Delaware

citizens using marijuana as medicine purpose. California is the first state passed the law of legalizing marijuana in 1996 with 56% votes. However, the law also mentions the dosage and approved conditions to ensure the user’s health. Surprisingly, Delaware is one of the 23 states and the government passed the law in 2011 (23 Legal medical, n.d.). The problem is that some people may lose the opportunity for some better treatments. Marijuana is a natural occurring substance that is devoid of…

There are roughly 1,300 state, federal, and privately run prisons in the United States (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Depending on the location in the U.S., the state prison system ranges from nearly fifty percent under maximum amount of prisoners allowed to almost fifty percent over the maximum amount of prisoners allowed. The federal prison system in total is running approximately forty percent over maximum amount of prisoners allowed. The fact that both state and federal prison systems are…

unlike the Civil War demographic. The territories that formed the fighting militia who defeated England were not even considered States yet. Delaware, the first state, did not declare its statehood until six years after the Revolutionary War ended. Shortly after the war ended the colonies disbanded from any semblance of cooperation and unity until Delaware declared its statehood in…

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Guin shows the story of domestic abuse. Domestic abuse is defined as “violent or aggressive behavior within the home, typically involving violent abuse of a spouse or partner.” One in four women will experience domestic abuse in their life (Safehorizon). Marriages today, just like the town of Omelas, conceal the abuse. Women must decide to whether to stand up for themselves and walk away, or stay in the vicious cycle of domestic abuse. “With a…

After Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin in 1793, cotton could be processed quickly and cheaply. As a result, more cotton was grown and more slaves were needed to work on more acres of cotton fields. This was an unintended consequence for Whitney, who sought to reduce the need for slave labor, although his invention had the opposite effect. The spread of “King Cotton” impacted the Southern way of life politically, economically, and socially. It contributed to a political divide between…

negotiating with foreign powers, settlement of territories, and making war and peace. The New Jersey plan proposed that the seats in the congress would be represented equally among the states. So, smaller states such as New Jersey, New York, and Delaware benefited from the New Jersey plan because they had equal representation as larger states. The New Jersey plan also had the three branches known as the legislative, executive and judicial. The New Jersey plan preferred giving states the control…

Our sixth president, John Quincy Adams was born on July 11 in the year 1767, in Braintree, Massachusetts now known as Quincy, Massachusetts. John never went to school; he was tutored by his cousin James Thax, and by fathers lawyer, Nathan Rice. Adams was named after his mothers’s grandfather, Colonel John Adams, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, was also named. At the age 12, in 1779, John Quincy Adams started to write a diary, which he continued until just before he died in 1848. Most of his…

In Iowa, you can walk, ride, drive or fly in any direction inside of the state and run into at least one corn or bean field. In California or New York, you’ll more likely find yourself in a jungle, a concrete jungle that is. The point is, states and nations like California and New York are the victim of a problem called Urban Sprawl. Urban sprawl is the expansion of modern buildings and technology. You may think that “expansion” doesn’t seem like a bad concept. However, more of something always…

Bridging the nation and identifying with nationals whose lives the common gas industry has perpetually changed, Fox revealed wells that release fracking chemicals into groups' water supplies; normal gas handle that retch intense methane into the environment; and men, ladies and kids whose wellbeing has decayed subsequent to their terraces got to be "gaslands." The narrative's essayist and chief, Josh Fox, had been drawn nearer by a characteristic gas organization that was occupied with renting…

Swedish-American culture. The museum, first established in 1926, is the oldest Swedish-American Museum in the United States. Its formal dedication was on June 28th, 1938, which was the 300 year anniversary of the Swedish landing on the shores of Delaware. The building itself was based on a manor in Sweden, and the architect was a Swedish-American who combined both American and Swedish building designs. All of the information on the founding of the museum was also included in the museum itself,…