Colorado

high and working extremely hard to attain them. By applying and being accepted to the Honors Program at Colorado State University, I have already displayed my interest in continuing this trend in college and in my future career. Through the Honors Program, I will be given opportunities for research, leadership, and community service. I plan on making the most of all my opportunities at Colorado State University and beyond making me an excellent candidate for the Fort Morgan Elk’s Lodge…

the state of Arizona was the first state in our country to pass the popularized Civics bill, a law changing the high school curriculum by requiring all high school students to take and pass a United States civics test to graduate. The states of Colorado, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and 5 others following Arizona, passed analogous laws. The exam is similar to the Naturalization test that immigrants are required to take when applying for citizenship. It consists of questions like: What is the supreme…

quite often one-sided warfare and outright large-scale slaughter. The Utes, the earliest inhabitants of Colorado, fittingly enough lived throughout Colorado. Like many Greats Plains Tribes, Their diet consisted Primarily of Buffalo, with the odd gathered root or Vegetation to supplement it, theirs was a nomadic and frankly at times, aggressive Culture and even before the Arrival of Anglos in Colorado they were far from Stanger’s to armed conflict with their neighbors. They were also Exceptional…

On September 17th, 2004, a freshman of the University of Colorado at Boulder was found dead at a fraternity house. Lynn Gordon Bailey Jr. or known as “Gordie” was discovered dead at the Chi Psi Fraternity house at the university. Gordie was pledging for membership for the fraternity along with twenty-six other pledges. They all became part of a ritual of the fraternity where they were forced to drink excessive amounts of alcohol following racial slurs to be written on them. To begin the ritual,…

area code I did not recognize. I put the area code into Google and found out that it was a Colorado area code. I thought those two boys were just playing with me but I texted the number anyway saying, "Is this Isaiah?" Soon after I got a text back and it actually was Isaiah. We started talking over text messages and I asked him why he has a Colorado area code. I learned that he actually lives in Denver Colorado and he was just in town to see his cousin, Carlos, who lives in Houston. Although…

allow our country to get out of debt. Marijuana would do many things for a lot of people. For a few years now Americans’ have disputed on the legalization of cannabis, also known as marijuana. Recreational cannabis is legal in four states: Oregon, Colorado, Alaska, and Washington state. This November, five states will vote to legalize recreational cannabis: California, Massachusetts, Maine, Arizona, and Nevada. We’ve heard all the research and the majority of adults…

For example, in 2012 Colorado approved Amendment 64, which allows the use and possession of marijuana for persons 21 and older. There have been many studies done on the effects and aftermath of Amendment 64 in Colorado, some of which will be used in this paper to develop findings for the city of…

Senator Bennet strongly supports space exploration. There has been concerns on the possible budget cuts from the federal government for the space programs in Colorado. Additionally, the space industries have provided thousands of high-paying jobs to Colorado; as Bennet stated, “In fact, Colorado 's aerospace industry has already attracted more than 400 new companies and created close to 170,000 new jobs in the state, and we now rank first in the nation for private aerospace…

As a result both of their economies are growing, more jobs are being created, and less money is being spent by the police to arrest citizens for the possession of marijuana. Several states are keeping a close eye on Colorado and Washington to see what progress they make. Eventually, not necessarily any time soon, marijuana will be legal in all fifty states. There are some restrictions that have to be placed in order to protect people. These restrictions would be very…

I was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, raised in Texas, where I lived until summer of 2010. In 2010, I moved to Alabama, where I graduated High School May 2014. I am currently majoring in early childhood education as an undergraduate at University of Alabama at Birmingham. As a child, I grew up in eastern part of Texas. I attended schools in the Keller School District until middle school. Middle school year my family and I moved closer to family members, in Tyler, Texas, where I attended…