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organizations, I have learned cooperation, teamwork and time management. By serving as an officer, I have also gained responsibility, as well as problem solving and communication skills. FFA has opened doors to new leadership roles at both a local and multi-county level. I have been given the opportunity to serve as Teutopolis Chapter and Section 20 Reporter and Vice President. The FFA Organization provides opportunities in leadership as well as activities, contests, and conferences. I enjoy…

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…

Medina, Minnesota, “a prosperous, suburban edge City” is the place I call home. Now, living in the 82,575-person college town of Bloomington, Indiana, makes my quaint little hometown of 5,221 seem irrelevant. Being away from home for the first time in my life makes me appreciate the state of Minnesota more than I ever expected; I can even say that I miss my little area of the world, Medina. Initially when presented with this project I thought I would focus on Minneapolis, a city of 400,070,…

Rebellions never begin well. Their words are ringing in my head once more. Trudging through mud in a godforsaken county in Pennsylvania – blood and bodies scattered, artillery pellets entrenched in the ground - I hope this is just the beginning. The Confederacy would pull through; I’d be dead if it didn’t. There’s fewer places in the world more beautiful than where I hail from, in the rural, rolling hills of the Southern States. My hometown of Walhalla, South Carolina, is perched above the…

Case Description The Merrifield Commercial Realization Area (CRA) projected started on April 2009, which it is known as The Mosaic District as well. Because this project, the first Community Development Authority (CDA) was created, and it made sure that the CRA’s principles provided a coordinated approach to address the needs and opportunities of a changing development environment, while ensuring that public dollars are contributed only when essential to realize revitalization. Also, the CDA…

Bill Hickey is my Great Uncle on my mom’s mother’s side. My grandmother and her siblings grew up in castledermot, county Kildare Ireland. The Irish Parliament met in Castledermot on 18 June 1264 for the first time. The oldest window in western europe that is still intact can be found in Castledermot from the ruins of a Franciscan Monastery. The current population is 885 people. Bill grew up in kildare and many of his songs are about Kildare. He typically reminisces on the old days of Kildare in…

The Vigo County Crime Victim Assistance Program (VCCVAP) assists victims of crime in the Terre Haute, Indiana area. The VCCVAP was founded in 1988, and has been providing victims with a sense of security and assistance ever since. The VCCVAP obtains all of the police reports from the Terre Haute Police Department, West Terre Haute Police Department, and the Vigo County Sherriff’s Office. The legal advocates read through every single police report and recognize the victim. Since the program has…

massive size of the land. I don’t mean to be morbid, but Allegheny Cemetery is my place of choice for this essay. The cemetery was incorporated in 1844 and is the sixth oldest rural cemetery in America. It encompasses 300 acres of luscious Allegheny County land. This hilly landscape is the essence of Pittsburgh. The landscape is naturally groomed by a multitude of deer and wildlife that graze the territory. The multiple ponds and innumerable trees just add to the picturesque landscape that so…

I have currently resided in Olmsted Township since May of 2015. Previously I lived in Elyria going to Lorain County Community College. I moved to Olmsted Township to be closer to Central School of Practical Nursing. When I was growing up I moved around very frequently. We never lived in one place for more than a year. I grew up around the Akron area until I moved up to the Cleveland area my sophomore year in high school. I am honestly very glad my family moved away from the Akron area to Avon.…

Almost everyone, especially children, absolutely loves visiting the zoo. It is cost friendly compared to paying to see animals in the wild. People get to catch a glimpse of the exotic animals that he or she can only see on TV documentaries, or maybe dreamt of when their parents read them stories like The Jungle Book as a child. People’s eyes fill with excitement when they get to go see the lions, tigers, and bears. However, the animals are less than enthused. While I think that zoos are…