National Park Service

The National Park Service recently celebrated its 100 years of preservation and conservation of the nation’s most beautiful and breathtaking parks, monuments, and historical sites. With that being said, the government has proposed a significant amount of budget cuts towards the National Parks Service. This plays a major role in the maintenance of the parks as well as if the parks will continue to run in the next few years or so. The NPS protects 412 places altogether and all of the places combined

In America, there are many different corporations and groups of people that make us what we are. With every different setting, there are new norms, values, beliefs, and ways of doing things. Sociology then studies those different aspects of a place and sees how they shape the social world that we live in. Within sociology, there is three main perspectives that a sociologist can see the world. Through Social Interactionism, Functionalism, and Marxism and Social Conflict, the workplace, church, and

Furthermore, stating that trading is an important asset to the economy and more than 10 million people jobs that were supported by exports. National parks and monuments that depended on the government were closed. Millions of dollars were lost because tourists were unable to explore the attractions which halted money that could have been spent at the parks and surrounding businesses as well. Hotels and

The United States of America: land of the free, home of the brave. But at what cost? In today's society, American citizens are seeing their fundamental rights being questioned; in particular, their right to freedom of speech and of the press. In a truly free society, it is essential that citizens have the right to freedom of speech, to voice their opinion, to write it down, to scream it to the world, and to not be punished for it. In a truly free society, citizens hold the right to disagree with

I believe that Theodore Roosevelt is the greatest president of all time. I'm going to prove that he is the greatest by showing you these four things about him, Theodore was a conservationist, he was into foreign affairs, he prevented big business and his political view. Theodore Roosevelt was into foreign affairs very aggressively, he is quoted by saying “Speak softly and carry a big stick”. This is him saying that you can talk nice and not be rude or anything although when you need to use force

it is definitely a place to visit in California. [124] Work Cited "Historic KPH Maritime Radio Receiving Station and Cypress Tree Tunnel." National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, n.d. Web. 03 May 2017. . "Lava Tube in Mojave National Preserve." California Through My Lens. N.p., 17 Aug. 2015. Web. 03 May 2017. . "Lava Tube, Mojave National Preserve." The Last Adventurer. N.p., 29 May 2014. Web. 04 May 2017. . Maria. "Seward Street Slides: Great and Unusual San Francisco." San

can refill for free from any of the public water fountains throughout the park (Squires 2010). The park has made a large effort to refurbish the older public water fountains and install many new ones along the nine-mile hiking trail (Squires 2010). These new public fountains offer filtrated still water, as well a carbonated water giving visitors a choice (Squires 2010). In

until 1827, the year before the abolition of slavery in New York. According to the National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior, “Isabella escaped slavery and walked to freedom after her master failed to honor his promise to free her or to uphold the New York Anti-Slavery Law of 1827” (United States. National Park Service. "Sojourner Truth." National Parks Service). According to Public Broadcasting Services, “Isabella was tempted to return to her slave owners, but was struck by a vision

last million years the Green River cut deeper and the water table dropped even more. As this happened, new channels were formed and air filled passages were made. Today there are new passages being formed due to the water level. (Mammoth Cave National Park,

Stones River National Battlefield Stones River Battlefield was an obvious choice for this assignment. I live and study in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I know that there is a lot of history in the area, but it is not often that we encounter this history on a daily basis. It is important to know about the history because it helps us to understand the present and the culture of any area. I found that this battlefield was actually very important to the events of the Civil War, therefore, I knew that this