Laramie, Wyoming

Bethany L. Coderre Theater-3 Ms. Kewley Hate Crimes After reading “The Laramie Project” your left with so many questions, ideas and emotions. The play is a series of interviews (reenacted exactly as they happened) to give the audience facts and true statements so that they can form there own opinion. The play takes place in Laramie Wyoming, after the “hate crime” that left 21 year old Matthew Shepard fighting for his life that ended soon after all because

There are many ways in which we can view the history of the American West. One view is the popular story of Cowboys and Indians. It is a grand story filled with adventure, excitement and gold. Another perspective is one of the Native Plains Indians and the rich histories that spanned thousands of years before white discovery and settlement. Elliot West’s book, Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado, offers a view into both of these worlds. West shows how the histories of

stretching lakes across the Bonney Pass in the Teton Mountains; I knew this place that I loved had transformed me into a better person and a more confident woman. When I submitted the lengthy application to the Teton Valley Ranch Camp in Dubois, Wyoming my mind kept sinking back to the fear of flying away to my comfortable close knit home to work at a ranch camp 2,610 miles away. My mom persisted that I should do something different with my summer. After being a camper at the Teton Valley Ranch

Write: For this post, the class will be divided into three sections. Please be sure to write about the specific topic you are assigned based on the first letter of your last name. First, all students should summarize how the Electoral College functions. Second, each student will focus on a specific argument regarding the Electoral College, based on the first letter of their last name. If your last name starts with A-K: Explain the positive impact of the Electoral College and defend why the Electoral

Yellowstone National Park has some of the most beautiful and exiting things to do. It has some of the most interesting Facts. Wyoming has some of the most beautiful streams, geysers, and mountains in the US. There are some really neat things about Yellowstone. Yellowstone National Park is Service and a favorite to millions of visitors each year. The park is a major stop to have a good vacation. By driving we could view the park from the comfort of our vehicle and also take a rest at one of

By dividing the population by electoral votes, we can see that Wyoming has one “elector” for every 177,556 people and Texas has one “elector” for about every 715,499” (Huffington Post). The Electoral College justifies this by saying that this gives the smaller states a chance to make their impact on the election. How

Diary entry 2: We landed in independence, MO. We took a little rest overnight and one of the Indians took our kid Hamilton Weaver. We have not found him yet and I think that they are going to give up hope. He's been gone for 5 weeks and we are already at the Platte River.I can only imagine what he looked like: blonde and brunette hair but mostly brunette about 3”. I didn't know him that well because he usually just stayed in the wagon but most people say that he was really nice and never complained

Mammoth Cave National Park Under the prairies of Kentucky There is the biggest cave system in the United States. The surface of Mammoth Cave National Park spans out 80 square miles. No one knows how big the actual cave is though. Mammoth Cave was discovered by a mixed race slave, Stephen Bishop, when he was walking through the woods and found the massive cave (which we now know as Mammoth Cave) and mapped out some passage ways. Bishop died in 1857 (he died when he was 37) and his grave is at the

A male age 15 and over who is a fanatic of the show My Little Pony is called a brony. Mainstream society describes these people as homosexuals, perverts, and jobless men who live with their parents. People aren’t hesitant to quickly label bronies as the rejects of society. Most bronies, at first, don’t feel comfortable telling people about their My Little Pony addiction because they are afraid of society’s oppressive ways. According to some bronies in the video, they are picked on at school for

Buffalo Bill is one of three central images depicted in Alexie's "Evolution". In analyzing this character, Alexie's use of situational irony and sarcasm expresses the systematic exploitation of the of Native American people by the American government. As it stands, Alexie's crafts the image of Buffalo Bill as a cunningly, greedy, unscrupulous, and opportunistic business owner which is in direct conflict to the historical figure, known as Buffalo Bill, who actually hunted and exterminated many Native