Cumberland County

Yeats’ Ireland William Butler Yeats is one of Ireland’s best known poets, writing twelve books of poetry in his lifetime in addition to numerous other works. His poetry often utilizes place and landscape – specifically the natural landscape of Ireland – to interpret the social and cultural landscape of the country. Some of his works, such as The Lake Isle of Innisfree or The Stolen Child, relay peaceful and serene depictions of landscape whereas poems such as Thoughts Upon The Present State Of The

By February, some bootleggers moved into the city or out of the county to avoid Knight’s raiders. They seized eight stills in one week in the Benjestown area north of the city along the bluffs. Knight captured in one week in March ten stills, 4,200 gallons of mash, and arrested five men despite flooded roads, and seized

realism movement which was extant in American letters between 1850 and 1900. As a representative of such a movement, Ambrose Bierce, then remains on the most identifiable and iconic writers of his time. Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Meigs County, Ohio. He later disappeared in Chihuahua, Mexico while traveling to gain first hand experience. It is believed that he died there at around the year 1914. He grew up poor, but his parents, who were also writers, inspired him to create a passion for

Zora Hurston elaborates on a small town in west Florida at the beginning of her novel, “Seraph on the Suwanee”. The author uses similes in order to vividly recount the lives of Sawley and it’s inhabitants. Starting with parallel structure, the author compares the south side as to being “flanked” by the Suwanee River, and the north side as being “flanked” by “cultivated fields”. This famous river is “swift and deep”; the fields are “planted to corn, cane, potatoes, tobacco. . .”. But that is a facade

Dating back to the late 1800’s the location of what is now known as Frostburg State University, was just authorized as State Normal School #2 by the Maryland General Assembly. Towson University was the first Maryland Normal School to be created. In 1900 the first building for State Normal School #2 was completed, and two years later the school began operation with only 57 students, and offered one two-year program in elementary school teacher training. The first commencement ceremony of the school

town called Westminster. It is a town filled with tradition and a lot of history. Westminster is populated by a wide variety of people that make up its special community. Westminster is a fairly large town in Carroll County Maryland. Westminster is in the center of Carroll County and is surrounded by New Windsor, Taneytown, Hampstead, Mt. Airy, Finksburg, Manchester, and Sykesville.

Before rolling out in Washington, DC proper, Destinations will be tested in Fairfax and Silver Spring. According to the Washington Post, Fairfax County is Virginia’s most populous area, where more than 12K rideshare drivers are registered. That’s 21% of all Uber and other rideshare drivers in VA, and more than Arlington, Alexandria and Loudon County combined. It’s location is further south than the more “urban suburbs” allowing drivers to pass by Reagan Airport, Alexandria neighborhoods, and Arlington

Water is one of the world’s most important resources in todays’ society therefore, being able to track where, how, and the ability to obtain water is extremely important for a city. Seattle is known for being a city that receives a high amount of rainfall throughout the year, so it is no surprise that the “annual average rainfall is 34.1 inches and the it rains 152 days of the year.” (U.S. Climate Data, 2016) Seattle’s climate is pretty normal nothing very extreme it has an “annual high temperature

Introduction Alameda County resides in the East Bay of California and is the fourth most racially diverse county in the United States (Narula, 2014). It comprises of 14 suburban cities and several unincorporated communities with an overall population of 1,610,921 and more than 12% of adults are 65+ years old (175,320). Due to geographic isolation between some of the cities and a growing population, public transportation is a concern for the county and its stakeholders, especially in regards

Dill left us early in September, to return to Meridian. We saw him off on the five o’clock bus and I was miserable without him until it occurred to me that I would be starting to school in a week. I never looked forward more to anything in my life. Hours of wintertime had found me in the treehouse, looking over at the schoolyard, spying on multitudes of children through a two-power telescope Jem had given me, learning their games, following Jem’s red jacket through wriggling  circles of blind