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Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Trans-Mississippi West And The Spanish-American War

as people were filling in where buffalo used to be. Right along side this forward motion was the Trans-Mississippi, which wasted ...

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

Coming of Age in Mississippi

"I was fifteen years old when I began to hate people. I hated the white men who murdered Emmett Till and I hated all the other whi...

Role of Women in Society: The Rover and The Importance of Being Earnest

to the plays because they were written during the time of the British Commonwealth, a time when the very nation has lost its Empir...

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)...

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION

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

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 ...

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...

American, Saudi Cultural Comparison

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

"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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

The Concept of the Best Society

She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...

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...

Geological Disasters and Human Habitation

regard to changes in drainage patterns from building. However, even without specific knowledge of floodplains, it is possible to ...

Organization, Gender, and Leadership

This research report compares and contrasts three different societies as it respects gender roles. Social organization is looked a...

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 ...

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...

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...

Canadian Policy and Racism

the effect was similar in that the vast majority of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to the 1960s were from the British Isle o...

Mississippi River Journey of Jim and Huckleberry Finn

and telling Huck his story. They both decide to simply hide out on the island together, fishing and getting what they can on the i...

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 ...

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. ...

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...