Fort Wayne, Indiana

find out if a student needs to take a particular class over in college. To enter into college, a student usually will take the SAT or the ACT Exams and usually there is a fee for taking these exams. In Indiana, the students' take the ISTEP + Exam. The seniors in high school have to take the Indiana Graduation Qualifying Exam in order for them to graduate. In my opinion, I totally do not agree with this exam, because going to school for thirteen years, which includes kindergarten, and getting…

Nicholas Stammen Mrs. Calhoun English 9 12 Dec. 2016 What Makes a Classic Literary Novel? Classics are not always boring; they can be enjoyable to read. Often times, readers consider a book a classic if it is old, teaches a lesson, and has been taught in school for many years. For many, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is deemed a literary classic because it contains these traits. Many people continue to relate to this timeless novel. To Kill a Mockingbird is a literary classic because…

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. His parents were divorced when he was still knee high to a grasshopper. His mother’s name was Nellie King and his father’s name was Donald king. He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When he was eleven he moved with his mother to Durham, Maine. Stephen king began to look for a job and eventually found a job in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. Stephen king went to two…

Upland, Indiana. Laura Van Ryn was coming back from the Fort Wayne campus of Taylor to the one in Upland. She was in a Taylor van when it was hit by a truck. Laura was coming back from working at a banquet that was honoring Taylor’s new president. There had been two different Taylor vans. Whitney was also in one of them after coming from working at the special dinner. The truck had crossed over the center median and crashed into the two vans. Laura was taken to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne,…

Harvester [Now Navistar], and Outboard Maine. The Zollner Pistons began in 1937 in Fort Wayne, Indiana and began playing as an independent in 1939. In 1941 The Zollner Pistons joined the National Basketball League. The Zollner Pistons were a very popular franchise, winning the world championship in…

For the last two years, I have had the opportunity to call UIC home, during my first year in college I attended Indiana Institution of Technology at Fort Wayne. Transferring in was a huge adjustment, I had just come from a school where I was the only African-American female in the majority if not in all of my classes. I felt as if I was I was isolated in an environment I wanted to call home. Coming to UIC was the best decision I made throughout my collegiate career, UIC not only offered my major…

Johnny Bright was born on June 11, 1930 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was raised by his mother in a working class neighborhood, and was the second oldest of five children. Him and his four brother were all very involved in sports growing up. Johnny attended Central High School in Fort Wayne. While he was there he lettered in basketball, football and track, also he twice led his basketball team to final four appearances in the state championship and led the football team to the City title in 1945.…

Puerto Rico is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea and the largest insular territory of The United States. As a territory of the U.S., Puerto Rico has many advantages for trade with the mainland while also posing complex challenges. As a territory of the United States, shipments between the two nations are free of import duties. The island has few natural resources and imports virtually all the raw material need to supports its manufacturing industry. In 2014, RB imported 186.7 tons of…

killer; what an oxymoron. Dean Arnold Corll, The Candyman, was able to obtain these victims to commit these crimes by the aid of David Brooks and Wayne Henley. There were many factors that led to the cause of Corll’s fascination of killing teenagers, but the leading cause was his unhappy childhood. He was born December 24, 1939, in Fort Wayne, Indiana; by his parents Arnold Edwin Corll and Mary Robinson. Both parents were overprotective and very strict. The couple married and divorced twice;…

rattlesnake. It was said that Johnny was seen by helping a wounded wolf, and kept him as a pet. An old hunter swore he’d seen Johnny playing with a bear family. As the years passed , Ohio became too crowded for Johnny so he moved to the wilds of Indiana. There he could continue to clear land for his orchards. When some settlers began arriving, Johnny recognized them as kids. Now they had children of their…