Midwestern United States

The person I interviewed was my mother, Nancy Morton. Right now she is 54 and was born in Allendale, New Jersey in 1962. The reason I chose to interview her was she was willing to share her experiences with me and was more convenient at the time when I was looking for someone to interview. After Nancy graduated from her undergraduate school with a degree in mechanical engineering, she applied for several job interviews, and the interview with General Electric, or GE, went particularly well…

whether free or fugitives, to emigrate to Canada. While in Canada, she also met Thomas F. Cary and married, having two children before his untimely death only a few years later. From here, Shadd often went back and forth between Canada and the United States. But, in 1861, she earned a teaching certificate in the U.S. and settled, lecturing both in Detroit and Washington D.C. In 1883, Shadd earned a bachelor’s degree of law at the new Howard…

nineties the world population was just over five billion citizens. That is an increase of approximately half a billion people throughout the world. In the United States the population for the nineteen eighties was at two hundred twenty-six million five hundred thousand…

From coast to coast and from San Francisco to New York, what do you know about this 9,834,000 km square of land? if you’ve been living under a rock now I’ll explain it to you: the great dividers of the united states! Do you know what is the coolest facts about the Rockies is? The length! It is 4800 km and it started it Alaska and end in New Mexico. the mountains are known for water, and this one is full of them! Millions even billions of gallons of water hides in those caves. If an invasion of…

military economics of the Hawaiian Islands. It is also true that few Japanese living in the East or Midwestern portions of the U.S. were subjected to the mass…

For my popular press book assignment, I chose the book “The Driver” by Garet Garrett. Garet Garrett was an American journalist and author, who is mostly known for his opposition of the New Deal and the U.S. involvement in World War 2. He is noted for his work as a non-fiction and fiction author. He lived from 1878-1954. The Driver was published on August 1st of 1922, and provides an excellent lesson on how entrepreneurship works. The Driver is a fictional, political and free-market capitalism…

Political culture within the United States is dramatically varied from one state to another due to the origins of each regions’ source of affluence and immigrating communities. Political scientist, Daniel Elazar, categorizes these political cultures in his publication American Federalism: A View from the States as moralistic, individualistic, and traditionalistic. Moralistic regions like the New England states grew from a Puritan culture that now views the government’s role is to work at public…

experiences of each person going to schools in different countries to discover why the United State’s scores were so low in reading, math, and science. The first student Ripley followed was Kim. Kim was a student from Sallisaw, Oklahoma, very strong in mathematics and has always sought interest in going to a different country to explore the education system. The next student was Eric; a small town Midwestern boy from Minnesota aspiring to go to Korea and learn about the private school system…

that the objects help us figure out how we fit into this world and how we view the world as well. I’ve always been interested in history and how the world has evolved into what it is today. I think that is because even though I was born here in The States, my parents weren 't and I have a substantial amount of respect for what they endured. I visited the Northwest African American Museum on Thursday around three in the afternoon. I visited luckily at a very slow time of the day, therefore, I…

Same-Sex Marriage On 26 June 2015 the United States Supreme Court voted 5-4 to strike down statewide bans on homosexual marriage that existed in 14 of the 50 states. This was the culmination of a decades long controversy for the American public. With gay marriage supporters hailing the decision, and many gay couples promptly flocking to obtain marriage licenses, the reaction was swift. No less on the other end of the political spectrum; the backlash from Christian conservatives was immediate…