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    Yes, I arrived late and my chances had decreased. This would not stop me, though. During breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Mississippi State University’s cafeteria, I would pleasantly take a seat at a table where I knew not a single face and end up leaving knowing them all. We exchanged many conversations like what city we came from, how many siblings we endured, our favorite ice creams, careers we were suggesting, our favorite brands of clothing, and then came what we were running for. I told each girl who the Commissioner of Agriculture for Mississippi was first. Cindy Hyde-Smith, our Commissioner, is an outstanding woman who lived less than an hour away from me. I told them how she helped my grandfather 's small cattle farm after he sold cattle to a local selling facility that had gone bankrupt days earlier. She displayed strong leadership skills, and I informed these young women that I wanted to become the walking image of her at this camp. I became extremely passionate about this role and was honored by receiving it, but not before I gave two…

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    I was born in raised in Texas my entire life. When I decided to attend college I wanted to do something out of my comfort zone and experience something new. A first step toward that was choosing a school where I did not know one person, in a state I have never been to, and that was ten hours away, which was Mississippi State University. I went to Mississippi State University the first two years of college. After my sophomore year I started looking more into what I enjoy and want to pursue in a…

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    There are 8 public universities in Mississippi that comes under the Institution of Higher Learning (IHL). Of the 8 universities, only Mississippi State University and University of Mississippi offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees in geography. Jackson State University, Alcorn State University, Delta State University, Mississippi State for Women, and Mississippi Valley State University offer no geography degrees. However, some of them offer geography related degrees. Mississippi State…

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    1) Please provide the candidate’s job title and a brief overview of the candidate’s main responsibilities. Chunheng worked with me as a graduate research assistant at Mississippi State University from 2012 – 2014, conducting research on power system operations and optimizations projects. When he joined our research group in the beginning of his Ph.D. study in 2012, I, as a senior Ph.D student, supervised him in the topic of “systems of system SCUC” for a year and worked with him as co-author to…

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    A Retired Professional Interview The agricultural and extension education profession has changed and developed over time. As a future worker in this career, I need to know more about the agricultural and extension education profession and how it developed with time. In order to fully understand that, I interviewed the retired extension worker in Mississippi State. He is known as one of the top soybean specialists in the US. This interview took place on Monday, March 21, 2016 at Starbucks on…

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    The University of Mississippi, known colloquially as Ole Miss, is the largest university in Mississippi and one of the largest in South. Ole Miss represents an opportunity for many poor Mississippi students. It has also been a university renowned for its famous authors. The author of the novel, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin, teaches writing there and one of the two protagonists in the novel, Silas, received a baseball scholarship to study and he moved to Oxford. Ole Miss…

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    The Blind Side shows the readers multiple times throughout the story that, life has its ups and down, but you always have to stay positive. The Blind Side is a football story about Michael Oher. His life was challenging, but extremely successful. Throughout his life, he was homeless and wandered the streets at night until the Tuohys adopted him into their luxurious home. Now, Michael is a part of their family of four. He's an all star football player for his school, and eventually gets recruited…

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    As I Lay Dying written by William Falkner was finished in a six to eight week period without any revisions while working in a power plant published in 1930. Falkner used new techniques to express his views of man’s position in modern world. In his early works, Faulkner viewed with despair man's position in the universe. He 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…

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    Medgar Evers Thesis

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    Introduction/Thesis: Medgar Evers born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur Mississippi was a multifaceted civil rights activist. He advocated for organized boycotts of discriminatory white business, fought for equal, no longer separate, education for black and white children. Broke barriers in his time with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He also fought for legal justice for African Americans during that time. Evers is one of the most prominent figures in the pre…

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    Oprah Gail Winfrey an American television host, actress, producer, humanitarian and entrepreneur. Oprah was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi (Networks, 2014). She had a troubled adolescence in a small farming town, where male relative and some friends of her mother, Vernita, continually sexually abused her. She moved to Nashville with her father, Vernon, a businessman. She enrolled in the Tennessee State University in 1972 and began working in radio and television (Networks,…

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