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Jakob Correa Ms.Vue English 7 01 October 2015 Women in Aviation:Katharine Wright Katharine’s Childhood and Family “Katharine Wright was conceived at the Wright home at 7 Hawthorn Road, Dayton, Ohio on August 19, 1874 - her sibling Orville's third birthday. She was the youngest child of Milton and Susan Wright and the only girl to survive. (Her sister Ida died in early stages of life.) Like all the Wright kids, she had no middle name - her dad asserted that he gave his children particular first…

War or also known as the Seven Year War was one of the largest battles between England and France for the control of the Ohio River Valley. Both Britain and France main goal to achieve was to benefit their mother country while trying to supply good to their homeland that they couldn’t get anywhere else. It started with France in the early 1750s trying to expand into the Ohio River Valley, which caused conflict with British colonies. With this conflict arising more it made the British declare…

Human activities coupled with inadequate knowledge on the need for a clean and safe environment enhance the unending contamination of the environment. Ohio, just like other states, experiences environmental contamination. Drugs and drug metabolites including the industrial effluents are the major sources of contaminants in the local environment of Ohio. Combustion of the municipal and industrial compounds and petroleum leaks from gas stations are the major sources of airborne and soil…

Both, the French and British claimed this land. They both wanted this land because it provided fur traders access to cities and ports along the East Coast. Then around 1753 the French living in Canada started to build a line of on land in the Ohio River Valley. The French built these forts to protect their land from the British. One of these forts was Fort Necessity; this was one of the first battles in the French Indian War. This battle was George Washington’s only military surrender. From…

Book Report on The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough The Wright Brothers is an excellent masterpiece by David McCullough which gives the biography of the two Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright; who taught the world that humans could fly too by inventing the first flying aircraft. Though the book narrates a bit on their personal life and incidents in family, the main emphasis of the book is to explain the struggles faced by the two brothers for a period of 10 years on developing…

The Ohio Lottery was originally developed as an additional source of public school funding. Today proceeds from lottery games annually provide approximately 7% of the public educational budget. This research was originally undertaken because the lottery director wanted a deeper understanding of lottery players and insight into nonplayers. The research design described in this case is multistage and incorporates the use of both qualitative and quantitative research. This case reveals the research…

In the book Winesburg Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson, the author’s values and beliefs in life are reflected to the ones that are portrayed in the novel. A truth can be defined as what a person accepts as real, whether it is a universal fact or a personal belief of something that is authentic to their life. Winesburg Ohio is a collection of short stories in which each talk about an actuality representing the different characters’ truths, and what makes those characters grotesque in life. George…

The Ohio River begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River, extending roughly 900 miles downstream and ending in Cairo, Illinois. It is the largest tributary of the Mississippi River on the basis of volume. Throughout time, the Ohio River has been called many names by different civilizations. The Shawnees called it Spaylaywitheepi, the Miami tribes- Causisseppione, the Delawares- Kitonosipi, the Spanish- Dono and Albacha, and the French-…

The Underground Railroad system in the state of Ohio played a critical role in helping the abolitionist movement in a couple of ways. It helped slaves escape to freedom in Canada, and abolitionists created groups like the American Anti-Slavery Society which took action against slavery. The Underground Railroad helped slaves escape to slavery and gain freedom, so they could create a better life for themselves. The Underground Railroad was a system of safe houses and hiding places that helped…

park) in Ohio. I remember three things from that trip: being scared to death while driving through the fog, my father and I hating one another by the end of the trip (totally normal after being in the car with someone you’re not very close with for 5 days), and I remember the trees near the end of the trip. I came back to the desert saying, “I want to move to Ohio or Indiana one of these days. It’s so green there.” People laughed, told me I didn’t know what a “real winter” was like Ohio has, and…