Fairfield, Connecticut

Luna Smith sat down on her black leather couch with a cup of raspberry ice tea in hand. She turned to her right and picked up the TV remote from a glass side table. She then pushed the on button to turn on the flat screen TV after a long day at the courthouse of Virginia as a lawyer. She then pushed the rubber keys five and seven to turn on the CW since it was 8:55 (which is a channel made by the CBS and Warner Bros) to watch the new episode of Supernatural. (Supernatural is a show where two…

Newton! Newton is one of the most beautiful and calmest towns that I have ever lived in. It has the best restaurants and doughnuts! The town is also well taken care of and has great school districts along with many wonderful sports that start in middle school and are offered to the students. You don't see many run down buildings and all of the houses are nice and well taken care of. There are many wonderful reasons why you should move to Newton. First of all Newton is known for the the…

From around 1780 to around 1840, America struggled with the Constitutional Convention, Federalism and anti-federalism, the war of 1812 during the Jeffersonian age, the Jacksonian age, and the fight for equal right for all people living in America. Struggling through these events is what made America become the country it is today. In 1787, the Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the major dissuasions at the Convention was how the states would be…

Exotic Animals in Burke County? One night an exotic 40-pound cat named Tyra ran off in downtown Morganton and the owners needed people to help find her. Who knew that you could have an exotic cat that almost looked like a cheetah in Burke County? Did we allow exotic animals at the time? Tyra’s owners had her for four years and as I was not aware that you could have exotic animals in Burke County. Many of you probably don’t know, that the mayor of Morganton did go out and fee the cat and…

based on the population of the state (Greenberg, 38). The New Jersey Plan was proposed by smaller states to build a strong government with more power than the article based on the equal representation in national legislature (Greenberg, 38). The Connecticut Compromise was than created at the Constitutional Convention where lower and upper house of legislature was determined from population and equal representation (Greenberg,…

“People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower. This quote by former President Eisenhower, shows that the value of compromises is evident, but sometimes, compromising is not always the best course of action.…

Emily Morua Edwardo Pedregon English 4 April 20, 2016 Morua i Final Draft Basketball was invented by a physical education instructor named Dr. James Naismith in the early 1890s. He was challenged to come up with a new game that was able to be played indoors due to the cold weather. Back in the days before the actual basketball was invented, they would play with a soccer ball. The basket didn’t have a hole on the bottom of the rim just yet. So what they had to do was, climb up to the top of…

Daniel Hale Willams By; Erica Lamb Daniel Hale Willams was a man ahead of his time. He performed the first known open heart surgery in the United States, and also founded a hospital with an interracial staff during an extremely racial time in history. Daniel Willams was born Jan. 18 1856. He was born African American. At the time he was born, the civil war was still a few years ahead. But his family lived North, where slavery was illegal. So he had…

Published two years apart, J. D. Salinger’s “For Esmé - with Love and Squalor” and “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” contrast in content and in tone, with “Uncle Wiggily” following a meeting between two upper class women and “For Esmé” following a World War II veteran’s recollection of his past experiences. One major subject matter present in both stories, though, is that of the effects of war on one’s mentality, its inspiration drawn directly from Salinger’s own experiences in the second world war…

Wade and Griswold and Connecticut. In the case of Roe V. Wade, it banned abortions except when saving the life of the mother. Roe believe that his law violated her constitutional rights. In the session, a question was asked if women have the control of reproduction and did the court…