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Economic Bubbles

that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...

Society and the Movie Mississippi Burning

the 20th century when most people would assume such problems were behind us. The producer of the film noted that the movie was sim...

Background and the Stories of William Faulkner

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

Freedom Quest of Huck Finn

that perhaps he had been allowed to do exactly what he wanted. One can imagine that Huck achieved a sense of self-reliance and the...

Native American Earthworks and a Poverty Point Archaeological Investigation

extent of this importance can in part be gauged by the incredible material diversity which is present at the site, a diversity whi...

Predictions of Alexis de Tocqueville and the Survival of Native Americans

which Tocqueville noted between white and red, between savage and civilized, was an ever-present factor, in fact in the interactio...

Book Review of Ann Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

would dare to challenge the social mores to effect societal change. She would become on of the first blacks to protest unfair trea...

Moody's Portrait of Racism

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

U.S. Economics and Native American Casinos

not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...

Edwin Davis and William Hogan's The Barber of Natchez

who were generally more accepted by white society if they worked hard and proved themselves intelligent and worthy of respect. ...

Mississippi Masala and the Immigration Experience

this Southern town oppose the relationship between a woman of Indian extraction and an African American. In a climatic scene, De...

Link Between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Missississippians Service in the Second World War

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

Mississippi and Georgia Politics

became the first Republican congressman representing Georgia since the Reconstruction (Bass and DeVries, 1976). Bass and DeVrie...

Impact of the Vietnam War and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...

Issues Involving Mississippi and West Virginia Higher Education

In eleven pages this paper examines regional differences in college education issues in a consideration of West Virginia and Missi...

I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles M. Payne and Organizing Tradition

In five pages the organizing tradition as it evolved in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s as depicted in this text by Charles...

Comparing New Jersey and Mississippi

New Jersey and Washington, D.C. tied for the richest states in the country in 2014. Mississippi ranked 51, the very poorest. This ...

"Cancer Alley" and Environmental Justice

This paper describes the case made against Shell Oil Company by the residents of "Cancer Alley," a stretch of the Mississippi with...

American, Saudi Cultural Comparison

This essay contrasts and compares cultural differences between Saudi Arabia and life in Mississippi. Written from the perspective ...

Comparing Saudi and American Culture

This essay provides a hypothetical example of how a student from Saudi Arabia might choose to discuss her transition to life in Mi...

Music of Mississippi John Hurt

December 21, 1928, was by far the most productive, as Hurt cut three spirituals and five blues works during this session (Obrecht)...

Mississippi During the 1950s and the NAACP

In five pages this paper examines the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1950s' Mississippi. Eight sou...

Explorations of Father Jacques Marquette

only rumors at the time, there was discussion among the French that a large river flowed in the south. This river was thought to ...

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION

Discusses the concept of agricultural intensification during the mid-Woodland and Mississippi prehistoric periods in the United St...

Southern Locations and Their Importance in the Works of William Faulkner

lives, and all this really comes out as people and their relationships to the place that formed them (Smith ppg). Duality shown i...

Civil Rights Quest of African Americans

her peers. By reading her book, one can understand why the quest to achieve civil rights is and was important for African America...

Mississippi River and Agricultural Effects

This paper consists of eight pages and discusses how agriculture has affected the Mississippi River. Nineteen sources are cited i...

Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordon

In four pages Mississippi Delta life as presented in Lewis Nordon's novel is discussed. There are no other sources listed....

Two Literary Portrayals of Racism and Oppression

This paper offers a discussion that answers the question of whether or not a caste system that is racist in nature can be perpetur...