Abstract
This is an examination of the environmental issues surrounding the Patapsco River, Inner Harbor, and Chesapeake Bay. It hints as to where the pollution comes from, and gives solutions on what society needs to do in order to clean up our rivers and save our environment.

From the Paper
"The Patapsco watershed, particularly some sections in its upper region, suffers from high levels of nutrients, bacteria, and suspended sediments. The known heritage of close to three centuries of pollution and abuse of the Patapsco's resources seem to blame our ancestors for the low oxygen levels, disease, algae blooms, and excess nutrients that are destructing the water (Alliance, 2). It is unfortunate that little used to be known about the harmful effects resulting from damming, channel dredging, pollution, and dumping and how they have taken their toll on the river."

Tags:bay, bethlehem, chesapeake, environmental, issues, patapsco, pollution, rivers, sediment, steel, toxins

Abstract
This paper presents a discussion of the differences between the New World settlements in New England and the Chesapeake area, mainly Virginia. It further describes history of the settlements, and religious versus commercial foundations.

From the Paper
"At first glance the English settlements in Chesapeake and New England seem to be similar. Both settlements had the sanction of a royal charter that granted the patentees the right to establish a colony miles along the Atlantic coast and miles inland. The London Company between... and ... latitude and the Plymouth Company north of that between ... and ... The overlapping of latitude was intentional on the theory that the land now New Jersey and New York could be claimed by the first..."

Tags:Jamestown, New England, Chesapeake, Virginia, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Puritan, theocracy, Pilgrims, London Company, Virginia

Abstract
This paper describes the Chesapeake Bay area - its climate, its topographical features, and its wild-life. The paper also discusses how the physical characteristics of Chesapeake Bay impact the local culture. The essay will start by offering a generic overview or description of the Chesapeake and highlight how the teeming forests of the Bay made sawmills highly attractive to prospective loggers, saw mill operators, and to anyone eager to clear the land for settlement purposes.

From the Paper
Geography and Culture: The Physical Aspects of the Chesapeake Bay area This paper describes the Chesapeake Bay area - its climate, its topographical features, and its wild-life. The paper also discusses how the physical characteristics of Chesapeake Bay impact the local culture. The essay will start by offering a generic overview or description of the Chesapeake and highlight how the teeming forests of the Bay made sawmills highly attractive to prospective loggers, saw mill operators, and to anyone eager to clear the land for settlement purposes. Moving right along, the paper will then discuss how the Chesapeake has long been typified by its rich fishing grounds and by the steady over-exploitation

Tags:physical, aspects, bay

Abstract
This paper discusses the reasons for the eutrophication of Chesapeake Bay, the consequences of that eutrophication, and possible solutions to the problem.

From the Paper
"Located off the coast of Eastern Maryland and Eastern Virginia, Chesapeake Bay's length is 200 miles, and its width ranges from four to 40 miles. Many rivers and streams, including the James, York, Rappahannock, Potomac, Patuxent, and Susquehanna rivers, join the bay (Encarta, "Chesapeake Bay"). Home to more than 2700 species of plant and animal life, including oysters, the blue crab, and over 150 species of fish, the Bay has historically provided settlers and Native Americans with vital natural resources (Virginia Natural Resource Leadership Institute (VNRLI), 1). At its healthiest in the early 1600's, the Bay rated an estimated100 on a scale of 100 in terms of health, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (Chesapeake Bay Foundation, "2002 State of the Bay Report", 1)."

Tags:aquatic, ecosystem, nutrient, concentrations, blooms, algae, block, sunlight, oxygen

Abstract
This paper presents a discussion about crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay. Crab is a delicacy that is served in fine restaurants across the nation. The crabbing industry has thrived for many years out of the bay however, recent reports of environmental and animal preservation have moved to the forefront of the news. The author believes crabbing should be banned from the bay.

Abstract
This paper explains that the Goodwill Industries International is a network of more than 200 hundred community-based organizations in over twenty nations whose mission is to provide education, job training and career services for individuals with disabilities or are welfare recipients, low-wage workers, and other job seekers. The author points out that JACQUES Initiative of the University of Maryland is a pilot program supporting HIV and AIDs patients, especially assistance in taking their daily medications. The paper presents a proposal outline, as requested by the University of Maryland and the JACQUES Initiative, for the Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake to develop a feasible process that can help JACQUES Initiative patients prepare for, gain and maintain employment.
Table of Contents
Background
Introduction
Funding and Taxes
Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake
JACQUES Initiative
Business Problem
Strategic Workforce Imperatives
Organizational Readiness
Organizational Workforce Needs
Labor Market Conditions
Recruitment
Retention
Training
Workforce Pool
Strategic Relationships
Human Resource Development
Workforce Development Plan
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The local chapter is the Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake. This chapter is a documented 501(C) (3) not-for-profit agency whose mission is to provide career development, employment, and related social services that aim to assist people with special needs. A 501(c) (3) is a type of corporation that has been recognized by the federal government as an organization whose general purpose is educational, religious or charitable. As is the case of Goodwill, many not-for-profit corporations have extremely large budgets yet still rely on a level of public support over and above the revenues generated. "Since donations typically come by the carload, a ton may just be one ton of an understatement. In order to keep the 12,000-square-foot retail store full, Goodwill Industries depends 100 percent on these donations." "

Tags:feasible, disabilities, low-wage, funding, HIV

Abstract
Examines the differing lifestyles of settlers in Chesapeake colonies and New England colonies. The paper explains how the English settlers in Virginia did not get along with the Native Americans as well as settlers in New England. It also discusses the fact that religion was a motivating force in settling the New England area, as opposed to the Chesapeake region.

From the Paper
"Another very different part of life for New England was that they had a better relationship with the Indians than the Chesapeake settlers did. The Pokanokets even signed a treaty with the Pilgrims, "and during the colony's first difficult years the Pokanokets supplied the English with essential foodstuffs" (31). Further, when the Massachusetts Bay Company (MBC) was established in 1629, Congregationalist merchants "boldly decided to transfer the headquarters of the MBC [from England] to New England" (31). This allowed the settlers to handle their own affairs, "secular and religious, as they pleased". This dynamic was very different from the forced ties the Virginians had with the English crown."

Tags:virginia, maryland, native, american, religion

Abstract
This paper examines the span of history where the areas of the British Colonies, Chesapeake and New England, became distinct and separate regions. The paper addresses the issues of geography, religion and motivation for colonization that greatly affected the growth of separate cultures in the regions even though they were both communities from England.

From the Paper
"Although the thirteen original British colonies eventually joined together to form a tenuous new nation, they became very different from their earliest beginnings. Particularly, the Chesapeake Bay region stands out in stark contrast from the New England area. Despite both being colonized by English settlers with the same origins, a plethora of factors such as geography, religion, and motivation for colonization led to their drastically different developments by 1700."

Tags:british, colonies, colony, geography, religion, community, farm, church, climate

Abstract
The main North American tribe most usually associated with the State of Maryland is the Nanticoke, an Algonkian people that lived and still lives in small numbers on both sides of Chesapeake Bay and on the north bank of the Potomac River. This paper looks at the culture of this tribe and a few other smaller tribes. It discusses how they were forced to integrate with the Europeans and how this affected their way of life and, ultimately, their survival.

From the Paper
"By the years of the American Revolution, the Nanticoke and their related Indian Nations began to experience a rapid decrease in their ability to maintain even trade relations with the Europeans, not to mention the growing numbers of settlers that often forced the native Indians from their homelands within the great woodlands of Maryland. The Nanticokes eventually migrated up the Susquehanna River and resettled in what is now the southern boundaries of the Ohio River Valley. The last Nanticoke immigrants intermingled with the Iroquois Nation and all of their individual cultural identity was lost forever. Today, the remnants of the Nanticoke live along the Indian River in the state of Delaware and the last native speaker of the Nanticoke language died in 1856 which signaled the end of the Nanticoke culture in Maryland."

Tags:nanticoke, algonkian

Abstract
This paper compares life in the Southern Colonies of the Chesapeake Bay and those in the "deep south" with that of the Colonies of New England and the Middle Colonies. The paper shows that the early American colonist faced different challenges and led a different lifestyle depending on where in the country they lived. These variances ranged from schooling, to terrain, to the crops they planted and the climate they endured. The paper covers differences in education, characteristics and farming methods.

From the Paper
"The first public schools were in New England and only boys were allowed to attend. The three R's were taught by every schoolteacher. They were "Reading, "Riting, and "Rithmetic (unknown, 1996)." There were "dame" schools that both girls and boys could attend and these were taught by a woman in her home. Here the children learned around a kitchen fire with pens they'd made from goose quills and ink made from boiled bark. In the South, a schoolmaster who lived with the family for several months every year, taught the plantation owner's children. Some children were sent to private schools in Europe. A grammar school at the College of William and Mary in Virginia was the South's first free school."

Tags:plantation, Britain, whaling, provincial, assembly, Puritans