County Essays

moderately large county government and the tenuous relationship between the county’s main governing bodies: the elected city council, the county executive, and the sheriff known only as “Ossman”; it should be noted that the sheriff’s office was separate from the police department and did not exercise law enforcement duties. At the time of the case, the county executive and sheriff’s office were known to be the most powerful and stable of the elected positions in the county with the county executive being

Local governments face an increasing role in the development and decision making of towns and cities across the globe. City-county consolidation is a local government reform in which a major municipality and county merge to create a unified government. These referenda have proven to be unsuccessful, partly because of how unpopular it is with voters. Proponents of the idea insist on its cost saving benefits. Efforts for consolidation promise a more powerful and unified government, and the end to the

Monroe County: This county was formed from the northern section of Hampton County on April 1, 1836. This county was named in honor of the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe. It is located along the border of New Jersey in northeast Pennsylvania. The counties surrounding it are Wayne County, Pike County, Northhampton County, Carbon County, Luzerne County and Lackawanna County all in Pennsylvania. In New Jersey, the surrounding counties are Warren and Sussex counties. One large

The Wabash County Jail was built in 1979, and is meant to hold 72 people at maximum capacity. The Miami County Jail was built in 2009, and is meant to hold 240 at maximum capacity. These two jails being significantly different in setup, their security, and their cells will be discussed in this paper. Their differences are due mainly to the time period they were built in, and the funding dedicated to the jail. Firstly, I will discuss their set ups. The Miami County Jail (MCJ) was built

Leopold, Aldo. 1949. A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River. Ballantine Books: New York (1966) For the book report I read Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac”. The book depicts the landscape and ideas as seen and interpreted by Aldo Leopold as well as including discussions on conservation. I would definitely recommend this book to other people. I think anyone who appreciates the environment or believes in the wonder of nature would enjoy reading this book. The concepts

Johnson County, nestled between the Arkansas River and the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Northwest Arkansas, is a quiet and sparsely populated region known largely for its scenic vistas and peaches. However, the county has a history of violence and hardship. Clarksville, the county seat of Johnson County, is a sleepy and peaceful city, best known for the annual Peach Festival. But, in the 1870s the city was known nationally as “Bloody Clarksville” because of the numerous outlaws, gunfights

A Sand County Almanac has many themes. One theme that stood out was the relationship between history and nature and its possible future. This theme was prevalent in the essay “Good Oak”. In this essay Leopold saw the Oak tree as a historian. Within the rings of the tree lies the history of the world. Leopold states, “By its fall the tree attests the unity of the hodge-podge called history” (18). In part one and two of A Sand County Almanac history is implied throughout the essays. In part one the

Alison Wall ESRM 100 5/15/17 A Sand County Almanac “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold has been an incredibly influential book in the environmental conservation field since it was published in 1949. Unlike other books in this field, it hasn’t become outdated because its message continues to be important in understanding how crucial taking care of our environment is. Not only does this book inspire others to take responsibility on how to treat our world, but it educates readers on how our natural

Case Studies 4 Henschel v. Clare County Road Commission 1. Legal issue and Courts Decision In the case of Henschel v. Clare County Road commission; Wayne Henschel claims that the county road commission discriminated against him. He claims that they violated the Americans with Disabilities act, firing him for a disability from a motor vehicle accident that happened 2 years after he started working for the Road Commission. The court granted the Clare County Road Commission judgement, because Henschel

The characters in Tracy Letts’ play August: Osage County suffer from broken family dynamics and abuse that result in the characters attempting to take control of their lives and escape from their fate but ultimately succumbing to it. The Weston house becomes representative of a prison in which the past and present sufferings of the family continue to haunt them. Beverly Weston appears in the play for only a brief time, but during his time in the play Letts starts to reveal the broken nature of the

complex living being, interactions between each tree, each bird, as vital as the organs that comprised the body of that being. This makes sense since Leopold was an ecologist, among many other things. Throughout his essays in the wonderful ‘A Sand County Almanac' Leopold shares his vision, his passion, for the land. The essays we transport the reader from the snowy forests of Wisconsin to the craggy slopes of picturesque New Mexico, all the while we learn and grow with Leopold. In the climax, Leopold

The book A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold is filled with many themes. One main theme I found in part four in the essay “Wilderness” was the connection between humans and nature. Aldo Leopold states, “The rich diversity of the world’s cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth” (264). This statement contributes nature to creating culture. In the essay “Wildlife in American Culture” Leopold states, “The culture of primitive peoples is often based on wildlife”

The folktale The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County written by the astounding Mark Twain brought him world wide attention because of his significant use of humor. The folktale contains wisdom and deep as the tone of the story. In the frame story Jim Smiley gambles and finally loses the bet to a “feller” who kills Smiley’s frog.Simon narrates “So he sat there a good while thinkin and thinkin to hisself, and then he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and look a teaspoon and filled

The folktale, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, written by Mark Twain, is about a self-centered man named Smiley who was finally tricked out of his money after winning multiple bets. Twain presented tone in a cocky and arrogant manner, helping us better understand the personality and logic of Smiley. The arrogance displayed in the tone implied that Smiley was stubborn and had an excessive amount of confidence in his actions and intuition. He spoke as if there was no need for

In the folktale “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, a nameless foreigner from the east of the United States travels to the west to visit Simon Wheeler. The folktale is told in a frame narrative. Both the narrator and Wheeler, being from different parts of the United States, vocalize in a disparate manner. Twain uses clever and colloquial vernacular to compare and contrast the narrator and Wheeler; by doing this, Twain elicits a stronger attitude from the reader. The

In the book, A Sound County Almanac, Aldo Leopold rejected the idea of a division between science and ethics in his understanding of land ethics. This argument proposes that ethics and ecology are intertwined as both must understand the other. Leopold's perspective of the land ethic takes on both ethical responsibilities and scientific insights. "Thinking Like a Mountain" describes how hunting wolves to extinction raises ecological consequences as this situation threatens the balance of the ecological

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County     The short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” was written by America’s most famous literary icon, Mark Twain, in 1865. The main idea of this story is to show the reader how each side of the country portrayed the other side. Mark Twain wanted to show the reader the idea of realism through stereotypes.. The short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” was written to inform the reader of the stereotypes between

In the story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, the narrator allows readers to grasp a tiny portion of how different people are from west to east coast and their different sense of humor. Mark Twain was the epitome of what people could call the “southern gentleman” , he was a courteous and well-mannered man. The author is describing the appearance of the character in which he is talking about. For example, “he is a simple man, fat and bald- headed, and had an expression

For the Unit 5 discussion forum I chose the short and humorous story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain (1867). I picked this tale because of the author that I had already known during my studies many years ago. The short tale was included in the book having the same title published by George Routledge and Sons, London, in 1867; this book is a collection of humorous tales and it is considered as a masterpiece of Mark Twain’s literary production. The plot refers to the

“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” depicts a man from the East who is obviously duped into asking to another man, Simon Wheeler, to hear a story about the supposed John Smiley. This is bad for the Easterner because Wheeler could go on for hours about the curious antics of this Smiley fellow. The namesake part of the story comes when Wheeler tells the Easterner about the time when Smiley bet on a frog to out jump another frog in Calaveras County. However, the race was rigged by this other