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outdoor adventures. If you live in Butte County, it is a short drive to this ecologically diverse setting. Table Mountain is made up of a north and south mountain. They are basaltic plateaus named for their flat top that looks like a table. The mountains are the remainder of an ancient lava flow dating back to 14 to 39 million years ago. A majority of the north and south mountains are privately owned, but there’s areas for hiking.…

As stated previously there were several problems that community of Woodside face. Due to the lack of employment opportunities in Woodside, many residents work in factories outside of the area and several young adults dropped out of school to gain employment to assist with their family’s needs. The lack of education limits the job opportunity available. The recent unemployment rate in 2014 is 6.8 % a slight increase in Hampstead from 6.3% in 2013 (Hampstead, NC Livability., n.d.). However, there…

Woods World Family Child Care is a family operated child care home located in the south eastern portion of Gaston County, North Carolina (NC). We received our initial license from the Division of Child Development and Early Education under the direction of the NC Department of Health and Human Services in February 2007. All Family Child Care Homes (FCCH) are regulated similar to Child Care Centers and must adhere to the NC General Statues put forth in Chapter 110, Article 7 (NCGA, 2014).…

Getting Things Started My state is South Carolina and The reason I picked it was because it is my birth state. South Carolina has many cool things to it like being the golf capital of the world or that the trees cover two-thirds of the land, or even that their most valuable catch is shrimp. South Carolina is filled with interesting facts like being explored by the French, Spanish and English, the first State to leave the Union, and the first battle of the Civil War. South Carolina has many…

February 12, 1843, Mary Elizabeth Wieting Johnson was from English ancestry, whose granddaughter Col. William Coley, came to America as a boy and served with distinction in the Revolutionary War. She was the youngest daughter of a lawyer, New York State legislator, and Pitcher, NY Postmaster Samuel, and his wife Mary Ann Coley Plumb. The Plumb family moved to Homer when Mrs. Johnson was a girl and she was graduated from the Homer Academy with highest honors in 1860. Mary Elizabeth’s passion were…

The English and the Algonquins at Roanoke. • It was late August 1590 when English ships made their way north through rough seas to Roanoke Island, (off the coast of present-day North Carolina) • Virginia Dare, the first English baby born in America. • Walter Raleigh, a wealthy adventurer who saw prophet and prestige by organizing an English colony to compete with Spain Powerful Empire in the New World. • Although Manteo, from the village of Croaton, argued that their technology would make the…

suddenly vanished in 1587. After John White went back to England for supplies, and was delayed, he left the settlers on Roanoke Island; only to find them missing afterwards in 1590 (“Wolfe”). This led him to finding clues through Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in order to find the colonists; including his family and granddaughter. Even over centuries of looking for them we are still persistent on any leads towards it. Whether theories and evidence are proven to be true, this mystery is yet to…

colony, none have yet been proven true or false. The Roanoke Colony, known today as the Lost Colony, was established in today’s Dare County, North Carolina in the late 16th-century. It was an attempt by Queen Elizabeth to create a permanent English settlement. Nearly four hundred years ago, a baby girl was born on Roanoke Island, off what is now the North Carolina coast. She was the first child of English parents to be born in the New World, named Virginia Dare. Within a year, Virginia Dare,…

Riley Coleman Ms.Kowatnick History 10 March, 2017 Andrew Jackson was born in North or South Carolina on March 15, 1767. His mother took care of him by herself. She later died once Jackson was only 14. After, both brothers in the war and had nobody else but his two uncles to raise him. He received a upright education by private tutors when he was still very young. This was usually a rich commodity but his uncles worked very hard to give him the best he deserves. When he was 15, he went back to…

The similarities between Sedaris and I are vague. We do strange things and respect our grandmother. In the book, “Naked” Sedaris does strange things like licking the light switch. “There you are with your tongue pressed against that light switch” (7). He also counts different things that he does. “If I were to lose count of my steps, I’d have to return to the school and begin again” (8). He overthinks everything. I compared myself to Sedaris because, I get distracted easily. I think that is…