...McBride Financial Marketing Plan University of Phoenix McBride Financial Marketing Plan McBride Financial Services is a mortgage lender that specializes in conventional, FHA, and VA loans for home purchasing and refinancing. The company is presently headquartered in Boise, Idaho and is looking to expand its operations into Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. McBride Financial Services current mission is to be the preeminent provider of low cost mortgage services using state of the art technology in the five state areas of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota. With the implementation of a successful marketing plan, these future goals of McBride Financial Services to expand and become a preeminent provider of low cost mortgage services should easily become easily attainable. Naturally, the first step in the marking plan would be to research. The primary interest of McBride Financial Services is to establish a new market of people in need of assistance with financial services. In order to achieve this, McBride Financial Services will need to perform research on the areas current market trends and market values. This information will provide a better understanding of what products to market and how to market the products. The company will also need to look at current internal marketing plans in place to determine strengths and weaknesses, so that a better picture is made as to what areas to improve. This research will also help determine...
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...The French explorers who first encountered the Crow People, who originated in Montana, called them "handsome men" because of their detailed clothes and beautiful long hair (http://www.tmealf.com/DH/crow.html). The crow have few other names as well, like Absaroka, or the "bird people. Although their numbers today have dwindled to fewer than 7,000 members, Crow People, value buffalo and horses, have unique social and spiritual traditions, and sided with the US Military after warfare against other tribes. The Crow along with a lot of other tribes, have unique social and spiritual traditions. The Crow has a tradition called a ‘Vision Quest”; it’s when someone goes “Through a process involving prayer, solemn vows, fasting in isolation, and, sometimes, piercing the body, a man who attained a vision was “adopted” by a supernatural guardian who instructed him in gathering objects into a medicine bundle”. They also put special symbols on their flag, like the peace pipe. The peace pipe “was traditionally offered as a first placating step in any significant petition of the Crow people; an offer not to be refused by mortals.” On their flag they also had a sacred medicine bottle which “contains sacred tobacco seeds. Tobacco was the only significant crop of the Crow. “These particular seeds are believed to be the original and supernatural blessing of the Crow that led them to their present home”. The Crow had something called a sweat lodge. It was in a teepee shape and it was a place of purification...
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...A phoenix I know from watching Days of Our Lives forever means someone that never dies, as in Stefano DiMera no matter how many times and ways that man is killed he always comes back to life. So, in this story the name Phoenix Jackson was chosen rightly fully for her main character in the story “A Worn Path” as a symbolic mythological creature that lives forever; moreover, the fact that after a phoenix is dead for the fifth time they reincarnate and being again (“Phoenix: Symbol Analysis”, n.d.). Phoenix in this story was determined to the end to accomplish her goals with a gran resilience, failure was not an option, no matter how many times she had to try. It was December, it was cold, she had no money, and a long walk in but nothing would...
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...gold was discovered in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory and copper was found in Montana. Upon the discovery of gold and silver in Washington and the formation of Roslyn, a coal mining town, the territory quickly became well populated. People rushed to these areas just as they rushed to settle in Nevada. Finally, in 1876 Congress admitted Colorado as a state. In 1889 Congress admitted four additional states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington. The territory of Idaho achieved statehood on similar conditions. In 1880 lead and silver were discovered in the Wood River area. Ten years later, in 1890, Idaho became the 43rd state. Just like Nebraska, Wyoming did not have a natural resource that people sought. Settlement in Wyoming was sporadic versus immediate. Eventually Wyoming had enough residents to be admitted as the 44th state in 1890. The last state to be admitted to the nation before the 1900s was Utah. In 1863 silver and lead was discovered in Bingham Canyon. Naturally, prospectors rushed there just as they had rushed to other states. In 1896 Utah had enough...
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...Essay about ’The Order of Things’ Love can hit you like a tornado. Both create an aftermath in which you can often find yourself totally reset, with new ground rules to play by. The short story ‘The Order of Things´, written by Judy Troy investigates themes such as the resetting of a mindset, the value of our short lives, but most of all: love. This essay seeks to focus on the setting, the two main characters, their relationship and symbols to underline certain points of the text. The setting in this short story takes us to the small town Worland, which is located in the state of Wyoming, USA. As with most small towns in the United States, we get the feeling that it is a town where people have close relations with one another. For instance, the first line of the story mentions “…the first inning of the Worland Lutheran softball game…” as the place where our characters Lucy and Carl meet. The fact that it is a Lutheran softball game points towards Worland being a religious town as well. The story takes place over about half a year, from August to around February. This makes for some interesting use of the weather, which is used to underline certain points and moods: “Then in bed, with the sound of rain on the thin roof, they talked about their marriages.” (p. 8 l. 60) Everyone knows the sound of rain dazzling on a thin roof. It screams intimacy. Intimacy is something Carl has never really been used to dealing with. He is the result of a rushed marriage without intimacy: “…...
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...1. Explain the geological history of region Yellowstone National Park covers 2,221,766 acres. Most of the park is located in the northwestern corner of Wyoming, but a small portion overlaps that state's boundaries with Montana and Idaho. The park is comprised primarily of high, forested, volcanic plateaus that have been eroded over - the millennia by glaciation and stream flow and that are flanked on the north, east, and south by mountains. There are Four Types of Thermal Features in Yellowstone. The Hot Springs which is a spring of naturally hot water, typically heated by volcanic activity under the surface. There are Geysers which is a hot spring where the water boils on the inside, sending a tall column of water and steam into the air....
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...Buffalo Bill was born in Iowa in 1846, along with his two brothers and five sisters. Samuel Cody and Charles Cody were his brothers. His sisters were Julia Cody, Martha Cody, Eliza Alice Cody Myers, Mary Hannah Cody Decker, and Helen Cody Wetmore. Buffalo Bill’s dad was Isaac Cody and his mom was Mary Ann Bonsell Laycock. Buffalo Bill had a tough childhood and became a star as he became an adult. Buffalo Bill moved to Kansas when he was young with his sisters and brothers. His dad was anti-slavery and their family quickly became endangered after his dad gave an anti-slavery speech and was stabbed. Soon there were men trying to get into their house every day wanting to kill his father and him as well. Since his dad was injured and could not work, Buffalo Bill had to be the money maker. When he was just eleven years old he joined the Pony Express and delivered the mail by horse. He encountered many Indian tribes and one time he had to abandon his horse and slap it on the butt and hide. After a while his dad never recovered and died of a kidney disease. So now he was the only boy in the family since Samuel died in a horse accident and Charles was never around because he lived in another state. So he went to Fort Colville, California to look for gold at age 14. But when he was on the way there he met an agent for the Pony Express who gave him a job as a rider in 1860. His job was to hunt for the Express riders and he ended up killing about 4,280 buffalo for the Pony Express and that...
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...Date: April 19, 2013 No: 13-0240 Line of business: Auto States: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming To: Agents and district managers Subject: Reminder SR-22 New Business with prior insurance now acceptable in Bristol West Effective: Immediately Synopsis: Reminder that we now allow insureds that require an SR-22 (FR-44 in VA) with 6 months of continuous prior insurance to be quoted in the Bristol West system. Background: As mentioned in BNB 13-0098, we have revised the Bristol West prior insurance guidelines to allow insureds that require an SR-22 (FR-44 in VA) filing with 6 months of continuous prior insurance to be quoted and bound in Bristol West. A few reminders: Existing Farmers insureds that require SR-22 (FR-44 in VA) filing cannot be quoted in Bristol West. Only new business insureds that require an SR-22 (FR-44 in VA) filing with or without 6 months of continuous prior insurance can be quoted and bound in Bristol West. Bristol West system will not allow any other prior Farmers business with no lapse or with a one to 30-day (60-day in AR) lapse in coverage to be quoted. Bristol West system will not allow you to split spouses between Farmers and Bristol West. If you have questions about this bulletin, contact ServicePoint at (888) 888-0080. HEAD OF TERRITORY Have you read the Agency Insider...
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...William Frederick Cody lived from till 1846–1917, he become Buffalo Bill, was born in a log cabin near LeClaire, Iowa Territory, on February 26, 1846. His dad Isaac, worked variously as a trader, a surveyor, and as overseer for an absentee landowner. Isaac Cody himself was a product of westering pioneers. The first Codys in America were Huguenots who fled France for the Isle of Jersey to escape religious persecution. By 1698 they owned land in Massachusetts. Isaac was born in Ontario in 1811 and grew up in Ohio. Twice widowed, he wed schoolteacher Mary Bonsell Laycock in 1840 in Cincinnati. She was descended of Pennsylvania Quaker pioneers. With Martha, Isaac's five-year-old daughter from his first marriage, they moved to Scott County, Iowa, where six of their seven children were born: Samuel, 1841; Julia, 1843; William, 1846; Eliza, 1848; Helen, 1850; and May, 1853. Only prolonged illness kept Isaac from striking out for California during the gold rush. After the accidental death of Samuel in 1853, the Codys headed west, moving briefly to Missouri then to Kansas where Isaac supplied hay and wood to Ft. Leavenworth and traded with the Kickapoo Indians. Another son, Charles, was born in 1855. Isaac, a man of principal and an active civic leader, was stabbed in 1854 while making a speech against slavery. The attack did not deter him from his economic or political activities, but its lingering effects led to his death in 1857. Bill ("Willie" to his family) and Julia supported...
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...The Tale of the Columbine On the eastern plains of Colorado, during the time of the buffalo, there lived two tribes. These two tribes lived in peace and happiness respecting each others land and customs. The Alexander tribe that inhabited the western most part of the Eastern Plains had the strongest most well known chief in the land. As time went on and his children grew older he found that most of his love lay in his youngest daughter, Run- Away- Deer. Her beauty could be seen for miles and her heart was as pure as one could be. When it came her time to become married her father became very picky of the men he wanted her to be with. When he finally decided for her to marry the son of his greatest war chief she revealed to him that she had already given her heart away to Buffalo- Sun. Buffalo- Sun was a very well know warrior of the Buck Tribe. The Buck tribe was the second Indian tribe that lived in the Eastern Plains of Colorado. They lay their tippes in the very Far East Colorado and lived in constant war with the Ehmann Tribe of western Nebraska. As Father Alexander listened to Run- Away- Deer’s story of her love with Buffalo- Sun he became furious and quickly dasehed out of the tippee and started playing the war drums. As soon as Run- Away- Deer heard this hard drum she rain to the pasture and jumped on her loyal horse Butter to warn her love about the trouble to come her way. Once she reached the Buck Tribe she was in a total panic and Buffalo- Sun decided that if they...
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...Yellowstone National Park is a very interesting place. It is in Wyoming, Eastern Idaho, and Southern Montana. The weather in Yellowstone National Park is oddly strange. In the summer, the temperature in the daytime is 70 degrees and sometimes 80 degrees in lower elevations and the temperature at night is usually cold and may drop below freezing in higher elevations. Thunder storms are common in the afternoon. In the winter, temperatures often range from zero to 20 degrees throughout the day. While the average snow is 150 inches per year, it is not uncommon for higher elevations to get twice that amount. In the fall and spring, Daytime temperatures range from the 30 degrees to the 60 degrees with overnight lows in the teens to single digits. Snow is common in the spring and fall with regular accumulations of 12" in of snow in a 24 hour period. At any time of year, be prepared for sudden changes....
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...The South and the West Ramiro Headges University of Phoenix Hist/120 Patricia Cox November 06, 2013 The post-Civil War South has been called the “New South.” In what ways did it succeed in reinventing itself? In what ways did it fail? Shortly after the war, the Southern part of the country was distressed, in order for the south to be self-reliant all over again it would need a large amount of money along with a considerably amount of rebuilding. Economically and architecturally they could succeed in reinventing itself. Almost 35 years since the war, it was noticed that the growth of iron, steel, and textile manufactories in the South became apparent. Primarily, railroads lead the Southern industrial growth. Even with the Southern growth and prosperity they, could not relatively compete with the North in regard to improvements or gross. With nearly four millions freed slaves who resided in the Southern part of the country and a large number of white people who lived in poverty, business owners benefited of the fact that it was plenty of cheap labor. The South deprived itself from a strong industrial growth simply because the white man inability to work together with freed slaves. The white man feelings against the freed slaves was still view as inferior and were increasingly getting worse. It got to the point that Blacks...
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...1837 Great Financial Crisis In 1837 the Eastern USA suffered an economic collapse. Many people lost their jobs, and as Banks went bust they also lost their savings. People were bankrupted and factories and businesses closed. The Mormons, whose Bank also collapsed ruining many non-believers, became one of the more popular scapegoats for the ruin. This resulted in many Mormons choosing to move West in the face of increasing violence. The increasing population had made land hard to come by. This combined with the desperation and increasing crime in the East forced people to consider moving West. The Crisis became a big PUSH factor in encouraging people to migrate westward. 1844 Joseph Smith Died As the Prophet and founder of the Mormon Church he was the leader of many thousands of believers. He led them in a desperate search for a safe haven for the community to settle. Smith would not lead his Mormons West as he thought it unfit to build the Zion for the coming of Jesus. Smith was shot dead in 1844 as he tried to escape from jail. Brigham Young was the new leader of the Mormons and chose to lead them West, to Great Salt Lake where they settled successfully. This was an important turning point for the Mormons. 1848 Gold Rush 1848!! Before Gold was discovered in 1848 by James Marshall, around 5,000 people per year were drifting west across the Great Plains. However with the discovery this increased tenfold by the following year.The 50,000 miners were hunting for...
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...The Great Basin of North America and Wyoming specifically, is known for its arid and semi-arid environment, as well as prolonged and sometimes severe droughts. Drought is the prolonged and abnormal deficiency of moisture with the concomitant decline in runoff to a level significantly lower than usual (Guldin 1989). The history of droughts in Wyoming has been uncertain in the past, but recent studies of tree rings in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming have given insight to droughts as far back as 1260A.D. (Gray et al. 2004). Looking at tree ring records in Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and limber pine (Pinus flexilis) trees, Stephen Gray and his colleagues discovered that droughts which have been experienced in Wyoming since the 1750's, are weak in severity and length when compared to those since. The most severe drought period in Wyoming’s history occurred from 1262 to 1281. The droughts of the 1930’s and 1950’s, which have been used as benchmarks for all other droughts in the United States in recent times (Woodhouse et al. 2002), are ranked 149th and 28th respectively in comparison (Gray et al. 2004). The five top ranking droughts for 10, 15, and 20 year periods are all prior to the 1800’s, with the four driest single years being 1263, 1274, 1278, and 1280 (Gray et al. 2004). This indicates a change in precipitation patterns in the Big Horn Basin area of Wyoming since the 18th century, as all recent droughts have been mild when compared to those of Wyoming’s past. Droughts...
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...March 30, 2014 MARRIAGE IN THE OLD WEST In the late 1800s the American west was still frontier land and the conditions were very rustic. While there were many women who traveled west and dealt with the quality of life (Jackson Wyoming’s all women city council of 1920?) most stuck to the more civilized areas. Many of the heroes from that era typically were cowboys, lawmen, mountain man, or some other masculine endeavor that most likely lived in a manner which was not conducive to a steady relationship, much less marriage. People read stories to be entertained, to take them briefly to another place. No one wants to read about the banker or butcher who works hard day in and day out to provide for his family and survive in the west. It is the bankers and butchers who wanted to briefly escape to a fantasy that didn’t involve paying the bank note on the wagon or the house debt. The married farmers didn’t want to read about some guy taking care of the cows at 5 o’clock in the morning. People wanted to read about something that at one time in their life they wanted to do, like be the marshal or live free on the range, but they got married and had families instead. The bottom line is that the prototype of the western hero is not conducive to a married life. The hero could be married, but either his marriage would not last long or his hero antics would be curtailed. Of course there are exceptions to this, and I’m reaching 25 years into my memory bank but I believe there are...
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