Appleton, Wisconsin

Joseph McCarthy was born in 1908 in Appleton, Wisconsin. He attended school until he was fourteen but dropped out in eighth grade to help on the family farm as well as raise chickens. At the age of twenty, he decided to go back to school and in one year went through ninth to twelfth grades to graduate. He graduated with honors yet he told people he had higher grades than he actually earned. (Morgan 2003) Ted Morgan in Legal Affairs noted that McCarthy’s high school grades were below 90 due to…

Introduction The film The Split Horn The Life of a Hmong Shaman in America focuses on how health and illness is dealt with in the Hmong culture. It is about the life of a Hmong family who moved to Appleton Wisconsin from Laos and how they are adapting to this new place. The journey of a Shaman 's family is explored and it is expressed that they have their own set of traditions in their culture but when this family moved to America it was learned that it is difficult to carry out traditions.…

America with his family when he was only four years old. Harry Houdini, arguably the greatest escape artist of all time, had a great impact in the entertainment industry in the 1920s. Harry Houdini had a rag to riches story as he came to Appleton, Wisconsin on April 6 in 1878. Erich Weiss was born on March 24, 1874. According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography, when his family got to America they were very poor. Houdini for a little while begged for money…

Hydraulic fracturing has been around for several years as a controversial topic. Fracking is a controversial topic, because of how it might impact the environment, and the pros/cons of it. Many people think fracking is good, because of all the jobs it has created, and the money it has brought in to the economy. Others think fracking is bad, because of the pollution. In this paper, I plan to talk about why fracking is such a hot topic, what kind of problem is it, and how it works. I will also…

Elsa Kopp was born in Munsinger, Germany as Elsa Moll. When Moll was eighteen years old, she moved to the United States to live with an aunt she had never met. Upon arriving in the U.S, Elsa had to take a boat and then a train to get to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Seeking job opportunities, she began working as a maid, but soon realized she was lonely and extremely homesick. So as not to be so alone in a city she had never been in before, Elsa started taking night classes at Whitefish Bay High School,…

John Bradley (James Bradleys father) from Appleton, Wisconsin, Frank Sousley from Hilltop, Kentucky, Harlon Block from Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Pima Indian Ira Hayes from the Gila Indian Reservation, Rene Gagnon from Manchester, New Hampshire, and Mike Strank from Franklin Borough, Pennsylvania. The…

Harry Houdini didn’t want to be a typical entertainer and many people can agree that he succeeded. He had done things unthinkable at the time, breaking away from the basic, boring amusement. He gave entertainment a jolt, making it bigger, and better than ever before. Entertainment, especially magic, may not be the way it is today without him. Not only did he break away from his poor, immigrant background, but also he inspired other people to do it too. Entertainment throughout 1874-1929 was the…

manor characteristics that constitute the respected team member that assists in the betterment and wellness planning for patients. One PA I had the pleasure of shadowing is Erica Dierker, PA-C of Fox Valley Surgical Associates, located in Appleton, Wisconsin. I was presented with a case where I had the opportunity to remove a patient 's staples from the abdominal region. Although this may have been a small task in their daily course of events, it ignited a passion inside me making me aspire…

The plot of Flags of Our Fathers starts with the introductions of the soon to be flag raisers. Then tells of how the men joined the Marines and about their training. After their training, their first deployments were to the battles in the Pacific during WWII. The main battle being a gruesome and long battle on Iwo Jima. “History turned all it’s focus, for 1/400th of a second” to the battlefield as a picture was taken of the unimportant and insignificant event of the second flag raising on Mt.…

In human History the use of water has been used for a thousand years the starting point of creating energy using water has been in progress for centuries from theory to experimentation, and in real life possible applications. It gave birth in modern time as Hydroelectricity a term referring to electricity generated by hydropower; the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. In engineer’s eye’s it is a debatable energy source due to…