Meridian

Here is one of the downtown neighborhoods that had been destroyed by the union forces, during the battle of Atlanta. With Atlanta under Union control, well what was left after the destruction the Union forces conducted, Sherman had his eyes set on the capitol of Georgia, Milledgeville. Sherman lead his troops out of Atlanta southeast, he had already destroyed their infrastructure next was to destroy the capital. Sherman’s forces met strong resistance outside of Milledgeville in the town of…

Jorge Juan y Santacilia was born on January 5, 1713 in Alicante, Spain. He lived on his grandfather's property, El fondonet. Juan’s parents were Bernardo Juan y Canicia and Violante Santacilia y Soler de Cornella. Both of his parents were widowed and remarried. His father died when he was three years old. His uncle Antonio Juan took charge of Jorge and continued his education. Later on another uncle took charge of his education, Chipriano Juan, and sent him to Zaragoza for a preparatory…

is that he seems to use these astrological signs as scientific markers for time and location rather than as some sort of prophetic device. For example in the first few lines of the canto Dante says: “The sun, had already reached the horizon, whose meridian circle, at the zenith, covers Jerusalem: and night, that circles opposite him, was rising, out of Ganges, with the Scales, Libra, that fall from night’s hand, when the days shorten…” Dante seems to use the position of Libra to mark the…

dissolves the oxygen in the tear and then diffuses throughout the cornea to keep it healthy. The most abundant soluble protein in mammalian cornea is albumin. In humans, the cornea has a diameter of about 11.5 mm (12mm in horizontal meridian and 11 mm in the vertical meridian) and a thickness of 0.5–0.6 mm in the center and 0.6–0.8 mm at the periphery. Its size at birth is equal 80% of the adult size and it’s reach adult size by age of 3 years. It borders the sclera by the corneal limbus.[3, 4]…

To Kill a Mockingbird is a story set in the the 1930’s, in the small, prejudice filled town of Maycomb, Alabama. The story is narrated by Jean Finch, who goes by the name of Scout during the novel. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that portrays how innocence can be injured or destroyed through contact with evil. Scout and her older brother, Jem, are best friends with their neighbor, Dill. Dill is a young boy who comes down to live with his aunt every summer. Scout, Jem, and Dill spend all summer…

Many young adults my age are still much undecided about what they are going to do for a career and even further confused about when and where they are going to college. For myself, I knew I wanted to be a dietitian by 8th grade and I chose my two choice colleges by freshman year, and decided to take a year off before college in eleventh grade. I had a finalized plan for myself before this school year started. I have planned for life beyond May 2017 for years and now I am ready to live through…

article was the enormous price increase of EpiPens. Between 2007 and 2016 the price for a set of two EpiPens went from $100 to $600(Jacobin, Sept. 2, 2016). The company that sells the EpiPens is Mylan Pharmaceuticals, however they outsource to Pfizer’s Meridian Medical Technologies, which manufactures a whole lineup of autoinjector products(Jacobin, Sept. 2, 2016). And due to the sky high prices for EpiPens the CEO of Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Heather Bresch, had a huge salary increase from $2.5…

Cormack McCarthy is well know for his novels including No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian, and more recently the 2006 novel The Road. On the surface The Road seems like another post-apocalyptic story involving cannibals and other clichés shared by the likes of The Book of Eli or any other modern day post-apocalyptic book, movie, etc. However, McCarthy found a way to tell a story of survival in a harsh and nearly inhospitable world while exploring themes such as love and spirituality. Its…

My family moved to Meridian, MS from California when I was around six or seven years old. Since then, all the way up to the ninth grade, my mother took my sister and me to Saint James A.M.E. Church for Sunday services. One Sunday, a cousin of mine brought me along to the service of her new church, and ever since then I have been attending New Freedom Tabernacle. I have found that NFT has certain qualities about it that have always attracted my attention in ways that St. James could not; so, I…

Since all of the foods are divided by baselines and meridians, the Marshmallows thought that the other’s problems weren’t of their concern. Many of the foods of {the buffet} had to succumb to the theory of expansion determinism, and adapt to their physical environment around them. The marshmallows on the other…