Oregon

Name of case: Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Greater Oregon Court: United States Supreme Justice rendered the final decision in the case. Citation: The citation given to the case was 515 U.S. 687 (1995) Parties and their roles: (the plaintiff) consisted of Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Greater Oregon along with several lawn-care owners. These plaintiffs pursued criminal charges due to the Secretary of the Interior and Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) about the…

might say that the experience was fun or scary. It was probably nothing compared to the hardships Americans faced in the early 1800s as they travelled to a new place to live. In particular, I am going to follow the story of Martha Williams Reed, an Oregon pioneer. In an interview, she describes the hardships her and her family faced as they moved across the plains. The first hardship that they faced was the lack of food. In the interview with Martha, she said, “…There was not much to cook,…

Though more land had been explored, the pioneers had been facing several hardships. One specifically had been starvation on the Oregon Trail (Doc. 4). The animals were affected by the lack of food, which resulted in mass amounts of death. Pioneers showed their disparity as they were forced to eat the carcasses of dead oxen. Through the hardships, the pioneers had still traveled,…

The Oregon State Lottery There are still many improvements to be made to America’s health care system, but it has improved tremendously since 2010 thanks to the Affordable Care Act. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of uninsured people living in America has significantly dropped from 15.4% in 2008 to 10.4% in 2014. As this data and the Oregon health lottery case demonstrate, health care in the United States was either inaccessible or too expensive for many Americans and still…

I am writing this memo to present my findings about the Oregon Medicaid Innovation and show that it can be a very good model to implement in Maryland. Both Maryland and Oregon can benefit from a support from each other in the improvement of Medicaid. Summary Medicaid in the United States can be described as a social health care program for families and persons with inadequate resources and low income (Institute for Healthcare Improvement). Maryland is operating a state program referred to as…

The Oregon Experiment The Oregon Medicaid program gave policymakers a unique snapshot of what could happen to the nation when Medicaid coverage increased with the ACA. In 2008, Oregon initiated an expansion of their Medicaid program. The limited expansion of the Medicaid program used a lottery drawing from a waiting list of low-income adults (Taubman, Allen, Wright, Baicker, & Finkelstein, 2014). The expansion program was for the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) Standard, which provided benefits to…

During the Mid 1840’s a man by the name of James Polk took office as the United States President, and creating of the term COIL, promised to conquer, and keep California, and Oregon, introduce an independent treasury, and lower tariff rules. Manifest Destiny was a term used during these times where people thought that America should rule from sea to shining sea. Many educated Americans disapproved of such a journey, and wrote lots about reasons why it hurt America more than fulfilling…

right to receive the land and to conquer from Atlantic and Pacific Ocean’s plain. James k. Polk was nominated by Democratic Party in 1844, a violent representative of "Manifest Destiny" and the annexation of Texas and the only American occupation of Oregon. In the summer of 1845 John l. O’Sullivan was a young man, who had influenced the United States Magazine and Democratic Review movement and editor. Also, he invented the phrase manifest destiny to indicate the growing among Americans in the…

Buck, Rinker. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey. Revised ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. In the book, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey, Rinker Buck travel with his brother alone the Oregon Trail. Rinker Buck and his brother, Nick, experience reliving the journey taken by the original nineteenth-century travelers of the Oregon Trail. Although the journey was harsh, and was at times unpleasant, the brother agreed that the journey was a trip of a lifetime because of the…

Nike is a United States sportswear company that was founded by Philip H. Knight and Bill Bowerman. The business originated in the 1960’s by Philip H. Knight, which was a mid-state runner at the University of Oregon, and his coach Bill Bowerman. His suggestions were not successful in the beginning. The two tried many different running shoes for years. In an effort to become successful, Knight made contact with a Japanese firm that made athletic shoes. This made arrangement for them to import some…