Arkansas

I’ve been drawn to epidemiology since my health science seminar class at the University of Arkansas at Little rock (UALR). This class discussed how communities are affected by health disparities and how health educators can help influence change within those communities. Health disparities and the community view about health, as well as having access to health care caught my attention even more. Then I started to brainstorm how to implement a plan for the community, to can help prevent the…

The United States does not have a universal definition of “capital murder” or “first-degree murder.” The legal concept of capital murder refers to a crime of murder punishable by death and is typically referred to as “first-degree murder with special circumstances.” First degree murder with special circumstances refers to homicides that are considered especially heinous, atrocious, or with particular aggravating factors that warrant the possibility of capital punishment. The specific definition…

The use of security guards and police officers has been cited as “among the most common physical surveillance measures currently used in schools” (Juvonen, pp.2-3, 2006). The responsibilities of the school resource officer (SRO) typically ranges from assisting administrators with student discipline issues to actively patrolling the school grounds (Hanover Research, 2013). There have even been noted cases of campus officers successfully intervening in school shootings (Hanover Research, 2013).…

Coaching takes a ton of time and effort such as studying your opponent so that the team can succeed. Also keeping their cool when things get difficult and the coaches usually get very frustrated. It also takes the patience to succeed at times. To become a coach, people must obtain a Bachelor’s degree, and they need to fully understand the sport they are coaching. Also, they need to be prepared to study the tendencies of their opponents so they can try a formulate to beat them. This will often…

Trout Fishing on the White River Arkansas White River is a cold-water river that is a wonderful fishery for both rainbow and brown trout. It starts as tailwaters from Bull Shoals Dam amidst the towns of Lakeview and Bull Shoals, Arkansas. The river is heavily stocked with 9” rainbows that will take any bait on a hook; that is why the task for a fly fisherman is to get through these stocked fish and find the perfect fish for White River trout fishing. The larger fish usually hide just off the…

The nine African-American students had to be escorted by the police on their first day, due to the massive amount of people along with the Arkansas National Guards who were blocking the main entrance to the school. The nine African-American students to giving the nickname the “Little Rock Nine”. Once again, the NAACP lawyers stepped in, including Thurgood Marshall and won the case. The Little…

About 120,000 Japanese people were put in one of the ten internment camps that were located in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. The ten internment camps are; Colorado River (Poston) Internment Camp, Arizona, Gila River Internment Camp, Phoenix, Arizona, Jerome Internment Camp, Arkansas, Rohwer Internment Camp, Arkansas, Manzanar Internment Camp, California, Tule Lake Internment Camp, California,…

Mountain Meadows Massacre was a killing of about 120 people that were going through Southern Utah in September of 1857. The Massacre happened on September 11, 1857. The men, women, and children were traveling from Arkansas to California, on the Baker Fancher wagon train. After they left Arkansas, the Fancher party went west through Kansas and Nebraska territories before entering Utah territory. In Utah the party went by Fort Bridger and Salt Lake City traveling south until getting to Cedar City.…

So, this assessment is fairly new for our state, and the Arkansas State Board of Education requires all public school students in grades third to the tenth grade to take the ACT Aspire. This assessment is approximately four and half hours of testing time, and the students are assessed in English, reading, math, science, and writing. There are accommodations for students with IEPs, and each school gets to set their schedules. Arkansas can use the Aspire Periodic Assessments which is additional…

that has written many thrillers. “A Painted House” reflects on the life of a impoverished farm boy in Black Oak, Arkansas. John Grisham’s life influenced his novel A Painted House by helping convey what it was like for a poor, working child in rural Arkansas in the early 50’s. Firstly, the book starts out in 1952 in Black Oak, Arkansas; Black Oak is a small farm town in far northeast Arkansas. The books setting was in Black Oak for the entirety of the book until the end. Black Oak is also where…