Coalwood, West Virginia

Last Fall my family visited Shenandoah National Park. It is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. It is only 75 miles outside of the nation’s capitol, Washington D.C. The first traces of humans on the land that would later become the park are estimated to be almost nine thousand years ago. Native Americans visited these Appalachian Mountains seasonally to hunt, collect nuts and berries, and to gather stone to construct tools. Europeans did not start to settle the land prior to three…

In the beginning of her memoir, Wall’s writes about her lifestyle in positive light, using words such as “adventure.” and “love.” On page 18 she writes, “We could live like this forever”(18), to describe her excitement towards sleeping under stars without any pillows. Another quote describe her bright outlook on living in the dessert is, “I loved the desert, too. When the sun was in the sky, the sand would be so hot that it would burn your feet if you were the kind of kid who wore shoes, but…

on management I was already planning on putting in motion; for the County Commission, I just didn't have the same vernacular as the reading to express it. While government isn't exactly the same as the corporate system, the county commission in West Virginia is pretty close. That is because the county commission is the administrators for the rest of the county government. They are in charge of the budget, regulations,…

For at-risk children in the commonwealth of Virginia, early education interventions could result in positive short and long-term outcomes. According to Barnett (2008), “well-designed preschool education programs produce long-term improvements in school success, including higher achievement test scores, lower rates of grade repetition and special education, and higher educational attainment; some preschool programs are also associated with reduced delinquency and crime in childhood and adulthood”…

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson was born on February 12th, 1963, in Columbus, Ohio. When she was about two months old, her parents separated, which caused Woodson to spend her early life in South Carolina, raised by her mother and grandmother. When she was seven years old, Jacqueline Woodson moved to Brooklyn, New York where she has resided ever since. She attended Adelphi University, where she received her BA in Literature, and has yet to drop her pen and paper. Jacqueline Woodson is an author who…

two sections of the English colonization were the New England and Chesapeake region. The New England area consisted of what is now currently Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The Chesapeake region was mainly Maryland and Virginia, even though the Carolinas and Georgia were considered part of the Chesapeake region as well. Although the two regions were both settled by Englishmen, the regions possessed major differences that could be traced back to the varying motives…

Upon discovering new lands west of Europe, many quickly went over in search of new opportunities and riches. Many of these travelers though were middle class and therefore could not afford to pay their way across upfront. This then led to the practice of indentured servitude, a common practice in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries where middle class men and woman signed binding contracts agreeing to work for a preselected amount of years after receiving free travel across the Atlantic…

feat that could not have been accomplished without the sacrifice and grueling work of the settlers. They left relatives, acquaintances, and most of what was familiar to them behind and braved the rough sea voyage to the New World. When they reached Virginia, the colonists of Jamestown were forced to construct shelters and procure what they needed to survive, in addition to adjusting to an unfamiliar climate. They also needed to establish and maintain a friendly relationship with the Native…

At the age of twelve, he was sent away to Donald Robertson’s School. There, he learned many things including Latin and Greek. He had an early career in politics by 1776 when he attended the Virginia Convention. At the Constitutional Convention, Madison proposed the Virginia Plan, which was the first plan to be reviewed at the convention. In order to get everyone on board with the Constitution of the United States, Madison wrote twenty-nine of the eighty-five essays that were anonymous…

Virginia is among the most developed states in the United States basing on the various important aspects. According to the research, this is one of the states that offers services and well-manufactured products that serves the across the world. In the US, this is among the top four currently states which are highly developed hence performing better in most of the aspects. It is evident Virginia is also one of the leading centers in terms of software development; hence, the high technology…