Life on the Mississippi

middle-class and elitists. By creating barriers of poll taxes and literacy tests, this decreased corruption and limited populist influence. The decline of populism allowed the rise of the middle-class and Redeemers who believed that “corruption in political life would contaminate business and social relations.” Disfranchisement also allowed violence to be used to repress the black vote. For example, “Three years after Tillman 's disfranchising constitution went into effect some twelve Negroes…

In the popular children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum, populism can be seen more often than not. Baum cleverly displays this through all of his characters. Each is symbolic to his everyday life, as well as to other common people’s lives that have had similar experiences, or can relate in any way to the author. For instance, Dorothy represents an adolescent’s innocence, Toto represents virtuousness, the Scarecrow represents the hard working farmers, the Tinman…

be a terrible scenario and it's a reality for some fish and other marine life in the Gulf of Mexico. The area in the Gulf of Mexico that is noted for oxygen depletion is called the “dead zone”. A dead zone, also known as a hypoxia zone, is an area with little to no dissolved oxygen in the water. It is believed that these areas are depleted of oxygen because of the pollution in the runoff delivered by the mighty Mississippi River. A fair amount of this pollution comes from fertilizer runoff from…

and the struggle for abolition. The end of bondage had not brought the promised land many had envisioned. The Great Migration began because of a “push” and a “pull”. Disenfranchisement and Jim Crow laws led many African Americans to hope for a new life up north. Hate groups and hate crimes cast alarm among African American families of the Deep South. The intent of the movement, however, was not political but aesthetic. Any benefit a burgeoning black contribution to literature might have in…

into the agrarian way of life. Yet Jefferson warns them to keep an eye on the younger members of the Cherokee Nation, because some of them have yet to fully comprehend the benefits of assimilation and the woes of attempting to maintain tribal sovereignty. He cautions the Cherokees that if they are to allow some of their fellow men “to cross the Mississippi to war with the Indians on the other side of that river, we must let those Indians take revenge on you.” The Mississippi River served as the…

Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Mark Twain’s Works and ideas are still being used today in literature. Mark Twain was just a pen name for Samuel Longhorn Clemens. Samuel longhorn Clemens was born in Mississippi on November 30th, 1835 and died on April 19th, 1910.(The New Encyclopedia Britannica) Mark Twain impacted literature by his realistic writing style, his views on racism, and the ways he used humor. One of Mark Twain’s impacts were his…

The Life of Jimmy Buffett Jimmy William Buffett loves to hang out on the beach, crack jokes, drink margaritas, and is an extremely talented man. He was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi on December 25, 1946. As a child, he was raised in Mobile, Alabama, where he attended a catholic high school (Bio.com 1). When summer ended, Buffett was always depressed because that meant no more sailing, fishing, shorts, T-shirts, and warm beach days. However, school made him look forward to the next summer…

childhood is important. The different ways that Wolff depicts his childhood greatly influences the tone of the essay. Many people assumed that right before you die, you will see their life flash before your eyes. But, for Anders, it was a bit different. Wolff describes that he did not remember any thing that he spent his whole life focusing on. Such as, he does not remember his first love, his wife,…

Richard Wright is an African American writer and poet that is known for his great and moving short stories and poem about life as an African American growing up in the early and mid-1900’s. He was born in Roxie, Mississippi and schooled in Jackson, Mississippi what was known for one of the biggest racial states in the south. Wright was a son of a sharecropper and raised by his mother in a single parent household, and was the grandson of slaves. The upbringing of Wrights childhood brought him to…

The Black Panther Movement is an important movement because their ideas spread a Marxist's idea of equality for all people no matter of race and gender. They took the idea of African American nonviolence tactical and deceased to an if you get to push you should push back. When people hear the word Black Panther they think of the dislike of authorizing and using violent. However, the Black Panther was more than that it was the FBI who put this idea in people's head. The Black Panther believed…