Life on the Mississippi

The novel shows human nature’s reaction to life and death in multiple ways by using different characters from the Bundren family. All of these characters react differently to Addie’s death in ways that accurately reflect human nature. For example, Darl is jealous for Addie’s love for Jewel instead…

The Bismarck Tribune discusses the Dakota Access pipeline, that discusses the harm the pipeline can do to the lands typical way of life. The reason this pipeline is being built is that oil is so incredibly valuable to the country that Bismarck, North Dakota has a strong comparative advantage to build there over other locations in the United States(Nicholason,2017). The Bismarck Tribune…

changed my life in positive and negative ways. Some of them were good and some of them were bad. We live in a world where even the smallest things can have a humungous impact on our lives. There have been times that made me feel incredibly vulnerable and there were times that I was not sure if I would make it out alive. Even though I am still breathing, sometimes I do not see how. In Billy Joel’s song, “We didn’t start the fire”, he refers to many events that changed the course of his life.…

read three memoirs in order to have a better understanding of “the American Dream” with the intention to learn more about the American history. These memoires were Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska, Growing Up by Russell Baker and Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody. The three memoires provide readers with stories explaining the struggle that each main character had to go through while chasing “the American Dream.” Due to the fact that the characters in the memoires come from different…

Mississippi Burning presents the events that took place in the summer of 1964 in Mississippi, Philadelphia, when three civil rights workers were brutally beaten and shot to death. The film covers the investigation led by the FBI preceding the event conveying the struggle for African- American civil rights and what it had to take to receive justice. There is a high level of accuracy in the film, but like all Hollywood movies the film does have several dramatic additions or changes to capture and…

born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897.In the beginning he started as a poet, but he got his big break for creating Yoknapatawpha County, with works that included “The Sound and the Fury”, “As I Lay Dying” and “Absalom, Absalom!”(Polk). He wrote a Rose for Emily which is included in Norton’s Introduction to Literature text. Faulkner’s work was rewarded accordingly when he won a Nobel peace prize. Faulkner started from humble beginnings when he attended University of Mississippi but then later…

he is confident was his life in 2007. He and his second wife, Myrna, split in 2007, and he was in a near-fatal car accident in Charleston, Mississippi the following year (Biography). His Wife and him split, and after that, he was in a car accident, but that didn’t stop him, so today he is still a great role model/hero for kids and young adults. Morgan freeman shows many characteristics of a hero. All in all, Morgan Freeman shows many traits of a hero, including many life accomplishments, be…

Scopes: The Battle over America’s Soul The battle between science and nature seems to be one that is never ending. One of the times when this battle came to a head was in 1925 when a trial occurred over whether evolution was okay to be taught in school. In Tennessee, the practice was outlawed, but when a teacher in Dayton Ohio was coerced into using a textbook that contained evolution, the debate became one of major national attention. John Scopes, a twenty-four year old math and science…

Each year in January, near my home within my small rural community, Oak Grove A.M.E. Church hosts an annual “MLK Walk” in remembrance of Dr. King who led a march on Mississippi Highway 16, which runs through a portion of this community, to aid desegregation and assist African-Americans in receiving voting rights. He slumbered at Oak Grove while in our community and it brings honor and joy to commemorate both the man and his selfless actions. With that realization, I recognize that a portion of…

Still Young, Gifted, Black: The Fifty-Five Year Old Legacy of SNCC I grew up in the colorful chromatic 90’s. From bold color block button down blouses, to overalls with crop tops, and loud track suits with thick gold chains. My generation invaded all your senses with color. It was a time when hip-hop made you think of yellow and sunshine and grunge sung the blues as good as Ms. Holiday. Television portrayed different shades of white, brown, red, black, and yellow that fed you laughter and…