Life on the Mississippi

In addition, The Cherokees were very successful at adapting to a new way of life, farming the land, raising cattle, growing cotton, and even owning slaves to work their plantations. In the excerpt from a Cherokee woman’s petition tell us how cherokee people are being removed form the state of Georgia. After they civilized, and…

by abortion?” (Oyez)Abortion is the termination of an unwanted pregnancy. This was the question asked during the trial of Roe v Wade, because Jane Roe wished to terminate her pregnancy even though Texas law prohibited it unless to save a mother’s life. According to the Supreme Court, the answer is yes. The Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 determined that a woman 's right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy, protected by the Fourteenth Amendment (Oyez). Despite the decision of the…

Paige Ip is a junior on the homecoming court. She is an integrated marking communications major from Meridian Mississippi. Ip’s campus involvements includes, serving as the vice president for the student government association and Beta Beta Beta, Blue Key and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies. During 2014, Ip was crowned Miss UWA and Miss Paragon. “I’ve earned multiple titles throughout my life, but homecoming court is the one that means the most to me because it is something that is votes on…

that the United States’ action towards Indians was deplorable but never genocidal in certain areas. Many believe that California Indians were the victims of genocide from the Anglo Americans and Spanish. Yet, the genocide of Indians east of the Mississippi River has always been a hotly debated situation. Through my analysis of the time period leading up to the Removal Era, I have found that American Indians were subjected to genocide through coerced migration, settler expansion, as well as war…

is important since it significantly reveals how desperately they wanted more land. By pushing the Native Americans west of the Mississippi River, it showed that they would take a desperate action just to get what they most desired. Taking advantage of the Native Americans, the Jackson Administration’s decision to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830’s continued the economic policies but significantly changed…

MOVEMENT TRANSFORM AMERICA? American Westward Movement is the process that people from the settled regions of the United States to lands farther west. The great west means stretching from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and it was subdivided into two sections: the territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast. This westward movement, across what was often called the American frontier, was of enormous significance and it…

place in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960’s. At this point in history, people of European ancestry are still held to a higher degree than African Americans. This leads to most white families hiring colored maids, referred to as the Help, who have less opportunities and privileges than the people who hire them. Over the course of the novel, the reader takes the story from the point of view of three women: Aibileen Clark, an older black maid who was born and raised in the Mississippi area,…

for the abuser, it can also affect the victims later in life. C. Kennedy once said, “Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you” (America’s Mental Health Channel). This paper will discuss several different topics concerning physical abuse such as, who are the victims, what is physical abuse, the effects of physical abuse, physical abuse in children, and physical abuse in adults. This paper will also talk about a special unit in Mississippi…

can also be described as Symbolism. For example Math is known as Symbols because 100-50=50, the symbol = Represents the answer for the equation, and the – symbol is used for Subtracting. In the Story, Phoenix an old Women that is from Natchez, Mississippi, Goes through Trouble going into the woods, to go all the way to town to get some medication for her Grandson that is ill from swallowing Lye. She has to pass by a White hunter who would hunt for bob whites, he would also be Racist…

became governor of the colony. In 1512 Juan discovered a land we know today as Florida.Although Juan did not colonize Florida he made an impact on his life. Two decades later a new explorer arrived which was known as De Soto. De Soto led his mens to what is now Georgia and the Carolinas. De Soto also discovered through his journey the Mississippi River. De Soto and his crew then traveled into Oklahoma. Unfortunately De Soto died in 1542 on his journey. In…