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money to stay happy for a while, and even saved up enough money to make purchases that would benefit him and his future careers. When Harland Sanders was 40 years of age, he had saved up enough money to buy a service station in the town of Corbin, Kentucky. At his service station, he had living

US HISTORY FINAL PAPER Throughout the history of the United States from the 1500’s to 1865 a number of enduring motifs played out that shaped the future of the country. This is the place in time where the origins of racist ideologies can be traced back to the introduction of slavery to the American agricultural system in order to justify its malicious immorality. The 1500’s also saw the infancy of the specialization of the different regional economies of America to capitalize on what was closely

Breckinridge was able to gain insight and strategies on how to accomplish complex and difficult issues that would arise in remote environments. (kirchgessner, j & keeling, A) In the summer of 1923, while riding through the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, Breckinridge surveyed the state of midwifery. On many horses and mules, Breckinridge had ridden 650 miles and interviewed about 53 granny midwives. According to Breckinridge, these women were determined either “intelligent and tidy” or “filthy as

Bobbie Ann Mason grew up on her family’s dairy farm outside Mayfield, Kentucky. She expressed a love for books at a young age. After high school, Mason advanced her education at the University of Kentucky, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English. Soon after Ms. Mason received her master’s degree from the University of New York at Binghamton in 1966. She went to college for a third and final time to acquire her Ph.D. in literature from the University of Connecticut. In 1985, she finalized

local Chamber of Commerce contentions. Almost all are of Protestant persuasions and most are good Christians, except some ten or twenty of the heathenish sort, about which there is much doubt. I am certain that there are groups here in Edmonton, Kentucky, who will very much want to maintain communication with the ‘Round Table’ in Edmonton in Middlesex. In the meantime, we here at the Herald-News will try to keep the channels open by sending a copy of the newspaper to your library each week. We hope

What factors helped to promote America’s huge industrial growth during the period from 1860-1900? America had a huge industrial revolution in the late 1800”s. Many changes happened to our great nation, which factored into this. The evidence clearly shows that advancements in new technology, a large wave of immigrants into our country and new views of our government, helped to promote America’s huge industrial growth from the period of 1860-1900. Advancements in new technology clearly promoted the

During the years of 1861 to 1865, The United States experienced one of its troubled moments in History. The nation was suffering from cilvil disorder, moral values, political struggles amongst a dividing nation. The “slave” states ( The South ) created the Confederation States of America, thus separating from the Northern States. Both sides were growing in opposites directions, economically and different social views. Of the industrialization and the evolving workforce, slavery and its cruel practices

In the last four years as a student at Eastern Kentucky University, I am grateful too have had the opportunity to take many classes that have prepared me to enter the sports industry following my internship in the summer of 2018. As a full-time student, I have enjoyed the majority of the classes that I have taken, but there are a few that pushed me to another level. Not only were these courses more challenging, but they also interested me more than other classes did. The three courses that have had

There were many plays that I could have chosen from, but this one Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies caught my attention. I found it so interesting and very well written which made me want to actually write my director’s notebook about.     I chose this play because I liked how it was being told. The way the author wrote this  play was very unique. I also liked the play itself because a lot of these stuff are happening today in the world we live in and so there is a lot of comparing between

As a society, we expect everybody to follow our norms, rules and regulations. However, Appalachia seems to have its own set of norms. Although they may not consider them to be deviant, the normals and those in power probably would. One of the biggest problems in Appalachia is the leading agents of their society. During the documentary, we follow four different people, and we see their leading agents, which are their parents and families. Shawn’s mother sells pills, Jeremy follows his father-in-law