Wyoming

contribute to the field of Psychology, but to the advancement of women in society. She made advancements never thought possible of a woman, despite the negative gender stereotype. Before all her success, Downey grew up in the small town of Laramie, Wyoming. Born to an Evangeline (Owen) Downey and Stephen Wheeler Downey, as the second of nine…

This memo responds to your request for information about the United States and State of Wyoming’s Constitution. In this report we will discuss the U.S. Constitutional Convention, Wyoming Constitutional Convention, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the other 17 Amendments, and the Wyoming Constitution. Constitutional Conventions The U.S. Constitutional Convention was the meeting in which delegates from the existing states formed to try and better the U.S by creating laws. The US…

The first subject I will be talking about is when the 14th amendment was ratified on July 28, 1868. This amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” which included former slaves who had been freed after the Civil War. The amendment was denied by most of the confederate states because they didn’t want the former slaves to have the right to become a citizen. In their minds the former slaves were not legal citizens because they were brought here to be one…

farming of hemp has been illegal for generations. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin all grew hemp. Hemp was named “a billion dollar crop in the February 1938 edition of Popular Mechanics (3). One lady, Edith Cook a writer for the Wyoming Tribune – Eagle, has done some investigative reporting on hemp farming. “The Unjust War on Hemp” is an article recently written by Ms.Cook, and published January 30, 2014. In her article Ms. Cook explains the importance of hemp farming in…

coursework, I accepted a position at Wyoming Public High School as a paraprofessional. To my amazement, I was immersed into a diverse community with a variety of cultures. I then discovered that Wyoming Public High School is ranked number four as the most diverse public school in the state of Michigan (“2017 Most Diverse High School,” 2016). However, I was incognizant of the number of Spanish speaking students and involvement of the Hispanic community at Wyoming Public Schools. Majority of…

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies are a masive mountain range located in western North America. It is believed that to the south the American Rockies exsisted under sea level at some point millions of years ago. Looking similarly too florida and it's tropical tempertures. Proof of this is in the Colorado Rockies, sediment left behind, mostly large fossils of female ammonites or squid, crabs and other sea creature fossils. Just outside Denver, Colorado lay large 60 degree a ngeled…

Steve Turner. Amber Waves and Undertow: Peril, Hope, Sweat, and Downright Nonchalance in Dry Wheat Country. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Adams County, Washington is the topic of journalist Steve Turner’s book Amber Waves and Undertow. Partly inspired by his own experiences within the region, and acting as a county history, Turner’s work examines the various modern cultures that have inhabited this portion of Washington State. From dry wheat farmers and cattle ranchers to…

to that environment” (Greider 4). The landscape, culture, and social expectations placed on an individual will present opportunities and limitations that will be the most defining factor in shaping their character. Colton H. Bryant was defined by Wyoming, much like Henrietta Lacks and her family were shaped by the early 1900’s, and Sarah Anne was constrained by society’s expectations. Whether it is a character in a book or a person in the real world, the landscape they’re placed in will dictate…

Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, Belarus. Harrison was a lackluster student at Maine Township High School East in Park Ridge Illinois (no athletic star, never above a C average). After dropping out of Ripon College in Wisconsin,…

When Open Range was published in 1999, reviews were attentive on the conditions of harsh living in Wyoming and how it affected the characters in each story. There is a critic by the name of John Moore who states, “She startles us with her close-ups of life on the range; her characters move in landscapes that are unforgiving of their flaws.” Meaning that in each story each character is a sort of anti-hero who can never seem to have things go his/her way. Such an example is presented in Brokeback…