Baton Rouge

The sweat warmed my face, giving my brown skin complexion a very moist texture. I was dreaming of my auntie being thrown off a bridge or maybe a cliff. Fear started to build up inside of me as if I were a gusher ready to burst. I knew I was dreaming but I couldn’t wake myself up but then the phone ranged…. Now my auntie was the youngest sister of four to my mother. She would pick my cousin and I up from school and take us to Wendy’s to get lunch. She was the most lovable, caring, and played…

From the very first time that Northup is enslaved in Washington, he notices all of the women surrounding him. In his book, he gives the reader a detailed account their marital statuses, children, skills, personalities and physical attributes. Essentially, male and female slaves are treated differently. Throughout his book, Northup portrays differences in labor, demands and expectations of masters from female slaves. When Northup first meets Eliza in Burch’s slave pen, they are transported to a…

He explains how hogs have damaged crops, destroyed wetlands and even attacked levees that keep the state safe from floods. A meeting was made in Baton Rouge to discuss the invasive species. A man named Gentry discussed an idea on how to reduce the hog population. He believes that he can use sodium nitrite to block the pig’s ability to breathe. If he is successful in finding the right mixture then it…

The nation is in high tension with all of the recent police shootings and the social injustice towards African-Americans. People are protesting now because Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter is a movement where people around the country of the cruelty towards African-Americans. We are tired of being treated differently because of our skin and judging who we are without getting to know a person. People don’t really know what the Black Lives Matter movement really is and whites are confused on…

Rosa Parks was born as Rosa Louise McCauley February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, to the parents of James and Leona McCauley. At the age of 2 her parents moved in with her grandparents. Two years later her mother gave birth to her brother Sylvester and shortly after that her parents separated. Her mother was an educator (a Teacher). Her Family had a great respect for education. Later on around the age of 11, Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, She attended High School there, a laboratory school…

Slavery Institution in the 19th century Slavery existed in both the North and South of America during the 18th century. As the North became increasingly industrialized and urbanized, there was less demand for slaves. Different from the North, the South vastly depended on slaves to work on the cotton plantations. The industrialization of the North and the rapid growth of cotton industry in the South divided the nation during the 19th century. It was a regional issue that both sides increasingly…

) Lawrence Sandoval was now a man without a job. Since moving to Baton Rouge, he has been through four jobs in a year. He is not the smartest person alive by any means, he dropped out of high school at fifteen and never bothered to get his GED until he was thirty. This made getting a job extremely hard to begin with, and when he got the job, he would never listen or try to get any guidance or he wouldn’t show up. Lawrence's goal in life when he was young was to party, now he’s just trying to pay…

but the rescue team never found them. The oil caused external damage to birds with loss of feathers and insulation (Schlager 6). The rescue team was successful for cleanup and lightering the operation for the transferal with the remaining oil. In Baton Rouge they were tied up alongside of the 4/5 cargo to recover the oil. On day. 4 the prevailing currents carried the spill 40 miles to the island and shoreline in the south west. The long-term effects were there were 2 chemical dispersants and…

According to John D. Higby, Jr., P.E., in the article, “Possible Capture of the Mississippi by the Atchafalaya River,” believes that this diversion is one of the biggest engineering problems ever encountered. In his article he is talking about the Mississippi River trying to divert and how humans are trying to stop it. He also believes that congress and the president should give approval for professionals to study these rivers to figure out more of what is going on and what may happen in the…

Alton Sterling was found selling CDs outside of a Food Mart in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Fausset, Perez-Pena, and Robertson, A1). According to the police department, a 911 call was made informing the police Sterling had a gun on him. When confronted by officers at the scene Sterling did not pull out his handgun but he was…