Idaho

As an adult, I can now appreciate how lucky my childhood was. Madison, Wisconsin as my home town has made me value the rich culture and opportunity that it offers. Madison is a town that fits many lifestyles. As with many diverse and dynamic towns, culture, sports, and food are what come to my mind when describing Madison. A liberal college town, Madison offers unique art galleries, music, festivals, museums, and various community events throughout the year. Growing up in Madison, automatically…

Forest fires in the West A wildfire is an instance of uncontrolled burning in brush, grasslands, or woodlands. Wildfires can threaten the lives of people, and animals. It will also destroy property and natural resources. A wildfire can occur anytime of the year, but will most likely occur during hot, and dry weather. Wildfires are characterized by thick smoke that can be seen miles away. These fires can burn for days, and weeks. They have the potential to wipe out an entire forest. There are 3…

Avi Selk (2017), author of the article, White classmate avoids jail in coat-hanger assault of disabled black teenager, for the Washington Post on February 26, 2017, reported on an incident in Idaho involving an unnamed, black, disabled, teenage student who was sexually assaulted by three white students while in a high school locker room. One of the white students went to embrace the unnamed victim in a hug while the second took the opportunity to shove a hanger into his rectum, and the third…

Shikata ga nai was a common phrase among Japanese Americans that means “it cannot be helped,” which referred to their social predicaments after Pearl Harbor was bombed (Wu 1345). Assorted important events that steered this transpired at that time. The internees all found ways to cope with the problem, though, such as playing baseball or creating art. Decades later, the government would compensate for their actions. Sending innocent people to internment camps is absolutely immoral and one of the…

The Price of Pink “Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they “would brag about how long and how much”: that boys would talk about their menstruations as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be “gifts, religious ceremonies” and sanitary supplies would be “federally funded and free”” (Valenti). The case for free tampons and other various sanitary products, or at east a lack of tax on such items, practically writes itself, unless it is being presented to those who don’t have…

That same year the first funding legislation is introduced by two senators (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization , 2016). Frank Moss was a Democratic Senator from Utah and Frank Church, a Democratic Senator from Idaho proposed a bill that would allocate federal funds for hospice programs (Frank Moss Biography, 2004; Frank Church Biography,2004). Both senators proposed a bill that would allocate federal funds for hospice programs, unfortunately the first federal…

Volleyball is one of the most popular sports in the nation. At the collegiate and olympic level volleyball brings out a whole bunch of people every year. Girls volleyball is very popular at the high school level also. Men’s volleyball at collegiate level is amazing, many of people really enjoy it. In the past, many girls have partaken in many boy sports such as football and wrestling, but boys can’t participate in only girls sports. Men's Volleyball needs to be a sport in which is played in high…

The Antler orogeny occurred in the Mississippian passive margin of the sialic North American continent in Nevada and probably in Idaho (Speed and Sleep, 1982). Speed and Sleep (1982) proposed an Arc-continent collision model for the Antler orogeny. In their model they assume that The Roberts Mountain Allochthon formed as a result of the large accretionary prism underthrusted by the continental slope and outershelf. The vertical loading and downflexing of the continental shelf by the allochthon…

women suffrage, they would attract more single women into the region. Other states soon followed Wyoming's footsteps, giving women full or partial suffrage before the 19th amendment in 1920. Colorado passed the bill in 1893, followed by Utah and Idaho in 1896. However it wasn’t until 1920, nearly a seventy years since the women's suffrage movement began did women…

President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive order 9066 ordering all Japanese- americans to evacuate the west coast, that approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans to go to internment camps. Japanese- Americans were treated harshly after the bombing of the Pearl Harbor. The bombing of the Pearl Harbor made Americans fear and despise them. The hatred towards Japanese-Americans was due to newspapers creating a scare for the American people, as well as the government restricting the rights of…