William Faulkner William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County‚ with Jefferson as its county seat‚ is both a mythical and actual place. Yoknapatawpha county is 2400 square miles in area and has a population of 15‚611 persons. Jefferson has an actual jail‚ town square‚ old houses‚ and Old Frenchman’s Place‚ even a railroad. Faulkner’s "Yoknapatawpha County" is in reality Lafayette County‚ and "Jefferson" is actually Oxford. The Faulkner family lived there since before the Civil War. This is
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people live in the Cleveland area and in the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County‚ of course higher number of gas stations are expected to be made available for those in the area. There are also other areas in Ohio‚ where other “clumps” are located. Plentiful amounts of gas stations are needed for the people around there too. (ADD ANOTHER FACTOR). When relating the distribution of gas stations in both Cuyahoga County and Ohio to biological/ecological factors‚ resource competition becomes a factor
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Loudon County Wheel Tax Why should we have to pay a wheel tax? In Loudon County‚ TN the government is proposing a 50 dollar wheel tax. Right now we pay 24 dollars per vehicle or item that must be legally registered; altogether we would be paying 74 dollars (Shaver‚ 2008). The wheel tax is going to be used for our road ways and education. A major issue with the wheel tax is there are people outside the county using the roads and their children use our schools‚ but pay no wheel tax. With the wheel
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Orange County Fire Authority is one of the biggest departments in southern California. It was founded as Orange County Fire Department in 1980 and declared bankruptcy in December 1994. Then three months later in March 1995‚ it reopened as Orange County Fire Authority with a new Fire Chief. It now has seventy-one fire stations‚ four helicopters‚ a wildland unit‚ and a hazmat unit. It has over one thousand full-time firefighters‚ two hundred reserve firefighters‚ covering twenty-three cities‚ and protecting
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For decades Emergency Management has focused primarily on preparedness. Since part of Wayne County is on the coastal plain‚ and is bordered by the Neuse River that extends up to Raleigh which is over 50 miles away the county is at a risk for flooding. Floods are the most common natural disaster in the U.S.‚ and nearly everybody has some risk of flooding. Wayne County preparedness to a flood is noteworthy. Virtually every U.S. state‚ and territory has experienced floods. The Federal Emergency Management
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patterns. The county is in the state of Texas‚ where a large percentage of the population is not classified as urban‚ yet a large proportion of the land area is classified as urban. The opposite‚ however‚ is true for Denton County‚ whose urban population percentage is even higher than that of the United States and while its urban area is significantly lower‚ than that of Texas‚ it still exceeds the urban area percentage of the United States as well. This is possibly because while Denton County is a metropolitan
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signs of farm labor have left their mark on the hardworking citizens of Harrison County for over 200 years. This year we celebrate the Bicentennial of Indiana and the tremendous achievements of our Hoosiers during the past two centuries. The history of Harrison County is inextricably intertwined with its history of agriculture. To this day‚ farming and agriculture are a crucial part of the economy in Harrison County; although‚ earlier in our county’s history‚ agriculture was not only a critically
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NAFTA And Its Effects On Robeson County‚ North Carolina by Russell D. Liggon Economics 5150 Dr. Shi NAFTA And Its Effects On Robeson County‚ North Carolina Since being signed on January 1‚ 1994‚ NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) has opened opportunities between the United States‚ Canada‚ and Mexico. NAFTA is considered by GDP standards the
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cross the line between Albany and Leesburg‚ it is like stepping from a gang movie into Sweet Home Alabama. Albany is the murderous blood stricken world of gangs and thugs. Lee County is where I grew up and it just is not what it was when I started going to school there. I would never want my child to be raised in what Lee County has turned into in the past few years. When I was in third grade I went from a private school to Twin Oaks elementary school. When I was in elementary school I did not have
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audience want to watch your film? The audience will want to watch our film because we will be presenting a topic that is current and needs to be addressed now. We will also be focusing a lot on the local aspect of this topic‚ so people in Watauga County will be interested to see how we can change around here to help solve the problem of trash and waste. What is the subject of the documentary? What is it about? Who is it about? The subject of this documentary will be trash‚ waste‚ recycling
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