Boley

“I Grew Up Here” Boley is a town in Okfuskee County. Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,184 at the 2010 census, a gain of 5.2 percent from 1,126 in 2000. Boley was established in 1903 as a predominantly Black pioneer town with Native American ancestry among its citizens. The Boley Public School District is one of the smallest public school districts in the state of Oklahoma. For the most recent data available, it tied with Sweetwater for the smallest high school with 15 students. For a combined district, K-12, Boley finished first, just ahead of Clarita (58) and Sweetwater (60), with (51) students. Boley is also home to BBQ equipment maker, Smokaroma, Inc, and the John Lilley Correctional Center. The Boley Historic District is…

Rebekah Joan Boley, age seventeen, lives in Adrian, Michigan. She is one of nine children in her family and an eleven-year veteran of home schooling. She is a member of Fairfield Baptist Church where she sings in the choir and been a puppeteer. She has volunteered for both Habitat for Humanity and for the Lenawee Therapeutic Riding Program. She has also participated for three years in the Southeast division of CEF (Child Evangelism Fellowship). She is currently attending the EMT program at LISD…

Anne Boleyn Court and Execution Anne Boleyn was the Queen of England and the second wife of King Henry VIII. Anne was born approximately 1501, likely in Bickling (Norfolk). She was one of the most famous queens in history, even though she only ruled for three years. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn. In 1521 and 1522 in the mist of the war between England and France, Anne returned back home. On the morning of May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn walked to the Tower Green within the walls of the…

African American communities began to gather into Indian Territory, creating towns after the Civil War when the former slaves of the Five Civilized Tribes settled together (Black Communities After The Civil War). They settled closely because they needed each other for security purposes on both economic and safety levels. These “All-Black towns” affected Oklahoma greatly when the Land Run of 1889 created more so-called “free land” (Larry). Founders of these towns convinced African-Americans that…

Gibson and Jung provide an extensive breakdown of racial groups in major US regions, states, and cities in their report on population trends. See the following website for the full report: http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/REFERENCE/Hist_Pop_stats.pdf. For more information on the history of Lyles Station, Indiana, visit the Indy Star’s article at the following website: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/ 2015/02/09/african-american-settlements/23114613/. For more…

under the umbrella of nature for the sake of environmental betterment. Unfortunately, he fails to account for those who struggle to identify with a “home,” and have been deprived of its benefits due to cultural erasure. In describing her childhood feelings of alienation in the face of cultural erasure, Savoy shares, “My parents’ muteness once seemed tacit consent that generational history was no longer part of life or living memory…But unvoiced lives cut a sharp-felt absence…My greatest fear…

Rock of Ages is a Musical/Romance/Drama/Comedy film directed by Adam Shankman, the same person who brought you movies like Hairspray, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Bedtime Stories, Bringing Down the House, and The Wedding Planner. The film stars Alec Baldwin as Dennis Dupree, Julianne Hough as Sherrie Christian, Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, Russell Brand as Lonny, and Diego Boneta as Drew Boley. Rock of Ages was released in theaters on June 15, 2012 and it was released to DVD and streaming on October 9,…

Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries with international tourism accounting for 9% of the total GDP and one in every eleven jobs are related to tourism (Meleddu, Pulina, 106, 67). However, tourism by itself leads to various negative externalities on the environment, socio-economy, and local culture (Meleddu, Pulina, 106, 67). For this reason, ecotourism is important and is slowly gaining momentum. Ecotourism can be subdivided or classified into various categories such as sustainable…

temperature gradient with the thermal conductivity as a constant multiplying factor. This parabolic type of heat conduction equation is called diffusion equation. Although this parabolic heat conduction equation can successfully solve a variety of thermoelastic problems, yet it has some limitations. The most important limitation of this theory is the prediction of infinite speed of heat propagation. If the material is subjected to a thermal disturbance, the effects of disturbance will be felt…

(1999) argue , “As the Brundtland Report (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987) has cautioned it is both futile and an insult to the poor to tell them that they must remain in poverty to protect the environment”(p.279). In the case above Hulme and Murfree’s argument was exemplified. The economic loss of the local community from the eviction is not counterbalanced by the increased tourism dollars brought in from the area’s regeneration. (Conte, 2005). It is important to…