Wyoming

was introduced (Background Essay). With five million longhorns unbranded and unclaimed, ex-soldiers, vaqueros, and some Native Americans rounded the cattle up and begun the trestrus four month journey from Texas to the far away states of Kansas and Wyoming (Document A). Despite the raw adventure the cattlemen experienced, death and complications arose. Once the expedition was over and done with many cattlemen were faced with the question: Will I be willingly do this all over again? Personally, I…

While serving a two-year mission away from home in Colorado and Wyoming for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I have faced innumerable obstacles. The amount of disappointment, failure, and stress I've been through is beyond anything I imagined before serving as a missionary. Through the heartache and pain, I've had the opportunity to learn moral lessons, leadership skills, communication skills, perseverance, charity, and several other lessons that will be fundamental to leading a…

criminal sanctions for cyberbullying. The two states that don’t have cyberbullying laws are Alaska and Wisconsin, while the six states that don’t have criminal sanctions for cyberbullying are Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Wyoming. I believe that the growing number of cases of cyberbullying, will influence more states to become active, having laws, sanctions, or both. The consequences today for the children being bullied, would demand these put into…

Many people in the early 1600’s to the 1900’s hunted on Sundays. However, Sunday hunting was banned over two-hundred years ago in 1903. Many citizens want to legalize Sunday hunting in West Virginia because people can fish, buy alcohol, and have picnics on Sunday’s, but cannot hunt on Sunday? Researchers say that is Sunday hunting is leagalized, decrease in church attendance will not happen. Also, large wildlife will increase duringthe years of Sunday hunting (“Kleek”.) In addition, people who…

people from different states are not represented equally. People in smaller states are given more representation in the Electoral College than people in larger states. He gives the example that, although Washington, D.C. has a larger population than Wyoming, they both get three electoral votes. DeRosa believes that the biggest problem with the Electoral College is that it encourages voter suppression. Prior to the Civil War, slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person for population count,…

The Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank (RMLEB) is a non-profit organization that services Colorado and Wyoming for donation of eyes for transplantation. The organization was established in 1982 with the assistance of the Lions Clubs of Colorado and Wyoming (RMLEB, 2016). The mission of the organization is “to fulfill the wishes of eye donors and their families to help another overcome blindness through transplantation and research” (RMLEB, 2016, p. 1). Besides providing corneal and other eye related…

gaining access to some of the world’s largest recoverable trona ore deposits which can be very economically converted to soda ash at GCIP’s plant in Green River, Wyoming. The acquisition of GCIP increased TCL’s soda ash capacity to around 5 million tonnes per annum. Moreover, about 60% of this capacity is based on natural soda ash units at Wyoming and Lake Magadi. TCL’s customer base now encompasses some of the world’s leading and recognizable companies such as Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Church…

Senate. Origins of the scandal went back to the growth of federal conservation policy in the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, specifically to the creation of naval petroleum reserves in Wyoming and California. The "Teapot Dome Affair" was perhaps the most important and remembered scandal of Harding's time as president. After jurisdiction over naval oil reserves were transferred to the Department of the Interior, secretary Albert B. Fall…

President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive order 9066 ordering all Japanese- americans to evacuate the west coast, that approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans to go to internment camps. Japanese- Americans were treated harshly after the bombing of the Pearl Harbor. The bombing of the Pearl Harbor made Americans fear and despise them. The hatred towards Japanese-Americans was due to newspapers creating a scare for the American people, as well as the government restricting the rights of…

National Woman Suffrage Association, fought for the right to vote through a constitutional amendment. The American Woman Suffrage Association fought for the right to vote on a state by state basis. The AWSA’s method produced results quicker, with Wyoming giving women the right to vote in 1869, however, ultimately suffrage was granted through a constitutional amendment that was nicknamed ‘the Susan B. Anthony Amendment’ for her work as a suffragist. Even before the Nineteenth Amendment was…