Charleston, West Virginia

leaving for Virginia. I am not looking forward to going and staying in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people. And I’m also not too excited about being all “churchy” and religious for an entire week. We are riding vans painted with the words “Honk for Jesus” “Jesus loves you” and “ASP bound Kzoo Michigan”. I am about as religious as a dead rock. We left the church around 7am, everyone was happy and smiling and ready to go work on poor people’s houses. This drive is going to be long so we have our blankets and pillows with us in the car, cozy as bugs in rugs. I am with my two friends and happy to be able to sing and act goofy with them on this car ride to Charleston, West Virginia. The ride down is going fine and all is good. I'm just a preppy white girl, living the dream, going on a church mission trip to satisfy my parents. I surely am not looking forward to having to work on some ratty old house that probably should be torn down, rather than be repaired. But here I am, riding down the road, lost and confused. We arrive at St. Marks United Methodist Church around 6pm. As we get there we unpack our overnight bags and we all get into a big group and walk…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.-- Tanner Campbell's lights out performance propelled the West Virginia University baseball team to a 5-1 victory over Eastern Michigan on Wednesday at Monongalia County Ballpark. The freshman right-handed (2-1) tossed five innings of one-hit baseball. He struck out two and walked two. Campbell took a no-hitter into the fifth inning. The Mountaineers (16-11) relied on its youthful lineup to defeat the Eagles (12-16). Its freshman starters picked seven of WVU’s eight hits up.…

the authority of secession. They feared it would damage the reputation of democracy and create a model that eventually fatal, will not be part of the United States, in some small countries that support. The event that triggered the war came to Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, on April 12, 1861 Claiming that the United States strongly that their partner that day, the army opened fire on the federal garrison and forced her to go down the American flag in surrender . Lincoln urged militias to crush…

Landform Assignment: Great Teays River Description and Location: The Great Teays River was a river that flowed north and north west in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. The river was named after the valley found in Putnam County, WV (Teays Valley). Teays Valley was named after Stephen Teays who was an early settler. A few places I was familiar with that the river ran through was Scioto County and Chillicothe in Ohio and along the Interstate 64 in West Virginia from…

During the early 1900's miners in southern West Virginia were fighting, literally, for simple rights that every worker deserves. A 40-hour work week, decent pay that wasn't in scrip, and a sense of safety. On May 19 of 1920, members of the Baldwin-Felts detective agency arrived in the town of Matewan to evict union miners from houses owned by the Stone Mountain Coal Company. After catching wind of the detectives’ activities, Matewan Mayor Cabell Testerman and a pro-union sheriff named Sid…

major I want to pursue, and that major is economics. I mainly chose this major because it will prepare me the most for law school which I plan to do after receiving my undergraduate degree from West Virginia University. I am currently on track with my major, and over the next four years, I plan to take all necessary classes needed for my major and to help better myself for law school. Over the next decade, many things can happen, but I plan to become a lawyer and start my life in a different…

include or integrate the curriculum into their teaching. Perhaps most significant is the change in understanding on how to use the science in afterschool as indicated by the post-reflective survey (going from 2.5 to above a 4 with 5 being strongly agreed). • Growing Up Wild Workshop o All descriptive statistics indicate a strong satisfaction with the workshop content, curriculum and trainer. Participants also favorable indicated that they will integrate the curriculum into their teaching, and…

Neumeier 1 Sam Neumeier Professor Mamary Intro to Liberal Arts 25 September 2016 Jeannette’s Identity Could the dysfunction of the Walls family have promoted the amazing resilience and strength of Jeannette through various daily challenges? One could argue that the unusual and destructive behavior of Rex and Rose Mary forced her into a few unique situations that resulted in surprisingly her acting as a resilient and successful adult. In moving back to Welch, Virginia, Jeannette lost what…

The Union navy quickly mobilized to set up a blockade of southern ports. The blockade largely prevented the south from selling or receiving goods, and it seriously damages the southern economy. The union was mad about being broken and the confederates were mad because Abraham Lincoln was president and he wanted to get rid of slavery. The strategies of the north and the south were that the union strategy took out the South's supplies and demand, the South's strategy was the south thought that…

The civil war was an ugly fight between the North and the South. The South wanted slavery and the North didn't, and this is why they didn't get along, so this is why the union and confederacy formed as groups for war. During the Civil war both North and south needed people for help to finish task and to help with things the white people couldn't do. The Northern and Southern armies had pretty different point of views for the Africans services. The South needed the Africans to fill in the…