Thomas Biebighauser

Giving full credit to restricting the Mississippi River as the culprit for loss of wetlands is not accurate. The booming oil and gas exploration of the 1970’s and 1980’s merits a name on the marquee as well. The pipelines and canals used to transport the resources to the outside world placed a great deal of stress on the fragile wetlands. Erosion from the barges in and out of the marshes as well as the salt water allowed into the fresh water, providing a precarious habitat for fresh water species – flora and fauna alike. Plants provide root systems to hold soil in place. Fish and fowl provide an economy for the area. Enter

Wetlands provide fish and wildlife habitat. It supplies food water, along with areas that can be used for nesting or resting. Wetlands also act as a aquifer recharge and discharge area. They are able to recharge groundwater or excess groundwater is able to discharge into the wetland. Wetlands act as flood storage when rainfall and snowmelt leave an excess of water around and no place to go.

“All of the Children of silence must be taught to sing their own song.” This is one of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet’s most famous quotes. Gallaudet lived a very normal childhood and had a very eventful adult life. Gallaudet was a very intelligent child, which led him be granted admission to Yale University at the age of 14. After completing college, he met a young girl named Alice Cogswell. It was Alice that ultimately helped him change the lives of all deaf and dumb people for years to come, by starting the first school especially for them. Gallaudet had many health problems during his life, though it never slowed him down. He suffered from nightmares, “nervous attacks”, self-inadequacy, and lung problems along his journey for equality of all

In a world where seven billion people can communicate in fractions of a second across the globe, share thoughts and exchange cultures, the way we choose to identity ourselves can often ‘’mark’’ us. You can often tell a lot about someone who proclaims to be Quebecois before being Canadian. And theses thing are often present in areas that have a clash of cultures, such as Québec in the former example. But the author Thomas King dives deeper into the subject with his short story Borders. King’s characters do not attach themselves to the place they were born, instead they take pride in their parents’ legacy, their heritage. By writing through the eyes of a twelve year old boy and using opposition, King displays the importance of such things and how minorities are slowly losing them.

As Americans living in the United States, we don 't often get to see or experience what others think of us in other parts of the world. Most can only speculate and wonder. Thomas Swann Woodcock came to the United States in 1830 from England. In his writings, he left us a short passage in his life through the Erie Canal. These writings left us his opinions of what he was seeing in the U.S. as an outsider trying to understand a new land. He couldn 't find his own words to quote what he had seen, so he quoted someone else to say that what he saw was “indescribable.” Thomas Woodcock saw an incredible country that had accomplished great scientific and

I am writing this letter in the regards of Luke Wiesboeck. We have been close friends for 3 years, through different student organizations at Missouri State University. I have acted like as a mentor to Luke during this friendship. I am very proud of Luke’s progression as a leader.

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, who claimed he could run backward faster than most men could go forward, was the most famous of all African American tap dancers in the twentieth century. Dancing upright and swinging, his light and exacting footwork brought tap "up on its toes" from an earlier flat-footed shuffling style, and developed the art of tap dancing to a delicate perfection.

In Thomas Hariot’s, “A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia,” he explains his personal experiences with the Native Americans on Roanoke and interactions he had with them. Hariot talks about how John White and he get along with the natives due to their adventurous characteristics. They explored all of Roanoke and even beyond it. They made maps of the island, paintings, drawings, and scientific notes. Hariot describes the many different resources that are on the island. One being wine, “There are two kinds of grapes that the soile doth yeeld naturally: the one is small and sowre of the ordinarie bignesse as ours in England: the other farre greater & of himselfe iushious sweet. When they are plãted and husbandeg as they ought, a principall commoditie of wines by them may be raised.” Another being pearle, he explains, “Sometimes in feeding on muscles wee founde some pearle; but it was our hap to meete with ragges, or of a pide colour; not hauing yet discouered those.” The other colonists that came along with Hariot did not get along with the

Lawrence Veiller was a well-respected man during his time. He strived to have social reform; he did so by trying to take down irresponsible tenement owners. He worked hard, learning new skills, joining social reformative groups, and having direct contact to the people affected by the poor housing to help stake his claim on taking down the irresponsible tenement house owners.

Robert Hanssen joined the FBI as an agent on January 12, 1976 and was transferred to the Gary, Indiana, office. In 1978, Hanssen and his family moved to New York when the FBI transferred him to its office there. The next year, Hanssen was moved into counter-intelligence and given the task of compiling a database of Soviet intelligence for the Bureau. It was then, in 1979, only three years after joining the FBI, that Hanssen began his career as a Soviet spy.

Author Neil Bissoondath, in this quick however interesting section “I’m Not Racist But…” tells us his ideas on the racism and other different views that go with it. The author Neil Bissoondath with this approach, I assume he sincerely tries to inform you of what it means to people while positive matters are stated. I discovered this essay very informative and eye commencing. In my opinion, I have by no means been affected by prejudice and after studying this, I experience like I might be a higher match to address it now.

“The definition of being an expert is someone who knows what not to do”. This is a quote from Charles Willson. You can't be an expert in everything. So think carefully about how you can become an expert in and what you like to do. Being an expert involves a lot of hard work an d a lot of practise this will help you in what you want to do.

Running the tips of his fingers along the keys, a broad-shouldered boy who has long become a man is perched precariously upon a lightly padded wooden piano bench in one of Columbia’s common rooms. He gently fumbles with the right hand of the Allegro movement, savoring especially the gorgeous A major zenith as eighth notes turn to sixteenths and leap, joyously singing with elation. He looks at me, makes a face, throws his head back and laughs because five years ago we sat on opposite sides of a vacant Stanford fraternity house with no interest in speaking to each other.

Otto Frederick Warmbier, a student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia was detained in North Korea. He appeared at a press conference at the People’s Palace of Culture in Pyongyang. Warmbier confessed to acting hostile and committing a crime by taking down a slogan from the Yanggakdo International Hotel. He claimed that he was used and manipulated. The press conference, was requested by him and apologized to people in Korea. Warmbier was detained by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on January 2, while boarding a plane to leave North Korea.

Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” tells a story of a nameless lawyer who has four nicknamed employees. Throughout the descriptions of the four employees, their daily work and the way the lawyer viewed them, it shows that the four employees have been used to symbolize the lower classes and the lawyer have been used to symbolize the upper classes of a capitalist society. Based on the use of symbolization of Melville, the main purpose of this story were to show how the lower class workers were viewed and treated by the upper classes with a class divided capitalist society. In the short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” written by Herman Melville, Melville argues that working in a capitalist society dehumanizes the employees because the