Portland

On July 1, 1941, Twyla Tharp was born in the Portland, Indiana. She spent her early childhood in Indiana but later moved to California in 1963 and completed her degree in Art history in New York. Compared to other dancers, at a young age, she learnt quite a number of genres in the arts like ballet, tap, jazz, modern and music. When she was just a year and a half old she was already given piano lessons. Her first dance lesson was at the Vera Lynn School of Dance. During her dancing years, she had…

Our sixth president, John Quincy Adams was born on July 11 in the year 1767, in Braintree, Massachusetts now known as Quincy, Massachusetts. John never went to school; he was tutored by his cousin James Thax, and by fathers lawyer, Nathan Rice. Adams was named after his mothers’s grandfather, Colonel John Adams, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, was also named. At the age 12, in 1779, John Quincy Adams started to write a diary, which he continued until just before he died in 1848. Most of his…

The goals of this report are to explore how The Oregon BlueGreen Alliance can work to support the creation of quality green jobs as a co-benefit for low income communities in differing contexts and stages of local climate action planning. This section of the report outlines the research design and objectives. Interviews and climate plans were evaluated from several cities, three case studies were selected as the primary sites of inquiry to gain a detailed understanding of how climate plans are…

Justice or Injustice “Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate.”, written by Henry David Thoreau. I think that Henry David Thoreau explains the government by saying “It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.” We the people are those who keep those people in office, our hands hold…

author also claims that building a wall is not going to affect the DACA individuals at all. All this wall is doing is giving them time for the fight. This article was written by Tim Dickinson who is an American political correspondent. He is based in Portland, Oregon and is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. This article is being written to all those dreamers and parents of the dreamers fighting for their rights. The author claims that even though the president keeps changing his mind…

In years past, the most dangerous action a driver could take was to get behind the wheel of their car under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Today, cell phones provide an abundance of opportunities for distraction, a distraction which has been deemed just as dangerous if not more so than traditional impaired driving. Distracted driving as a result of texting for example has caused many wrecks, many of which result in personal injury cases. Thankfully, there is a new tool on the market that…

many factors that have to fall in the Lakers favor. Why you might ask? Well for starters they play in the western conference, which for years has been stacked with good teams’ years. The Lakers would have to compete with New Orleans, Dallas, and Portland just for A spot in the playoffs. Health is also a key. Last two seasons the Lakers were hit with injuries that depleted the team and sent them into a downward spiral. The play of the younger players such as Jordan Clarkson, Julius Randle,…

backgrounds-- my close friend who regularly speaks Romanian in his household, my classmate who frequently visits family in Spain, my mother whose parents migrated to Japan decades ago. In my region, I also know of many places to celebrate many religions-- in Portland a Buddhist temple, where a fifteen minute drive South will take me to a Catholic church, and another five…

The Yankees announced a new deal with StubHub Monday making the popular site the team's official ticket reseller - a partnership hailed as a "victory for the fans" following years of inconvenience. If we are to believe the packaging on gluten free bread in Whole Foods, we can assume that GMOs are something that most folks should be worried about. But I feel like most people read "GMO" and a mental subroutine is triggered which equates the acronym with something that can be potentially much…

The Sneetches is a short animation written by the notorious children's author Dr. Seuss about a civilization of strange creatures called “Sneetches”. With one type of Sneetch having a star on them and the other don’t. The Sneetches with stars on them have a little supremacy going on while the ones that don’t try to assimilate to the Star Bellied Sneetches “culture” by going through some Bourgeoisie capitalist money-making scheme machine that will give them a star, and what exactly is this…