Marion County

At a youth group, Merge at Grace Church in Hamilton County, mission trips are offered every year to the students. The data below represents the number of students who attended each trip by year (High School STT Participation, 2015). From 2008 until 2010, only the mission trip to Mississippi was offered. Once more trips were added, more students started to go on mission trips in general. From 2010 to 2011, the number of students who went on a mission trip in general jumped from 41 to 105. The overall trend of the Mississippi and Indianapolis is a downhill trend as more international trips are added throughout the years (with an exception to 2015, where more students were accepted to go due to another part of the trip being added) (High…

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(2016) “Built with security and control as the primary concerns, it was, according to one observer, obsolete before it opened” (para. 1). The Marion County Jail was a maximum security facility and the inmates ranged from low to high level offenders who have committed heinous crimes such as murder, rape and theft. The security level in this jail was as high as any maximum security prison. For an old facility, the security features…

I had begun my one-and-a-half-hour trip to the small town of Marion County in Ocala. It had been a stressful week and all I wanted to do was relax. I had never heard of that small town until my mom told me that we would be going to see my Grandma. It was going to be the first time that she had come from Mexico after my grandfather passed away. Most of My mom’s siblings lived down there so my grandma was going to stay with them for a while. As we began to travel more I noticed that the scenery…

British Army hunted a man by the name Francis Marion. Lt. Colonel Tarleton hunted this man for seven hours through the backwoods and swamps of South Caroline, eventually giving up and stated “As for this old, fox the devil himself could not catch him.” Francis Marion would forever be known as the Swamp Fox. Francis “Swamp Fox” Marion was an important figure in history especially military history because; he was the pioneer of guerilla tactics, was an important and influential leader in the South…

Did you know Francis Marion was a huge part of the American Revolution? Did you know his nickname was Swamp Fox? Francis Marion was a huge part of the American Revolution, he was the guerrilla leader. The guerilla leader is the leader of the guerrilla squad, he showed the American military guerrilla warfare, guerrilla warfare is when you use the world for your advantage by using tree,bushes, or anything really. Francis Marion was born on February 26, 1732 and died on February 27, 1795. He was a…

Celia Garth is a novel written by Gwen Bristow. Throughout the novel, Bristow presents realistic elements with the use of imagery as she propels the main character from love to deception to defeat all using the backdrop of the American Revolution in the late 1700s. Celia is introduced as a teenage student of a fashionable seamstress, self-centered and far more engrossed in boys and pretty gowns than anything else. Although Celia is required to grow up fast when the obstruction of Charleston…

The main character, Benjamin Martin, was portraying Francis Marion during that time period. Throughout the movie Benjamin is portrayed as a family man with strong morals and regret for his actions during the French and Indian War. When in actuality, Francis Marion was known for his love for killing Indians and he also enjoyed raping his slaves as well. This misrepresentation greatly changes the outlook of the protagonist in this film. The filmmakers clearly thought this would put a poor light on…

Who is India Westbrooks? India Love Westbrooks, 19, is a female who got fame before she even realized she was famous. India gained so much fame at the age of, just 14. People started to love her when her pictures started going viral on Tumblr, she was so beautiful. Although, India has four other sisters and two brothers, she has remained the most popular. Her fame continues to skyrocket through Instagram, Twitter, modeling for clothing lines, her romances, and her TV show, “#TheWestbrooks,”…

City-states of the ancient world were one of the first political entities with democratic governance. Part of the democratic process is authorizing individuals to make decisions, holding these individuals accountable, and for these individual to be responsive to the needs of the community (Pitkin, 1957). Today, cities have low levels of democratic participation that hold elected officials accountable and authorize them to have the power to make a decision. At the same time, a majority of the…