Colorado

Ever since I was a little kid, I have always been a highly motivated individual. Striving for perfection has never been a foreign concept to me. Unfortunately, being a perfectionist has created some issues within my academic career. With time being a restraint on multiple tests, I have left a plentiful amount of answers blank trying to make sure every detail is correct. Despite this, I have still maintained high A’s in every one of my classes. As big of a problem as this was in my first years of…

Term Paper There has been numerous cases and articles that have come up in the past years that impacted communities or the national as well as internationally because of the situation that left customers being discriminated upon by the business owners. However, these cases are started to increase as of lately. The main topic that is at the root of this situation is that of the refusal of services of customer’s base on their sexual orientation. Some cases have seen some business paying fines in…

The author, Ruben Donato is a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder (Donato, 2007). He also wrote the book The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era. As well as the article “ Legally White, Socially Mexican”, including seven other articles. (NEPC, N/A) The majority of the work he has done is focused on the life of the Mexican American, and the struggle of not being recognized, accepted, or respected by America. How that affects the social,…

This fall CSC started a high school race team, I now drive down to Denver from Fort Collins to practice three days a week. Sailing naturally is a very expensive sport from getting the boat to buying the equipment you need to be successful. Because Colorado is not a state that is big into sailing, traveling is a big part of the sport so we can compete against other sailors. If I was to be given the scholarship I would put it towards the cost of traveling to regattas. As of right now my team and I…

off, as well as the amount of water it takes from an already depleted Colorado River. On top of the environmental problems, the generating station has proven to be a danger to the local Navajo Tribe’s health. The Navajo Generating Station must convert to more green ways of producing…

served a various amount of purposes. The American bison played a crucial role in the native American tribe’s ways of life here in Colorado. The American Bison also made an impact not only on the settlers of Colorado but on the north American prairie. On the verge of extinction, the bison was able to repopulate with help with Americas National Parks. After sometime Colorado cultivated its own herd of genetically pure bison. In May of two thousand sixteen president Barrack Obama named the Bison…

What has been the general relationship between the Federal Bureau of Reclamation and the Western States and their politicians? The relationship between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Western States is that of disagreement and compromise. According to the source “Watershed: A Separate Totality”, in chapter one, as the Administration’s review teams worked to finalize their recommendations on the water projects, in 1977, there were certain interests at work within the government that were not in…

driving, or DUI, in Washington decreased 12% from 2012 to 2013 (Washington State Patrol, 2014). Conclusion To sum up, the example of successful legalization practice of marijuana does not contribute to the increase criminal rates in both Washington and Colorado rates. It had opposite effect while the number of criminal rates, car fatalities or selling drugs to the youth persons only declined. Such positive statistics prove that legalization of marijuana will benefit to the safety of the…

One of the big problems that is also out there is that many don 't feel that the issue of DUI penalties can be tackled effectively and consistently. For example, in Colorado for your first DUI offense you lose your license for 3 months. However, in other states you can lose your license as little as 2 days up to 1 year. The penalties of not only losing your license differ, but also the level of Blood Alcohol content…

those laws do not necessarily make it illegal. Some states actually offer tax incentives to encourage people to setup their own rainwater collection systems. There have been similar misunderstandings about rainwater collection laws in Colorado. Before 2009, Colorado had strict laws that basically made collecting rainwater illegal. But the state later introduced laws that made it legal to use some rooftop rainwater collection systems and to set up rainwater retention basins at new development…