Connecticut

people lost their lives, others lost their friend, child, sibling, or loved ones. This country will forever be changed after this shooting took place. On December 14, 2012 A gunman was running rampage in Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown Connecticut. Many did not know how to initially react to the situation but a mother, Nicole Hockley, took leadership to help mend her own life along with those around her. With the four year anniversary of this tragic day being so close to the holidays,…

The Chesapeake Bay Area continent, is known for having “fresh water, fertile soil, and economical transportation, since that, agriculture, fishing, and hunting” (marinersmuseum.org) is very common. This continent can also be called an “estuary, which is a fresh water and salt water mixed body of water, in fact, it is the largest estuary in the United States” (chesapeakebay.net). Within this continent “Virginia and Maryland make it up and they worship God, in other words their religion is…

From Washington Irving, comes a story of horror, action, mystery, and witchcraft. He tells Telling the story of a man named Ichabod Crane, a dDetective from Connecticut. From his home, Ichabod travels to Sleepy Hollow, New York. His purpose is to investigate multiple murders under mysterious circumstances. People say a headless soldier from the Revolutionary war is behind the murders. Ichabod goes through a lot of adventures to find out the answer to the mystery, the scientific way...…..at least…

The quote “Girls can’t play sports” just got reversed. Women all over the world are making history, Billie Jean King effected women all over the world and the WNBA showed us that women will fight for what they believe is right. Women have risen from the suburbs and are now able to be called female athletes. Female athletes all over the world are making history that seemed impossible to. The day Mrs. Kings defeated Riggs at the Houston Astrodome showed a huge impact to man and women in the early…

In an interview for Playboy, Ray Kurzweil, A futuristic American scientist for Google has predicted that humanity will be on the path to immortality by the year 2029, with full immortality being accomplished by the year 2045. How will we achieve such a feat? The answer has been in front of Metal Gear players for years now, nanomachines son! The futurist explained his reasoning for choosing the year 2045 as the exact date, because according to his calculations, this is the point at which…

American Sign Language was influenced by France. Abbe de l’Epee was a priest in Paris. Once he visited a local minister’s home, he had seen two young girls were signing to each other. After that he realized that he can do something with that to help more deaf people. Therefore, in 1771, he established the first free educational institution of sign language in France. He modified the Old French Sign Language constantly, and then it became to his own form named Old Signed French. Thomas Hopkins…

The presidency of Roosevelt was remarkably reforming, with a great effort to transform the Republican Party into an active and liberal party. During his reign, he dissolved many monopolistic businesses. However, he was not against capitalism, but his act was to eradicate corruption by ending corrupt, unlawful practices. In this regard, his reign changed the federal in the economy and altered the presidency itself as discussed below: Before Roosevelt's era, business possessed ultimate power and…

Rob zombie, a director and singer from Haverhill Massachusetts, has frightened, and shocked audiences with his horror-rock music, and gruesome, mind boggling films. He has had an active career since approximately 1980. His many works of art include; House of 1,000 corpses, and the 2007 remake of Halloween. Rob studied at the Parsons School of Design. It was there he met his soon to be wife, Sean Yseult. Rob and his soon to be ex-wife started the original band “White Zombie”. (“Rob Zombie”)…

rulers, and the rulers made new religions and the Puritans had enough. During the 1600’s the Puritans pulled away from their church and traveled to the “New World”. They were called Puritans because they were pure. They migrated all over the place: Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, etc. These places were known as New England Colonies in the late 1600’s. Massachusetts is a main place that comes to mind when one thinks of the Puritans due to the Salem Witch Trials. Puritans were…

He was born February 24, 1817 in Hamden, Connecticut. His middle name is Morris. At the age of four he became an orphan. 1836 he was nineteen and joined Whitman-Spaulding missionary party. He then told them he wanted to be his own man. He was a mountain man during the very last years of fur trade who built Fort Buenaventura. In 1839 he married Pomona who is the daughter of the Ute chief Pe-teet-neet. By 1842 Miles and Pomona had two children. They named them William Miles and Mary Eliza.…