My View Of The Wisconsin State Capitol

Travel to the south-central region of Wisconsin and you come upon a city that’s known as the water park capital of the world. This is none other than Wisconsin Dells. It sits in four counties, Adams, Columbia, Juneau, and Sauk. The city borrows its name from the 5-mile gorge on the Wisconsin River, The Dells of the Wisconsin River. This stunning feature formed from sandstone is the jewel in this area. Wisconsin Dells comes alive during summer with visitors coming to indulge in its thrilling theme parks. Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park is one popular destination here. It has rides like the Hades 360 Rollercoaster or the Poseidon’s Rage. For nature lovers, visit the picturesque Mirror Lake State Park, a vast forested park with hiking trails

“Click click” was all I could hear from the seatbelts as we set off for Wisconsin this summer. The nerves were through the roof to get to our destination, “Wisconsin Dells, the waterpark capitol of the world”. This trip was gonna be all about having fun, unlike last year it was a nightmare. Sunburnt skin, and terrible stomach aches are no fun on a vacation.

Milwaukee is the largest city and the main economic and cultural center of Wisconsin. Situated on the western shore of Lake Michigan, Milwaukee lies at the confluence of three rivers—the Kinnickinnic, the Menomonee, and the Milwaukee—while several smaller rivers also flow through the city. The county seat of Milwaukee County, the city encompasses a total area of 96.8 square miles. With a population of 594,833 residents and a wider metropolitan area of approximately 2 million, Milwaukee is the fifth largest city in the Midwestern United States and the 30th largest city in the entire country.

As you enter the exhibit, the topic first encountered is the U.S. Constitution. After some discussion about

Our school has started this project, and we are creating a tour in which visitors to Elizabeth City State University will be able to walk and discover more about ECSU. We have chosen specific buildings and landmarks (The Gilchrest Building, Fine Arts Center, Butler Hall, The Science Complex, Mitchell Lewis Hall and Student Apartment Complex, Information Technology Center, Clock Tower, Williams Hall, ECSU Fountain and Administration) and researched their history.

A recent hot-button subject in the media has been what to do with Confederate monuments in the South. After the removal of a statue honoring Robert E. Lee, a general in the Confederate Army considered by many to be a hero for the part he played in the American Civil War, a clear divide has formed over whether it was the right thing to do. Some agree with this choice, calling the statues remnants from a time of racial oppression in the United States. Others are outraged, considering it desecration of their proud history. Still others don't understand either side of the issue, and see it as a pointless feud. It is imperative to understand that to many people, these are more than just statues. Whether their impression is positive or negative, this issue goes beyond physical monuments.

Still today the museum reminds us about the struggle of civil rights and education. The museum is a beautiful building that truly helps show the story. There are different items you can touch, sound effects, interviews of students who protested, actual desks and a fire that’s warm. In the beginning of the tour you sit in a room that is meant to portray the auditorium and make you feel like you are actually there on April 23rd 1951, where Barbara Johns gathered the school to discuss going on strike. This scene was created perfectly, it showed the paint coloring, forty-eight stars on the flag, different colored chairs, and cracks on the walls. All of these aspects help set the mood and feel to help the everyday people try to understand and relate to this important moment in history that happened right here in Farmville, Virginia. There is so much history here which is why I think it is so important and why this certain historic moment has such a big impact on our town. This event led to many different cases that helped create equal education for all schools in the nation. I was grateful for this experience and going to go and visit the museum and learn more history about Farmville. I also find it truly amazing that during this time there was so much racism, and segregation, and unequal rights, and now almost eighty years later we go to a university with so many different races, ethnicities, and background. I do agree that there is still predigest people and discrimination, but we have to admit that we have gotten a lot better. I do think that a protest like this could still happen in today’s time. There are still protest today about discrimination involving law enforcement and everyone has their own view on the situations that occur. The protest and strikes will always happen, I just hope in the next twenty years at most we can move on from this idea of discriminating each other and truly

Arriving in the overgrown drive way trees start to crowd your vision, in the middle of all the trees I see an old beach house; that has stayed the same over the 18 years I have been going up there. Grandma is waiting outside on the front porch we all run up to give her a hug, then we go and start unpacking for a week’s worth of relaxing. First thing we do when were done unpacking is go to the old but new play structure. We sit on the swings and look out towards the big blue Michigan Lake. White caps cover most of the water along with passing boats, and some kayakers. Right over the horizon I can see the lights from the town, reaching into the sky. The sun is starting to set; the sky is painted with pink, orange, and yellow.

Before August 12, 2017 many Americans neither cared about nor thought about Confederate flags or monuments in their daily lives. On that day in Charlottesville, Va. was “… one of the bloodiest fights to date over the removal of Confederate monuments across the South.” (Stolberg) This tragic event brought light to a movement that was able to fly under the national radar until that fateful day in August, the removal of the Confederate flag and monuments. This paper will demonstrate the need to move the Confederate flag and Confederate monuments to museums where they can be displayed in the context of history instead of in the public square where they glorify traitors and insurrectionists as heroes. This will be done by providing a brief

A visit to Capitol Hill would not be complete without visiting one’s congressional delegation. Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-6) and Senator Ed Markey (MA) sat down with GER Zellen impressed with the vast work of the Order. Both shared personal connections to their hometown local Elks lodges. “I remember as a kid swimming at the Marvel Elks Lodge. It was one of the best things to do in summertime with friends” reminisced the Congressman.

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, and into the first decade of the 21st century, Wisconsin politics had a well-established tradition of centrist governance, with the ultimate goal of best serving the citizens of Wisconsin. State Senator Tim Cullen (D), who served in the state Senate first between 1975 and 1987, returned to the state Senate in 2010, for fear that state politics was on the brink of hyper partisanship. In his Memoir Ringside Seat: Wisconsin Politics, the 1970’s to Scott Walker Cullen, in cooperation with former high ranking members of both parties, attempts to describe the fundamental differences between the political environment of Wisconsin prior to, and following, Act 10. Importantly, the memoir argues that the

They each wore many layers of tattered clothing and looked like northern outdoorsmen who had been living on their own for far too long. They sat at the table with two small and burn scarred coffee mugs filled with hot water. Along with an incomplete deck of cards scattered across the table resembling some sort of poker game. On days when they did not need to scavenge and it was clear enough to see through the ash and cloud covered skies, they sat at the table and looked out over the capital. Hundreds of years ago this would have been a beautiful view of the gorgeous White House and it’s landscape. There would have been colorful displays of lush green grass and trees, with the iconic white pillars of the White House towering in the back ground. Today the pillars are still there except for one in the middle which had crumbled at its top but the bottom still stood, rising half way up in the air. Its beautiful yard was now black and ash covered and any trees had long since rotted away. The building itself was still incredibly well put together compared to it’s peers. It stood as a glimpse of what was once possible of human kind, only to be snatched away by the sudden

Once people enter the capitol, there is an immense number of things to see and read to learn more about the history of the capitol building and the state of Wisconsin. Some visitors may choose to explore on their own, while others will elect to join an organized tour around the building. A benefit of this is that the tourists won’t get lost, and along the way, they will be able to learn facts that they may not have been told had they wandered around on their own. From April until school ends in June, the capitol is the destination for most, if not all fourth-grade classes (Derby). Fourth graders are taught about the state of Wisconsin, and what better way to get them enthused than to take them to the building that is all about Wisconsin. According to a tour guide that has worked at the capitol since 1999, tour guides give three tours a day to about 50 fourth graders during this time of year. The man says that they see about 1,000 kids per day. Some of the kids even know more than the tour guides (Derby). According to a different tour guide, the part of the tour that kids find the most interesting is the fossils located on the second floor of the capitol. The fossils are embedded in the marble walls and stairs rather than just sitting in a show case. This holds the kids’ attention longer and also provides the tour guide to talk about more than just the history of the capitol (Brogan). For other age groups other than

Kansas has many state parks and the popular place is the monument rocks and the castle rocks. The monument rocks and the castle rocks have fossils in ancient chalks in plain western Kansas which is a spectacular landmark. The chalk was deposited during the Cretaceous period of geological history about 80 million years ago, when the central interior was covered by sea. The fossils were like shark teeth, fish bones, even dinosaur bones, and other sea creatures. The fossils in the chalk bed go to the Sternberg Museum in Hays.Michael J. Everhart is a shark hunter and he found a shark skull which was under sand and gravel The chalk was a good material for trapping and preserving

A group of us Arts and Music students used the day on Wednesday to go into the city to visit the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It was a cold, breezy day so we were all bundled up in jackets and hats. As we got off the E train and walked toward the museum, its appearance was not what I expected it to be. The museum was an elegant, beautiful building made of what looked to be marble; not the big, brick monstrosity I had expected. Once we walked into the museum, it was even more elegant on the inside. The marble staircase had sculptures on each side leading up to the rotunda where white Christmas lights were strung around the banister in decoration for the Christmas season.