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    During the 1930’s there was a case of white people against black boys in the town of Paint Rock, AL (Ransdall).” This case was known as The Scottsboro Trials. A novel written by Harper Lee titled To Kill a Mockingbird has similar plot in which a black man, or Negro, was accused of raping a white woman (Lee). Both of these stories have similarities and parallels that are interesting to indulge in.The social characteristics, stigmas, and opinions if superiority influence the behaviors and…

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    victims when they are the most vulnerable. Meaning when they are away from their family, support systems, and away from their comfortable environment. During these times is when people should take more precautions in abductions occurring. Locally, Chattanooga is a big hot spot for child trafficking with the road connections to the larger city like…

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    Historical Appreciation Project: In the Heat of the Night Fifty years ago, as the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum, activists protested across the deep South, and tensions rose between black demonstrators and the police. During this time, John Ball wrote his first book. It was a murder mystery set in a small Carolina town. The crime-solving detective of Ball’s novel was Virgil Tibbs, an famed homicide detective from Pasadena, California, who happened to be passing through the area on the…

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    She was in charge of the food and clothing ministry which seemed to be almost a full-time task for her. Literally thousands of people in the church and the local community were ministered to by my mother, and I was a firsthand witness to many of those. I remember carrying sacks of groceries and clothes to homes all over the city and watching my mom pray and lead these needy people to the Lord. It was in my mother that I saw the hard and often unrecognized work of ministry, but again, it was…

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    They were brave and listened to the government, but they still lost their tribal land. During the 1830's the East coast was burdened with new settlers and becoming vastly populated. President Andrew Jackson and the government had to find a way to move people to the West to make room. He passed the Indian Removal Policy in1830. The Indian Removal Policy, which called for the removal of Native Americans from the Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the Georgia area. They also moved their…

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    The oldest institution in the world is family. Individually and collectively these institutions should possess a stable structure aiding individual character in a way that transparency is normal and the impact is supernatural. The family structure is the wheel that drives the society. In the American society, many family structures coincide. Although many family structures exist, the families that are the most common are the nuclear and single-parent families. The nuclear or two parent family…

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    Personal History I was born in Chattanooga, TN on March 18th 1992. I have one sibling, a brother that was born in 1993 in September. My parents married young and have been together for 20+ years now. My mother is a flight attendant and my father works on computers. Even though, my parents love each other they often argue a lot and to be quite honest I don’t remember much of my childhood. The memories are vague. I do, however remember spending time with my great-grandmother and she was…

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    By 1865, bloodhounds were seen as a weapon by which the planter class oppressed not only slaves, but white unionists and northern prisoners of war. The savagery of the bloodhounds illustrated what Northerners considered to be the true brutality of the culture of the Southern planter class. In the war’s second year, newspapers in Iowa began to discuss the new use of bloodhounds in the Southern states as literal instruments of control over Southern Unionists. Dogs were indeed deployed by the…

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    By 1865, Union soldiers perceived the bloodhound as a weapon by which the planter class oppressed not only slaves, but white unionists and captured Union soldiers. The savagery of the bloodhounds illustrated what Northerners considered to be the true brutality of the culture of the “Southern chivalry.” In the war’s second year, newspapers in Iowa began to discuss the new use of bloodhounds in the Southern states as literal instruments of control over Southern Unionists. The Confederate…

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    King’s Life “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.” was edited by Clayborne Carson. Carson went to his first civil rights demonstration and he saw King for the first time at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Two decades later, Carson was requested by Mrs. Coretta Scott King to become the director of the King Papers Project. He accepted the offer and became enveloped in King’s writings. The book is compiled of the autobiographical writings King published and edited…

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