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My sister and I didn’t think much of this bland, white envelope. But as we removed the tape and lifted the flap, there was the greatest a present a kid could ask for, tickets to Disneyland. We left the a few days later from the cold weather of Blacksburg to the calm 80 degrees in Orlando. After we rent…

For a team nicknamed the Ramblin’ Wreck, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets sure do live up to the mantra. That may not sure this season, but the Yellow Jackets have wrecked the Pitt Panthers in their last two meetings. Two seasons ago, quarterback Tom Savage was terrorized by a Tech defense that dominated the Panthers in a 21-10 stomping at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Last season’s matchup was marred by the worst first quarter in Pitt history. Five fumbles in consecutive drives doomed the Panthers…

mental condition of the astronauts. If scientists predict that we will have colonies on the moon and Mars they need to figure out a feasible way to feed the astronauts. Good morning/afternoon/evening, my name is Claudia Van Dyke and I represent the Blacksburg FFA Chapter. There have been several astronauts who have successfully grown food like zucchini, sunflowers, lettuce and broccoli on the International Space Station (ISS). An unorthodox use of our tax dollars you might think, but consider…

I became interested in researching whether there was a connection between mental illness and mass shootings mostly because of the amount of mass shootings that have occurred throughout the years. It always caught my attention because the individuals who have committed these mass shootings are said to have mental illness. I divided my research into three categories. The first one is on mental illness and I’ll explain what mental illness is. Secondly, I’ll explain mass shootings that have occurred…

nation are heartless and selfish. We only care about ourselves. Because we do not longer feel the pain and even care about how this gun violence affects the victims. The president also mentions some examples of past shooting such as Columbine, and Blacksburg, Tucson just to name a few. I personally cannot imagine the pain that the victims and families of earlier shootings have been through. It must be really traumatizing for them to be constantly reminded of their pain each time something like…

Introduction On April 16th 2007 in Blacksburg, VA at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Seung-Hui Cho a senior at the university shot a total of 49 people, killing 32 of them, then proceeded to turn the gun on himself in one of the most disastrous school murder-suicides of all time. One of the most casualty producing school shootings of all time. The damage was the lives of the taken students and the psychological health of those at the university. Within this shooting there were two incidents.…

Wynes mentions Richmond often in this article (p. 424), so if the Richmond areas were where most of his data was gathered, it would not accurately represent the state as a whole. Areas like Roanoke, Lexington, Lynchburg and Blacksburg may have offered different data, data that perhaps supported the Jim Crow Laws of that era. There may have been no visible “public outcry” for the public transit segregation laws in the areas in which he investigated, however he may have found several…

arson. Two months later Lucas was arrested for possessing a deadly weapon. In prison, they began to confess a lot of their crimes helping the police to solve 213 unsolved cases.  Henry Lee Lucas’s Childhood He was born on August 23, 1936, in Blacksburg, Virginia. His parents behavior never influenced him for a good life because both, mom and dad, were abusive and would spend most of their time drinking alcohol. His mother would prostitute herself in the woods at the back of their community…

Private Americans own approximately 120, 000, 000 guns. Fifty-five to sixty million of these are hand guns. Fifty percent of all American households have one or more guns. Approximately ten thousand hand gun homicides of wounding plus more than two thousand accidental deaths plus several thousand gun suicides. Gun violence statistics, high-profile crimes committed with guns, and the ready availability and large number of privately owned guns in the U.S. have spurred support for gun control laws,…

“Number twenty-three, please come to window four” said the Consul. My mother, my brother, and I got up and hurriedly walked to the window. We were interviewing at the United States Embassy in the Philippines, hoping to obtain a visa to go live in the Virgin Islands. My father got a job as a math teacher and had already moved there six months prior. He wanted us to live with him because he hated being apart from us. “How old are you, little girl?” the Consul asked me. I nervously said, “I am…