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    top most common jobs are metal and plastic workers, construction workers and others related, and engineering technicians, not including drafters ( senior job bank ). NH has many colleges,but the top ones are Dartmouth, University of New Hampshire, and Southern New Hampshire University. New Hampshire experiences a lot of flooding. It could be flash, main, river stem, and/or coastal flooding. They all occurred because of a lot of heavy rain. The two largest were in the years of 1963 and 1938,…

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    Our main target audience is the Westwind Neighborhood, in west Phoenix, AZ. However, we will also market to the rest of the Pendergast Elementary School district. Due to Pendergast District’s spans of 20 miles, for this event our secondary target audiences will only focus in the Amberlea, Desert Horizon, Desert Mirage, Pendergast, Sunset Ridge, and Villa de Paz neighborhoods. Not only are they closer to Westwind in proximity, all within West Phoenix and Glendale, but these neighborhoods have a…

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    7-17 1778 In 1775 Daniel Boone blazed his way into central Kentucky. He built a fort near the Kentucky River and christened it, Fort Boone. Soon American settlers began to move westward,they started settling at Fort Boone. With the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Hamilton ordered the British to arm the local Native tribes and Loyalists with weapons, and encouraged them to attack the American settlers in Kentucky. In February of 1778. Daniel Boone was captured by…

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    We see pictures of poverty on the news from many different communities across the nation, but often, little of this news coverage is given to the people living in Appalachia. The ABC 20/20 episode entitled A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains shines a much needed light on the daily struggles people living in Central Appalachia face. Watching Children of the Mountains was a sobering experience for me. The most surprising thing in this video was the drug abuse and drug dealing. It was…

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    Introduction Harlan County is located in southern Kentucky and is know for the mass history with coal. This has lead to the creation of the documentary titled Harlan County, USA (1976) by Barbara Kopple. Harlan County, USA is a documentary about a group of coal miners and their family that attempt to go versus the power company. The documentary is meant to show the strife that is faced by those seen as the lesser man and her advocating for worker rights. Kopple’s native goal was to film the…

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    BB&T Bank is a financial institution based out of Winston- Salem, North Carolina. This financial institution has been in business since 1872. They offer not only banking needs but insurance, lending and investments. BB&T vision and mission statements are as follow… BB&T mission statement covers “what” in the organization by stating their purpose which is to make the world a better place to live. Within the mission statement they give three examples on how they plan to execute their vision of…

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    In general, Reich’s book gives us an insight of the early trading amongst the countries and how they depended on each other countries imports for personal or their people use. Therefore, the ideas of finding new trading partners were always encouraging and the during the Renaissance or rebirth the people started becoming creative in finding a new trade route to reach India and China and a new world than their forbears of the Middle Ages (Reich, 2011, p. 3). Therefore, missionaries and traders…

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    After I graduated high school a few years ago, I attended the University of Alabama for a short time before I decided that I did not want to be in school at the moment, and would rather work until I was ready to go back to school. Being in the small town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was a culture shock to me being that I was born and raised in the suburbs of Washington D.C., and then moved to Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, where I always had plenty of activities to choose from. Coming to Union College…

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    During the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln has been elected for the presidency which has resulted in the secession of the state of Mississippi. There was some opposition to whether seceding was the right choice to make within the state of Mississippi because it would eventually result in a war. The state of Mississippi was unsure if they should wait on other Southern states to secede from the Union or start the movement themselves. With Mississippi being aware that they would not be able to stop…

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    Emily: Native Americans have always had strong relationships to land and many of these relationships have been shown throughout history. In 1794, Timothy Pickering wrote to United States secretory of war Henry Knox after months of trying to negotiate with the Native people, he wrote he had finally found a way to win control of the Ohio country. “Pickering secured a permanent peace with the Six Nations Iroquois and, equally important, he had received a cession of their claims to the Ohio Valley.…

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