Life on the Mississippi

Coming of Age in Mississippi is an autobiography about life of Anne Moody and her struggles with growing up black in Mississippi. As a child, Moody could never comprehend the lack of fairness among blacks and whites. As she grew older she expected to understand and find out why races were unequal. However, when she never found the answers to those questions, she felt a great deal of frustration. Moody wanted equality for African Americans and she wanted to join the cause to support them. She…

These are three are the famous musicians in Mississippi as a child I heard my parents speak about and still can remember some of the music being played by a few. They seem to be household names and more places than St. Louis. These three people are BB King, Muddy Waters and Bessie Smith. All from the state of Mississippi. BB King, is still playing the blues even though he’s past the age of 87. His birth given name is Riley B. King. In 1949 he began to be a well know musician, although he got…

Both Wes Moores grew up with life not necessary in their favor. Both men were faced with serious choices of right and wrong and one chose the path in his favor, while the other chose destruction. The author Wes moore decided to get an education to benefit his future, rather than dropping out of school. On the other hand, the other Wes Moore decided to drop out of school and continued to stay involved with drugs and crime. The opportunity to get an education is the driving factor in the…

In the beginning, his artistic journey began in his childhood with his mother’s creative ability as an artist and writer. Throughout his life, he assimilated the myriad artistic styles from ancient to contemporary like Native Americans, as well as the philosophies of art theorists and mystics such as Thoreau and Walter Emerson, into a design of his surreal artwork which a variety of patterns…

to showcase the idea of symbolism throughout the plot. Symbols from Mark Twain’s, Adventures of Huck Finn, include the Mississippi River, Jim, and the Widow Douglas. Mark Twain implements several different symbols into his novel, Adventures of Huck Finn, one of which is the vast Mississippi River. In both The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huck Finn, the Mississippi River is a vital part of the adventures that take place. Mark…

the book tells the story of Temple’s career as an undercover Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics agent during the 1970s at the height of the war on drugs. Although the names and some of the places have been changed to protect the identities of former agents and criminals, this book has a lot of strengths and weaknesses. Some of the most notable strengths are the settings or locations, because it is based in Mississippi, which for Mississippi natives, grabs their attention and allows them to relate…

the buildup, using the imagery of small trickles of water that became creeks and brooks that became tributary to other rivers that became the Mississippi. In cinematic fashion the filmmakers are painting a picture for us in which they depict all of the rivers that run into the Mississippi to look like blood vessels. Mark Twain called the Mississippi the life blood of the United States and the comparison between the author and this filmmaker is not lost on me. But again we 're looking at a “US…

remarkable actions, and ways of life. These people are often referred to as heroes, whether it is Superman, or a local community heroes, they all share something in common, and it’s not a cape. So what makes them heroes? It all trickles down to their character traits. While there is a myriad of traits that heroes possess, the most significant ones are the bravery, the willingness to ask for help, and the strength to always do what is honorable. In Chris Crowe’s, Mississippi Trial, 1955, all…

respectively, it becomes clear to see how Hammond developed the personality and characteristics that he did. Parent lays out how the society that Hammond grew up in came to be, then describes how the class structure and elitist system became the way of life in the South and some of the problems that came with…

first to be hit, with Boston in 1693, then Philadelphia in 1793, and then Memphis and the Mississippi River area in 1878. The Report of The Expedition For The Relief of Yellow-Fever Sufferers On The Lower Mississippi by U.S. War Department Lieutenant, Charles S. Hall looks at the effects of yellow fever on cities. Similarly, Deanne Nuwer, author of Plague Among The Magnolias, explains how cities along the Mississippi River reacted politically, economically, and locally to quarantine…