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out an application to receive a widow’s pension. Her late husband, Johann Voss, had served during the war. Rike goes to Nashville, the county seat of Washington County, to see an attorney. Filling out a form, she swears to the following: “In the state of Illinois, county of Washington, on this April 10, 1890, personally appeared before me, Friederike Ruesse. Her age is 53 years and she is a resident of Plum Hill, Washington County, Illinois. Sworn in, she makes the following declaration in order

Colorado’s Water Shortage; a Localized Problem with a National Salience The Issue at Hand The State of Colorado has suffered from a water shortage in recent years; a difficult situation which is easily visible when viewing the quickly shortening length of the Colorado River. Lake Mead, for example, is roughly 130 feet lower than it once was, marked by the stained rock which towers above the current water level. “The river has become a perfect symbol of what happens when we ask too much of a limited

Interview with Terry Ramos and George Vargas Terry Ramos is a thirty-three-year-old Puerto Rican woman who has resided in Morris Heights for ten years. She works for the Department of Education and has done so for fifteen years. Terry describes Morris Heights as a great place to live. She loves the eclectic nature of the inhabitants of her neighborhood. She recalls meeting a budding actress in a photography shop and thought that it was great that the young lady was following her dreams. Terry

education role for people especially for the Chinese American. The design of the museum is based on the Chinese transition. The color choice that the museum uses is the color red. In Chinese culture, red represents good luck, so the exterior and interior of the museum are using

In 1997, the company changed its name to Costco Wholesale and all Price Club locations were rebranded Costco.[6][11] CNBC premiered its documentary "The Costco Craze: Inside the Warehouse Giant" on April 26, 2012.[12] Costco today In the United States, the main competitors operating membership warehouses are Sam 's Club and BJ 's Wholesale Club.[13] Although Sam 's Club has more warehouses[14] than Costco, Costco has higher total sales volume.[15] Costco employs about 142,000 full and part-time

plans on the Val-Kill experiment (Roosevelt, This I Remember. 31). She also joined the Democratic State Committee and met Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook in 1922. Marion and Nan had lived and worked together for years. In WWI Marion and Nancy had gone overseas to serve as nursing orderlies and served in a London hospital. After the war, Marion ran for New York State Assembly, the first woman in the state to do so and Nan was her campaign manager. Eleanor relied on the two when she joined the Democrat’s

the world. Second of all, refugees bring diseases to whatever country they go to. These diseases can be very contagious and deadly. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explains the types of refugee diseases very well. One of their facts states that, “Of the 7, 467 Syrian

barrel-maker, and his emigration to the United States is considered by biographers to have been due to the failure of organized labor politics to achieve significant reforms. He ended up setting up shop as a barrel-maker in Illinois in 1843, where he remained involved in reformist political causes, serving as a volunteer on the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape to free territories. It is important to note, however, that the landscape of the United States was changing drastically in the time

Samoa, Mead with the guidance of her mentor Franz Boas, decided to investigate the lives of adolescent girls in Samoa as a focal point of her research. Mead chose this subject matter due to her speculation that the period adolescence within the United States during the 1920s was filled with stress and a period of turbulence; therefore, Mead hypothesized that stress felt by American youth resulted from the American cultural environment. Through her investigation adolescent girls, Mead aimed to test

Walt Whitman Changes the Face of Literature When Walt Whitman published the first edition of Leaves of Grass it was received with a wide variety of reactions. From critics to fellow poets the reactions to his first volume were often admiring, but also dubious. This pattern continued with each of the six editions of Leaves. Many wondered where this 36 year-old "poet of the people" came from. The very way he presented his first volume of poetry was controversial. Whitman presented