Mississippi

with the exception of Humphreys and Yazoo, all selected counties in the Mississippi Delta were marked by double-digit unemployment rates and high family poverty rates, from 27.9 percent in Washington County. Regardless, of how poverty is measured deprived people that deal with the challenges of being poor are more likely to have health issues. Good health is the key component of survival. This entire region of Mississippi is suffering from lack of education and high density of bad health. In…

lives with his abusive father and a slave, Jim, who runs away from his owner. Twain uses the Mississippi River as one of the novel's most important symbolic figures to the stories plot. Both protagonists: Huckleberry Finn and Jim, start their journey together in St. Petersburg, Missouri. As time moves on Huck and Jim work there way down the river becoming closer and closer. Huck and Jim use the Mississippi River as their escape route from the challenges they both face in life. The river is not…

Along the bank of the Mississippi River lived a community of white alligators. These alligators were kind and managed to stabilize peaceful relationships the other animals that shared the land and water with them. The alligators also worked extremely hard to keep their home as clean as could be. Everyday they woke before daybreak to scrub the bottom of the river with their scales and collect anything physical that endangered their habitat. This kept the water clear and free of any pollutants.…

The I-35W Mississippi bridge was an eight lane, three span deck truss bridge which carried the interstate highway 35 across the Mississippi river. It was located in the biggest city of Minnesota, Minneapolis. It carried around 140,000 vehicles per day, making it the second busiest bridge in Minnesota. Construction repair and renew work was scheduled to be carried on the bridge again in 2020 or so. However, on August 1st, 2007, it collapsed all of a sudden, thereby killing 13 people and injuring…

Prom Night in Mississippi Reflection Prom Night in Mississippi is a documentary film about Academy Award-winning actor, Morgan Freeman who offers to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi under the condition that, prom had to be racially integrated. In this film, we view the struggles that are faced and overcome to have a successful integrated prom in 2008. My personal views, emotional connection, previous thoughts, reaction, and what I learned from watching this…

Mark Twain’s “Two Views of the Mississippi” shows his perspective of the beauty of the Mississippi River and how his view changes over time. Twain narrates that he is a riverboat pilot and he informs the reader of the beauty that he encounters on the river. He explains in a exceedingly descriptive and poignant manner. He slowly switches around and indicates that his view of the river has altered the more time he spent on the river. The beauty that he sees diminishes and all he can do is lambaste…

Contemporary writer, John M. Barry conveys through his writing that he has an immense fascination with the complex mechanics of the Mississippi River. Through his clever use of figurative language and eloquent diction, as well as his use of syntax, he communicates this. Throughout the passage Barry’s fascination is conveyed through his use of figurative language to describe and bring life to the river. His sophisticated diction creates a basis of reliability, quoting scientists and uses…

The Mississippi River The Mississippi River is located in America and is the largest river in America. The Mississippi[y is over 3.7 kilometres in length. This river is the 4 longest river in the world and is the 10 fastest flowing river. At the mouth of the Mississippi the water round at about 1.2miles an hour. But when you get to the middle of the river the water flows at the average speed of the water is 3 miles an hour. The Mississippi river runs through these states of America Minnesota,…

named Huck on his journey down the Mississippi River. Huck, an immature troublemaker feels more at home on the river while riding a raft with an escaped slave, Jim. The book follows their actions down the river and when they go on to land chaos ensues. Thus, the Mississippi River and the shore are juxtaposed as when they are on the river, it is calm, free, and joyful while on the land it is violent, chaotic, and cruel to Huck and Jim. To begin, the Mississippi River is shown to be…

 Many books, songs, and stories have idealized the Mississippi River steamboats of the 1800’s and early 1900’s. One classic portrayal of life on the steamboats can be found in Mark Twain's book Life on the Mississippi, published in 1883. In this work, Twain describes the professional gamblers, the jolly captains, the sly confidence men, and the traveling workers that contributed to the lasting image of life on steamboats. This image has carried on into the modern world, despite the fact that…