Carolina Mudcats

I want to go to UNC Wilmington for many reasons. One of the biggest reasons I can think of would be because movies and films is one of my greatest passions and UNC Wilmington has one of the best Film programs in the state. Growing up I always went to the beaches of Wilmington for family trips and outings. The beach has always been one of my favorite places and if I can possibly go to college at the beach it would be a dream come true. I have been to multiple film festivals in Wilmington and…

In second grade, my sister was in the national guard so we planned to see her for the graduation in Georgia. Just so we could be early and have more of an experience, we flew out to South Carolina about a week before the graduation, for vacation. To make the trip complete, my whole family came with so the drive to the airport was quite chaotic. When my family and I arrived at Myrtle Beach, we stayed in a hotel by the ocean. I was in awe of how it had been so placid there, for all of the people…

SAS Institute Inc. has consistently been ranked one of the best places to work over the years. From the short overview I have read about this company, I very much agree with how they have designed their management policies. There is often a desire to cut costs in order to increase profit, yet since SAS has cleverly focused on analytics, which is the most valuable and profitable area of their industry, they are eager to share the wealth they’ve earned with the people who work so hard to make it.…

Bertie County is one of the largest counties in North Carolina, covering 741 square miles. The population is very small. Bertie originated in 1722 when the state legislature decided to divide the county from Chowan, a river. Bertie County inherited its name from James and Henry Bertie who has purchased the land. Bertie is located southwest of Elizabeth City, one of the poorest counties in North Carolina. The county includes eight townships, Lewiston, Kelford, Aulander, Powellsville, Roxobel, and…

John White was an English painter, explorer and colonist. John White used watercolors to paint maps and objects that he saw while he was exploring Roanoke. Today we use the paintings by John White to try and solve the mystery of the “Lost Colony.” There was three attempts to settle Roanoke. The first attempt was lead by Arthur Barlowe who took more than a hundred men with him to settle in July of 1585. They had a supply shortage and didn’t think the supplies would get to them in time, so they…

Unit of Study: Using Strategies with Biography and Autobiographies Grade Level: Third Grade Item Objective Cognitive Level Selected Response Enter 8 Question & answers. * indicates correct answer At least 5 multiple choice Others may be multiple choice, T/F or fill in blank. 1. What is the best summary of this selection? A. Roberto Clemente lived in a poor community of Purto Rico. He loved playing baseball in the fields. He came to America to play baseball. He could hit the ball like no…

Carolina, Puerto Rico is home to a man named Roberto Clemente, who lived there for eighteen years. After high school, he said goodbye to this town and moved on to the United States. In the US Roberto Clemente signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, who gave him a 10,000 dollar signing bonus, which was very high. After some technicalities, the Dodgers lost Roberto Clemente to the Pittsburgh Pirates, who finished in last place the previous season. Roberto Clemente was a very successful player. Roberto…

The GREENSBORO SIT-IN were a progression of peaceful dissents in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which prompted the Woolworth retail chain evacuating its approach of racial isolation in the Southern United States. Regardless of advances in the battle for racial balance (counting the historic point 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Leading group of Education and the Montgomery Bus Boycott), isolation was still the over the southern United States in 1960. Early that year, a peaceful…

Roberto Alomar grew up around the sport of baseball, mainly because of his father Sandy Sr.’s success in Major League Baseball. Roberto Alomar was born on February 5th, 1968 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. However, he was raised in Salinas, Puerto Rico by his mother, Maria Alomar because his father played for fifteen different major league teams during his career. The only times Roberto would see his father was when he visited Sany Sr. in the summer. During the summer, Roberto would get to watch his…

McNiel. They were soon known as the “Greensboro Four.” The protest began on february 1st 1960, when he nonviolent protest was carried out by the African American students mentioned above. They entered the segregated woolworth’s, Greensboro, North Carolina. They then took a seat at the lunch counter where there policy was to refuse service to coloured people.This action lead to the police coming but were unable to take action due to lack of provocation, by this time it was being televised and…