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In making conversation, I frequently asked new peers, “What about your financial aid?” No one had warned me that this might be a bad idea. I was appalled to hear from most students that they would not receive financial aid at all and that they would, instead, foot the bill. I could not imagine paying $65,000 a year for a college education…

THE DEFINING THEME OF OUR AGE The twenty first century, or our age, is one of the first ages to come close the “future” of mankind, so far at least. Our inventions pushing us into the new age and pushing out the block phones and the tiny televisions of the 1900’s. Creating a century only to be known as the Worry age. Our children in this century are so used to the easy “hands-on” way of electronics. Not only are they able to find out the density of a certain object within seconds, but…

Mason and Gorges divided the land in 1629, Mason taking New Hampshire and Gorges taking Maine. In the 1640s, Massachusetts got too big for it’s britches and took control of New Hampshire, then parts of Maine in the 1650s. Judges ruled against Massachusetts in 1979, so New Hampshire became a royal colony. Maine was incorporated into Massachusetts in 1691. After New York was claimed for the English, the land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers was given to…

considering only 30 years ago they barley existed. Orange Is the New Black is a Netflix series that opens everyone’s eyes up to a different view of women and also prison life for our time. It’s different than other shows because it has a more realistic side to imprisonment. At Litchfield Penitentiary the women keep their power when they’re supposed to be powerless and their dignity when they’re meant to be ashamed. Characters on Orange is the New Black are role models to the public because they…

Greek, the Bible, and other classics at an early age. Wheatley had a hard time publishing her poems because of the bad economy. Phillis published her first poem in a new england newspaper in 1765. At the end, after both Mr. and Mrs. Wheatley died Phillis was freed. ("Phillis Wheatley.") Massachusetts School Act- In 1642, the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed the first law in the New World that required children to be taught to read and write. The founders of the colony, the Puritans, wanted their…

In the years leading up to WWII, the federal government, as part of the many programs resulting from the New Deal, created a program called “The Bonneville Project Act" in 1937. This act gave authority to a new federal agency known initially as the Bonneville Power Project, and after 1950, as Bonneville Power Administration, (the BPA). This agency, which still exists, was tasked with developing hydroelectric power resources on the Columbia River in rural western Washington State. In the process…

In the novel, Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton uses the country setting of Starkfield. The name “Starkfield” gives the reader a cold, hard impression of the snowy New England setting. Wharton conveys Starkfield as a place of primitivism and ignorance because of its isolation and bitterly cold climate. Ethan Frome, the protagonist, is a subject to his environment as he lives a cold, cyclic life. However, Ethan isn’t the only one who is affected by his environment, as Zeena and Mattie also live in…

Written by: Ryan Terrell and Jake Carter Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Coast on August 25th, 2017. Many people were affected by the storm, and many people were left homeless. 70 or more people lost their lives during the storm. Houston had flooded within days after the storm hit the Texas coast. We interviewed Mrs. Jett, and we found out that her brother had been affected during the storm. Her brother lives in Taft, north of Rockport. The storm took a so called “bite” out of the side of his…

It is amazing to think about when Louis Armstrong was born. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans,Loiusiana in a section so poor that it was nicknamed the Battlefield. Louis Armstrong had a difficult childhood, his father was a factory worker and abandoned the family soon after Louis’s birth, his ,other often turned to prostitution, She left him with his grandmother.Amrstrong was obligated to leave school in the fifth grade to begin working. Contributions: So after all after…

different characteristics, such as home country, language, education, and traditions, work, among others. As part of a cultural group in the United States, the American Indians are the indigenous peoples of the Americas. According to Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (2014), the name Indian is supposedly first given by Christopher Columbus who thought that the mainlands were part of the Indies, in Asia (p. 1). During the first contact between the Americas and Europe, there have been said…