Kentucky

presidency, while emancipating slavery and being the savior of the nation while it was at war with itself. President Lincoln held presidency that all nations strive to achieve today. On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgeville, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. In like manner, his parents were born into undistinguished families. By the same token, his father was able to provide a sensible living as a frontiersman for the Lincoln family. Abraham was the middle…

The "Abraham Lincoln Companion" covers a lot of events that happened while Lincoln was in office. Abraham Lincoln goes down in history as our six-tenth President of the United States of America. He also is known for the Emancipation Proclamation, which set the slaves free. He also is the president who had to dealt with and ended the Civil War, and he was successful of keeping the South apart of the Union. Lincoln was a strong and poised president that the United States of America needed during…

Evidently, Kentucky’s restraining order causes doubt and Wigand perceives it as another obstacle produced by B&W and as a source of danger for the well-being of his family. In spite of the potential repercussions of violating the restraining order from Kentucky and the attorney general’s assertion that Wigand carries no obligation to violate the order, Wigand still decides to testify. When Bergman offers that things could have…

Kia Young Interview Questions: 1. You took the initiative to get out of your comfort zone and go to college 18 hours from home, and ultimately catching the travel bug after you began school. What helped you have the courage to stick with your decision to start exploring the world? I was born and raised in the Houston, TX area, but my family always took road trips to different places. It started at a very young age, so I believe that’s why I’ve always had a wandering and curious spirit. Texas…

minimum-wage workers in the country. Today, more than 160,000 fast-food restaurants feed more than 50 million Americans each and every day, generating sales of more than $110 billion dollars each year. Some of these restaurants include McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dairy Queen, Subway, Pizza Hut, Burger King, and Taco Bell. McDonald’s is the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, generating $40 billion annually. They serve approximately 69 million customers in 119…

In the article it includes the Civil War and how it effected Kentucky especially when Abraham Lincoln was dealing with the Proclamation.“The Proclamation, which took effect January 1,1863, freed only the slaves in rebel territory. Kentucky slaves would have to wait until 1865 when the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery throughout the nation” (Beloved 63). In the book Beloved about…

Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk, was jailed for contempt when she refused to honor the Supreme Court’s order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Given John Locke’s beliefs regarding the necessary separation of church and state as detailed in A Letter Concerning Toleration, he would agree that Kim Davis was lawfully jailed for her actions in contempt of the Supreme Court decision. It is first necessary to realize that Locke would believe Davis acted unlawfully. He believes in the…

there is one in particular that is relevant to a region we are living close to today, and this is the Reelfoot fault. This fault starts at the bluffs of Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee. Then, it spreads south to the Mississippi River levee, north to the Kentucky Bend, and west to New Madrid, Missouri. This fault ultimately aligns the New Madrid Seismic zone, and it is a reverse fault. A reverse fault is when a hanging wall slides up a footwall. This is a type of convergent boundary where two plates…

The country that prides itself on freedom sure doesn’t feel very free. With an election coming up both sides want and need all the voters they can get. Which is why both sides are fighting to change the laws. Rand Paul, the Republican Senator of Kentucky is pushing for his state to remove the barriers in place that do not allow felons to vote. There is also push on the Democratic side; in 2007 Hillary Clinton introduced a bill that would restore the right to vote for all previous felons once…

Growing up in a small town, post-secondary education was not always something that was expected of students, if you had some “career ready” skills you were considered in good standing; college was for the more intelligent students. However, I always knew that college was something I wanted to pursue. Although I may not have known what I wanted to do just yet, I knew furthering my education was a necessity. As I advanced through grade school, I realized my like of money and budgeting, and…