Life on the Mississippi

I was born in Germany with a German mother and an American father. The benefit of being born into a German family and living in Europe for the first ten years of my life was the greatest privilege I experienced throughout my sixteen years of living. However, my father was in the military at the time causing for a slight pressure to always be prevalent for the duration of my younger years. This mainly revolved around the fact that my sister was able to grow up in Germany and I wanted that same…

saw man as a weak creature incapable of rising above his selfish needs. Later, Falkner's view changed. This later caused a problem in whether the book As I Lay Dying should be banned. William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany Mississippi, the first four sons born to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner. He was named after his great grandfather, William Clark Faulkner, the “Old Colonel”. But his family soon moved…

1865, Mississippi Black Code was passed that “established antebellum power relationships” (American Yawp). These black codes, passed in South Carolina as well, let whites regulate black lives economically and socially (Mississippi Black). In Mississippi, vagrancy laws required blacks to carry paperwork that proved they were employed. If they did not have the official paper on their person they could be “arrested, fined, or even re-enslaved and leased out to their former master” (Mississippi…

In 2009, during undergraduate at Waynesburg University I had the opportunity to experience a mission trip. I went to Jackson, Mississippi to the John Perkins Foundation working alongside Dr. John Perkins; community leader, mentor, and a man of God. The experience was self-reflective which strengthen and ignited my passion to serve and revitalize my surrounding community. A few summers ago I became adamant about exploring my call of service. I reflected on the mission trip, the experience and…

Ursus americanus luteolus, also known as the Louisiana black bear, is a big mammal that can be found along the Lower Mississippi River Valley. This solitary mammal weights between 200 to 400 pounds and it is characterized from other black bears for having a longer, narrower and flatter nose, with larger molar teeth. It has a life cycle similar to many other types of bears; they spend their first couple of years with their mothers. During winters they den, and when they become adults they mate.…

taught, but must be developed through personal experiences and practices. Huckleberry Finn is an extraordinary young boy with a vast amount of wisdom. While faced with numerous trials and tribulations during his journey down the expansive and mystic Mississippi River with a runaway slave, Jim, Huck gathers valuable lessons about morality and selflessness, some of which are foreign and unfamiliar to the folks of the antebellum south. Twain’s depiction of Huck’s journey, as well as that of the…

O Brother, Where Art Thou is a film directed by Joel Coen portraying the life of three escaped convicts adventuring rustic Mississippi During the Great Depression. The movie is loosely based on the poem The Odyssey written by Homer. The film opens on a chain gang of the penal farm, where are three main characters are introduced Ulysses Everett McGill, Peter Hogwallop, and Delmar O'Donnell (played by George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson), which are escaping to pursue an alleged…

zebra mussel has a D-shaped shell. It was introduced to the Great Lakes from the ballast water of ships. In 1988 it was discovered in Lake St. Clair, and four years later in Iowa it was found in the Mississippi River near Burlington. Soon after, zebra mussles were found in the entire length of the Mississippi River bordering Iowa (“Invasive”). We don’t want the zebra mussel in Iowa because it can reproduce so rapidly. It produces about one million eggs in the summer. Its…

Limiting exemptions on vaccinations by Anabel Rotger It is everybody’s responsibility to avoid infectious diseases outbreaks. The main responsibility should lie on the parents’ shoulders. Some parents do not want to vaccinate their children for different reasons. However, some parents want to protect their kids and they follow religiously the vaccination schedule. In addition, parents that do not vaccinate their kids mix them in the regular population such as parks, movie theaters, or schools.…

“He loves me, he loves me not.” and “I’m going to make your life miserable until you die.” are two very different sentences. At a first glance these statements don’t seem to have much in common, but underneath the surface they are more alike than meets the eye. Like the two sentences above, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn both have very distinct overlying differences. For example, the plots and narrations that the authors chose are almost complete opposites. On…