The Minnesota State Fair has been cancelled 5 times in its history, mostly due to war.
I volunteered for the service project at High Plains Food Bank. High Plains Food Bank was founded in 1982 by a group of concerned citizens who conducted a survey to see if food banks were needed in the area. High Plains Food Bank is a nonprofit organization, and its mission is to attenuate hunger in the Texas Panhandle by collecting, storing, and distributing groceries to the hungry people in the Texas Panhandle. The agency helps many families every year and is continuing to help more families. The food bank is located at 815 Ross St, Amarillo, TX. I volunteered for the Product Recovery section that organized groceries and distributed them into certain boxes. HPFB is working to help prevent hunger and can provide four meals worth of food for
As Tennessee was rising up from the ashes of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Period. Prosperity was in the air and they were leading the New South into the new century. By doing so, Tennessee was celebrating their one-hundredth anniversary of statehood. The celebration was called the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, held in Nashville and opened 1 May 1897. The Tennessee Centennial Exposition showed exhibits on their educational and social achievement. The exposition also included foreign culture, entertainment, and amusement rides. They, the Americans, came together despite their differences and made this event a success. (7-8)
The Oklahoma State Fair is a huge attraction in the heart of Oklahoma. It brings in nearly one million people annually. Making an appearance every September for the last one hundred years, it combines tasty foods, thrilling rides, and exciting shows and festivals. The Oklahoma State Fair caters to a wide audience and is a one of a kind experience for the whole family.
The Iowa State Fair is the most influential events throughout the state of Iowa during the month of August. This is a place where one can go to experience shows, art, food, and see livestock from all around the country. Most people however, go to this fair simply to have fun. On my visit to the Iowa State Fair in the previous summer, tasting all of the different foods, quality of the rides and the positive attitude from the carnival workers highly encourages me to come back year after year.
Stephen Maloney claimed that krewes such as Rex has done some charitable work in the passage “Caring krewes in New Orleans.” For example, Rex has created a foundation aimed at the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina. He informed us that the foundation by Rex was called “Pro Bono Publico Foundation” which is Latin "for the public good" and has been their motto since 1872. Rex has always been compiled with civic leaders who spend a lot of time working with nonprofits. Rex decided to put their resources together and create an effort that would help with the Mardi Gras spirit and city recovering. Maloney informed that Mardi Gras was only about throwing beads and present parades but now it is an important part of the community that is cherished
The World’s Fair was not easy to build obviously. The architects encountered many difficult storms and terrible weather,
The fourth longest river in the U.S., the Rio Grande, originates in the Rocky Mountains at the southwestern part of Colorado, twisting like a snake across the Southwest, passing through fertile valleys, amazing canyons, mountains, and desert shelves, and eventually emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
Modern America would not have been even near the same had the World's Columbian Exposition not existed. Now this is certainly a bold claim, but the influence of the Fair's ideas in fact reached millions upon millions of Americans, which reinforced their beliefs upon many topics and motivating pride for their country. The welcoming and commemoration of consumption and technology has had the most notable and everlasting influence on American society. The city of Chicago was in devastating condition prior to hosting the World’s Fair. The World’s Fair changed America’s view of the world and vice versa. The great Fair was in truth an outstanding and fitting symbol of our nation, in its well thought out design and in the variation of its execution.
The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 was an event that as a whole, showed off the world's cultures, ideas and innovations. The Chicago World’s Fair brought the all of the world to one location, sparking a new wave of enthusiasm for a better future in America. The economic boom that followed the fair brought continued life to a growing America. Industrially, the fair influenced mass production and urbanization as new products and ideas made the American way of life enjoyable. The Military might displayed at the fair started the U.S movement to bigger, better and more accurate weapons. The Chicago World’s Fair by its conclusion, laid the foundation for a prosperous America industrially,economically and military
The name of the organization I chose for Kingdom Fair was YWCA of Northern Orange County. YWCA (Young Women Christian Association) is dedicated to empowering women, girls and their families economically and socially. Their mission is to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. The YWCA accomplish their mission by empowering generations of women addressing their changing personal needs. They hope to equip many diverse individuals to achieve and maintain social, physical, financial, intellectual and spiritual well-being. Their vision is to provide a safe environment for all women and girls to come together and experience opportunities, awareness, and action, diversity and inclusiveness and partnership with others.
The reclamation of the San Joaquin River has improved the surrounding ecosystem drastically. With the river return came improvement in the aspects that were questioned before the restoration. Restoring the San Joaquin has revitalized the community, resurrected the salmon population, and catalyzed a change in California water management. The doubts of the people were settled by proving that the river renewal not only brought back salmon population, but rehabilitated the neighboring areas. Reconstruction of the San Joaquin river has been estimated to generate 11,000 new local jobs in the San Joaquin Valley this will help expand and strengthen the region’s economy. The reformation of the river will stimulate the revival of the salmon population and commercial salmon industry. With the resurrection of the San Joaquin, opportunities for tourism as well as recreational access for swimming, fishing and picnicking.
During the period of the Gilded Age, there was a transformation in American history, which situated thousands of new immigrants from Europe and China with hopes of heightening up the labor force of different industries like construction, factories, railroads, and coal mining. In this time of increased “mechanization of industry”, there were many factory workers and warehouse laborers that entered in a new middle class. During the 1870s and 1880s, the U.S. economy rose at its fastest rate in history: there was an increase of real wages, wealth, GDP, and capital formation. Overall, America was beginning to provide a working-middle class that was in search of mass leisure and mass consumption. The World’s Fair in 1893, had a need for much of the public to hold such a commemorate gathering. Chicago was in the middle of rapid growth; with the heightening of urbanization there was a construction craze of skyscrapers. This expansion gave rise to electric trolleys, street railways, elevated railways and subways. The Columbian World’s Fair was planned in the early 1890s during this Gilded Age, and as such much of the organization of the fair led to the management by Chicago steel tycoon Charles H. Schwab and Chicago railroad magnate John Whitefield Bunn. The World’s Fair of London in 1851 called the Crystal Palace Exhibition was extremely successful in bringing crowds from all sorts of class lines to show off the exposition. This was basically Chicago’s turn to fulfill the best and score major points in the world’s view of exposure to the iconic features of the end of the
I decided to attend the Majors Fair event because I am a very open minded individual. It has been established that I want to be a psychologist, but this event confirmed it even more. It was great to speak to someone who went through a similar path as me in achieving their career goals. I was well informed and was given two pamphlets regarding my major. I attended the workshop with my friends. They are from completely different fields but were also well informed about their major. As they asked about their major, I kept an open ear and listened to everything that regarded their major. I learned a lot about the different paths I can take when I receive a psychology degree. I even got an estimated salary of what a person with a bachelor’s and
There is always risk when conducting a community fair. Who can be liable, what are the policies for conducting a community health fair, and what are the state and federal regulations for community health fairs. Fortunately, there are some federal and state laws that protect health care professionals when volunteering for events such as community fairs. Two state laws that protect health care professionals from malpractice liability are: Charitable Immunity Law and a Good Samaritan Law. The charitable immunity law protects health care professionals from negligent torts when provide nonemergency care for certain charitable organizations. The Good Samaritan Act, protects an individual from liability after providing emergency aid to a person who is injured. Federal laws such as the Volunteer Protection Act (VPA) also protect a physician volunteer from liability.