Virginia College is a chain of private, for-profit schools with campuses located mainly in the Southeastern part of the United States. Its first campus was originally established in 1983 by the Atlantis Group, Inc. in Roanoke, Virginia but was purchased in 1989 by Education Futures, Inc. Following...
The West Virginia mining site rescue efforts are ending and funerals for the 25 victims have begun. The mine, named Upper Big Branch and located in Montcoal, West Virginia is owned by Massey Energy. Massey energy has numerous citations for safety violations and own the Montcoal mine which is the...
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States and considered the last Founding Father of America from the Virginia Dynasty and Republican generation. Monroe was born on April 28, 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Spence Monroe, a planter and carpenter, and Elizabeth Jones, an...
James Madison, Jr. was the fourth President of the United States, an American politician, and political philosopher who contributed as a Founding Father during the late 1700s. Madison was born to Colonel James Madison, Sr. and Eleanor Rose Conway on March 16, 1751 in Orange County, Virginia. As...
Virginia College is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. This accreditation made it possible for the college to award certificate, diplomas, and varied degrees. Good reviews and rankings are given to the college’s online program especially on how it provides...
Eagles' Michael Vicks has more legal problems. A shooting of Quanis Phillips, co-defendant in the 2007 dog fighting case against Vick, occurred at 2:00 a.m. on June 25, 2010. Authorities and the Philedelphia Eagles are investigating the incident outside of the Guadalajara nightclub in...
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of America. Jefferson was born to an affluent family in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia and was educated at local schools led by ministers and pastors as a child. At the age of nine,...
A mine explosion in West Virginia killed 25 on Monday, April 5, 2010. The Massey Energy Company, a Richmond, Virginia based company, confirmed that an explosion at it's Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia killed 25 of the 31 workers on the site at the time of the blast. The explosion is one...
Hurricane Sandy has been dubbed a “Frankenstorm” by governmental researchers and forecasters as it poured over the Caribbean and left 41 dead in its wake. This category 1 storm is predicted to meet with a polar air mass over the Atlantic and is predicted to make landfall on the East Coast of the...
The life of an author — particularly an author of fiction – is necessarily connected to that which is most dangerous: our consciousness. It is often through the explorative process of creative literature that we touch the exciting possibilities and subversive consequences of our capacities as a...
