Fairfax County

the Big Sky program is a collaborative endeavor among high school science teachers and scientists at UM’s (University of Montana’s) Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) and Department of Chemistry. To date, over 400 students across seven counties, two states, and two American Indian reservations have completed the curriculum and conducted indoor air quality research that has resulted in an overall heightened awareness of indoor air quality’s impact on our health.” (The…

I am a normal student like others, I love the school system and everything. I am not here to complain about anything I just wanted to know a student’s point of view on some of the school things that indirectly affecting students. For example the school schedule its way to early our school starts at 7:20am, but school bus comes to pick us up at 6:3yet th5am. Due to the early bus schedule some of students needs to wake up around 5am early in the morning. What is affecting all the teenager’s sleep…

In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the differentiation between the town and the country is a great, lurking source of conflict between characters, often in regards to the class-distinction characteristic of Victorian society. Location proves to be a serious contention of Lady Bracknell’s as she considers Jack’s engagement to Gwendolen, assumptions about the city and country exacerbate the rift in Gwendolen and Cecily’s friendship, and the obligations of both places cause the…

The job of a police officer can be a very dangerous profession. During the course of their responsibilities, officers face many perils. Emergency pursuits of fleeing suspects is one of those perils. Police pursuit is often a possibility required to stop criminals; however, these pursuits pose a danger not only for officers, but also for average citizens who are in the path of the chase. Police pursuits occur when a suspect tries to escape using a vehicle while an officer is trying to arrest him.…

not believe him. Westerberg told them his social security number and real name. Eventually, McCandless’s family received a phone call about Chris. They had not previously connected the story of the hiker with Chris. Sam McCandless went to the Fairfax County Police Department and identified Chris from a picture. Walt McCandless remises about his family and Chris as a…

Around the American Revolution, it was controversial how it should be run .Of these one of these debates was about which government the United States should adopt. Two types of people were involved in this controversy; there were Anti-Federalists and Federalists. The Federalists would rather have a stronger central government while the Anti-Federalists preferred more power to go to the individual states. In order to reach a compromise of this national debate, Roger Sherman, an extremely…

Police brutality in the United States has become an issue that has gained the public 's attention in countries across the globe. Police brutality has been defined as the use of any force exceeding what is reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful purpose. Police officers are entrusted with the protection of their community, although recently they have abused their power as a way to brutally assault often innocent civilians and get away with it. As of April 27th 2015 police throughout the…

In the paragraphs post ceding the entry, I will be touching on the issues of water scarcity both throughout the world as a whole, and the U.S. in particular. Various solutions have been proposed, but which will best suit the greater population. You can expect different opinions from different points of view, as well as my own. Toward the end of the twentieth century global warming, a surprising factor, began to warm the earth’s atmosphere at a high acceleration (Levin). Due to the fact that…

Virginia native, husband, father and to some a national hero. Marshall’s legacy lives on and we are reminded time and time again why he was such a fundamental Supreme Court Chief Justice. John Marshall was born on September 24, 1775 in Fauquier County, Virginia. He grew up in a small log cabin. His parents were Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. His father was a close friend of George Washington and worked with him as a surveyor. His mother was related distantly to, Thomas Jefferson.…

stay in line. Many school districts are now authorizing and incorporating surveillance cameras into their schools, willing to sacrifice the privacy and freedom of their students in in the interest of greater control. One such school district is Fairfax County, where the decision to allow cameras in schools provoked much controversy. One opponent of the cameras explained that rather than creating an atmosphere of respect and trust, the cameras tell students that they are being watched, and that…