North Carolina

Sort By:
Page 9 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    Dear Local Politicians of North Carolina, The North Carolina/ U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD, 2017), needs to provide Community Centers for and be more concerned about the poor in Raleigh North Carolina. Out of the 458,880-people living in Raleigh North Carolina, more than sixteen percent of this population is in poverty. The poverty rate for Raleigh North Carolina increased by a whopping ninety seven percent; now Raleigh is placed third for poverty growth nationally. (Browder

    • 1352 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    North Carolina Case Study

    • 1049 Words
    • 5 Pages

    North Carolina is one of the fastest growing states within the United States. There are many factors that contribute to making North Carolina attractive to people all across the world, including affordability, strong housing market, quality of life, and global access. First-time home buyers who are eying real estate in North Carolina should consider Durham real estate as a place to purchase their new home. Why Consider Durham, North Carolina? Durham is one of the major cities in the Piedmont of North

    • 1049 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    whether or not to leave the Union. North Carolina’s people specifically were unsure about which side they should turn to as the states of the deep south began to secede in the wake of Lincoln’s election. This question came with a more dire weight than those that had been debated by the Whigs and Democrats only a few years prior because it carried implications concerning the fate of slavery and the lives of the citizens. One way that the people of North Carolina were able to express and record their

    • 1745 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    There are over two million people in the United States behind bars. Incarceration in the US is one of the main forms of punishment that leads nothing after for people when getting out. Every state, city, country, all have laws we citizens obey and go by to do best for our country, but what happens someone violates the law? According to Google’s definition of a felony, it says that felony means, “a crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable

    • 1745 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Landgraves noe Cassiques we renounce them all.” With these words, the earliest settlers of North Carolina declared their complete rejection of any social hierarchy in their colony”. In Noeleen McIlvenna’s book, A Very Mutinous People, McIlvenna discussed why North Carolina doing their own thing made North Carolina’s history much different from that of any other early North American colony. It is said that, “North Carolina’s story fits none of the familiar models of colonial American history” (14).

    • 762 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    public schools in North Carolina. A single, countywide administrative unit runs and operates most of the public schools in North Carolina. In each North Carolina county, the electors vote the board of education members. According the North Carolina Constitution, the North Carolina General Assembly has the power and responsibility to ratify bylaws, to subsidize money for public schools, and other state functions. 36% of state resources go to the funding of public schools (North Carolina State Board

    • 1064 Words
    • 5 Pages
    • 4 Works Cited
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    collaboration with the Tennessee State Library and Archives the North Carolina State Library, and the University of North Carolina, proposes a project that will digitize the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina. This is a collection of approximately 9,400 documents that cover a period from European settlement to the founding of the United States and beyond. All twenty-six volumes will be digitized. The colonial records of North Carolina were originally compiled before 1886 by William Saunders

    • 1981 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    In early September, Burr was leading Ross with 46.7% to 43% according to Real Clear Politics. By early November, he was only ahead by an average of 1.5%. While North Carolina is widely considered a battleground state, Five Thirty Eight gave Burr a 73.4% chance of winning reelection. With the exception of a drop in the middle of October, Burrs chances of winning were consistent throughout the Senate race as shown below in figure 2. Although Burr was never able to reach 50% in the polls, he exceeded

    • 1330 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Growing up in a small rural area in Western North Carolina, the opportunities to explore the real world have had limits. The once dominant textile industry that existed disappeared as a result of the recession. The already low-middle income laborers lost their jobs and the unemployment rate grew substantially until we were the poorest county in North Carolina. I would only point out that not only did I live in an impoverished area, I was one of the few minorities that lived there as well and found

    • 677 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    using readings and your own analysis, why that leader was North Carolina’s most significant political figure of the 20th Century. Furnifold McLendel Simmons was attorney in New Bern in 1854, who later in his life went on to become a senator for thirty years (Christensen 36). Simmons held a degree from what is now Duke University which, led him to practice law (Christensen 37). He was such an influential political figurehead that North Carolina’s democratic organization that he became known as he

    • 1726 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays