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SHREVE — Changes are coming to the village’s leadership as the mayor resigned effective Monday and the administrator is leaving May 30. Bruce Biggs submitted his resignation letter Monday at the village hall, effective as of noon. And, Administrator Kim Arwood will be resigning May 30. The Daily Record left messages with Biggs and Arwood seeking comments, but those calls were not immediately returned. A public records request was made Wednesday morning for the resignation letters, and copies…

Martin Luther King born January 15, 1929 during his short lived life he accomplished many thing. Dr. King was assassinated after his speech on April 4, 1968 at the age of 39, his killed was James Earl Ray. Dr. Martin Luther King was a power leader and speaker for the blacks one that dream that one day that this nation would stand for racism a poverty, materialism. We all know that his dream was one that only a few in his time would live to…

With the horse race election drawing to a close, the time to sway voters’ choice wanes. With all the recent muckraking happening in the last weeks, the positive aspects of each candidate remains evasive. Hillary Clinton’s email scandal and reputation as a pathological liar defaces her accomplishments, much like a hero’s past barrs her future. Likewise, Donald Trump’s female predator status and narcissism represents him as unfavorable and beastly. However, Eugene Robinson, a democratic columnist,…

happened to one of our former presidents William Jefferson Clinton, he was a good president who made poor choices concerning his private life, and instead of being honest he lied about his actions which resulted in major consequences. Former president Bill Clinton was born August 19th, 1946, in Hope Arkansas. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton’s father died three months before he was born. His mother Virginia Cassidy Blythe cared for him, and his grandparents. His grandparents instilled in him…

The Jackson family has been in the United States since the American Revolution and even served in the Continental Army.1 The Jackson family has been a very large since its movement to the United States. Every Jackson in Brandon Revel's bloodline has been an upstanding person, and most are well remembered even long after they have passed on. From his parents all the way back to Aldridge Jackson, born in 1799, he has an ancestry of relatives which lived mostly near where Brandon lives today. This…

After reading both endorsement articles, Michael bloomberg ultimately persuaded me because of his establishment of strong ethos and pathos. Throughout his speech, he constantly used ethos to demonstrate his credibility as a democrat, republican, and even a business man. Bloomberg passionately speaks about his work in the senate and states, “I know Hillary Clinton can do all this, because I saw it firsthand when she was in the Senate.” This sentence founded a strong sense of credibility for…

A famous person that studied in my field is a billionaire named John Paulson. John is mentioned a lot in the business industry because of his success. They call him “A man who made one of the biggest fortune in Wall street history”. John Paulson is a legendary American fund manager. A hedge fund manager is a financial analysis who is responsible for making decisions about investments. Although, none of his success couldn’t be accomplished without the motivation given by his uncle in Ecuador.…

‘Test the Nation’ is a live television quiz show. The format is designed to allow viewers to answer a number of questions in order to measure their IQ or their ability in some other 'intellectual' area. Two hosts present 60 questions in front of a studio audience, a group of celebrities and the viewers at home. The studio audience who answer the questions along with the viewer, is broken down into fun categories often designed to challenge or affirm stereotypes. For example, in the United…

On the opening of The Late-Night Show with Stephen Colbert, he started with commenting on how each debate session either during or after, Trump would claim that the election is rigged. So, to add a comedic moment to start off the show Colbert used what is media literately known as his multiliterate ability to show a scene from the debate where Hillary Clinton is talking and behind here and slightly adjacent to the viewers left is three letters, “Rig.” Of course, it wasn’t the word rigged and it…

Alyssa Mattson 2A Current Event #3 Despite mutual agreement between the Republican and Democratic parties, the Senate still could not pass a bill enacting criminal justice reform. It was believed that this overhaul bill would be the “bipartisan success story of the year”, according to New York Times writer Carl Hulse. However, this was not the case. Some Republicans Senators disagreed with the idea of reducing minimum sentences, as well as providing President Obama with a “legacy victory”…