Kentucky

A simple man from Kentucky taught himself how to read and write, became a lawyer and eventually President. He divided the country and united it again. In one term he built the roadway to rights for African Americans that would eventually become The Civil Rights Movement. This simple man from Kentucky is Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President of these United States. Lincoln was a firm believer in equality and that just as it says in the constitution “all men are created equal” as visible in his…

As the United States grows in technology and cultures continue to mix, Americans are continuing to only focus on the big news, such as the newest iPad coming out or the violence going on around the country. J.D. Vance writes in his best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, how little people know about his type of people yet how many people are just like them. He discusses how their daily life is, how it changes throughout his childhood to how he is still…

J.D Vance is a tall, white man. He graduated from Yale Law School, and is principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm. Outwardly, it appears as if Vance has led a life of privilege, including an upbringing in upper-class America; however those were not the circumstances Vance was brought up in. In his book, Vance describes the psychological impact that being a child living in poverty had on him, and many others who live in similar situations. Despite the limitations Vance faced, he was…

Jefferson and Madison opposed Hamilton’s ideology by organizing the Democratic-Republican Party, which later led him to resign from Washington's cabinet. After his election as the Vice President in 1796, he opposed John Adams, and they secretly wrote Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, to nullify Alien and Sedition Acts. In what He referred to as “Revolution of 1800” after his election as the president, he managed to double the size of U. S. He saw the opportunity of acquiring the large…

funds, Highbridge Capital Management and a unit of Davidson Kempner, were part of the lender list. Alpha’s plan was to commit a couple hundred million dollars to help reclamations and water treatment. This would be used in five states: Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Barrett was worried that the money was insufficient and additional contributions depended…

Homelessness can be defined as “a temporary condition that people fall into when they cannot afford to pay for a place to live, or when their current home is unsafe or unstable.” (suitcaseslinic.org). Homelessness has become a serious issue in America, with 610,042 individuals found to be homeless in January 2013. 85% of homeless persons are individuals, but 15% are in family households. This makes the issue of homelessness even more drastic, with 33% of all homeless people being youths under…

In recent times, students assigned to SWRK 610 were given the task to submit a Power Point on Ethical Dilemmas in Supervision. The power point covered topics to include: Kentucky law (KAR and KRS), Social Work Laws and Codes, Legal Matters in Supervision, Decision Making Process, Coaching the Employee, and Supervisor’s Roles and Responsibilities. The Oxford dictionary defines ethical dilemma as, “A situation in which a person must choose between two courses of action of (apparent) equal moral…

Forced Founders Response Paper While American education has been teaching high-school students that the American Revolution was led to by events like the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Concord or the Proclamation of 1763, Woody Holton, a history professor from the University of South Carolina, decided to veer off in a new direction by expounding a revisionist theory through his book Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. In Forced Founders…

of risks. This year i have to make a decision about what college i want to attend next school year. I have the options of Murray State University, Western Kentucky University, and Madisonville Community College which i am able to take at a local campus a few miles down the road. Using the single-feature method, i would…

The environment is the world in which we live. My environment is Owensboro, Kentucky specifically. According to dictionary.com, there are four definitions basically summed up to the world around you. The environmental movement however wasn’t the happiest news for businesses. As people became more environmentally conscious words like biodegradable and recycling became household phrases. The environmentally friendly products became popular and coveted. Books like Silent Springs and Burning Rivers…