Nebraska

This system still allows for small rural states to have an impact and creates more competitive elections in strong red or blue states. An example would be the 2008 election where Barack Obama won one electoral vote in Nebraska, which allowed the group of people that voted for him in that district to have their votes actually count. This isn’t a perfect system as minority citizens in certain districts will still have votes that don’t count, but it is a much fairer system…

“Boys Don’t Cry” was written by Kimberly Peirce and Andy Bienen and is based on the true story of Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena was born Teena Brandon, in Lincoln Nebraska. He is a transgender male and none of his family or people from his home town understand. In the opening scene Brandon is going on a date. Things go very well and when he takes the girl home they kiss. Unfortunately, some guys find out and chase Brandon back to his cousin’s house shouting obscenities, threatening him, and…

Warren Edward Buffett was conceived on August 30, 1930 to his dad Howard, a stockbroker-turned-Congressman. The main kid, he was the second of three kids, and showed an astonishing bent for both cash and business at an early age. Associates relate his uncanny capacity to figure segments of numbers off the highest point of his head - a deed Warren still astonishes business partners with today. At just six years of age, Buffett obtained 6-packs of Coca Cola from his granddad 's market for a…

would be useful to go to would be Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture, Northeast Community College, Southeast Community College, and the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture is located in Curtis, Nebraska, and the yearly expense would be approximately $11,403, while Northeast Community College is located in Norfolk, Nebraska, and costs around $11,287 a year. Southeast Community College Area is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and would cost you about…

Kristin Armstrong Idaho. The City of Boise, Idaho, renamed one of the city’s oldest and most popular parks after 43-year-old mother and full-time career woman Kristin Armstrong, who recently won her third-straight gold medal in the women’s cycling individual time trials at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. After overcoming a diagnosis of osteoarthritis in 2001, Kristin is now the most decorated female cyclist in U.S. history and a leader in her community. The Kristin Armstrong…

Reflective Analysis “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives -Jane Austen.” When reading this quote two women stand out in the minds of readers as women who did not want to be in calm waters, stay with the status quo, and be behind the scenes as men ran the country and were given the best, Maxine Hong Kingston and Mari Sandoz are it. These women went out of their way to point out how…

responsible for the slaughter of 12 people (history.com). In this paper, I will inform you of what exactly happened in January 1958 and we will look a little harder into the lives of the 12 victims. Charles Raymond Starkweather was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on November 24, 1938, to Guy and Helen Starkweather. Guy spend most of his time unemployed, working odd jobs off and on. Helen was the main source of income for the family. He was the third out of eight children, seven…

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, excluding Maine and Nebraska, has a winner-take-all system. This self-explanatory system allows for any vote not for the top candidate in a state is metaphorically thrown in the trash. The vote isn’t even taken into consideration if not for the winning candidate, and the…

The foundation of The United States was started by the Native Americans and was later fortified by the numerous immigrants who kick started the prosperity of the United States. There is no one race that defines the people of the United States, it is an eclectic combination of many different ethnicities. This definition of the United States and its many races is abundantly obvious is Missouri. Missouri is an eclectic group of races including Native Americans, Europeans, and even some southerners.…

The Museum Of Modern Art starts when three prominent women envision a museum devoted to contemporary art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller(wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Quinn Sullivan Lillie P. Bliss is one of the leading collectors of modern art in New York. Mary Quinn Sullivan is a pioneer modern art collector. They all felt a need to challenge the traditional policies of museums and to make a foundation devoted exclusively to modern art. Abigail Greene…