Wyoming

Sage Valley Junior High is part of Campbell County School District (CCSD) and is one of two junior high schools located in Gillette, Wyoming. Sage Valley serves students in grades seven through nine and currently has an enrollment of approximately 960 students. Recent school board policy adjustments have changed the boundaries or feeder schools that transition students from the elementary school to Sage Valley in preparation for the opening of a second high school. In performing a Strength,…

In present-day, this territory includes the entirety of Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. The territory also includes parts of Minnesota, western Louisiana, northeastern New Mexico, South Dakota, northern Texas, parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado. The purchase of The Louisiana Territory during Thomas Jefferson's presidency not only expanded farmland and trade, but also gave birth to multiculturalism and the conflicts of slavery related to…

is a better decision to postpone the start of school. Furthermore, Mark Fischetti tells scientificamerican.com, “She published a large study in February that tracked more than 9,000 students in eight public high schools in Minnesota, Colorado and Wyoming. After one semester, when school began at 8:35 a.m. or later, grades earned in math, English, science and social studies typically rose a quarter step—for example, up halfway from B to B+.” That is a huge grade difference, and will definitely…

Candy, the Lonely Swamper In the story Of Mice and Men there was an old man named Candy, he is an old ranch hand or swamper. He kept everything nice and clean. The book used him to represent the relationship that Lennie and George had. They showed this by the relationship that Candy and his dog had, the dog depended on Candy but the dog gave candy hope. When they put Candy’s dog down it was almost like a part of Candy died. They used him as an example of what an old warn down man is like.…

Forest fires in the West A wildfire is an instance of uncontrolled burning in brush, grasslands, or woodlands. Wildfires can threaten the lives of people, and animals. It will also destroy property and natural resources. A wildfire can occur anytime of the year, but will most likely occur during hot, and dry weather. Wildfires are characterized by thick smoke that can be seen miles away. These fires can burn for days, and weeks. They have the potential to wipe out an entire forest. There are 3…

that juveniles charged with certain crimes be charged as adults. Arrest rates for five years before and five years after the passage of the law show that it had no deterrent effect on the level of juvenile crime in Idaho. Idaho’s neighboring states Wyoming and Montana both of which use old juvenile systems were compared to Idaho’s new juvenile justice system and it showed that Idaho’s juvenile arrest for offenses actually increased while the other two states decreased. Unlike adults, juveniles…

Shikata ga nai was a common phrase among Japanese Americans that means “it cannot be helped,” which referred to their social predicaments after Pearl Harbor was bombed (Wu 1345). Assorted important events that steered this transpired at that time. The internees all found ways to cope with the problem, though, such as playing baseball or creating art. Decades later, the government would compensate for their actions. Sending innocent people to internment camps is absolutely immoral and one of the…

there are 12,000 members. The Kiowa emerged as a distinct people in their original homeland of the northern Missouri River Basin. Searching for more lands of their own, the Kiowa traveled southeast to the Black Hills in present-day South Dakota and Wyoming around 1650. In the Black Hills region, the Kiowa lived peacefully alongside the…

High in the mountains of Wyoming after the Civil War, a bounty hunter and his prisoner are trapped in a cabin with six others after a blizzard prevents them from reaching town. In the beginning of the film, the eight people all have certain perceptions of one another, as the film progresses the perceptions rapidly change and the film ends with everyone's true intentions revealed. The film starts with a famous bounty hunter, John Ruth, transporting his prisoner ,Daisy Domergue, to the town of…

I remember when I was in third grade our teacher had great passion for the arts. She introduced us to many artists and one of the one Jackson Pollock, an American abstract painter. His art amused me because to many all those splattered paints meant absolutely nothing but a “mess” some would say but to me this art had so much expression in it. The fact that he took different meaning to everything he painted was what made me admire him. I even remember the class doing group projects and my group…