Buffalo, New York

the year 1817, a manmade canal was built and changed the lives of many ordinary Americans. The Erie Canal is a canal that spreads from Albany to Buffalo New York and connects with the Great Lakes. The Canal gave residents the chance to start over and build up from what they have. I have had the opportunity to read The Artificial River by Carol Sheriff. In her book, she explained how the Erie Canal changed lives and how it help show progress in American history. Some topics that Sheriff used to show progress are transportation, marketing, business industry and many others. It tells the story of the many people who worked, visited, and lived along the bank of the canal and the growing of commercial and social networks. In 1825, the completion of the…

small. The same could be said for the Western New York area in a microcosm. Before 2013, Western New York was divided into four congressional districts each divided semi-evenly into equal parts. Congressional District 28, however, was specifically gerrymandered for Niagara Falls, parts of Buffalo and reached as far as Rochester for Democratic gains, a prime gerrymandering example. Chautauqua County and the bottom half of Erie County, including Buffalo, were in District 27. Chautauqua County and…

I tend to be more curious and creative when I was 10th grade. I start my research, combined all of my formulas, and think about a new source of energy that can combine to my “innovative machine” and the combination can produce a magnetic field. What is the most special part about this innovative magnetic machine is it can lift an object from any type of surface using the magnetic field. When my imagination sparks innovations, I can definitely imagine the building floating in the air and world’s…

network it is today) which ruptured the boundaries of western and eastern (northeastern) New York and encouraged inward and outward flow (migration) of people, animals, goods, money, trade,…

The Industrial Revolution , the change from home and hand production to factory and machinery. During this time period many new inventions came along such as steamboats , which could travel without wind or current , this invention played a huge part in one of America’s greatest creation at this time period , the Erie canal. The creation of the Erie canal created a route from the Atlantic ocean of the Hudson river to the great lakes of lake Erie, helping stimulate the economy of America and the…

Good evening and welcome to Monday Night Football! Tonight, we will look back and highlight the career of Hall of Famer Frank Gifford! You are in for a real treat tonight! It all started in Bakersfield, California, where the young Gifford showed off his versatile skills to get him into the University of Southern California. From there, he emerged into one of the legendary figures in the NFL as a player for the New York Giants and broadcasting on ABC’s Monday Night Football. Early Life Struggles…

Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. can be described as an innovational leader in a competitive grocery store market. Wegmans is headquartered in Rochester, NY; with over seventy stores mainly in Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse; they also have locations in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The chain offers a spacious floor layout of 100,000 square feet; which, sometimes is double or even triple the size of the average supermarket. With 37,000 employees, usually 500 to 600…

As a child, I dreamt of becoming a teacher. When we are young we have life goals that appear to be attainable at the time, but we never think of the obstacles and hardships we will face in order to achieve those goals. I am the first in my family to graduate college, so when it was time to apply for colleges I had no familial assistance. My college experience began at Medaille College in the fall of 2010. Medaille is a small, private, predominately white institution (PWI) in Buffalo, NY. In high…

Situation Analysis: “BWW was created in 1991 with the first opening in Columbus, Ohio (David).” The inspiration for two men came after ‘trying to find a wing specialty establishment in the area of Kent State University (David).” They were unsuccessful in finding such establishment, like they were “used to back in Buffalo, New York (David).” “Today BWW is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, they are the largest chicken wing, sports bar in Untied States (David).” As of December 27, 2015…

Amendment (History.com Staff 3). This time period was known as Prohibition and was part of a temperance movement. The law was later repealed by the 21st Amendment due to the growing need for revenue that would be created by the liquor industry during The Great Depression in 1933 (History.com Staff 4). It became apparent that the liquor industry needed to be regulated when issues grew from lack of applicable law. So in 1934 the State Liquor Authority and the Division of Alcoholic Beverage…