Memphis

There seems to be no end to this debate; Memphis style, Southern style, North Carolina style, or South Carolina style. Even Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Florida have gotten into the game! We're talking here, of course about the vast array of pulled pork crockpot recipes that make these claims. There is no agreement whatsoever on which region can claim which recipe. When I started comparing pulled pork crockpot recipes, I found many of the same ingredients and cooking methods claimed by a…

Memphis has long been known as a city of racial diversity and as a city fully aware of the value of civil rights. Dr. King, namely, planted roots here that had a lasting impact on Memphis culture. However, today’s modernizing world no longer seeks the peaceful protests King emphasized; rather, it supports insane claims and expectations. We live in a world where one race thinks another considers itself superior in some way, regardless of which races are being compared. Ridiculous is the best word…

Transitioning to the M.P.D. M.P.D is the Memphis Police Department. Memphis polices have a hard task to accomplish each in every day. Police jobs are to protect the city but also to keep their selves safe also. As you know Memphis is a city that have a lot of crime so that make the job harder. With all the crimes likewise the city should hire more officers. Truthfully the city do wants to hire more officers but most people are afraid to be officers in the city of Memphis because of the danger of…

their lives.The West Memphis Three case encompasses three male teenagers implicated of murdering three third grade boys. The citizens of West Memphis, Arkansas were blinded by their fear of the boys; as a result of these fears the teenagers were wrongfully convicted. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is based on the Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts in the 1600s. In this piece of literature, disaster strikes the town of Salem when rumors of witchcraft are spread about. The West Memphis Three…

reasonable doubt, they all have a bias against the defendant to begin with, and the judicial system doesn’t want to look bad. The witch trials are a great example and one of the oldest to happen in the colonial era, but it was still in America. The West Memphis three is another great example of the judicial system being corrupt. Even though these trials were hundreds of years apart, they are very similar. The Witch trials were hundreds of years ago, but they still have relevance today. The…

Most of the clothes were found in the water next to the bodies, but instead of being torn all of the clothes were turned inside out. Two of the three pairs of underwear were never found, nor were Christopher Byers missing parts. It’s said that serial killers usually take something of the victims, but I’m not convinced Echols, Baldwin or Misskelley would do anything like that. Also at the scene, no blood or weapons were found anywhere around the area. The day after the bodies were discovered,…

Mara Leveritt writes a fascinating tale of the American justice system gone terribly wrong in her book Devil’s Knot. On May 5, 1993, Christopher Byers, Michael Moore, and Steven Branch went missing from their homes in West Memphis, Arkansas. Subsequently, their bodies were recovered in a body of water by their homes with signs that they had been ferociously beaten and murdered. The evidence showed that Christopher Byers had been castrated before he was killed. Quickly, the town found out about…

documentary film Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) takes an insider look surrounding the trials of three teens who were accused of brutally murdering and sexually assaulting three eight year old boys in the Bible Belt town of West Memphis, Arkansas. The accused, Jessie Misskelley Jr., Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin would…

downtown Memphis, TN is classified as a convention hotel and is known as the leader in the convention segment. The newly renovated location is neighboring the popular Memphis Cook Convention Center and towers the downtown areas with up to 600 guest rooms to vacate. This Hotel, with versatile square footage of 16,000+, is known for being the largest hotel in the Memphis area. The Sheraton Downtown Memphis address is 250 N Main St, Memphis, TN 38103. The location is perfect for the Memphis Main…

That involved three boys from West Memphis. They were an easy…