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Nominee: Gayle Eveatt Town: La Junta Nominated by: Aubrey Cook 1314 Cimarron 719-469-3219 “A mother’s love reaches far beyond circumstances and feelings. It sees past flaws and imperfections. And it celebrates God’s gift of love, sent from heaven in the form of a CHILD. Her children arise up, and call her blessed.” PROVERBS 31:28 Blessed beyond words is what I feel to have my mother. My mother is not only my mom but a daughter, wife, sister and

I was 10,000 feet above sea level and all I could hear was thunder. It was so loud that it sounded like multiple explosions in the sky and the echo continued to ring in my ears. Hail the size of quarters pelted me while I was squatting on my toes in lighting position with my 80-pound backpack. Lightning danced around me and eventually struck the ground about 200 yards away. You don’t realize as a teenager how you begin to mature until something in life impacts you in a way that nothing else has

Introduction The 1983 film Silkwood, was inspired by Karen Silkwood of the monumental Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corp. (81-2159) whistleblowing case. Silkwood, a union activist and whistleblower, worked at the Cimarron Kerr-McGee Nuclear Fuel Processing facility in Oklahoma from August 1972 until November 1974. While the activist was investigating alleged corporate wrongdoing, specifically plutonium contaminations on her body and throughout her house, she was killed in a suspicious auto accident

Part One: This past summer, I was very fortunate and lucky to be able to go to a High Adventure Camp for Boy Scouts. It was a reservation all the way in Cimarron, New Mexico, and my troop was allowed to send 12 people in total: four adults (some of the scout’s fathers) and eight scouts including myself. We left Madison for Bradley International Airport, where we caught a flight to Denver, Colorado. We planned on renting vans in Colorado to drive to New Mexico in because it made the already expensive

2012. This is important because it goes along with the fact that there is science behind these events but no one actually knows what’s going on. In I Am Legend, Matheson states, “The sky was darkening and it was getting chilly. He looked up and down Cimarron Street, the cool breeze ruffling his blond hair,”(Matheson 31). We see how the seasons change throughout the stories because the spring and summer months show us a gradual build of hope and success, but we also see how it goes through fall and winter

she was born, the Kiowas were living the last great moment of their history. For more than a hundred years they had controlled the open range from the Smoky Hill River to the Red, from the headwaters of the Canadian to the fork of the Arkansas and Cimarron. In alliance with the Comanches, they had ruled the whole of the southern Plains.”( The Way to Rainy Mountain) This shows that even after many years of her death, the land defines the people ruled on them. The wide range of lands was given her and

The story Dust Bowl by Donald Worster describes the environment as well as first person experiences to give a detailed description of the Great Plains during the thirties which led to the Dust Bowl. He uses accounts from people's memories of the dust storms that swept across the plains that destroyed farm land and homes. Not only is there people’s memories but historical facts of the environment at the time. For example how farmers misused the land as one key factor to the Dust Bowl along with many

Vodou: In the beginning the Spanish people who were exploring the islands brought with them the Catholic belief. Many of the native Indians were killed, and when the Spaniards brought in African Slaves they also brought with them many other religions that were kept underground due to the fear of being imprisoned and killed. But after the French came in and took over Haiti they also were brutal to the slaves and local Indians. After the revolution and their early leaders like Boukman and Makandal

There was the formation of small urban groups which were run by universities students and graduates who were influenced by the indigenous movement as well as black movements worldwide. One such group was the Cimarrón( The National Movement for the Human Rights of Black Communities in Colombia) formerly known as Soweto. This group as well as others were responsible for the publications of books, newsletters and newspapers. They also held meetings and participated

Since the beginning of the United States' intervention within the affairs of Latin American politics in the beginning of the twentieth century, and since the advent of a U.S. effort towards the "modernization" of Latin America, influences aimed at empowering communities and bringing about democratic movements among Latin American countries have been accompanied by various forms of exploitation and cultural decimation (Leonard, 1999). Efforts at modernization of Latin America have been carried out