January

January, 2017 SAVE YOUR PETS, SAVE YOURSELF! By Fire Chief Gary Curmode/PIO, Copper Mountain Fire Department, CO Summit County is into our winter season fast and furious. What a great time to enjoy the winter season! To enjoy our four seasons we need to practice safety in all aspects of recreation. Today’s article is going to talk about how to save your pets, and also yourself in the winter season. Pets are part of our community. They go with us almost everywhere. When pets go outside, they

Carrie Shuey Mrs. Voshell Honors English 10 6 January 2016 The Importance of The Scarlet Letter There are many important elements of the book, The Scarlet Letter, but the five most important scenes start with Hester being set free from prison with Pearl. Then the second scene is Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, coming to town to seek revenge. The next is the scene where the governor threatens to take Pearl away from Hester. The fourth is Hester removes the letter off her chest in the woods

Zachary Hutzell January 6, 2017 Period 2 Business English This is where it all started when Steve Wozniak became fascinated with electronics. He was born August 11, 1950 and raised in San Jose, California. Steve Wozniak is pictured here with his family, his mother Margaret Wozniak, sister Leslie Wozniak, and his brother Mark Wozniak. After Steve Wozniak graduated high school he got accepted into the University of California, Berkeley to major in computer science. He ended up postponing getting

Nadia Joseph Ms. Milliner EES21QH-01 January 20, 2017 Final Paper Grit and mindset are displayed in various ways through the characters in Othello; some characters in this play are grittier than others. In the article Angela Duckworth and the Research on “Grit” the author states, “Now, Duckworth is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and her research focuses on personality traits she calls ‘grit’. She defines grit as ‘sticking with something over the very long term

Josh Lyon Mrs. Voshell Honors English 10 6 January 2017 Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter Within The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne uses symbolism, “the use of symbols to represent ideas” (Bell 10), affluently. The amount of symbolism Hawthorne uses could lead some to believe that The Scarlet Letter is in fact an allegory. Nearly every object in Hawthorne’s novel is symbolic. Hawthorne uses everyday objects and places to symbolize many main themes, concepts, and ideas in the lives of Hester and Pearl as

Zea Robinson AP Seminar Mrs. Frye Period 3 6 January 2017 (Ethics) Banning the Death Penalty The death penalty is a serious and permanent sentence. The prison system should not hand out this sentence freely; yet 1,442 people have been executed since 1976. (DPIC) This is unacceptable due to the fact that the procedure is not a guarantee against “cruel and unusual punishment” (Unah). Also some of those who were given the death sentence were wrongly accused (Simonovic). Should it then be legal to

January 25, 2014, will remain a historic date for Chinese tennis: on that day Li Na defeated Dominika Cibulkova and became the first Chinese to win the Australian Open. It was her second Grand Slam after winning the 2011 French Open. Officials in Hubei – her native province - were so excited by the event that local Party chief Li Hongzhong and provincial Governor Wang Guosheng set up a welcome ceremony on January 27. They awarded the returning champion Rmb 800,000 ($132,000) as a manifestation of

Tyler Dudley Ms. Elliott AP English/2p 24 January 2017 Same Sex Marriage Research Paper There are many different topics in the world that split people’s opinions. Some stronger than others. These views and opinions are often swayed by one’s political views, and one of the biggest topics that sparks controversy are the rights of all people. Some of the bigger groups are Black Lives Matter and feminists. While these are very big and prominent, the one that sparks the most controversy is the LGBT community

In January 2013 a prominent national US newspaper quoted former Secretary of State, Condolezza Rice, “It doesn’t matter where you come from, but where you are going.” However, In “The Land of Opportunity,” James Loewen discusses how significant inequality is in America. The social class that you are born into will influence your outlook on social class and will also be the social class you stay in (Loewen, 1995. 322). Your social class will determine the opportunities available for you including

Django Reinhardt was born into the lifestyle of his gypsy parents on January 24th, 1910 in a village of Belgium known as Liberchies. Django, Romani for “I awake,” has inspired and astonished various generations of musicians and lovers of jazz with his remarkable control of the guitar and the story of his upbringing. At just the age of eight, his parents moved near the stretch of barricades that encompassed the streets of old Paris. Up until he was about twenty years old, he had never really set down