A Mine Of Coal

I had never had people so willingly accept me into their group and I felt for the first time like people enjoyed my company. We’d go to Sugarloaf, the beach, Presque Isle, McDonald’s, Walmart and really everywhere else you could think of. Megan had a license and a car and we were able to go anywhere and do anything whenever we wanted. I liked that. Thinking back on our friendship, I think I was excited about the freedom my new ‘friends’ were granting me. I liked that. After hanging out with them for a few months, I felt uncomfortable with the stuff they were doing and talking about doing so I stopped hanging out with them. They didn’t seem to like that so they egged my car.

Sadly, I’m not the same person that I was. I guess you could say it’s part of growing up. It never really was intentional but it’s just the way how it ended up.

At the beginning of twelfth grade, I met a group of people through a mutual friend. I did not enjoy being around such a large group at first, and I

Could you imagine dying from no air?!! Bear Creek Montana suffered one of the worst mine explosions in US history.

Have you ever thought about how your able to use a TV or lamp? There are people who have to work in mines or around dangerous machinery just so we can have that privilege. Thousands of miners and other people have been killed because of coal mining. Coal mining has brought some good thought taxes and jobs created. The most important effects of coal mining on the state of West Virginia are thousands of jobs being created, coal affecting West Virginia economically, and coal being used for energy.

Coal was originally discovered in West Virginia in 1742, but wasn’t mined for economic benefit until the late 1800s. Coal occurred in most of the state’s counties and the coal boom brought in waves of laborers and their families. The work was hard and dangerous and the pay was not enough to justify the dangers of the occupation. These poor working conditions and unfair compensation would lead to riots, strikes, and civil incursions that would eventually attract the attention of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). The UMWA was started in Ohio in the late 1800s, but moved into West Virginia in the early 20th century. There were many influential figures within the organization, most notably John L. Lewis. Lewis was president

To lighten the mood, he uses different kinds of humor to keep his audience engaged and to relate to them. He tells students to think about the next time “you pull an all-nighter for a term paper that will get thrown in the trash within the month,” relating to the dry humor most college students have regarding their school work, or to life in general when he reminds that “a diploma is deadness, a sort of gravestone marking your time. A nice memorial, hopefully, but it isn't a living thing.” He tells students to “get a Second Life!” referring to a life simulation video game joked about in popular media and gives statements such as “you need your own spherical chickens,” which out of context makes no sense.

I started school when I was four-years-old. I didn’t hate school when I first started but I definitely didn’t enjoy it. When I first started school Brody was one of my best friends. My first ever teacher was Mrs. Anderson. She was a good teacher. I didn’t never paid much attention to the other kids, Brody was my friend and I had a couple other friends and that was all I needed. When I first started school I never did get in any serious trouble at school (that I remember of) except for a couple of times for talking.

my life and allowed HIM to become Lord of all I do.When HE restored my marriage in

I would say that my nature as a person is lonesome and introverted. That’s not to say I don’t like to talk with my friends or hang out, I’m just more likely to be by myself reading a book. Even then I kept company with people who honestly were very much like me , as in nerdy, asian, and keep to themselves. The football team at my school was nothing like that. In my school there seems to be no ethnic majority, and that reflected in the football team. Joining the football team exposed me to a lot of people who were very different from me and those who surprised me with the connections I shared with them.

Gold was the only thought lingering around in people’s minds. The miners needed it, and they were greedy enough to reach extreme heights to have it. Meanwhile, Sir James Douglas began rounding up policemen to arrest domestic miners within the camps . The population of miners grew smaller and smaller every day and dreams of finding gold were crushed by the minute. The few that were left were “wild men who had easy access to liquor and a taste for yellow dust” (G. Bowering). Unfortunately, with the mindsets and drunkenness of those miners, not much was achieved at that time, and very few left with what they wanted. With the disastrous number of obstacles and temptations that were faced throughout the journey, this result was inevitable. The amount of greed brewing inside each one of the miners would eventually lead to an ill-fated turn of events, and sadly, it didn’t come into realization until all the harm was

he coal mining industry started when people in Utah wanted fuel. Lumber at that time in Utah was used just for building, not for fuel. In 1854, the LDS church said that they would pay for the first usable coal mine within forty miles of Salt Lake City. The first coal mine was in Summit County. Its name was Coalville, and it was about forty miles from Salt Lake City. The Mormons built a railroad to the Coalville Coal Mine. They also found a mine that would give them fuel for transportation named Castle Gate Mine. Soon the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad was built from 1881-1883. It went to the Book Cliffs; that was discovered as Utah’s richest coal deposit. Coal mining had three big challenges The first problem with mining was labor. Most people that worked in the coal mines were immigrants that came because they believed that mining would make them rich. The second problem was money. The workers often complained about how low their wages were, and how high the store prices were in mining camps. The last one was a safety concerns. It was very dangerous working in coal mines. You could die from explosions, or gas leaks. Because of those three problems, the workers protested and many strikes occurred. The first strike happened in 1883, at Winter Quarters. They wanted safer working

In the 1920’s, the Berkeley Pit in Butte Montana was the most productive mine in the United States. It produced over a third of the copper that was used in all telephone wires that were put up in the power-line boom in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Hundreds of millions of tons of copper, silver, gold, and other

Hey, I’m Jeremy just some average high school gay guy who loved basically everything really except for sports, which bored the shit out of me. Anyway I am a pretty popular person, but my main group of friends consisted of six people. This included a guy named Chase Prower, he was like a linebacker for the football team, he was a total jerk to most people that tried to talk to him. Of course once you got to know him he wasn’t that bad, he had blue eyes, blonde hair, yea I know stereotypical. He was also like 5’9” and was pretty hot, but his personality overall was shit well at least how he treated women. Our group also insisted of these two twins names Sarah and Sara, they were complete opposites of each other, but other than their options of

Growing up as a little girl my life was ever changing. Although I don’t have many recollections of my childhood, I do