Indiana

The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green, you will like All the Bright Places, by Jennifer Niven, because in both books the characters go on a thrilling adventure, that end in sorrow. In, All the Bright Places, Finch and Violet explore their state, Indiana, for a school assignment. In, The Fault in Our Stars, Augustus takes Hazel on an adventure to Amsterdam to see her favorite author. During these adventures, the characters in both books realize that they are in love with one another. At the end…

because of this. Every plant usually produces one stem, but if the plant gets cut or it is stepped on, many stems will form. This makes garlic mustard worse for the environment because zebra mussels do not necessarily harm Indiana, just some bodies of water. Garlic mustard affects Indiana in a large way because it is an easily spread…

Throughout my career, I have taught a wide array of classes, ranging from remedial mathematics to AP Calculus. In my classroom, I integrate authentic real-world contexts in order to prepare them to use mathematics beyond the classroom: throwing “basketball” paper wads to determine the best mathematical model, performing “Function Aerobics” as the graphs shift, and measuring football lights outside using trigonometry. In “Geometry Store Geometry”, my students explored the surface area and volume…

curfew should be around 8PM on school and non-school nights. There is currently a debate going on right now about times with curfew and whether or not one should be kept in place. This debate is happening all over the United States, not just in Indiana. Everyday teenagers are killed or injured in motor vehicle accidents driven by fellow teenagers. Another motivation for implementing curfews on juvenile drivers it helps to eliminate the possibility of driving under the influence. According to…

Health Promotion Paper The need I identified in my Windshield Survey was the absence of inpatient drug treatment facilities in Vincennes, Indiana. Lack of inpatient treatment resulted in patients being turned away from Good Samaritan Hospital and referred to facilities that are an hour or more away from Vincennes. This need is associated with the Healthy People 2020 objective of Substance Abuse which is aimed at reduction in the number of teens using alcohol or any illicit drugs, (Allender,…

located entirely within an urban residential neighborhood. The facility houses all the special populations of female offenders in the state. The pregnant, sick, mentally ill, youthful, elderly, and high-profile female offenders are all housed at the Indiana Women’s Prison” (GOV, 2015). Up until this point, female prisoners were house with their male criminal counterparts. They were often located in the basements or spare rooms of other prisons. There was no type of feminine specialty care for…

examples of what individuals do for people who don’t look and/or act the same way. Indiana Wesleyan has devised several effort and course maps with several themes. There are committees, community partnership and outreach groups, campus events, extracurricular events, policies, trainings, and many more ways to help individuals to connect and feel a sense of belonging. In order for “outsiders” to truly feel welcome at Indiana Wesleyan, we must show them kindness and love them as ourselves I wish…

Open Carry vs. Concealed Carry What is open and concealed carry? Open carry is the right to carry a firearm, usually a pistol of some sort, on your hip inside a holster. Concealed carry is where a person wears a pistol in a holster inside the waistband. Some of the most common pistol brands are Glock, Smith & Wesson, Colt, Sig, Springfield, Kimber, Ruger, Beretta, Remington, and Browning. The pistol most law enforcement uses are Glocks. Different calibers are available but most common is .40…

While the concert was going on, we (the audience) were listening very attentively. I met many other students, all from Indiana State University, that were there for their music class like I was, however we did not treat the event like we were just there because we “had to be,” so we had something to write about for a grade. The entire audience was very respectful to the…

I was only ten years old in Indiana, but I remember this failure like it was yesterday. Me and my siblings were outside next to a snow tunnel, we had built the night before, and because of the lake effect in Indiana even the snow had turned to solid ice. I was the first one to go inside and when I did the ice gave way; in less then a second two hundred pounds of ice came…