...The Hardships of the Oregon Trail In a new, war recovering United States, people set off west for new opportunities and land. The Oregon Trail was arguably the biggest migration factor in westernizing America. According to The New Encyclopedia of the American West, the trail was originally laid and set as a fur trading route in 1811 and only accessible on horseback or foot. Eventually settlers began to travel the route, expanding it farther and farther west. From the mid 1830s through 1869 the trail was used by over 400,000 settlers and their families. The trail was primary ventured by pioneers looking for free land after various land acts were put into effect, and the Gold Rush in 1848 brought many more along the trail. The trail was most...
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...be one of a kind, the Oregon coast. The Oregon coast would be a great place to spend a vacation, it’s inexpensive and relaxing. So how much would it cost to go to the Oregon coast? What kinds of attractions would one be able to see? Is there stuff for the kids to do as well as adults? What kind of food do you get to eat when you go to the cost? These are all great questions that you ask yourself before planning a trip anywhere. When planning a trip you will want to figure out what the area has to offer. This will give you a sense of where you what to go and when. I enjoy the thrill of adventure and enjoy traveling to places. I have never been to the Oregon coast, so I decided to plan a trip there and find out what attractions they have to offer me. By googling “the Oregon Coast” the first website that I came across was the “Oregon Coast Visitors Association” link (Oregon Coast Visitors Association, 2008). This website’s home page displayed a slide show of pictures of the coast and a map that you are able to click on different areas to find out more information. I clicked on the Newport link and discovered the Oregon Coast Aquarium and the Hatfield Marine Science Center. With two attractions now in mind I was able to google both the Oregon Coast Aquarium and the Hatfield Marine Science Center. Both of these fun and exciting places are among the many where you can explore your imagination and the unique world that lives under the ocean. The Oregon Coast Aquarium...
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...keep energy up. The Oregon Trail was a 2,000 mile journey with very limited resources. Eventually, the traveling of the Oregon Trail came to a halt when the Transcontinental Railroad was built. The Oregon Trail and Transcontinental Railroad were built because of Americans wanting to expand westward. Once called 'the Emigrant Road', the Oregon Trail was a challenge that many faced to have better lives. Though some journeyed off the path and went to other parts of what is now the U.S., the Oregon Trail started in Independence, Missouri and ended in Oregon City, Oregon. Many emigrants took the tail to form new or better lives. Although farmers were the majority, all types of people took the Oregon Trail (Brooke). Starting in the 1840's, emigrants loaded Prairie Schooners with items that guide books told them to put in their wagons. Most of the items in the wagons were food. The wagons were normally pulled by oxen, but some people chose to have horses or mules pull their wagon....
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...egon V. Hancock, 60 Ore. App. 425; 653 P.2d 1304; 1982 Ore. App. Lexis 4132 (1982) Case Name： Oregon v. Hancock, 60 Ore. App. 425; 653 P.2d 1304; 1982 Ore. App. LEXIS 4132 (1982) Appellant： Gordon Charles Hancock Appellee： State of Oregon Jurisdiction： Court of Appeals of Oregon Procedural History： Hancock was convicted of possession of a weapon by a person committed to a penal institution and being an ex-convict in possession of a firearm in the Linn County Circuit Court. Hancock appeals the denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal to the Court of Appeals of Oregon. The court denied the motion, merged the two convictions, and the conviction on the charge is reversed and remanded for resentencing. Substantive Facts： Hancock was an inmate of the Oregon State Penitentiary. Due to being for parole in the near future, he was granted a temporary leave from the penitentiary to search for a job. During that leave, and while living in a private residence, he was found to be in possession of a sawed-off shotgun. Litigant Positions： Defendant, Hancock contends that he was not in the institution at the time he possessed the weapon and that and his weapons possession posed no direct threat to institutional security so his conduct is not covered by ORS 166.275. The state argues that defendant was still considered an inmate and would be an inmate until released on parole and that an inmate who is temporarily away from the institution and in possession of a weapon...
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...Case Name： Oregon v. Hancock, 60 Ore. App. 425; 653 P.2d 1304; 1982 Ore. App. LEXIS 4132 (1982) Appellant： Gordon Charles Hancock Appellee： State of Oregon Jurisdiction： Court of Appeals of Oregon Procedural History： Hancock was convicted of possession of a weapon by a person committed to a penal institution and being an ex-convict in possession of a firearm in the Linn County Circuit Court. Hancock appeals the denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal to the Court of Appeals of Oregon. The court denied the motion, merged the two convictions, and the conviction on the charge is reversed and remanded for resentencing. Substantive Facts： Hancock was an inmate of the Oregon State Penitentiary. Due to being for parole in the near future, he was granted a temporary leave from the penitentiary to search for a job. During that leave, and while living in a private residence, he was found to be in possession of a sawed-off shotgun. Litigant Positions： Defendant, Hancock contends that he was not in the institution at the time he possessed the weapon and that and his weapons possession posed no direct threat to institutional security so his conduct is not covered by ORS 166.275. The state argues that defendant was still considered an inmate and would be an inmate until released on parole and that an inmate who is temporarily away from the institution and in possession of a weapon constitutes a threat to institutional security. Therefore, the state argues that defendant’s...
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...Reflection Paper-Week 2-IRAC Brief LAW/531 June 9, 2015 Reflection Paper-Week 2-IRAC Brief The IRAC (issue, rule, analysis, conclusion) is a structured legal analysis process used in problem-solving. Team C will use the IRAC method to present a case heard in the Oregon Supreme Court, Antonio Cortez v. NACCO Material Handling Group, Inc and Swanson Group, Inc. This case is currently pending in the Oregon Supreme Court. Facts Plaintiff worked for a lumber mill, Sun Studs, LLC owned by NACCO Material Handling Group. As the plaintiff walked from one area of the mill to another, a forklift hit and severely injured him. After receiving workers’ compensation benefits, the plaintiff brought an action against Swanson Group, Inc., which owns Sun Studs. The plaintiff alleged that Swanson was liable for negligently failing to require Sun Studs to provide a safe workplace and competent safety personnel. Issues Is the providing of worker’s compensation for the injured plaintiff by the defendants an exclusive remedy? Was the defendants’ negligent under the Employers Liability Law by not providing safety measures to the plaintiff? Rule Did the defendants breach the duty to provide a remedy for the injured plaintiff? Did the defendants breach the duty to provide safety measures under the Employers...
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...different types of sports as well as the products used and needed by athletes to succeed. Being a product tester for Men’s basketball shoes at Nike allows me to help give my insight into their decisions about what works and what needs to be changed in order to make a better product. With Nike headquarters being based out of Beaverton Oregon, and having such an extensive background in sports and input into current products for Nike, working there seems like the most logical and ideal choice for me. Situational Analysis: Customer: Nike is the largest distributor or sports attire and is located all around the world. For a long time, Nike was known for only the most popular sports, but as of recently they have been breaking into every sport out there. More and more people want to wear athletic clothes even if they are not doing something active, and the trends continue to change with Nike matching pace with it. They have careers all around the world, ranging in anything one could think of from marketing and advertising, management, retail associates to even accounting. Being a company founded by a CEO who went to the University of Oregon, attending the same school in one good way to try and get into the company. Nike is always in need of good young intelligent people who have a passion not necessarily for sports, but for living an active lifestyle. Characteristics of Nike: - 40,000 employees - 338 retail locations - In over 160 countries - In over 6 continents ...
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...BA 562 Risk Management Plan Project: MBA Program Branch in Portland Section: Wed 9:00 am Team Member: Menghui Lin, Yu Chen, Jun Yang and Xiaoyi Ji Introduction Based on the success of MBA program in Corvallis (OSU main campus), we are planning to establish the MBA program branch in Portland. It will be a good choice to expand our MBA program in Portland because Portland is the biggest city in Oregon and there are a lot of business corporations which can provide many potential business opportunities. The primary objective of our project is to get more students involving our MBA program, build a high quality education program and improve the influence of OSU in the whole Oregon, no matter in education or in the business realm. Meanwhile, we must admit that there are several potential risks we will face in implementing the practical program. There is more specific information and analysis as follow. Risk Identification Through the analysis of the whole parts of the new program, we identify the following risks: competition risk, financial problem, teaching quality and reputation impairment. OSU is not the only one who provides MBA programs in Portland. So it may face the fiercely competition with other school like Portland State University. And starting a new program in Portland that is far away from the main campus, the program may need a lot of money to operate. The financial problem is the core that decides the normal operation of the MBA program in Portland...
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...Childhood Obesity – State of Oregon Legislation and Federal Legislation Ann Klinger DeVry University HSM410 Health Care Policy Professor Patricia Devin Week #7 February 23, 2013 Childhood Obesity – State of Oregon Legislation and Federal Legislation Summary On June 21, 2004 Senator Ron Wyden, along with U.S. Senator Bill Frist, introduced to the 108th Congress Senate Bill S.2551 entitled Childhood Obesity Reduction Act. This bill was to “combat childhood obesity for children in Oregon and throughout the nation, and urged that Congress take the lead in curbing the epidemic by passing the Childhood Obesity Reduction Act. The legislation, would establish a Congressional Council on Childhood Obesity to promote the following activities and to encourage every U.S. elementary and middle school to develop and implement a plan to reduce and prevent obesity, promote improved nutritional choices, and promote increased physical activity:” ("Wyden combats childhood," October 2004 Press Release). United States Senate bill S.2551 failed, but all 50 states and the Federal government are continuing to make efforts to reduce childhood obesity. My paper will review legislation the State of Oregon has implemented to reduce childhood obesity. I will provide an overview of Federal government legislation that has been implemented to reduce childhood obesity. Statistics report, “since 1980 obesity has more than doubled among children ages 2 to 5, and youths 6 to 11 rates have grown...
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...for Oregon, CA was about 3.5 million people. Oregon is a diverse state. It has 86.6% Caucasian, 3.0% Asian, 1.6 % African-American, and 8.0% Hispanic-American. Cities The capital of Oregon is Salem. Portland is the largest city in Oregon. Then Eugene is the second largest city in Oregon. Then Gresham is the third largest city Oregon. Portland, Oregon Portland, Oregon Facts Oregon state animal is the beaver. The reason why it’s the beaver is because of it’s population. Oregon State Bird is the Western Meadowlark. The Western Meadowlark is mostly yellow. Oregon State Flower is the Oregon Grape. The Oregon Grape is yellow and is related to the barberry. Motto & Nickname Oregon’s motto is “She flies with her own wings”. This motto became the state motto in 1987 replacing “The Union”. Oregon’s state nickname is “The Beaver State” because Oregon has a lot of Beavers. People also call it The Beaver State because people go to Oregon for beaver fur. Temperature & Products Oregon’s temperature in the Winter is about 39.4 degrees. Oregon's temperature in the Summer is about 81.6 degrees. Oregon is famous for it’s Hazelnut products. People in Oregon use Hazelnuts in many snacks. The Governor Oregon’s Governor is John Albert Kitzhaber. John Kitzhaber was born on March 5th, 1947 in Colfax, Washington. John is a medical educator and Oregon’s governor. Historic Events In 1859, Oregon became...
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...yourself with provided medication. Assisted suicide should be legal, because it allows suffering people to decide when they want to overcome the pain. Assisted suicide is not like any ordinary suicide. It is a suicide to relieve pain from a patient who only has so long to live. To receive assisted suicide, the patient has to qualify to all of the requirements. Out of the four states that have legalized assisted suicide, three of them involve the same requirements. Oregon was the first state to legalize assisted suicide on November 8, 1994. “An adult who is capable of making choices, is a resident of Oregon, and has been determined by the attending physician and consulting physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, and who had voluntarily expressed his or her life in the humane and dignified matter” (qtd. in “State”). Approximately fourteen years later on November 4, 2008, Washington legalized the same procedure with the same requirements, but needing to be a Washington resident instead of an Oregon resident. On December 31, 2009, Montana legalized “Life sustaining treatment for terminally ill patient but does not specifically address physician assisted...
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...CASE STUDY – Nike and the University of Oregon The next case study is case study 22, (“Nike and the University of Oregon”) on Pages 933-940 of your key text, De Wit & Meyer. Below is the case synopsis: Case Synopsis Philipp H. Knight founded Nike’s predecessor company in 1963. The basic business formula of the company has not changed much since then. Nike is designing and marketing high quality sports shoes and sports apparel around the world. It builds its brand appeal through savvy marketing and sophisticated product R&D. The company has never owned production of the goods it sells, instead from the very beginning has been importing the products from the Asian Far East. In 2000, Nike enjoyed 45% global market share, had close to $9 billion of sales and put Knight among the top ten richest individuals in United States. The company directly employed 20,000 people, but had a workforce of an estimated half a million labouring for them in 565 contract factories in 46 countries – making it one of the largest private company de facto employers in the world. Labour conditions in Nike’s contract factories were not even close to any labour laws and compensation practices in the industrialised countries, let alone the US. Work there meant 70-hour workweeks performing hazardous and/or monotonous routines under abusive supervision and with appalling equipment. Until the early l990s, Nike never felt that to be its responsibility. Ever since the early 19th century in England, industrial...
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...Oregon Plan 2 Abstract The purpose of this paper was to summarize the Oregon Health Plan, with regards to cost containment. The goal is to provide the advantages and disadvantages of the plan. I also discuss it philosophically, mentioning the problem our nation would have with the widespread, mandatory implantation of this plan. In the conclusion I discuss an alternative approach to the cost containment issue of health care. Oregon Plan 3 Module 6: Oregon Plan The Oregon Health Plan, was a revision of Medicaid. The state of Oregon created the health plan in an effort to control cost. It was very important because it brought very important issues to light. Unfortunately, there were casualties that included a little boy named Colby Howard. Cost containment and providing medical coverage to more people were the goals of this plan. The plan that was revised so that Bill Clinton could sign it in 1993, were created by two politicians who were physicians, Dr. John Kitzhaber, who was a senator at the time, and Dr. Ralph Crashaw, who was an activities. There are many philosophical approached that can be taken to look the plan. Philosophical Approach If we look at it through consequentialism, the consequence that many sick people will not have access to life saving care, would make the plan’s...
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...who was the Olympic pantheon ruler. This shoe entering my life in 1988 when I entered the United States Army, in 1988 is when I bought my first pair of Nike’s and since then it has been my athletic shoe of choice. Nike’s history dates back 1962 when Philip H. Knight founded Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS). BRS was a company that was to import Japanese running shoes; in 1963 BRS took its first delivery of 200 shoes from Onitsuka Tiger Co. This was the start to a multi-billion dollar business. The following year Knight would meet back up with his former University of Oregon track coach, William Bowerman, and would become partners. Bowerman(1911-1999) was a World War 2 veteran with a love for running and jogging as sports. The two men had first met in 1957,had dreams of growing their company to being a massive sporting and casual shoe line. Bowerman wanted to design a shoe that was light weight for his runners on the U. Of Oregon track team. With this common goal in mind together the men opened the company first retail store in 1966, two short years after Bowerman came up with s shoe design that would be called the Cortez, the Cortez took the United States by storm. It was not until 1972 that the brand Nike was launched! Their first marketing campaign was to seek and attach to serious well-known and up and coming athletes. Within this first year product gross was 1.96 Million and the Nike Inc. staff grew to 45 members. Nike Inc. also when International crossing over into Canada followed...
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...Course: English 111 Student: Sohib Ruziboev Assignment: “Invasion” by Percy Benjamin study questions answers 1. Since the population of the Bend was low and the town was not crowd, Percy expresses his attitude towards the nature and surrounding environment by writing about the soil, trees and canals in Central Oregon. I think that was the dominant impression of Percy’s description of Bend, Oregon. 2. In my opinion Percy mostly trying to show and entertain readers. From the very first paragraphs Percy is trying to express his feelings and describe the place and people. It is quite easy to understand what this essay is about and what author wants from reader by just reading one sentence from each paragraph. 3. There are couple examples where Percy used figurative language: One of them is “Into this soil-this dry, unforgiving soil – the larvae of the Pandora moth drops like a seed.” Another one is “Their brightly blond hair appears flattened out of gold.” I think by using figurative language Percy wants to better explain what specific place and object, which is in my opinion very effective because it makes essay look more understandable. Percy’s choice of words is great too, which entertain readers. 4. As I mentioned before Percy’s use of metaphors in his essay “Invasion” is very effective since he’s got a very nice choice of words that attract readers. Percy uses extended metaphor very effectively too. He compares to unlike things and continues it throughout few sentences...
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