The Ozarks

Interdisciplinary Core Competencies The competencies to be covered in this section are: Leadership, Public Health Biology, and Diversity and Culture. Leadership. This is the ability to create and communicate a shared vision to change the future, champion organizational and community challenges with solutions, and energize commitment to goals. These actions, when conducted by the individuals implementing this characteristic, can only be achieved by the following six examples: 1. Engage in…

By the 1940s, most of the jazz music scene was Swing Jazz, it was classically structured harmonies, commercialized big bands and it had limited room for improvisation; most of the bands at the time were limited in uniqueness. Such a borderline bland music scene proved fertile ground for Bebop, but what started as a musical form unknown, or at least not meant to be known, by the public, played in afterhours of nightclubs, was revolutionized by the alto-sax player, Charlie Parker. Despite his…

songs. The song of my first situation was “I Can See Clearly Now the Rain is Gone” by Johnny Nash. It perfectly describes me getting my glasses for the first time and finally being able to see. Even though I was kind of young I remember going to Ozark Family Vision Center in Springfield and being absolutely thrilled that I was going to be just like my dad. I didn’t even care that I was going to be able to see a lot better. My favorite part was spending hours trying to pick out my new pair of…

A special type of love that shows a young boy what true love can feel like. The classic novel, Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, tells the story of a love between a young boy and his two dogs. A young boy named Billy Coleman lives in the Ozark Mountains with his family. At a young age, Billy developed an awful “disease” as he called it. What is the “disease” of puppy love? He longed to be able to have not just one, but two coon hounds. Although, Billy’s family could simply not afford two…

Indian Removal Act In the early 1800’s, America was a country of great hope and future promises. The colonies had just broken away from the monarchy of Great Britain and declared the independent of the United States of America. The people of Europe fled to America during this time in search of religious freedom and a new beginning. From the beginning of their arrival in America, the colonists began pushing the Native Americans west. In the early years, before America won its independence, they…

Wal-Mart’s number one advantage is its location in the rural Ozark mountains of Arkansas in the midsection of the country; thus, giving Wal-Mart a sharper edge as far as transporting its products to locations within the United States more efficiently and with great cost effectiveness helping it maintain its slogan…

Times were tough when Wilder came into the world. She grew up on the prairie with her family of five. Laura Ingalls Wilder stories reflect her life in the midwest. Her pioneer lifestyle and the struggles of raising crops and a family are often the subjects of her work. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born February 7, 1876 in a log cabin close to Pepin, Wisconsin. This was the home her first book “the Little House in the Big Woods” was written about. She was the second of five children born to…

Using and Abusing Ever since birth, drugs have unconsciously been a part of everyone 's life. Several rounds of vaccines as a baby, several more before starting kindergarten, a few before junior high school, and maybe even a couple during the high school years. What exactly is in those vaccines? The answer is simple. Drugs. However, as humans grow older, the amount of vaccines needed and received decreases dramatically. Although people normally do not sit around and give themselves vaccines,…

The United States used to be a place where you could support a family and make the American dream come true on a single factory job. That is no longer the case, and a household today could not function on that little of an income. It is becoming more and more expensive to be alive and many people cannot afford it. What is a person who has no education, no skills and no job going to do out in the middle of Alabama? There are countless cases of people suffering and struggling to feed their…

“Down, But Not Out.” “There it is Privates!” Drill Sergeant Gonzales yelled. As we all rounded the narrow and winding road through the Ozark Mountains, my heart began to race. All 250 of us slowed down to form a formation in front of what appeared to be the biggest climb we had seen and were not expecting to see for the next few weeks. Screaming at the top of his lungs, Drill Sergeant Galloway said “This is Engineer Hill, and starting in two minutes you all have thirty minutes to make this…