Life on the Mississippi

day of Hughes’ graduation from high school he got a train across the Mississippi. On this journey he reflected upon the significance of the Mississippi river and how it created a bond between him and his African ancestors. The result of this was a poem called “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”. It conveys how Langston Hughes felt that rivers spiritually connected him to his ancestors that sailed the Nile, Euphrates and the Mississippi. There is a significant racial influence on Langston Hughes’ work.…

The impact of teenage pregnancy on the parents’ attitudes and beliefs and how it affects the family has been an area of study that has been mostly ignored (East, 1999). In the past, limited research in Mississippi has only focused on a small sector of education using the abstinence-only or abstinence-plus approaches. There is a need for education that goes beyond the abstinence approaches that acknowledges that teenagers are sexually active and are becoming sexually active at very young ages…

hurricane, but it took a toll on many emotionally. Many were relatives, friends, and or neighbors to the 1836 people who died, some had just lost their homes and possessions, and others were trapped waiting to be rescued. The emotional trauma of the life-shattering event is something not one of these victims will ever forget. Allison Good in her article Hurricane Katrina: Story from a Survivor wrote, “how do you react to emancipated bodies in wheelchairs, dead from dehydration, starvation, and…

support and inspire government intervention. The importance of publicity to the movement can be seen in the 1964 campaign “Freedom Summer”. During the 1960s, activists began working in Mississippi, “Essentially a closed society on racial issues…[that] fought tenaciously, often violently, to maintain a way of life based on white supremacy” (Jenkins). There, a coalition known as the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) between the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People…

For the next few years Davis lived a very reclusive life, hardly ever leaving his plantation, leaving only for business or family affairs. Rarely socialising, he was considered an inoffensive and unpopular man, known only to his neighbours. Being an intellectual, Davis spent most of his days reading, and while he did learn vast amounts of knowledge, his seclusion came with a consequences As Edward Pollard wrote in his book “Life of Jefferson Davis, with a secret history of the Southern…

freedom and insight from this society’s backwards morals, later in the book you learn that helping a slave is seen as a sin towards “their owner” but Huck forms his own opinion on slavery as a young boy in the south and his opinion is surprising. The Mississippi River isn’t just a symbol of freedom for Huck, Jim sees the river as a way towards the north. His hope is shown when he tells Huck this,” De river wuz a-risin’, endey wuz a good current; so I reck’n’d ‘at by fo’ in de mawnin’ I’d be…

situated on the banks of the Mississippi river, which gave Union forces complete control of the Mississippi river, the Confederacy would have been able to use the Mississippi river to transport supplies, would not have split the South into two and stopped Southerners from getting much needed supplies coming in from the west. “A Yankee captain wrote home to his wife “The backbone of the Rebellion is this day broken. The Confederacy is divided…Vicksburg is ours. The Mississippi River is opened,…

spectacular and wondrous, but comes at a price and with a great deal of responsibility. It serves as one of the biggest moral anchors in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the grand Mississippi River emits this sense of freedom throughout the story. To outline the beginning of the adventures, the Mississippi River acts as the path to liberation from slavery for Jim, and a route for Huck to escape his abusive father. The river is virtuous and fulfilling as Huck and Jim begin their escapades,…

author, was born September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi to Murry and Maud Falkner. He was named for his great-grandfather, Colonel Falkner, who was a legendary figure to many. In the South, faulkner had seen and heard of a variety of troubling events, and because of this, he reflected many of his works based upon what he knew. William Faulkner was the most notable Southern gothic author because of his indecisive childhood, his struggling family life, and the will to see beyond southern…

The Help: Prompt 3 Aibileen and Minny were colored women that were maids for white families. They lived in Jackson, Mississippi; across the bridge were their neighborhoods which were separated from the white neighborhoods. Every day they would go to work at their family’s house that they were hired to. Their jobs consisted of cleaning the whole house, cooking, and take care of the kids if the family had any. Since Aibileen and Minny were colored, they had to use a different rest room than the…