Idaho Essays

Sacagawea is a Shoshone Indian who helped navigate during the Lewis and Clark expedition. Her name means “Bird Woman’’ in Shoshone and “Boat Launcher’’ in Hidatsa. Sacagawea was born in 1788 Lemhi County, Idaho. Sacagawea is the daughter of the Shoshone chief. She not only helped navigate around the wilderness, but she was a good spokesperson between the Native Americans and explorers. She was the only woman on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Sacagawea was a great peacemaker, and she helped

Hate is My Neighbor by Bill Wassmuth and Tom Alibrandi is a nonfiction book that showed me that bigots have been out there for a long time, even in my own backyard. The Book took place in Coeur D'alene Idaho, a town about 7 hours from Boise. It gave us an in depth look on how the Aryan Nations harassed the people of the small town in the 1970’s. I will further explain what I felt were three important artifacts from the book that help us understand the situation. The three artifacts I chose will represent

The Idaho website was much harder to navigate than the Wisconsin site, however I was able to secure much of the same information. The lowest level of courts in Idaho is the Magistrate Court, and it consists of eighty-seven judges. The Magistrate Court only has original jurisdiction in misdemeanors, minor civil cases, juvenile cases, family law, and estates and trusts. The District Courts of Idaho serve as the court of appeals for the Magistrate Court

homes. Geothermal water and energy was a resource for the often wealthy and powerful residents who chose to build their homes close by but also as; a natural steam power plant, for heating commercial structures in downtown Boise, and for use at the Idaho State Penitentiary. Warm Springs Avenue got its own streetcar line in 1891. The streetcar line was eventually was discontinued but can be remembered by a small restaurant next to Adams Elementary. It is called The Trolley House. It marks the spot

Sayer is referring to the goal set by the state of Idaho, to accelerate talent pipelines. The talent pipelines is a phrase referring to the method of growing and bettering our community here in idaho, especially by preparing the youth in school for white collar jobs in the future. Doing this creates a wider range of candidates for skilled jobs, helping a company to excel. Month after month, over 5,000 high paying Idaho jobs remain unfilled, numerous Idaho companies have suspended growth and major construction

The most recent school shooting has everyone questioning whether guns should be banned or whether we should keep guns in the United States. Most gun owners have guns for protection and to protect their family and themselves. It's weird that only this shooting that happened in florida is being taken seriously but no one took the other school shootings as serious as this one. No one took into consideration that there has been many other shootings and just because only a few kids died so therefor it

Portland, Oregon the centerpiece of the pacific northwest. A hub for wide variety of food, art, and cultural diversity. As a result of being a very culturally diverse city, there is also a lot of stereotypes that follow. Growing up in Portland, Oregon has made me realize the stereotypical judgements people base off the city. For example, a popular stereotype would be the assumptions of the Portland hipster. The Portland hipster is believed to be a local produce snob, exotic doughnut obsesser, flannel

Project Budburst is a national phenology field campaign designed to engage participants in collecting data and observing phonological events. It is a way to scientifically study the impacts of climate change on plant and animals. Project Budburst was launched in 2007 (“Project Budburst” 1). During Project Budburst the participants collect data on the flowering and leafing out of the trees, and then they submit the data to the Project Budburst website. The backbone of this program is the extensive

Sports are an activity that are involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Many people introduce sports early on in life and keep it as part of their lifestyle for quite a few years. The type of sport people play is greatly influenced by the country they live in and the values and traditions they were brought up with. For my research paper I gathered information from my two primary sources and 11 secondary sources

Four Main Geographic Regions There are four main geographic regions in the state of Washington. All the four main regions have their own unique features and help show the vast difference of geography throughout Washington State. The first main region is known as the mountain region, which is made up of the Rockies, Cascades, and Olympic Mountains. The second main region is the Puget Sound Lowlands, the third main region is the Costal Range, and the last main region is the Columbia Plateau. The

In Idaho, bullying is a huge issue that does not get paid much attention and as a result, bullying has gotten worse. Bullying is defined as strength or influence on others to do as one wants. Such as derogatory language towards others and putting people down in their lows. Idaho’s community is the biggest portion of bullying being conflicted on high school students. In Idaho, not only high school kids are being targeted, elementary kids are being bullied just as bad. For example, an Idaho Statesman

The overall methodology for the survey was qualitative one-one semi-structured interviews of with key regional health care providers across Idaho. The Idaho Telehealth Task Force identified 15 individuals deemed key stakeholders, due to their knowledge of and/or experience with telehealth in their respective regions. An additional individual was recommended by one of the identified stakeholders and subsequently invited to participate. A standardized communication protocol was implemented for contacting

because the community gets meat . The laws exist in Idaho are different from other states in the United States. Animals have been living such a horrible life, and

this geological history, I will mention the formation of the rocks from oldest to youngest. On the field trip to red rocks park, the first stop was next to the parking lot. The Idaho Springs formation, which considered the oldest among the formations we went through. Its 1700 millions years. The name of the rock is Gneiss Idaho springs and it doesn't have a grain size. Some of the minerals in the rock were K-feldspar, quartz, Biotite, and Hematite. The environment of deposition would

Serial Killers in Idaho Have you ever wondered was there any serial killers in Idaho, and if there is, were there any really bad ones. Paul Ezra Rhoades, James Edward Wood, and Lydia Trueblood. These were the people that terrorized the state of Idaho many years ago. Paul Ezra Rhoades, born January 18, 1957, in Idaho Falls a male, 6’2”, Weighed around 259 pounds. Paul Ezra Rhoades has had a record for small time arrests starting from age 21.If the cops were right in there suspicions, Rhoades

Idaho Education Funding Foundation Before answering all those question, one thing for sure I know how our education funding is from donation and from the government, but that doesn’t really explain how they are funded. After looking at the pie chart and seeing how our state highly depend upon state funding and that’s the place where they get the most funding. In actual number from idaho ednews, Idaho receive about 0.306 billions from Federal, 0.496 billions from Local funding. To my surprise the

Tristan Southwick Olsen Class 252 Day Month Year Abortion in Idaho Abortion should be banned. In 2020 Idaho started a trigger ban on abortion and made it illegal to do. If any one attempts illegal abortion they will be punished. And if someone helps another with an illegal abortion they will lose their medicine license. We should keep abortion banned in Idaho because in 2017 there were around 862,320 abortion in the United States. This is why Idaho has banned abortion to try and lower those numbers as

When I moved to Utah to Idaho I was three years old. My family and I lived in a brown two floor house in utah with my uncle Martin for a while until he moved out. My cousins, aunts, and uncles used to come visit every single second. We weren 't ever alone. When we moved to Idaho it was just my family living in Idaho in a light brown house with a star on top. When I got older we used to visit them frequently and stayed for weeks there until we had to come back to Idaho. I didn 't personally want

there remains a lot of controversy over this topic in today’s world, Idaho created a law in 1982 affectionately named “The Idaho Stop”. The law allows bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop signs, and ultimately gives the rider more responsibility for their own safety. Unsurprisingly, “bike-injury rates declined by 14.5 percent the year after the law was passed, then remained flat” (Citylab). Idaho set a precedent for safe bicycling, and cities need to follow their example

My Own Private Idaho, the 1990s, is a film directed by Gus Van Sant, inspired by Williams Shakespeares plays Henry IV, parts I and II. This film is considered to be part of the New Queer White Cinema, apart from a road movie. It is about Mike Waters, played by the deceased River Phoenix, who plays a narcoleptic hustler. Throughout the film, Mike shifts between Seattle and Portland searching for his mother who he never finds. Mike is accompanied by another male hustler Scott Favor, played by Keanu