Appalachia

Cultural and Ethical Aspects: DNP Project Self-reflection Beginning in high school, I became aware of the differences that people made regarding group associations. There were those who were intellectual – competing for valedictorian and salutatorian, musicians – concert and marching bands, technically skilled – agricultural and machine oriented, and then there was me. Most students would only associate with their specific groups; however, I would associate and have friends in a variety of…

“I wake up, put a dip in, crack a cold one, and put my boots and my overalls on. This is the country boy song.” This is a line in the lyrics of a song by country singer, Earl Dibbles Jr. According to this line, this is the life of many who live in Tennessee who could be called country. Those who have not lived the country life associate country with the lyrics above, which is ignorance, because the language and culture of those who are not country have encouraged many to believe that being…

We have one planet to live on. Have you ever thought of that? We only have this one giant rock, hurtling through the sky at speeds too fast for us to even comprehend; and we have nowhere else to go. Yet, we still take advantage of our home. We pollute it, mine mountains, clear-cut forests and think nothing of it. In everyday life people normally like to keep their home clean and tidy, they may buy insurance to help them buy a new one if something happens to their old one. Earth is our home, yet…

Video games have been in the crosshairs for over 30 years now because people and scientist think that videogames are to blame for people 's rash decisions for committing violent crimes such as murders, mass shootings, bombings and or Auto theft. They even have a legal charge for stealing cars, and it 's called Grand theft auto believer it or not. That is also a name of a popular video games that is know for theft and killing. Studies have been made over the past 30 years but none of them seem to…

The United States used to be a place where you could support a family and make the American dream come true on a single factory job. That is no longer the case, and a household today could not function on that little of an income. It is becoming more and more expensive to be alive and many people cannot afford it. What is a person who has no education, no skills and no job going to do out in the middle of Alabama? There are countless cases of people suffering and struggling to feed their…

Charles Camp and Timothy Lloyd explain in their 1980 paper “Six Reasons to Not Produce Folklife Festivals” that they want “to encourage folklorists...to think more deeply and more critically about festivals” (67). The goal of the majority of folklife festivals is to promote greater awareness among the general population about several cultures’ traditional practices, beliefs, and material items which in turn provides that culture with validation for those beliefs and practices. The festivals’…

Massey Energy specializes in the production of making high-grade metallurgical coal. Massey Energy considered themselves as “the most enduring and successful coal company in central Appalachia” (Lawrence & Weber (2014). Massey Energy exported their coal to thirteen countries and sold their coal to industrial, metallurgical, and utility customers on long term contracts. The United States lessoned our reliance on imported oil because Massey…

the story. She shows this emotion gradually, starting from the story’s inception where she explains how she wanted to “build a house in Rutherfordton” with “noise and traffic”, but how instead she lives in a trailer in a less than ideal part of Appalachia. The story certainly helps her gather sympathy from her audience, but her real success lies in her inner commentary shortly after. She gives her audience a spectacular view of her inner feelings during her house problem with Vernon. She…

of Enduring Poverty: An Expanded Spatial Analysis of the Structural Determinants of Poverty in the US,” by Anil Rupasingha and Stephan J. Goetz , the distribution of poverty in 1999 across the US shows a high concentration of poverty happens in Appalachia, the southern black-belt, the Mississippi Delta, Native American areas in the Southwest, colonies along the US-Mexico border region, and a cluster of upper Midwest counties. Also, poverty is not independently distributed over space (Rupasingha,…

The realm of sports have shaped and shifted communities ever since they first started being played. Being involved in sports and being constantly exposed to sports creates a certain level of comfortability with sportsmanship and competitiveness. For every Team A, there is a Team B who wants to defeat it and in essence that is how sport rivalries are born. While exploring through research of the Eastern United States, strong evidence stuck out that sports rivalries in these communities played a…