Chester County is where I have been raised all my life, it’s a wonderful area. It is located in southern Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, about fifteen miles from Philadelphia. Specifically it is located at 40.0010 degrees N, 75.8069 degrees W. William Penn founded the county in 1682 making it one of his three original Pennsylvania colonies. It was named after Chester, England. The landscape is beautiful here, lots of rolling hills and valleys flourishing with wildlife and…
Nicholas Paul Walsh is a man of 18 years old born on a surprisingly warm December day in 1997. This birth happened nine days earlier than expected on the 16th day of the month. The time of year in which he was born dictated the choice of being named Nicholas to mirror the Christmas symbol Saint Nicholas. Nicholas was born into the arms of loving parents Paul and Paula Walsh, as well as preceded in birth by his two older brothers Evan 9, Brock 7, and followed by two and a half years in birth by…
Andrew Hozier-Byrne was born on march 17, 1990 and is currently 25 years old. Hozier joined his first band at age 15 and both of his parents are natural singer and painters. he wrote his famous song “ take me to church” in his parents attic in Ireland. He writes songs with R and B, soul, gospel, and blues. Hozier wrote the song Take Me To Church about his frustration with the Catholic church and their stance on homosexuallity. His hit single Take Me To Church released in the september of 2013…
On an early August morning before the break of dawn no one would have suspected that Nat Turner would be leading a slave uprising. He entered his master’s home in Southampton, Virginia killing five of the family members from his plantation. This uprising would soon become the famous rebellion known as the Nat Turner Rebellion. This rebellion, which Tuner thought of as a sign from God would raise southerner’s fears and change attitudes towards slavery. Nat Turner was born into slavery in the…
The two films I watched for this film journal were Harlan County, USA and Salt of the Earth. The two films were both about miners fighting for their rights. Harlan County, USA is a documentary about the Harlan strike in Kentucky. The miners wanted to get better safety measures and pay. The Duke Power Company would not take the necessary precautions to protect the miners from unsafe conditions in the mines. Salt of the Earth focused on the Mexican miners in New Mexico who went on strike…
(VVP), a combined Chamber of Commerce for Vail, Avon, Edwards, Eagle and Gypsum, provides two indications of local economic improvement: low unemployment and increasing sales tax collections: (vailvalleypartnership.com, 2015) • In July 2015, Eagle County 's unemployment rate decreased to…
I went on a job shadow with Sergeant Chuck Robinson of th Kossuth County Sheriffs Office. Chuck is the nighttime supervisor, which means he only works nights and is there to mostly help the other cops, if need be. The entire job shadow was a last minute ordeal as my original job shadow fell through because there was business and personal issues at Elbert Chevrolet that kept me from shadowing there and watching. But continued to make this shadow a valuable experience. As I stated above I did my…
Minority Languages: Chimariko All over the world many minority languages are struggling for their existence. At one point in time there was believed to be at least 200,000 languages. Now, there are only 6,909 languages left and even those languages aren’t safe from becoming extinct. Thanks to linguists from all over the world, we have an Ethnologue that keeps track of the vitality of all the different languages. When using the Ethnologue I researched the group of the Chimariko tribe and their…
The Mysterious Love Story Of Miss Emily In “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, Emily Grierson is not your average southern lady, this made her well-known in the small town of Jefferson. Miss Emily obsessed over love, gossip, and the dead bodies of the men that held a place in her heart. Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Homer Barron, Colonel Sartoris, and Judge Stevens, each of these men that was involved in Miss Emily’s life left a lasting impression. The first man that Emily Grierson laid her eyes…
In 2012 a friend of mine said “there were 10 people that went missing in the summer of 1988 here in Kanabec county.” Kanabec county, Minnesota is the county I grew up in. I will not name the town I grew up in to protect my identity. I talked to a deputy at the Kanabec county sheriff 's office about the disappearance 's of 1988. The deputy told me I should talk to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. I called the BCA and asked them and they refuse to talk about it. I sent them a…