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All in all, it was pointed out that differences and inequalities exist between more affluent towns such as West Hartford and less affluent neighborhoods such as East Hartford and Hartford. Students attending schools in more affluent neighborhoods have better test scores and higher achievement goals than students studying in less wealthy districts. It was also shown that schools in the more affluent districts have better funding and resources due to the local property taxes that creates…

Nullification Crisis and the Hartford Convention: Voicing Diplomatic Frustration The Nullification Crisis and the Hartford Convention both brought up the problems in two different styles of life. The Nullification Crisis involved South Carolina trying to nullify the Tariff of Abominations. The Hartford Convention involved the New England Federalist Party, who met to discuss grievances against the decisions made by the federal government during the war of 1812. These different groups and events…

Dr. Ellis Ford Hartford (1905-present) is a 1947 graduate of the University of Kentucky, former Dean of the University school, and Dean of the community college system. Hartford began his education at Kentucky Wesleyan but after an injury pertaining to sports he decided to drop school and begin working at an oil refinery near Hammond and Gary, Indiana. Not long after he’d begun, he decided to instead move back to Kentucky where he received his teaching certificate at the Bowling Green State…

Maine and Acadia National Park Maine was a district of the state of Massachusetts until it became the 23rd state on March 15th, 1820 as part of the Missouri compromise (Hartford, 2006). Maine got its name because it was distinguished as the Mainland from islands offshore (History.com Staff, 2009). It is also known as the Pine Tree State. Maine is the only state whose name is a single syllable and is abbreviated as ME on maps. The state borders New Hampshire, the Atlantic Ocean, and some…

Nullification was enforced throughout the history of the United States in various places. Nullification gave states specific right to nullify the laws enforced by the federal government. Events such as The Compact Theory, Hartford convention were extremely important in contributing to today’s government laws. The Compact Theory was a law set among states towards the federation in which there will exist a government for common defense of every state. There will be regulation of commerce between…

Kontosis challenges the MIA’s determination the Hartford had not engaged in an unfair claims settlement practice. In support of her argument, Kontosis contends that it was an unfair claims settlement practice for Hartford to classify benefits received from the group policy and SSDI as other income under the association policy. Additionally, Kontosis alleges that it was an unfair claims settlement practice to seek reimbursement for the overpayment Hartford made as a result of not applying…

n 1970, engineers from Fraoli-Blum-Yesselman Associates began a project to design the proposed Hartford Civic Center Arena. The engineers came up with a unique roof frame design they called a space roof. The 300 by 360 ft. roof frame consisted of top and bottom square grids with joints 30 feet on center, connected by diagonal bars that caused staggered nodes on the top and bottom grid bars, resembling pyramid trusses when they were finished. This non-standard design was intended to save on costs…

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, also known as Harriet Beecher Stowe, was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was the sixth child of thirteen children. Two of them died as a child. She had seven brothers and three sisters. Her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, was a Presbyterian Minister. Her mother was Roxanna Foote Beecher. She died at the age of forty-one because of tuberculosis when Harriet was five years old. Following her mother’s death, Harriet was…

home. Stowe started her formal education at Sarah Pierce’s Academy. The academy was one of the first to encourage girls to study academic subjects rather than ornamental arts. In 1829, Stowe started off as a student at the school her sister founded: Hartford Female Seminary. Next, she became a teacher at the school, furthering her writing talents by spending hours composing essays. Harriet Stowe met her husband, Calvin Stowe, when she moved with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio at the…

Minority Never have I ever felt that I have an ethnic identity, and I have never known what it is like to belong to a minority group up until I came to Hartford. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines minority as a group of people who are different from the larger group in some way such as ethnicity or religion (“minority”). Via two encounters in Hartford, I realized that I also belong to an ethnic group, which had never determined my idnentity before. In Hungary, the population is not…