Montgomery County, Tennessee

As America grew into its own unique nation post War of 1812, growing pains were evident as different debates began to shape America’s future. Debates such as the McCulloch v. Maryland, South Carolina vs. Jackson, and the Hayne Webster debate were the cause of america’s evident growing pains. The Growing pains that shaped america included the Indian Removal Act, Closing of Second Bank of United States, the Trail of Tears and the Missouri Compromise. These pains shaped the nation and evolved…

How Democratic Was Andrew Jackson? Andrew Jackson the democrat? More like Andrew Jackson the DEMONcrat! Andrew Jackson is considered to be one of the most famous presidents in American history because of his “democratic” views. The era of the “common man” marked the beginning for American democracy where ordinary people had a say in the government. To Jackson, democracy meant that all agencies of the government, including the congress, the president, National Bank, and Supreme Court must…

The Civil War was one of the greatest catastrophes that happened in America. For years the debate of abolishing slavery led the Northern abolitionists and Southern proslavery plantation owners to collide head on with each other. After the Civil War the nation suffered greatly in social and economic departments. America was moving downward as a nation. Many of the nation’s leaders tried to rebuild the nation as a whole which began the reconstruction period. Reconstruction was hard to accomplish…

It starts around 1865 after the Civil War, when the southerners came back home beaten and angry. The white southerners just lost the battle and their possession of slaves. However, in their mind the “war” is not a lost cause. President Lincoln, who was the leader of our nation at that time, set up a plan to reconstruct after the Civil War. This plan was called Lincoln’s 10% Plan. In this plan President Lincoln makes 10% of the rebels in the South to take an oath of loyalty and to make sure that…

The Trail of Tears The Cherokee Trail of Tears occurred in 1838, in response to the Indian Removal Act of the 1830’s. The forced Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, under the supremacy of Andrew Jackson. Jackson had long despised the Native population and went to great lengths to exclude them from their sovereignty. Shortly after, the U.S. government passed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 to justify the policies of the removal. The treaty was the result of a mutual agreement…

There are so many students out there in low-income communities who do not know what it is like to have someone who wants to see them succeed, someone who wants to see them achieve regardless of their race or economic status. I seek to join Teach for America for many reasons and three of those reasons are; for one, I want to help make a difference in the lives of students, I want the students that I encounter to know that I care about their education, I want to see them succeed and I want them to…

Mitch Aldrich – Special Education – Resource Teacher I am so grateful to be joining the Holston View community! This will be my 10th year teaching students with special needs. I love working with children who learn in different ways and establishing a caring and supportive environment for them to best achieve their goals. I was born in Virginia, so in many ways I feel like moving to Bristol is like coming home. I taught students in Phoenix and Denver previously, but I’m looking forward to a…

My father is dying. There is no way around that fact. He is not slipping away piece by piece, but is being taken from me in large chunks. His cheeks have begun to hollow and his eyes have begun to sink. He complains of the loss of feelings in his fingers, and the tightness in his throat. A gastrostomy tube was surgically inserted into his abdomen when he became unable to swallow. He stopped going to the grocery store with me. He stopped wanting to take walks around the 100-acre land he worked…

From what I have read and what I have seen in my life time is amazing, but the one thing that stands out is that the restaurant industry has grown stale. It has the same thing and does the same thing not one person has step outside of the box. I’m here to do just that. I’m here to blow the lid off the restaurant industry and keep it moving and a direction that it has been afraid to go. Like Robert Frost once said I’m going to take the road less traveled. The questions I ask are you willing to…

Native Americans have been oppressed, discriminated against, and mistreated since the Europeans first came to America. Countless Native Americans have died at the hands of white settlers. One of the worst times of their mistreatment, however, was during the removal from their homelands to the land east of the Mississippi. The “Nunna dual Tsuny,” as the Cherokee call it, refers to trails they walked during the forced mass movement of Cherokee people to Indian Territory in Arkansas and Oklahoma.…