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arrow wood, common milkweed, winged sumac, garlic mustard, and honeysuckle were all observed. Common bird species such as the pigeon, European starling and house sparrows were seen most often. I also observed red-tailed hawks, downy woodpecker, the cedar waxwing and the eastern bluebird. There are more than 200 species of bird in the park, and I wish I could have seen more. Grey squirrels were abundant, as you would expect in a city park. The Felix M. Warburg Hall of New York State Environment…

Hawkeye Downs is a motocross track with a unique blend of people and place. Hawkeye Downs is where you see the fastest riders and the slowest riders around Cedar Rapids area. On a Saturday night the smell of gasoline and greasy hot dogs infects a two mile radius. The sound of 450cc bikes and 50cc bikes can be heard by people ordering Wendy’s four blocks away. However the best is the sight is from the score tower, the track camouflaged into the black of the night and the lights twinkling of the…

all powerful, he alone controls the access to water and all it provides. The Gihon Spring near Jerusalem, provided water for life, such as the gardens surrounding the Temple of Solomon. Citing biblical texts, Stager affirms that, “live palm trees, cedars of Lebanon, cypress, olive and plane trees flourished in the courtyards of the Jerusalem Temple, making it a veritable sanctuary” (Stager, 10). Here the Temple of Solomon represents similar depictions to that of the Garden of Eden, both in it…

“I was alive in the forest, I was cut down by a cruel axe, in life I was silent, In death I sweetly sing" - Inscription on the face frets of an Elizabethan lute Fender, Yamaha, Gibson, and B.C. Rich; all of theses companies build guitars, what sets them apart however is how they construct them. Most of these companies pay someone in a warehouse to assemble prefabricated parts. Most people, however, would feel that the best guitar is made by hand, where every grain of wood is analyzed, to…

Introduction The history of Canada is one that not many like to talk about. Between taking land, killings, residential schools, and high foster care rates there is a lot of intergenerational trauma that needs healing still. For this essay I picked Scenario number two, a story about an eight-year-old boy named Jackson. Jackson lives in Victoria, a city on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. From his story a Child and Youth Care practitioner can learn what inter-generational impact the children go…

I live in the “middle of nowhere”. The neighbor-less neighborhood called backcountry is where I live for half of the time; the other half I live in an ever-growing college city, Columbia. I have cultivated a special appreciation for each journey home through the winding Missouri back roads that bring me to the place where my soul rests. Though the roads may take me to my house, my home exists far beyond its walls. My country house itself sits front and center in our approximately 9 acres of…

Arkansas, and California. The camps mirrored a military set up since the internees were sleeping in barracks, there was no supply of running water, they ate their meals in mess halls, and they disposed of their waste in public. Fujiko in Snow Falling on Cedars, specifically experienced the haunting discomforts of having to eat the awful food at an internment camp and then rid herself of her wastes. If the idea of using the bathroom in front of a line of waiting people wasn’t horrifying enough…

The Rosewood Massacre began as many hate crimes of the 1920’s era. The name Rosewood refers to the color of freshly cut cedar and has its own baseball team, a masonic temple and a few hundred residents. The black and the white residents commuted to Sumner for work where jobs could be found in several turpentine mills. Despite their segregated nature, the town of Rosewood and Sumner got along for most of their history without any violent incidents.One morning on January 1, 1923 in a…

localities would derive this authority. According to traditional understanding of Federalism, such authority could only exist in the instance that state governments have such authority. This precedent was established when Justice John Dillon wrote in Cedar Rapids & Missouri River R. Co. v. Herring that “A municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words (from the state); second, those necessarily implied or necessarily…

1. What were the two main findings in the PARC Case (1971)? The case of Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania consists in a sue against a state law which denied access to education to children with disabilities who have not reached the 5 year old mental developmental. The two main findings in this case are the right of students with mental retardation to receive free public education and, as long as possible, include this kind of students in a…