Vermont

Charged Ride My friend Tyler and I drove to Stowe, Vermont. This drive was an exhilarating experience for many reasons. Most certainly not an experience I will soon forget. We left in the early morning, or should I say the middle of the night. Both of us tired from barely being able to sleep from our current state of exuberance, but not slowed due to excitement and energy drinks. As soon as we opened my front door we were bombarded with cold northern air and snow gently falling…

The Battle of Bennington was a military dispute between Britain and America. Bennington is a town near the New York border in southern Vermont. The battlefield was along the Walloomsac River in New York. This battle was part of the Saratoga Campaign. Under General William Howe and Lord Charles Cornwallis, the British Army abandoned almost all their posts in New Jersey and retreated to New York. The British troops wanted to gain control of Lake Champlain and the Hudson River valley, so General…

Problem The Ely Copper Mine was declared a superfund site in 2001. Mining activity occurred from 1821 to 1920 Ore body discovered in 1813 Location The Ely Copper Mine is located in East Central Vermont in the rural town of Vershire, Orange County. The site is part of a region referred to as the Vermont Copper Belt, or the Orange Country copper district. Over 30 miles long, the belt runs in a NNE–SSW direction. The Ely Mine is one of three major mine sites in the region. It sits between…

Ashikaga, T., Ph.D, Strauss,, J. S., M.D., & Breier, A., M.D. (1987, June). The Vermont Longitudinal Study of Persons With Severe Mental Illness, II: Long-Term Outcome of Subjects Who Retrospectively Met DSM-III Criteria for Schizophrenia. American Journal Of Psychiatry, 727-735. Retrieved from http://psychrights.org/research/Digest/Chronicity/vermont2.pdf This article discusses, a follow-up study of 118 patients from Vermont State hospital who were diagnosed with schizophrenia. The people…

Term Paper There has been numerous cases and articles that have come up in the past years that impacted communities or the national as well as internationally because of the situation that left customers being discriminated upon by the business owners. However, these cases are started to increase as of lately. The main topic that is at the root of this situation is that of the refusal of services of customer’s base on their sexual orientation. Some cases have seen some business paying fines in…

In the 1776 Declaration of Independence was approved. 11 years later, Three-Fifths compromise was approved during the 1787 U.S Constitution Convention. But first the Northern States have a favored of 4 to 3 ration, but the Southern States disagree. The Southern States wanted a ration of 2 to 1 or 4 to 1 ration. Then James Wilson proposed the Three-Fifth's compromise. Three-Fifth's compromise is a compromise where every 5 enslaved people counted as 3 in the state population. All the states agree…

paid maternity leave, and free tuition for public colleges. Though to make all these new plans possible, Sanders would have to impose new taxes on the rich. Making people think twice about the Vermont senator. The plan is not to overthrow the government, but to…

In the book Hidden Roots, by Joseph Bruchac, an 11-year old boy named Howard, also known as Sonny, lives with his mother and short tempered father in upstate New York. His father works at the local paper mill but is injured and must stay home. His mother stays at home and works around the house. Sonny is a curious boy who always wonders about his heritage but his parents never really tell him much. The plot is not revealed until the end of the book where Sonny’s Uncle Louis, tells him about his…

Tension coursed through the five valleys that converge on Franklin, Vermont. It rose with each consignment of munitions and men as yet another Fenian invasion was in progress. Munitions embodied the method: Rifles, shot and an odd cannon, bought by money from zealous support of the ever enlarging Irish communities of New York and Boston. The men embodied the will: Newly branded Civil War veterans, all Irish under General Spear 's command and bent on liberating The Canadas from British rule to…

Parents then usually attempt to get the child to change or they ask an expert to "fix" the child. However when parents can instead manage their own anxiety and resolve their own relationship issues, the functioning of the child automatically improves (Vermont Center for Family Studies, 2014). Emotional cutoff. Having significant implications for the functioning of future generations, this is where family members discontinue emotional contact with each other. Because the emotional family unit is…