Athens, Ohio

Metrobots in 2010, we faced a lack of proper tools, mentors, funding, community support, and practice space. Additionally, as our team comprises students from Metro Early College High School, a STEM school composed of students from 27 different Central Ohio school districts, transportation became an issue. Despite such challenges, The Metrobots grew into a cohesive team full of ethnic and gender diversity. The residential variety among our members, while posing its own unique setbacks, increased…

type of economy in Lorain County revolves around the industrial side with a ton of blue-collar work and other important trades. The population is around 306,000, and the medium household income is $52,465. Along with being part of the 55th district of Ohio, the major cities consist of Elyria, Lorain, Oberlin, Wellington, Avon, Sheffield Lake and Amherst. Depending on the areas of Lorain County, the ethnicity of people is widely diverse with a male dominate gender gap. The land is gorgeous and…

Youngstown State University established in 1908 is a university in Youngstown Ohio. Ohio University established in 1808 is located in Athens Ohio. Youngstown State University (YSU) and Ohio University (OU) are two universities that are similar in many ways including, having a Writing Center, A Math center, Science Center, Study Skills, Tutoring Services and a Library. In this essay I will give you the similarities of both Ohio University and Youngstown State University in which is good for a…

experiments done by others before them. In December of 1903, the Kitty Hawk took the first of her many small flights, beginning with a time of 12 seconds, and a distance of 120 feet. The brothers began experimenting with the concept of flight in Dayton, Ohio at their bicycle shop in the mid-to-late 1890 's, and in 1902, they brought their glider to the continuously windy beach at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. The glider made over 700 successful flights before adding power. The brothers built…

military dog tag, and a plane ticket to Africa. It was also on marriage papers almost 50 years ago to my grandmother Elaine, on the cover of all of the books that he wrote, and more recently, on the side of his successful storage business in Green, Ohio. When telling about this…

Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” explores a mother’s complex emotions towards her newborn child after giving birth for the first time. Although motherhood is often regarded as a joyous event that gives a woman’s life purpose and meaning, “Morning Song” instead depicts motherhood as a complicated event fraught with uncertainty and fear, but also with love and affection. Rather than expressing overwhelming love and happiness, the mother in the poem feels distant from her child and gradually learns to…

Kettering Health Network, located in Kettering, Ohio, is a not-for-profit network of eight hospitals, Kettering College, and over 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio with nearly 12,000 employees and 2,100 physicians. Patients have access to high quality maternity care, state-of-the-art cancer fighting technology, along with Ohio’s leading heart hospital, as well as revolutionary brain and spine surgery. In the spirit of Seventh-day Adventist health care ministry, Kettering strives…

On October 6, 2016, I drove to Mount Vernon Nazarene University to meet with Gary Swisher, the Coordinator of Career Development. As a student enrolled in the Career & Advising focus in my SAHE program, I decided it would be helpful to observe someone who filled a Career Advising role. I reached out to Mr. Swisher because of the school he worked at. Before attending Wright State University for my undergraduate degree I visited Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) as a potential school. It was…

Kent State/May 4 and Postwar Memory Article Review In this article, the author analyzes and discusses the effects of the May 4, 1970 Kent State shooting and war as well as the monuments and the varying views on the memories. Additionally, this article includes background of the May 4 incident and both the official and the rejected monuments in Kent State. Kent State/May 4 and Postwar Memory is written by John Fitzgerald O 'Hara. Fitzgerald O’Hara is a professor at John Hopkins University.…

Coaches have the power to change lives. I can humbly say this as all my coaches, both good and bad, have taught me in some way what it takes to be a good athlete and most importantly how to be a good human being. They have taught me life lessons that I can only hope to preserve by instilling them into my athletes in my time as a coach. The articles I have chosen to highlight in this essay show how coaches have helped to develop character in athletes, how they pushed them to be the best on and…