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Old Idaho Penitentiary Site, Boise, ID 43°36'10.0"N 116°09'43.0"W Old Idaho Penitentiary Site The Old Idaho Penitentiary Site was built in 1870, and the first prisoners arrived two years later. That was also when it was first opened to Idaho. The prison had one cell at one point, but now it has several cells. In 1973, the prison closed, and now people visit to see it and its history. There used to be over 13,000 inmates there, but no one is imprisoned anymore. People go there all of the time,…

systems. Water pollution is also a danger of geothermal energy. As water circulates through hot rock,it can pick up many poisonous substances. In 1852, Kelvin invented the first geothermal energy heat pump.America’s first district heating system in Boise, Idaho was powered by geothermal energy in 1892. By 1892, the system was serving over 200 houses and 40 businesses. In 1904 electric geothermal energy was created by Prince Piero Ginori Conti. It was created at Larderello dry steam field in…

I believe I should be selected for scholarship support because of my passion for my degree fields and my passion for education. I am studying History, Secondary Education and German and I would like to use my degree to teach at the high school level. Some of my high school teachers were the most important in my decisions for my future and shaped who I ended up being, so I would love to give back that way and do the same for the future generations. It was my history teachers and especially my…

lived in Idaho my whole life and I know that today, our population is so much more diverse than it has ever been. I see it in the elementary schools, I see it in the mall and at the park. In my mind I can’t help but think, wow! I always knew that Boise was a cool place, it is so great that other people can join our city and bring some variety of culture too.…

month. Drugs have been around since the 1600s. People have spent over $50 billion dollars on cigarettes and other types of drugs in the world. 20,000 people each year die from illegal drugs. In the article , “ DRUGS ARE NEVER RIGHT ’’ , Brianna B. Boise ID states that “ People go simply crazy it is awful and sometimes drugs are the reason for going crazy.’’ I think that drugs are the reason for people doing these type of things and I hope that it stops soon. Drugs are the second…

I was in Boise Idaho in a tournament sponsored by Adidas. This was also my first soccer tournament with a traveling soccer team, called “ IF Bluebirdz.” My dad and my mom with my brother had come with me. I was a the mide in the team, which meant I was never doing nothing. The tournament was international, so the teams were top quality and they were. My team had been practicing non stop for this tournament, even though it was the first one of the season. We were ten mins aways from the soccer…

One of the questions that makes me motivated to go to school is “Am I willing to live without some of the luxuries of life for a while”. I chose this question because I have a believe that I can live without a luxury life for a while, and I have been doing it for the past year. I think the way to get to a luxury life is to be educated. The Idea of luxury and money and being completely indecent had motivate me that a graduate school is for me. One of the questions that made me not so motivated…

Week 4 of the college football season concluded this weekend with each of the top 12 teams in the AP Top 25 avoiding defeat. Five teams ranked in the Week 4 poll fell Saturday, including No. 13 Oregon, No. 16 Arizona, No. 20 Georgia Tech, No. 22 BYU and No. 25 Missouri. Subsequently, all five teams also fell out of the Top 25. Below is a recap of the most significant storylines from week 4 of the 2015 college football season. Most Significant Victory - No. 3 TCU Survives Texas Tech, 55-52…

John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men in 1937. Robert Burns’s poem “To a Mouse,” influenced the title of the book. Of Mice and Men is remembered as one of Steinbeck’s most important and influential novels. It won a Nobel Prize in literature in 1962 but is still one of the most frequently challenged books in U.S. schools due to vulgar language and violet scenes.“Of course Of Mice and Men contains unpleasant attitude; there is brutality, racism, sexism, economic exploitation. But the book does not…

What Caused the Dust Bowl? In the 1930’s, there was a horrific time in U.S. history that left a part of the U.S. in the dust. The Southern Plains area of the United States from Texas to Oklahoma panhandle was the hardest hit of the Dust Bowl. A few years passed, then the country was hit with the Depression. This was very difficult for the farmers in the Southern Plains of the United States, because they were hit the worst. With hardly any precipitation it was difficult to get the crops to…