University of Mississippi

Yes, I arrived late and my chances had decreased. This would not stop me, though. During breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Mississippi State University’s cafeteria, I would pleasantly take a seat at a table where I knew not a single face and end up leaving knowing them all. We exchanged many conversations like what city we came from, how many siblings we endured, our favorite ice creams, careers we were suggesting, our favorite brands of clothing, and then came what we were running for. I told each girl who the Commissioner of Agriculture for Mississippi was first. Cindy Hyde-Smith, our Commissioner, is an outstanding woman who lived less than an hour away from me. I told them how she helped my grandfather 's small cattle farm after he sold cattle to a local selling facility that had gone bankrupt days earlier. She displayed strong leadership skills, and I informed these young women that I wanted to become the walking image of her at this camp. I became extremely passionate about this role and was honored by receiving it, but not before I gave two…

I was born in raised in Texas my entire life. When I decided to attend college I wanted to do something out of my comfort zone and experience something new. A first step toward that was choosing a school where I did not know one person, in a state I have never been to, and that was ten hours away, which was Mississippi State University. I went to Mississippi State University the first two years of college. After my sophomore year I started looking more into what I enjoy and want to pursue in a…

There are 8 public universities in Mississippi that comes under the Institution of Higher Learning (IHL). Of the 8 universities, only Mississippi State University and University of Mississippi offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees in geography. Jackson State University, Alcorn State University, Delta State University, Mississippi State for Women, and Mississippi Valley State University offer no geography degrees. However, some of them offer geography related degrees. Mississippi State…

Racism at the University of Mississippi: a Social Psychology Solution The University of Mississippi is known for it’s football, parties, greek life, and racism. In the past two years the school has taken major steps to reducing outward racism in the school by deciding not to fly the state flag which has the Confederate flag on its left corner and by banning the song “Dixie” from football games. Though these actions have reduced the blatant racism seen by the external population, racism is still…

The Blind Side shows the readers multiple times throughout the story that, life has its ups and down, but you always have to stay positive. The Blind Side is a football story about Michael Oher. His life was challenging, but extremely successful. Throughout his life, he was homeless and wandered the streets at night until the Tuohys adopted him into their luxurious home. Now, Michael is a part of their family of four. He's an all star football player for his school, and eventually gets recruited…

stop waving Rebel flags at athletic events. In an interview Boone stated that the flag hurt recruitment (Cabell, 1997). "I mean, we 've got a great university here, a great academic program, and we 're being held back from a national perspective because of this Confederate flag,” said Boone (Cabell, 1997). Khayat agreed stating that every head coach prior to Boone reported that the Confederate flag was used against them in…

The University of Mississippi, known colloquially as Ole Miss, is the largest university in Mississippi and one of the largest in South. Ole Miss represents an opportunity for many poor Mississippi students. It has also been a university renowned for its famous authors. The author of the novel, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin, teaches writing there and one of the two protagonists in the novel, Silas, received a baseball scholarship to study and he moved to Oxford. Ole Miss…

How should one relive history? For many, the greatest moments in history were the most excruciating to relive while others reveled in the moment to tell you about their past. At least until questioned about his or her barbaric actions towards another human being. Dating back to the 1800’s, Mississippi has been the most consistent at reliving and recreating racism and its history. Whether this is by happenstance or by the utter hatred of those who are born and bred in good ole sovereign…

1) Please provide the candidate’s job title and a brief overview of the candidate’s main responsibilities. Chunheng worked with me as a graduate research assistant at Mississippi State University from 2012 – 2014, conducting research on power system operations and optimizations projects. When he joined our research group in the beginning of his Ph.D. study in 2012, I, as a senior Ph.D student, supervised him in the topic of “systems of system SCUC” for a year and worked with him as co-author to…

William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897. Faulkner was the oldest of four children. When Faulkner was five years old, his father decided to move the family to Oxford, Mississippi. During his childhood, the adults around him would tell him stories about the civil war, slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, and his family history. A favorite tale among his family was of his great-grandfather, after whom he was named, who was a successful business man, writer, and war…