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The Trail of Tears The Cherokee Trail of Tears occurred in 1838, in response to the Indian Removal Act of the 1830’s. The forced Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, under the supremacy of Andrew Jackson. Jackson had long despised the Native population and went to great lengths to exclude them from their sovereignty. Shortly after, the U.S. government passed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 to justify the policies of the removal. The treaty was the result of a mutual agreement…

There are so many students out there in low-income communities who do not know what it is like to have someone who wants to see them succeed, someone who wants to see them achieve regardless of their race or economic status. I seek to join Teach for America for many reasons and three of those reasons are; for one, I want to help make a difference in the lives of students, I want the students that I encounter to know that I care about their education, I want to see them succeed and I want them to…

Mitch Aldrich – Special Education – Resource Teacher I am so grateful to be joining the Holston View community! This will be my 10th year teaching students with special needs. I love working with children who learn in different ways and establishing a caring and supportive environment for them to best achieve their goals. I was born in Virginia, so in many ways I feel like moving to Bristol is like coming home. I taught students in Phoenix and Denver previously, but I’m looking forward to a…

My father is dying. There is no way around that fact. He is not slipping away piece by piece, but is being taken from me in large chunks. His cheeks have begun to hollow and his eyes have begun to sink. He complains of the loss of feelings in his fingers, and the tightness in his throat. A gastrostomy tube was surgically inserted into his abdomen when he became unable to swallow. He stopped going to the grocery store with me. He stopped wanting to take walks around the 100-acre land he worked…

From what I have read and what I have seen in my life time is amazing, but the one thing that stands out is that the restaurant industry has grown stale. It has the same thing and does the same thing not one person has step outside of the box. I’m here to do just that. I’m here to blow the lid off the restaurant industry and keep it moving and a direction that it has been afraid to go. Like Robert Frost once said I’m going to take the road less traveled. The questions I ask are you willing to…

Native Americans have been oppressed, discriminated against, and mistreated since the Europeans first came to America. Countless Native Americans have died at the hands of white settlers. One of the worst times of their mistreatment, however, was during the removal from their homelands to the land east of the Mississippi. The “Nunna dual Tsuny,” as the Cherokee call it, refers to trails they walked during the forced mass movement of Cherokee people to Indian Territory in Arkansas and Oklahoma.…

What do you consider to be the most significant thing you learned in this module (include appropriate or applicable Scripture references)? The most things I learned in this module are that faith without works is dead. “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill, and yet you did not supply their bodily…

What do I want to do after graduation? 1. I want to work as an intern at Warner Bros in Los Angeles, California. I would like an Internship in the Marketing or Advertising department. 2. My deadline for this goal is: January 2017 3. My obstacles are: I do not know if I will have the money to stay in the United States. Also, my lack of experience in the Entertainment Industry 4. The people or groups that I need to reach this goal are: I need the financial support of my parents. 5. The…

The Change in Fitness Advertisements Every day there is at least one or more fitness advertisements I pass and see. Whether it is when I am at the gym, reading a magazine, or even just sitting on the couch watching television. Fitness advertisements are everywhere. In the gym alone there is at least ten just in the free weights area, so put that into perspective and think about how many advertisements there is about bettering one’s health just at the gym. Advertisements are supposed to pull…

The dictionary defines the word “blind” as the lack of perception, awareness, or discernment. Symbolism, irony, and foreshadowing is used in many ways by the author in her short story called “The Lottery”. Shirley Jackson uses these literary devices to emphasize the idea that people will follow traditions blindly if that was how they were raised. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story about a strange tradition. Once a year, the town gathers together and one member from each…