Mercer County

opioid overdoses. While not explicitly saying it, this bill is focusing on treatment of drug addiction instead of punishment for it. This bill was passed just prior to the heroin epidemic of Ocean County, New Jersey. The bill was a bipartisan effort however…

In 2012, the county faced 859 cases of drug overdose per every 10,000 hospital patients. This number fails to account for the people who use drugs and were not…

The prevention stage is when a community take measures to reduce loss of life and property damage. Mercer County’s office of Emergency Management coordinater prepares for disasters such as a hurricane. The Office of Emergency Management provides training to volunteers to be relied upon during disasters. After a hurricane has been initiated, that is when the response stage is initiated. My county activated the Emergency Operations Center, evacuated flood risk areas, opening shelters, emergency…

In the novel, the Hayden name is very powerful. Watson states, "...but our name was no joke. We were as close as Mercer county came to aristocracy. I never consciously traded on the Hayden name, yet I knew it gave me a measure of respect that I didn't have to earn." Although the name may hold some respect and be tremendously important to the community, the family itself…

fought most of his political life for his concern of free public education separated from the religious hierarchy. Jefferson’s proposal of “bill 79 in 1779” gives insight that he knew that there was a different way to be able to educate all children (Mercer). Thomas Jefferson believed that the state universities should be separate from church council, therefore there should be a separation of church and state, but he wanted the faculty to be of…

In West Virginia no “extensive mining took place until the mid-1800s, although coal was known to be throughout much of the state.” At that time coal usage in West Virginia was mainly for heating living quarters or for retail markets such as a blacksmiths. The inhabitants of Wheeling, West Virginia used coal to heat their homes in 1810, and the “first steamboat to use coal on the Ohio River. In the beginning, local inhabitants would surface mined the coal, using picks and shovels to dig the coal…

The Harlem Renaissance was a period of great poetic, narrative, and artistic revolution and enlightenment in early twentieth century New York. One of the more influential and fantastic writers of that period was James Mercer Langston Hughes, commonly known just as Langston Hughes. Hughes was an extremely talented writer, for he published novels, poems, biographies, plays, television shows, operas, and proses. Despite his abundance of skills, poetry was arguably Hughes’s most precious forte.…

Hardly new in the United States, school shootings are perceived as devastating, frightening and incomprehensible acts, with long-lasting effects on society. Representing the work of America’s ten deadliest school shooters, statistics compiled, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured. Yet, the question remains, what type of person would enter a school with the purpose to extinguish human life? Do school shooters aim with specific targets in their sights…

brother behind bars, and his brother killing himself in his basement. The most crucial thing that had strengthened Wesley was having to throw his own brother in jail. Wesley couldn’t think of the thought of Frank being the biggest criminal in Mercer County and he had to take care of the problem himself. Mother had to tell him that he couldn’t look away from the fact…

Devastating, frightening and incomprehensible, school shootings are hardly new to the United States of America. Statistics gathered from just ten school shootings, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured, representing the work product of America’s ten deadliest school shooters. To qualify as one of the ten deadliest, the shooter must have struck a minimum of ten individuals and caused at least five deaths. Yet, the question remains, what type of person…