Life on the Mississippi

Poverty in One of the Most Southern Places in Dixie: The Mississippi Delta, 1964- Present Poverty is a plague that has swept across Mississippi for numerous of years. It is defined as the circumstances or condition in which an individual or community lack the fundamental needs for a minimum standard of well-being. One of the constant barriers in most rural communities is poverty. Though there have been many attempts to reduce the level of poverty, it is still an underlying issue in rural…

Childhood Obesity in Mississippi Children in Mississippi are facing one of the most deadly problems of the century: obesity. Obesity is one of the biggest problems Mississippi has faced in the past and will face in the future. Children are the future of Mississippi, so if they defeat obesity in children today then it will make a huge dent in obesity in the future. There are many ways to go about addressing obesity in Mississippi, but all of them require Mississippians to unite and take on this…

features the mighty Mississippi River. It is the story of a young boy named Huck Finn and the adventures he experienced growing up in Mississippi. The river is central to the unfolding plot and it is also the setting of much of the action throughout the novel. However, there is no doubt the the Mississippi represents much more than just a way to get from place to place for Huck or any of the other characters he and Jim meet along the way. For some, being on the river is a way of life. For Huck…

have visited in rural Mississippi, but there is none of the greenness and the healing sweetness of the Mississippi countryside outside their windows, which are often barred and bolted as protection against thieves. (p. 4). As a native Mississippian, I am not surprised that my home state was used as a barometer of poverty, but what interested me was Kozol’s interpretation of the different kinds of poverty that exist. According to Kozel, there is extreme poorness in Mississippi, but perhaps the…

Charles was born in Tylertown, Mississippi in January of 1943. His mother died when he was about eleven years old, and his father died when Charles was about twenty-four years old. Charles lived in Covington, Louisiana when his daughter, the mother of Brandon, was born. He was around the age of 22. He worked on the interiors of steam ships on the Mississippi River as well as other ships and eventually became the supervisor of the work done at…

Oct. 13, 2017 X pages Huckleberry Finn The Mighty and Mysterious Mississippi The mighty Mississippi River in the 1800’s was the life’s blood of the nation. As a fast growing agricultural and industrial nation; trade moved from North to South and back again. Along its banks, cities, towns, and villages sprang up. Our story begins on the banks of the Mississippi in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. The Mississippi divides the nation both physically and civilly; on the East…

Mississippi is often seen as the underdog of all states because most times it is at the bottom of categories such as ones socio-economic status, education, race relations and annual pay. However Mississippi has a lot to offer as one study its writers, political, activities, and its contribution to world events. In this paper I will discuss these three topics in more detail. There are people in Mississippi who has spent a considerable amount of time and effort to improve conditions in…

rebellion against life itself. Huck had faked his death in the beginning of the story to escape his abusive father and the restricted “sivilized” life he lived in St. Petersburg. Throughout the story, Huck is thought to be dead, and as a result, he must continue this deception in order to successfully escape his old life. Along the way, he meets the runaway slave named Jim, and the two sail the Mississippi River on a raft, hoping to go to Ohio. At first glance, the Mississippi River is…

Introduction The true to life story “Coming of age in Mississippi” by Anne Moody, is all about a girl who lives and grows up in the rural towns of Mississippi as an American-African woman. The book is all about the childhood life of Anne through her teenage years and her struggles against racism among white people and sexism among the activists. Summary The story begins on a shack on a plantation where she and her mother, Toosweeth, her father Diddly, and her sister, Adline , lives. Since…

follows the story of a southern author Skeeter as she writes a book detailing the life of African American women, as they work as maids. The film is constructed to represents the perspective that African American women are being treated with inequality and discrimination while working as maids for white households. This perspective is constructed through the construction of setting, as the film is set in Jackson Mississippi during the 1960s the development of setting plays a crucial role in…