Howard County

William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States of America. Taft was a kind and humble man from Ohio. He excelled at being a judicial figure which ultimately propelled him to becoming president. Taft managed to accomplish many things while he was president, but had a hard time living up to the presidency of his predecessor. His ability to see virtually every issue from each side made him very unbiased which was a very unique trait rarely seen in any president before him. Taft…

of the American people. Former President Calvin Coolidge and future President Donald Trump both can and have run businesses efficiently, even though their personalities differ extremely. John Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth Notch, Windsor county, Vermont, on July 4, 1872 to John Calvin Coolidge Sr. and Victoria Josephine Moor. His father had a statewide reputation as a farmer, storekeeper, and public servant. He was also a tax collector and he served in the Vermont House of…

that the county fire marshall office as a whole orginization. Every other system in the state is under the fire marshalls office. Be able to centeralize it that FMO represents the county seat. Carrying out the authority of the county. The whole idea was to say that the county seat who has the authority of the county. It was passed in 2007 and it keeps getting worse some…

president of the United States. He attended law school in his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio after graduating high school. He easily passed certification to be a lawyer in 1880, and a few months later he was appointed as the assistant prosecutor of Hamilton County. 2 years later the president appointed him to the position of Collector of Internal Revenue in Ohio’s first district. In 1887 Taft was appointed to be a judge for Cincinnati by the Ohio governor. The Ohio governor tried to get president…

As a teacher in Cabarrus County I am very much aware that his letter will probably be viewed as the rants of a disgruntled parent. I am not disgruntled I am disheartened by the athletic department at Northwest Cabarrus High School. I have been an active supporter of the athletic department for eight years. It was no secret I was disappointed my son was cut from the basketball team his senior year after having played since seventh grade and two years on the varsity team. However I was most…

Melissa Wong
March 11, 2015
Andrew Forrester
DISC 1313
 Escaping Heartland America
 Pawhuska, Oklahoma, a town of a little less than four thousand people, is where Tracy Lett’s play turned movie August: Osage County is set. Beverly Weston, the patriarch and a heavy alcoholic, has disappeared and eventually commits suicide, leaving behind his psychotic wife, Violet, in the care of a newly hired caretaker, a Native American named Johnna. After their father’s disappearance, Beverly’s adult…

August: Osage County-Alesha Jeter ITR 1 Summary: In Mrs. Bickert’s class, Modern American Drama, we have been reading plays about the struggles of American society. One of the that we have read is a play called Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill. This play tells the story about a family struggling with addiction, and they’re hard and eventually vain attempt to fix things. They play in a drama and is semi-autobiographical. The play that I read to compare in comparison, is a dark…

The Klamath River Basin has been fraught environmental resource management issues that have been both highly politicized and publicized in the American West. The problems of water allocation in this region have been the result of conflicting interests between fishermen, tribes, wildlife, and farmers, which rely on scarce water resources for their livelihoods. Doremus and Tarlock(2008) refer to the Klamath Basin as a “problemshed” because its social and ecological problems pervade all of its…

Howard Hughes remains one of the great entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. His business acumen and influence extends far beyond the American aviation Industry, which he is famously known for developing. Among the wealthiest Americans while he was alive, his business ventures included airlines, film production, real estate, tooling and even hospitality. The keys to his success were his keen ability to seek and exploit business opportunities, interest in hiring top talent as well as his…

Howard Hughes; billionaire, playboy, aviator, businessman, movie producer, but today most commonly commemorated as a social recluse. First off, what is a recluse? Well, a recluse is a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society. Now, the question of the day has become, how did Howard Hughes go from a rich affluent playboy to a total germaphobic, spending his life hiding in a Las Vegas hotel room? Well, just like Justin Bieber, fame and wealth took a negative toll on Howard Hughes. Howard…