Pierce County

unrecorded instrument within the chain of title could impart constructive notice to a subsequent assignee. Westland Oil Dev. Corp. v. Gulf Oil Corp., 637 S.W.2d 903, 911 (Tex. 1982). On August 1966, Mobil owned leases in the Rojo Caballos Field in Pecos County, Texas. Mobil entered into a farmout agreement with Westland Development Corp for these leases. Id.…

Self-report data plays an important role in revealing some of the dark figures of offending while allowing law enforcement officials to construct a database of offender typologies. Unlike official data collected from crime or arrest reports, self-report surveys extract information directly from the source (the offenders), therefore, revealing details which are typically not solicited during an investigation or an arrest. Moreover, self-reporting has its advantages such as simplicity, cost…

writers and particularly praised for his Southern literature. He is known for his authenticity when it comes to the Southern way of life. He often used his real life experiences and included the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha which was based on the real-life county he grew up in many of his stories "A Rose for Emily" included. His short story "A Rose for Emily" I believe makes a great correlation between characters and aspects from his story to the Southern post-Civil War era.…

snow day, students still have to get up to do schoolwork because school was not canceled, it was transformed in a virtual way. The idea of virtual classrooms taking place when there is too much snow on the ground first became a test trial in Bergen County of New Jersey in 2014. In this case, since it was a trial, Pascack Valley Regional High School planned to try this experiment on a wintery “snow day” in February of the school year, so beforehand, the students were told what they had to do and…

broadcaster said the words “East Wind Rain” which meant the attack was going to happen. On December 7th 1941 the attack on Pearl Harbor was started with two waves of a 350 plane fleet. These planes would be carrying modified battleship shells that can pierce a ships beck before exploding, which damaged nine battleships, causing some to even sink. The USS Arizona took the brunt of the attack due to a bomb detonating in the ships gunpowder magazine, causing Japanese planes to even rock in the…

The listening activity is about two people who are going to talk about themselves for two minutes straight and the other will do the same thing. The reason this exercise is done because it will demonstrate if the person is listening and be able to explain of what they heard. Sharing important news makes us impotent sometimes because sometimes we feel ignored at times. In this activity I choose my cousin, age 27-Hispanic and my best friend age 20 Muslim they are different ages but from different…

Descriptive Analysis Paper My descriptive analysis comes from a painting that reflects a train wreck that happened in Blackshear, Georgia. The canvas is displayed at the Pierce County Courthouse, under a secure glass. The painting was donated by a local family and it bears a small signature, however the original artist remains unspecified. The portrait serves as a continuous memento of the events that transpired on that day, the lives that were lost, and the history that was made. Yet, I also…

Zora Neale Hurston, a author and a Civil Rights activist was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama. Hurston created several works of fiction. She was the fifth of eight children born to John and Lucy Potts Hurston. She was also an folklorist and anthropologist who worked diligently to record the stories and tales of many cultures, including her own African-American heritage. As a leader in the Harlem Renaissance Hurston was a revolutionary in helping to protect the rights of African…

On March 13, 1933, Donald Gaskins was born in Florence County, South Carolina. At a young age, Gaskins was teased and given the nickname “Pee Wee” as a result of his small body frame. Violence followed him everywhere, starting from his home where his stepfather beat him to school. At school Gaskins would fight with the other kids daily. This would ultimately lead him to become the most terrified serial killer in South Carolina. Gaskins was 42 years old in 1975 and had been killing steadily for…

As a young child at school, we had the Accelerated Reading Program. It was a program that encouraged children to read various books, and then after to take a quiz based on the books. This program really helped me, because the program pushed me to read more. Since I am bilingual, learning two languages as a child was a bit challenging for me, and learning how to read was even harder. I would sometimes mix up letters, vowels, and sometimes talk in Russian when I was supposed to talk in English.…