Montana

Robert and Bessie’s Final Years and Legacy Robert sold the Ford garage in 1949 and continued to work in Bradley as the postmaster until his death on August 24, 1957. After her husband passed on, Bessie remained in Bradley until she moved to Bozeman, Montana in the mid-1960s to care for her grandchildren while her daughter, Verna, taught school. In the summers, when Verna had time off from her job, Bessie normally resided with her son, Robert, and his family in Minnetonka, Minnesota. During…

evident from the map above, eastern states such as New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, and Rhode Island have a low suicide rate compared to other states and regions. States in the west seemingly have a higher rate. For instance, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona all have suicide rates between 17.5 and 23.7. The Midwest region, however, has a generally low suicide rate. Illinois is one state in this region that stands out with a rate of only 9.9 suicides, while…

Phil Jackson "One thing I’ve learned as a coach is that you can’t force your will on people. If you want them act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves." And that is exactly what Phil Jackson did during his 21 year coaching career. Phil Jackson was abnormal compared to your run of the mill coach. He opened his players minds to a new approach of the game of basketball. He challenged them to be less selfish and he encouraged team basketball. Over the twenty one years of…

Did you know that you could take your own life and get help doing it? Did you know that it is legal in 5 states and that a Dr. can assist you? This is called assisted suicide. Now let me give you some facts and history on this highly controversial issue. I will also discuss why this practice may be unethical. To give you little history of how assisted suicide started back in the 1960’s and 70’s a doctor by the name of Jack Kevorkian who is also know as (Dr. Death), worked as a staff…

have visited, but not lived would give me that experience. The challenge comes from the rise in tuition, where an in state school tuition jumps up in price by ten to forty thousand dollars a year. Some of the schools on my application list have been Montana State University in Bozeman, South Dakota School of Mine and Technology, and the University of Colorado in Boulder. The geographically inclined would realize that these are all around the edges of the fine state of Wyoming, due to the fact…

dire consequence. In Wyoming, the state with the smallest population, every 510,000 inhabitants has one representative and two senators. In Montana however, every representative speaks for 935,000 occupants. Both states have three electoral college votes, but people in Wyoming are represented in a higher proportion, almost twice as much as a person in Montana. Another problem in the category of misrepresentation of votes is that some votes aren’t even represented by the electors. Every state,…

For miles different parts of the sky are lit by the glow of flares. These flares come from the flare pits in which excess gas is burned from fracking stations spread across the area. Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota, the Bakken, is where you can watch these flares burn. This is an area of one of the biggest oil booms in the United States. Seeking the high paying jobs and the possibility of getting ahead after being hit by the recession people from all over the country come to work. My…

of deployment are usually taken from the skies, specifically from helicopters, in parachutes. One notable incident is the Mann Gulch Fire of 1949 alongside the Upper Missouri River in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness, Helena National forest, Montana in which it took the lives of 13 brave souls to their demise. The fire, sparked from a powerful lighting strike in the south side was mistakenly dismissed as a routine fire thinking it would not cause much harm the men casually took their time…

Born on a farm in Stanton, North Dakota, Harold Schafer grew up in many different towns. With his parents and two siblings, they moved from town to town, but kept coming back to Bismarck, North Dakota. When Harold was 12 years old, his parents split and his mother moved the family from Jamestown, Glen Ullin, and finally back to Bismarck. In his young years, Harold came to know hard work and valued it among all which would define him as person. At the age of eight, Harold took his first job in a…

The film takes place in town Upper Darby, Rhode Island. In 1990, medics diagnose Sara's daughter, Kate, with a aggressive form of leukemia. Doctors said Kate might die and that news shocks Sara and her firefighter husband. Sara immediately resolves to commence Kate on treatment. Kate commences chemotherapy and her oncologist, Dr. Chance suggest that she might eventually need a bone marrow transplant and preferably from a cognate donor. Dr. Chance mentions that another unborn siblings could be…