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    about how a grandmother goes out of her way to help her disabled grandson. As she begins her journey, old Phoenix Jackson overcomes challenges large and small to get medicine for her disabled grandson. While reading along with the story about her challenges the story opens the reader’s eyes and start to feel what the main character is going through. The author shows that Phoenix Jackson is both a Martyr and Warrior for what she does and goes through. Phoenix Jackson’s grandson was in need of…

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    New Orleans Essay

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    The New Orleans is a Louisiana city beside the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico. The Nickname for New Orleans is Big Easy. New Orleans is named after the Duke of Orleans, who reigned as Regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723. Beginning of the Morrison's administration, and for the entirety of Schiro's, the city was a center of the Civil Rights Movement. In 2005 New Orleans was catastrophically hit by the Hurricane Katrina like other places of USA. In this sad event more than 1,500…

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    Zimmerman Trial

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    behind why the State of Mississippi has received the open convey firearm law was impacted by the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman trial, one would think in light of this trial that it's a great opportunity to think before you act, make inquiries or discuss it before you be on the front page for it, rather Martin and Zimmerman trial appeared to have made Mississippi. assemblies go from appreciation and secure your kindred man to stop them by dropping them. Mississippi House Representative,…

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    A manifold of symbolic connotations can be made in “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty. Eudora Welty’s explanation of symbolism basically says how the Character Phoenix Jackson goes out of her way to do all that she can for her grandson because he is sick and can’t take care of him-self. She is a good grandmother by going out of her to take the whole day to walk all the way into town to get him his medicine. During her excursion she talks aloud to herself coaxing before, but this one seems…

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    Book Summary: The Help

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    The Help. The Help was more than a book with pages to me. It was an inspiring story about a white community in Jackson Mississippi in 1962. It explained the lives of the African American maids who worked for fairly rich white people. They would raise their children until they were older or until the family told them it was time to go. Most all white families had at least one maid if not more. The maids were most commonly called The Help. The main focus of the book was about a girl named Skeeter…

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    Ole Miss History

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    The University of Mississippi, known colloquially as Ole Miss, is the largest university in Mississippi and one of the largest in South. Ole Miss represents an opportunity for many poor Mississippi students. It has also been a university renowned for its famous authors. The author of the novel, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin, teaches writing there and one of the two protagonists in the novel, Silas, received a baseball scholarship to study and he moved to Oxford. Ole Miss…

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    human being. Dating back to the 1800’s, Mississippi has been the most consistent at reliving and recreating racism and its history. Whether this is by happenstance or by the utter hatred of those who are born and bred in good ole sovereign Mississippi. During one of the most life-changing movements in our history; the Civil Rights movement, where integration and segregation were equally important to both White Americans and African-Americans, Sons of Mississippi shines a light on an era thick…

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    Mississippi was important during America’s Civil War. It played a huge part as an aid of the south, and was genuinely excited for the war in the beginning. The first battle of the war in Mississippi, the battle of Shiloh, cited Mississippi’s resistance against the Union army and their advancements to take over a vital source of transportation in the state, Corinth. With this town, the Union would be able to take over the railroads and the Tennessee River. Unfortunately for the Union and…

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    Hurricane Katrina Causes

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    al. 2009, p. 292 ). It was one of the most mighty cyclones around category 4-5 that the coast of America had never met before, strong winds, large rainfall, waves and cyclones were brought by it to attack the Gulf of Mexico shores of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama ( ASCE 2007, p. v). At the end of the disaster, the flooding was flowing into the city of New Orleans due to the failure of the Hurricane Katrina protection system. The causes of the Hurricane Katrina disaster were the water-filled…

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    William Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize Laureate who lived and died in Mississippi. Faulkner is one of Americas most highly respected writers and particularly praised for his Southern literature. He is known for his authenticity when it comes to the Southern way of life. He often used his real life experiences and included the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha which was based on the real-life county he grew up in many of his stories "A Rose for Emily" included. His…

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