it just thought it was a big house on the hill. All this took place because of one man, Martin Himler a Hungary immigrant. Himler was a hard-working man and had a vision and the…

Have you ever thought about what the world would be like if there were no guns owned by the general public? One would think it would be blissful and crime free… That presumption would be wrong. In America, it is true that many of the recent mass casualty events have involved guns, BUT that is not due to guns themselves. Gun control will not prevent these events from occurring, nothing can. Liberals believe that the removal of guns would nearly desolate mass shootings entirely, but they are…

Money- The Biggest Problem of Working Families Life is not easy for people. The older people get, the more responsible they are. People need to face so many difficulties every day, some can find the ways to solve the problems, and some can’t. The part of “some can’t” almost belongs to “working families”. They are a part of the family which has two heads of household work and those people have regular jobs called “blue collar” with a minimum wage and hours of working. The result is that…

As we are constantly exposed to the media, we hear different portrayals of drug use in the United States. Often these drugs scares are considered "epidemics," but other times they are considered "crises." Social construction has a significant effect on the history of drug scares, as "U.S. society has recurring anti-drug crusades and a history of repressive anti-drug laws" (Reinarman, 41). There seems to be a common pattern within drug scares: they blame individual behavior and morality for…

Queens. These are the people who live in rural areas. Aside from the women, the white men in this lower class standing and area are depicted as hillbillies and/or white trash. Looking into a much lower class base on societal standards, the women of Appalachia are the lowest of the white community and the ones who suffer the most poverty. At the end of it, all…

Education today is often criticized for conforming all students to the same ideas and not letting them truly expand their minds and be creative. Students are held back by curriculum that intends to broaden their intellectual ability while it really narrows it and shuts out a lot of different outlets that are just waiting to be taken advantage of by these students. In Sanford J. Ungar’s The New Liberal Arts he addresses the many misperceptions made by Americans about Liberal Arts degrees and why…

In the United States there is an old and relentlessly growing problem. The distribution and usage of heroin and other opioid drugs has put the nation in a disturbing state of alarm dues to the rapid and growing death rate does to overdose of the drug. Cocaine is popularly thought to be the leading cause of drug related death, and in 1999 it was. Now there is a new statistic, heroin and opioid overdoses have become the leading cause of drug related death in the United States killing 10,574 people…