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Overview The Religious Freedom Restoration Act is a bill that was signed by Bill Clinton 1993 (Breitbart 2015). There are twenty-one states that currently use this bill: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia (State Religious Freedom 2015). Indiana and Arkansas are the most current of the listed states that have…

The United States Forest Service was created at the turn of the twentieth century to help ensure the forest and lands of the US were taken care of. This was the first time leaders were chosen because of their knowledge of nature instead of some bureaucracy non sense. The Forest Service was staffed with university educated foresters chosen because of their expertise of the forest. Before the US Forest Service was formed politicians managed the land that belonged to the government and this was…

What Impacts do Robots Really Make? In “All Can Be Lost,” Nicholas Carr, writer of NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and Wired, warns that the advancement in technology can lead to the deterioration of human skills. Carr explains that humans are so involved in finding ways for robots and drones to do their jobs that they are forgetting how to innovate and translate information into knowledge. Losing the ability to translate information also limits humans from being able to think deeper and try and…

"I acted like I didn't care," she says. "I didn't even cry. For about a year I didn't want anyone to see how I felt."” I had crawled right back into the shell I was in before Camp Rainbow Gold and with my friends from CRG being spread throughout Idaho, meeting up with all of them was almost impossible. When I was unable to see my CRG friends, I would begin to feel self conscious around my peers and even around my family once again. No one was allowed to know how I was handling the situation or…

Derrius and Derrick met when they were young kids growing up in Idaho. Derrick was an innocent little boy until he got possessed by Derrius. He was an easy target for Derrius who was evil and soon began to do bad things to those around him. Growing up Derrick had very few friends. In the third grade Derrius mysteriously moved into town. Derrick never knew exactly where he lived or where he had come from. They soon became inseparable friends. One day Derrick asked, “ Derrius where did you…

Another hot summer in Idaho at another family reunion. I chased after my dad and brother’s cloud of dust; reving my ATV’s (all terrain vehicle) engine I whipped around the land my great great uncle homesteaded on. My confidence grew as did my speed until my wheel caught and spun me right into a log that pierced through the fender and into my leg. It was the first time I ever blacked out. When I came too a few seconds later I was alone; high on the trails of the Sawtooth mountains, blood gushing…

You hear the roaring waters, birds chirping, and watching leaves fall; you know you are in Montana by the Bitterroot River. This river is forty-two miles in length. As you walk barefoot in the shallow water you will see tadpoles, mossy rocks, and gorgeous rainbow trout. Although the Bitterroot River passes close by to many residential areas, it is a terrific place for wildlife viewing. The Bitterroot River flows from South to North, and can be very high in the Summer. My father, Cory,…

president was Henry Clay. The Whigs used the slogan “Who is James K. Polk?” because he was not well known (Freidel). Polk supported the annexation of Texas and wanted to negotiate with the British to take control of the Northwest states (Washington, Idaho, and Oregon). Polk was a slave owner but had an idea to add Texas as a slave state and Oregon as a free state to the Union. This kept the House of Representatives balanced (Miller). This idea allowed Polk to keep support from the South and…

Committing a heinous crime, such as murder, does not necessarily make someone evil. Sometimes limits can be pushed and lines will get crossed causing lives to be cut short. A person can murder someone due to self defense, jealousy, revenge or some type of mental illness. In this case, insanity played a major role for the main character in, The Tell-Tale Heart, when he killed a man due to the fact that he was obsessed with his old neighbor’s eye. Although some may think that people who commit…

Oh How the Times Have Changed Shaunty Garcia BYU-Idaho Oh How the Times Have Changed Have you ever seen society turn something that could potentially be good into something negative or bad? Well in these two writings we can see two big examples from today’s world doing just that. How is it possible that “bad things” slowly turn or seem normal? As we look through these pieces keep an open mind of how often this occurs in your life. In the article by Sherry Turkley "Can You Her Me Now…