Life on the Mississippi

and Mississippi. The damage was so extensive that it took about three days after the storm before his sons found Delaney. He had suffered serious injuries from a tree crashing into the house. Extensive damage throughout Jefferson County and the surrounding communities was experienced, especially the very rural areas. When his sons finally found him, he was extremely agitated…

Although the Native Americans had been using the Mississippi River for means of fishing, transport and irrigation, Christopher Columbus was credited with the first to have viewed the Mississippi River in 1842. Nicknamed the “Nile of North America,” the Mississippi River played a large role in the development of the United States, much like the Nile did for Ancient Egypt. The Mississippi river permitted entry to the Southeast from the Gulf Coast. The river was also extremely…

The life of Jefferson Davis, is an iconic American story, about military service, government leadership, and the establishment of the Confederate States of America. However, prior to the civil war, Jefferson Davis was a war hero that served a prestigious political career. If the South never succeeded from the Union, history would have remembered Jefferson Davis as a person that was a great political administer, and decisive war hero who proudly served the American Government. However, after…

their rights together some just wanted to coexist with those of the white race. Jonathan Norton’s play, Mississippi GODdamn, completely captures the struggle of African Americans to coexist with one as well as the racial conflict of the 1960s. The performance took place in the South Dallas Cultural Center on February 21st, 2015 directed by Vickie Washington. The name of the play, Mississippi GODdamn…

The Help is Kathryn Stockett’s (Jackson, Mississippi) debut novel rendering black maids’ voices in a wonderful dialect (Law, it’s hot out there.), which takes some getting used to. Jackson, Mississippi, 1962: black maids are raising white children, taking care of entire households and get paid peanuts. The story has three narrators; Aibileen Clark Minny Jackson and Skeeter Phelan. Aibileen, who is raising her seventeenth white child, lost her son Treelore when he was twenty-four years old.…

Hamilton, describes the incredible struggle that Mary Mann Hamilton and her family endured throughout the entirety of her life while moving throughout the Mississippi Delta. Throughout the memoir, Hamilton goes into great depth describing the trials and tribulations each year brought to her family and families they met along their journey. This account on life in the Mississippi Delta during the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century shows how women…

Ames’s platform, supporting the rights of African Americans, caused much chaos in the southern states. Mississippi especially resented Ames and his carpetbagger ways. Lemann describes just how much Mississippi resented Ames, “At a July 4th celebration held by Negro Republicans in Vicksburg, whose population of eleven thousand made it Mississippi’s largest city, a group of whites with guns turned up and started…

Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA), also referred to as a “stroke” is a life-threatening medical condition that occurs when there is diminished blood flow being delivered to the brain. The two major types of strokes are ischemic and hemorrhagic. An ischemic stroke occurs when there is an obstruction in the brain caused by a blood clot and a hemorrhagic stroke results in sudden bleeding in the brain when a blood vessel ruptures. National Institute of Neurological Disorders [NIND] (2011) reports that…

different boxes and when they got to the destination Lydia’s sister was gone.That’s the reason Lydia started this group to work together and possibly finally find her sister.The plan was that they were going to leave Ohio and come all the way down to Mississippi , and hope that they wouldn't get caught in the slave state.…

implements ways to put her past life and experiences into her stories. Eudora Welty was born in the great Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909, and died July 22, 2001. She attended Mississippi State College for Women, University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University School of Business. Similarly, her excellent writing skills and past life in Mississippi become apparent in her short story "A Worn Path." For example, the story takes place in Natchez, Mississippi on the Natchez Trail. The short…