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together, she had to make a decision right then and there. The impossible decision she was making was as to where and whom she was going to trust her child’s life with. Kandi decided to put her faith into the doctors at the Children’s Hospital in Denver, Colorado. After potentially deciding her son’s future as well as fate, she therefore called my dad, Craigg, to tell him the horrific news. Once things finally got settled and ready to send to his new more experienced doctors, my brother and…

American Foreign Policy is a broad topic; however, in this paper I will discuss Condoleezza Rice’s role as Secretary of State in President George W. Bush’s second term and address ways in which she carried out policy-decisions in Iraq as well as discuss how she viewed her role in the decision-making process; and I will examine the relationships she had with President Bush and members of the National Security Council. It is important to know that Condoleezza Rice became one of the most powerful…

In the film, The Quest for a Homeland, it focuses on two figures who each wanted to reclaim the Southwest in their way. Rodolfo Gonzales, better known as “Corky,” from Denver, Colorado was successful in rallying the youth of the Chicano Movement. His poem, I am Juaquin, inspired a national community of Latinos. His encouragement to gather and fight for change in communities inspired the youth. The youth responded by fighting for issues they cared about, specifically pushing for education reform.…

House arrest and electronic GPS supervision are types of alternative sentencing to limit the offenders of committing future crimes. The electronic GPS (electronic device or ankle bracelet monitors) were introduce to supervise all the movement made by the offenders. As a result, the house arrest or home detention allows the offenders to continue with their normal activities such as work, school, shopping, etc. Perhaps, these activities are supervising by officers with some rules and restrictions.…

Beloved and Pearl, the two spirit-like characters of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, share one important theme for the main characters of Sethe and Hester. They are both people that are a consequence of an unfortunate event, that of adultery and premature death, that serve as a sign of a priority that Hester and sethe must take care of. For Beloved, Sethe's priority is to begin to stop denying the past and facing it and for Hester, Pearl serves as reminder…

volunteers with only a few months under their belts-go through intense, rigorous, and extremely important training. What could happen if firefighters just did the minimum amount of training required and that was all they trained? THE DENVER DRILL On 28 September 1992, in Denver Colorado, a three-alarm fire broke out. During attempts to locate and rescue survivors, Mark Langvardt, a 16-year veteran firefighter, was separated from his crew due to a floor collapse on the second story. Unable to…

A block plan that I would develop would incorporate my love of sports and my intended major of economics. For my three and a half week course, I would run a class titled Sports and Economics. I would break down the course by studying the early years of the NFL in week one which were 1920-1934, the middle years which go from 1935- 1970, and finally the present years which go from 1971- until now. In week one, I would cover the creation of the NFL and the financial impact it had on the economy…

in Atlanta, Georgia in May of 1968, but raised in Toronto, Canada. She made a degree at Queen’s University, and majored in political studies and sociology. She then moved on to study at the College of Culinary Arts at Johnson & Wales University in Denver, Colorado. ONce she graduated from there, she went back to Canada where she worked at Inn on the Twenty. Olson traveled all over the United States and ended up in Niagara Falls, where she met her husband, Michael Olson, also a chef. Her work…

Peyton Manning is one of the most dominant quarterbacks in NFL history. His social statuses can be divided into two categories: achieved status and ascribed status. An achieved status is one which has been acquired by someone through skills, abilities and hard work, and can be changed by a person. An ascribed status, however, is not able to be changed since it is a status that a person is born with or had no control over. Peyton Manning is a Caucasian man born in New Orleans, Louisiana in…

National Model United Nations in New York City! Community service was never a requirement at my high school, however after my summer internship at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, I realized just how important it was. The summer of my freshman year I was chosen to complete a prestigious paid internship at the Zoology department for the Denver Museum. Although at the time I was unclear about what I wanted to study my passion always seemed two steps ahead! I began that internship in…