Carolina League

Barbeque has been one of the quintessential foods of the South and especially North Carolina for over 300 years and one can find its wood-smoked legacy throughout the Old North State. In colonial Virginia, where barbecue is thought to have first been introduced to white settlers, slave-owners made the duty of cooking barbecue for slaves (this was also the case in South Carolina). However, in North Carolina, white farmers and journeymen, and black slaves practiced the art of barbecue. White…

North Carolina. “North Carolina is one of the top ten human trafficking nationally.” and it also “ranked the top 8th most state for human trafficking.” The reason for this is because of the highways we have, one of the highways that traffickers love the most is highway 195 because it goes from Miami Florida to fredericton Canada. Traffickers use the highways to get their victims and transport them. But the highway is not the only way trafficker get their victims. ("The North Carolina…

and a distance of 120 feet. The brothers began experimenting with the concept of flight in Dayton, Ohio at their bicycle shop in the mid-to-late 1890 's, and in 1902, they brought their glider to the continuously windy beach at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. The glider made over 700 successful flights before adding power. The brothers built their own engine because no car engine could be powerful enough or light enough (Wright Brothers). The day their powered plane flew changed history and leads…

hallway! Everyone is running around asking for help, blaming each other and nothing still get done about the problem! Sounds like a bad sci-fi movie but this was the reality of the South Carolina school system documented in a film called, “Corridor of Shame.” The film is about rural area schools along 1-95 in South Carolina in 2005 but looks like schools on a slave planation. The film highlights overworked and grossly underpaid teachers and administrators as well as the plight of the children…

Moving from Boston, MA to Mooresville, NC can be quiet a culture shock. Especially if you move here after spending twenty years up north. Being in the north is everything is fast paced no one talks to each other unless you know them. We are fiercely protective of our own. We have a great love for pro sport teams. The south is vastly different. People talk to everyone. Not too many people who live here are from here. College teams rain supreme. The differences between the south and the north are…

slavery immoral to the people of slavery(Controversies). The North stopped slavery in 1776, and wanted to stop it in the South and take down the Confederate Flag(Controversies). On July 10, 2015 the Rebel flag was removed from the Capital of South Carolina and the pride and heritage was lost(Confederate). The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People all fought for the flag to be removed after the Charleton Church shooting(Controversies). There are people that take the flag as…

Stephen Alexander LaRoque, was born in Kinston, NC on August, 1963. After earning an MBA from East Carolina University in 1993, he founded two nonprofits, the East Carolina Development Company in 1997 and the Piedmont Development Company in 2004. The nonprofits acted as a transit point for loans from a U.S. Department of Agriculture lending program aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in low-income, rural areas nationwide. Known as the Intermediary Relending Program, it…

SYNOPSIS: On the 6th of November, 2015, I, CPL. Lessane, along with Deputy Green, Deputy Griffin, and Deputy Jordan, with the Hampton County Sheriff 's Office, responded to 320 Thorn Circle, in the county of Hampton, regarding a disturbance incident. Upon arrival, Deputies made contact with all parties involve and gathered the pertinent information needed to complete this report. INTERVIEW WITH COMPLAINANT: (KRISTINA BARNES) Mrs. Barnes stated she came to the incident location in an attempt…

Mission Statement: The P-Tank D.I.V.A.S is an organization established for adolescent females in secondary education. D.I.V.A.S stands for Determined,Inspirational,Victorious, Admired and Smarter. The main objective of the program is teach character education, promote literacy, and college awareness. Location: The organization is located at Pasquotank County High School. The high school is located in the school district of Elizabeth Pasquotank Public Schools in North Carolina.The address…

This campaign season, I worked for Bruce Davis. Bruce Davis was the Democratic candidate chosen in the primary to run for House of Representatives in the Thirteen District in North Carolina. This campaign season was not a traditional one in comparison to what I’ve studied of past campaign’s. Our world has changed with the creation of social media and campaign’s have changed with it. In our campaign we had to look harder to find a proper strategy for using social media to are advantage and think…