South Jersey Essays

New Jersey is the fourth smallest state in our country. Only Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island are smaller than New Jersey and oddly enough if combined would be almost as big. Most people outside of New Jersey know few things about our great state like the Turnpike, Atlantic City and that the Sopranos being filmed here. Most outsiders don 't know that despite its small size, New Jersey can be very regional. North Jersey and South Jersey are very distinct and contribute different things to our

The Jersey Devil; he has the face of a goat, body of a kangaroo, legs of a crane, wings like a bat, and pig’s feet. The very idea of these features mashed together just seems impossible. This bizarre creature is believed to inhabit Pine Barrens, in southern New Jersey. How could such a strange creature come into existence? There are many different variations to the Jersey Devil legend, but the more known one tells the story of Mother Jane Leeds. Mother Leeds lived in Pine Barrens in poverty. The

In a family there are many different roles; there's the role of the mother, the father, the child, the grandparents, then there’s the brothers and sisters. Every single one of those roles has different responsibilities. The father, according to most of society, is supposed to be the breadwinner for the family. However, nowadays the mother is actually quite capable of being the breadwinner just as much of as the father. As they work to show their children what it is to be an adult they are teaching

I was born February 13th, 1993 in Atlanta, Georgia, but I lived the majority of my life in New Jersey. The New Jersey residents were faced with a strong Nor’easter, which brought hurricane force winds and rough seas to the New Jersey area. Governor Florio let it be known that the state will pay for the damages from the surplus in the budget. The record article from February 24, 1993 cited that the extra relief the state is providing would save the tourists and local beach goers between $60,000

Upon reading and visiting the locations of the murder of Katrina Suhan in the South Amboy State Vs Thomahl Cook Case, I have had mixed reactions and feelings. Also, upon reading online that the defendant (Cook) had appealed his conviction, several questions were raised. If you have read the Supreme courts documents of Thomahl Cook’s appeal you will notice like I did, that there are multiple discrepancies in the police investigation. For example, when the police first questioned Thomahl Cook

Community Assessment of New Brunswick, New Jersey Community characteristics Geography New Brunswick, also known as, “Hub City” or “The Healthcare City”, is a city located in Middlesex County in the eastern central part of the state of New Jersey. It is located on the southern bank of the Raritan River and about 30 miles west of New York City. New Brunswick is composed of eleven census tracts. The New Brunswick census tracts are surrounded by the following towns: Highland Park in the north, Edison

William Moraley’s failure in the American colonies was not due to laziness but being at the wrong place at the wrong time. His hard work and motivation to better his life just didn’t work in his favor. Even before his journey to America, Moraley had a string of bad luck. After his father’s death, he quarreled with his mother for his rightful fortune. But unable to acquire these funds he was reduced to poverty. “…so, had rather leave a Place where I have no Prospect of advancing myself, than to continue

New York City, one of humanities’ proudest accomplishment, survived and prospered after its discovery by Giovanni da Verrazzano and Henry Hudson, thanks to its natural, pre-existing harbor. The New York Harbor was and is successful because of its geographical location. Having direct access to the ocean, as well as a river, created ease in setting up a port for incoming ships. The harbor also created one of the strongest economies in history. A key factor in the harbor’s prosperity was the oyster

In the wake of building up the principal English settlement on the Island of Roanoke, off the shoreline of cutting edge North Carolina, John White reluctantly came back to England for supplies. Deferred by war for a long time, he returns in 1590 to  discover the pilgrims are no more.For one thing, the Englishmen who returned to the site of the abandoned colony on Roanoke Island found the word CROATOAN carved in wood.  The colony’s returning governor, John White, took that as a sign the group had

The Battle of Trenton was pivotal to the outcome of the American Revolution. Without certain intelligence assets, General Washington would have failed at Trenton, changing the course of the war. This paper will provide a detailed analysis of the Battle of Trenton and discuss in detail human intelligence (HUMINT) and offensive counterintelligence (OFCO); both of which were critical to Washinton’s success. The Battle of Trenton Defined The Battle of Trenton was a substantial turning point early in

Most of them ran away to Florida where the Spanish greeted them with food, clothes and freedom. The slaves in the northern part of England's colonies did not have as hard work. They were farm-hands, dockworkers, sailors and house servants. In the south they were farm workers and they needed to harvest labor intensive crops with worse treatment and were separated from their family. They way that they transported the slaves was horrible. They would shove them in cramped ships and travel for several

In order for his business not to decline he sold all of his vessels and obtained a job working for Thomas Gibbons as steamship captain. As he was working for Gibbons for about ten years ferrying passengers from New Jersey to Manhattan; Cornelius learned how to operate and maintain a steamboat; as well as leaning the skills to operate his own steamboat company in 1829. Over the next decade. Cornelius in his mid-thirties controlled the traffic on the Hudson River. He

On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the 20 month old son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh was abducted from their home in New Jersey. Lindbergh found a ransom note from the kidnapper in the windowsill of the baby’s room. Lindbergh searched around the house and grounds finding impressions in the ground near the baby’s window, and pieces of a ladder. During the police investigation no usable fingerprints or footprints were found. Upon examination of the note, the handwritten document contained

The Southern Colonies had a mainly agriculture economy. There was good farmland in the South and there were a lot of plantations. The three main cash crops of the Southern Colonies were rice, indigo and tobacco. These generated lots of money and the slaves were necessary to it being successful. Farmers had their crops shipped downstream to

Case (Lindbergh baby Case) “On the evening of March 1, 1932, a kidnapper crept up his homemade ladder and stole the baby of Charles and Anne Lindbergh directly from the second floor nursery of their house in Hopewell, New Jersey. The only evidence of his coming was a ransom note, the ladder, a chisel and the tragic absence of the infant. Although the $50,000 random had been paid, the baby turned up dead in the woods a mile away a couple of months later. There was no additional sign of the killer

Common Core Standards Leads to Student Failure What is common core? According to Common Core State Standards Initiative “the common core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy (ELA). These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. The standards were created to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life,

that took over American literature during this time period. He was the second of eight surviving children, and grew up with his father always switching jobs in order to keep the family financially stable. When the financial situation started going south, Whitman’s father pulled him out of school so he could work and try to help the family. At the age of seventeen, Whitman became a teacher, and later a journalist in 1841. After five years, he became the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, but was fired

Suzy Basak Ms. Lo Accelerated English Period ¾ Mar 28, 2023 Who Killed the Lindbergh Baby?: Case Still Unsolved. Around eight hundred forty thousand people go missing in the US every year. Around ninety percent of these end up being children. On March first of 1932, the twenty month old Charles Agustus Lindbergh Jr, son of famous aviators Charles Lindbergh Sr and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was kidnapped around nine o'clock at night. As soon as the kidnapping of the baby was discovered, it was reported

with a grotesque sexuality if not deformed by the CR. In Cries in the Drizzle, Wang Liqiang, due to the invalidity of his wife, is denied the pleasure of intimacy, out of desire he carries on a two years affair whose disproportioned consequences reflect the extend of the political repression. The protagonist Guanglin’s sexual awakening begins at fourteen with a night shiver accompanied by the panic of his secret masturbation. Drifted between temptation and a no well specified sin, he feels the need

In the story “The Earth on Turtles Back” it explores a very nurturing and unique way that the earth was created. The original idea was brought on by the Native Americans but is retold by the authors. It explores the idea that animals and dreams helped start the building of earth. Within the story you find some very shaping and well-fitting themes. The themes with in “The Earth on Turtles Back” are one thing must end for another to begin, importance of animals, and belief in dreams. To begin,