Wisconsin

Dale Chihuly is well known for his glassblowing artistic skills, and his beautiful creations of glass art work. Chihul’s life is well marked by his wonderful glassblowing capabilities. Chihuly is having a wonderful life, even though early on in life he had a rough, miserable, and a grief filled childhood after losing both his brother then his father within two years. Chihuly also quit high school, and later on gained inspiration to go back and get a degree, then start work, and begins his life…

place and appear in many different forms. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird authored by Harper Lee and in the four articles, Things We Do For Love, The bravest thing you have ever done, The power of real girls, and finally Runaway slave on the Wisconsin-Canada line, the novel and articles alike all explain that a hero doesn’t have to be an almighty super hero, but an average mom or even a slave in earlier times. Though these articles aren’t directly connected with the story To Kill A…

According to Wisconsin Chapter 938, the Juvenile Justice Code, the standard of proof needed in order to find a child delinquent is clear and convincing evidence, unless the child is placed under jurisdiction of the adult court under a waive, in which case the standard of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt (938.243 (h)). The standard of proof needed for juvenile matters is greater than CHIPS or civil actions, where all that is needed is a preponderance of evidence, but less than what is needed to…

contracts for their schools, so why don’t they get a percentage of the profit? Recently, star basketball player for Wisconsin, Nigel Hayes was on College Gameday and held up a sign that said “Broke college athlete, anything helps” and the sign had a referral to his venmo account “BrokeBadger”(Hoffer) . Nigel Hayes gives his heart and soul playing basketball for the University of Wisconsin and he does not even have enough money to eat. Another example for this is Shabazz Napier, who said he went…

O’Connor, Bess. “Clear Your Energy And Lift Your Spirits With the Sacred of Smudging.” Chopra. Web. 1 November 2015. 8. Simonson, Mike. “Valedictorian Call High School Out On Native American Discrimination.” Wisconsin Public Radio. 6 June 2013. Web. 1 November 2015. 9. “Wisconsin Student Stage Walkout, Cite Racial Issues.” Indian Country Today Media Network. 6 June 2013. Web. 30 October…

When the unrivaled American author John Steinbeck took home the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, he had concluded his writing career with one final major work he had published a few months earlier: Travels with Charley: In Search of America, a log of his 1960 tour of the continent in an attempt to rediscover America. At age fifty-eight, he was nearing the end of his writing career and, ultimately, his life as well. As a piece of nonfiction, Travels with Charley serves as a love letter to…

Marshall, Susan E. Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Susan E. Marshall’s novel, Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage, focuses on a struggle against suffrage for women throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book not only goes into great detail about the woman’s antisuffrage movement, but it also goes in depth in the campaign for…

African American, to a man who attempted to farm in Alabama. When his owner gave up farming the owner moved to St Louis Missouri where he sold Dred Scott to an Army Surgeon named Dr. John Emerson. Dr. Emerson then moved Scott to Illinois then later to Wisconsin territory, both of which are free states that do not permit slavery. Later Dr. Emerson died and his wife inherited his estate. So, Dred Scott using some money he had saved, attempted to buy his freedom; the widow refused, prompting Scott…

What do Billy Saylor from Cambell University, Joseph LaRosa from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and Jeff Reese from the University of Michigan all have in common. Unfortunately, they are dead now and are because of unsafe weight cutting methods in wrestling. Wrestlers and other athletes in sports with weight classes should not cut weight by starving and dehydrating themselves. Most wrestlers lose lots of weight by dehydrating themselves and losing water weight or by starving themselves…

As a young girl, I didn’t fully understand what “gay” meant. My sister once tricked me into saying that I was gay and I ended up yelling “I’m gay!” throughout our house, blissfully unaware of what I was saying. My sister isn’t a homophobe, though. She came out as bisexual when she was around thirteen years old, and I remember her telling me she was dating a girl a few years after that. If I’m being honest, I thought it was kind of cool, but I never thought I would ever be into girls. I had a new…