Essays on West Virginia

Health people is a program under the office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion that provides 10-year national goals based on science and evidence to improve the health of all U.S. citizens. With this regard, the Healthy People 2020 was launched on December 2, 2010; it has for main goals aimed at improving the health status of the nation by 2020 and ensuring all Americans live long healthy lives (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2017). One of the goals from the Healthy People 2020 that will have the greatest impact on my community is the first goal ...

The Unionists are considered victorious during the American Civil War and there are several factors which enabled them to win the war in 1865. One of these factors is the Unionists’ campaigns in the Eastern and Western Theaters of the war. In the Eastern Theater, Unionists’ campaigns were launched in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. At first, the Unionists struggle due to the leadership of General Lee of the Confederate Army. However, they controlled major food supply in their campaigns in the West Virginia. In the Western Theater, the Unionists campaigns were launched in North and South Carolina, Tennessee, ...

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Introduction The case study analysis has been presented to identify the fake safety record case of Massey Energy, a coal mine company of the West Virginia. Reportedly, the organization created fake safety records to mislead the federal investigators about the coal mine disaster case during 2010 that killed 29 miners (Costello & Williams, 2011). The study has delivered the role and responsibility of both the Massey Energy as well as federal investigators to reveal the truth behind the tragic mine explosion.

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Reason behind misleading the federal inspectors After fourteen months of the tragic mine explosion in West Virginia, the group ...

"I'm glad there's some folks gettin' interested in the old ways. This new generation don't know such things, but when they find the old songs and the tales, they'll delight in them." --Granny in Grandfather Tales (Chase & Williams, 1948) The Southern Appalachian region has a rich heritage of folklore and songs passed down orally from European immigrants settling in the mountain range situated from New York to Georgia (Abramson & Haskell, 2006) from the 18th to the 20th centuries (Hanlon, 2000). Since the middle of the 20th century, variations of the folktales have been compared to publications such as Grandfather ...

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Inside West Virginia, within the state of Mt. Olive, the overcrowding of mentally ill patients is so great—even greater than those patients staying in the state psychiatric hospitals of Huntington and Westin. It has become the mental institution of Southern United States. The author of this article has experienced how it was to work within the psychiatric ward of the jails at Mt. Olive. This overcrowding, however, has affected the chances of seriously mentally ill patients of being cured from their illness, since the physical environment is very important when providing them with peace, quietness and solitude. It ...

Appalachia is a region lying in Eastern North America. The significance of this region’s geographical boundaries do not exist only because of the legally defined limits; rather it is the region’s historical, cultural and environmental conditions of the Appalachian region (The Alliance for Appalachia). The history of the region is quite unique. The region is known for the predominant coal mining activities that take place there but before the coal miners and current inhabitants took over the area, it was home to the Cherokee. They traveled north and east from the land known today as North and ...

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Industries in West Virginia have violated the state-issued permit of pollution by releasing toxic substances such as coal ash and selenium into the local water supply. In addition to the threat toxic substances like coal ash and selenium pose to the health of the community, toxic water destroys the environment and destabilizes the local ecosystem of the areas impacted by such pollution. West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) was formed as a guidance tool to aid persons to know when it is environmentally secure to withdraw water from the stream. This judgment is built on percentages of yearly ...

The prevailing wage law in West Virginia was originally enacted in 1933 and amended in 1961. The bill originated from the national Davis-Bacon Act that was established in 1936 amid the Great Depression to preserve jobs of federal projects for the unemployed regional workers. The law recommends the legal prevailing wage payment of at least two thousand dollars on all public construction contracts (Dean 6; and Kelsay 18). The Department of Labor in West Virginia State determines the hourly prevailing wage rates in all the counties for each occupation. Therefore, the prevailing wage can vary concerning occupation and county. ...

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DNA and its importance in our lives

Introduction Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a long linear polymer located in the nucleus of a cell. It is developed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix. It is related to the transmission of hereditary information from one generation to the second generation. DNA contains the information for the development as well as reproduction of an organism, thereby leading to a normal life. In the year 1953, James Watson, a biologist, and Francis Crick, a physicist, discovered the structure of DNA in a laboratory in England (LEROY, 2003). The structure of DNA helped scientists to know the process ...

Air pollution is becoming a major environmental disaster in the state of Virginia. Air pollution problem has been compounded by the fact that west Virginia is the largest producer of natural gas east of the Mississippi river, as well as a major storage and transfer are of the interstate natural gas transmission systems. West Virginia is also a major producer of coalbed methane. There are also many industries in Virginia such as aluminum, steel, glass which in one way or another depends on coal as the main source of energy. These plants release gases like carbon dioxide, methane sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide. ...

Racism has always been a topic of argues, rebellions, fights and even wars. Having such a diversified world, people have always found it very difficult to live with other nationalities. Moreover, after the ‘launch’ of globalization and integration, people have understood that there is no uniqueness left in a single country anymore. Some have managed to cope with it, while others are revolted, filled with indignation and hatred to others, who at least somehow differ from them.

The United States is a bright example of a multinational country: it is embracing dozens of nationalities from all over the world. It is opening its doors ...