Huntsville

In the early summer of 2015 my mom, sister and I went to a family reunion in Huntsville Alabama. This was the second family reunion that I had been to in my life. I was happy to go up and see family that I had never seen before or heard about. Who knew that I had family in the state of Alabama? The first night of the reunion, my cousins and I were just hanging out talking about sports and the town that they live in. We were driving around the town and Shaun had mentioned going to the Mall the…

Mexico. Wernher von Braun, civilian, selected to be in charge of the nation's Missile Program that created the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled Americans to the Moon, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville,…

For example, The Huntsville newspaper was heavily in favor of women and against the Scottsboro boys. The paper described the women as being anguished and in serious conditions and boys were described as “beasts unfit to be called human” (piper). The Afro American newspaper…

Barney Ronald Fuller Jr. a fifty-eight-year old Caucasian male is the latest death row offender that has been executed. Fuller was executed on Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas. He was pronounced dead at 7:01 pm EDT. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2004 for the murder of his neighbors Annette and Nathan Copland. Texas being the very conservative and passionate state that it is, approves of the death penalty. Texas is a state that is known for its…

Grow up in poverty is rough. I often had no transportation, so I had to depend on the bus or my two feet to get me everywhere. I remember hand washing my socks and underwear and our lights being cut off. The word poverty is one I can easily explain to you without the dictionary definition and will through my story of being poor. Catching the bus to Middle School, I had to wait an hour for the bus to arrive, so I could get home. Some days, I would get rained on, burn up in the sun, or freeze…

her life be spared on the basis that she was under the influence of drugs at the time of the murders. Ms. Tucker stated, “She would not have committed the murders had she not taken drugs and she was now a reformed person.” The warden of Texas's Huntsville prison testified that she was a model prisoner and that, after 14 years on death row, she likely had been reformed. The board turned her down on January 28, 1998. (King, 2007). Ms. Tucker was the first women to woman to be executed in the…

To whom this may concern, Good evening, I am Samantha Thornton, a recent graduate from our Nation’s first private military academy, Norwich University. After graduation I decided it was best to continue my studies for graduate school in my hometown of Tampa, Florida. While attending Norwich University I established a student-lead organization called Violence Intervention Peer Advocates (V.I.P.A.) dedicated in not only providing a safe haven for victims of sexual assault and interpersonal…

In 1931 a group of homeless young black teenagers were riding a train going from town to town in search of work. While riding a train, that would stop in Scottsboro after the fight, the young men engaged in a fight with a group of young white men on a train. After said fight, while the police were investigating the fight, two young white women, that were riding the train illegally, claimed that the group of 9 black teenagers had raped them. This dynamic of two young white women accusing 9…

Management, 13th edition" by Robert L. Mathis and John H. Jackson. Section 2: Content. The situation at the Norwalk plant is that Mary Alice is the HR generalist involved with the closing of the plant, the relocation of some personnel to the Huntsville plant and the laying off of approximately 200 local employees. Given the fact that Mary Alice has worked there for the last 6 years, developed friendships amongst the employees and is knowledgeable about the company's plans to relocate makes…

the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. The first cooperative human space flight project between the United States and the Soviet Union…