Appalachian Mountains

A week later we attended a meeting that just took my attitude to the slaughterhouse and left it there to die. They informed us about training hikes at Kennesaw Mountain…

bring a umbrella,a sweater and some sun screen. Usually the weather is very hot and very cold sometimes. At the most it was recorded 111 degrees Fahrenheit. The lowest was -42 degrees Fahrenheit. The average temperature is 28 degrees Fahrenheit. The mountains are cooler than the plains. Usually the summer and winter switched. Summer is really cool and has a lot of thunderstorms. The winter doesn’t have that much thunderstorms as Summer but much cooler. The land parts are…

Arnow reflects the troublesome lifestyle of Kentucky Appalachian people of the 1930s, depicting the living conditions in the hollers of the Appalachian Mountains as undesirable; a place where people are in want of education, better paying jobs, and decent medical care. While Arnow does pepper these details throughout her account, she pays a great deal of attention…

Malcolm Gladwell’s Entertainment Weekly National Bestselling book entitled Outliers and even more specifically, in chapter six, “Harlan, Kentucky.” In the mist of the mountainous land of the Cumberland Plateau, which can also be known as the Appalachian Mountains, lies the small town of Harlan, Kentucky. In 1819, eight immigrant families…

transportation difference played a role in the development in the North and South. Section 6 describes how most of the north was covered by railroad tracks. It also tells us that congress funded the construction of a National Road across the Appalachian Mountains. Section 7 describes how the towns and cities in the South sprung up along waterways. The section also tells us that the South had very little railroads compared to the North. Furthermore,…

Harriet Tubman was a helpful, courageous, and kind African American slave who helped lead over three hundred slaves to freedom. Harriet Tubman is my inspiration because she accomplished impossible tasks. Harriet Tubman’s dedication as a conductor in the Underground Railroad was the essential role of freeing slaves. Harriet Tubman began in the Underground Railroad when her owner died. She decided to escape from slavery at that time. She left behind her husband, John Tubman, who refused to leave…

The phrase they were born with a golden or silver spoon has become the statement of rationalization when it comes to the rich. Haven’t you ever wished that you were born into a different family? Maybe a richer one? Well in the movie Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream the people living in the South Bronx know exactly what I’m referring to, especially since some of them live 10 minutes away from Park Avenue Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The South Bronx is known to be one of the…

for such a life. As I began contemplating career choices and delving into volunteer work, the source of that feeling became clear: my struggle has served as the foundation from which I built my strength as an advocate for Appalachian health. Nestled in the heart of the mountains, my hometown did not have a high school, let alone a hospital. A dentist visited the town once a week and a few family care physicians had limited business hours and busy waiting rooms. Individuals cannot afford medical…

Journey W.P. Inman, the main character of Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier, undergoes a transformation during his Hero’s Journey. After being hospitalized from a bullet to the neck, Inman leaves through the hospital physically and spiritually wounded. Eventually, Inman begins his journey back to his hometown, Cold Mountain. The author wrote the novel through the critical lenses of archetypal criticism, often drawing parallels to Homer’s Odyssey (“Cold Mountain as a Spiritual Quest”). However,…

• This act began to increase the resentment of British officials by the colonists who inhabited colonial regions. 6.) Proclamation of 1763: • The Proclamation of 1763 was adopted by the British and created a specific boundary line between the Appalachian…