Mississippi

I went through high school and currently in two-year collage for diploma without knowledge of many of civil right activists that put in so much time, energy and even last drop of their blood in fight against racism and bring desegregation to the level it is today in United States. Meanwhile I am familiar with many notorious dictators and wicked terrorists like Idiamin Dada of Uganda, Gen. Sani Abacha of Nigeria, and Osama Bin Laden to mention only these few. I believe that including the study of…

growing up in Mississippi and other southern sates during the Civil Rights Movement. Born just before the Civil Rights Movement was being launched into full swing, Ralph Eubanks was one of these African Americans. Although Ralph Eubanks’s Civil Rights experience differed from many other African Americans’, he was still ultimately driven away from his home state due to the prejudice and stereotype of African Americans. His first years away Eubanks thought he would never come back to Mississippi.…

Mexico. As the storm touches the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico it immediately regains its strength in becomes a hurricane once again. The winds have gathered enough energy and clocked at 100 miles per hour. The Governor of Louisiana and Mississippi declares states of emergency. With the eye of the storm only 460 miles southeast of the…

reached 97 km, they declared it a hurricane. In all, Hurricane Camille caused more than 200 deaths and billions of dollars was raised to repair damages. Causes: On August 13, 1969, Hurricane Camille made its first appearance in America, along the Mississippi Gulf near Waveland. It traveled west…

voter-registration efforts, demonstrations, and economic boycotts.He did these boycotts because of the companies that practiced discrimination. He also worked to investigate crimes that were directed against blacks.Evers applied to the University of Mississippi Law School in February 1954. After being rejected, he volunteered to help NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) try to entrap the university with a lawsuit. Medgar Evers gathered new members for the NAACP and…

Georgia 2, Louisiana 1,577, and Mississippi 238 and affected some 90,000 square miles of the United States. You can see that Louisiana was affected the most by the hurricane because they had the most damages and fatalities. The Hurricane was the most destructive storm to strike the United States and the costliest storm in U.S. history, Katrina caused $81 billion in property damages, but it is estimated that the total economic impact in Louisiana and Mississippi may exceed $150 billion, making…

for anyone’s safety. They both hit different areas, Texas was hit by Harvey and it moved to some of Louisiana but it was not horrible for Louisiana. When Katrina hit Louisiana it completely flooded it and broke all of the levees, when Katrina hit Mississippi it decimated the coast with its strong winds. The coast still feels the effects of Katrina, it left behind tons of empty streets and destroyed lives. The two hurricanes are very different but still very…

The storm dropped two categories up to a category 3 before it made landfall along the Louisiana-Mississippi border on August 29 with continuous winds at speed 120 mph. A wind that blew that speed had a lot of destructive power that caused flipping over everything that stays on its way and flooding. According to Whitten 2015, on 08/29/2005, hurricane…

over a hundred twenty-mile winds between Grand Isle, Louisiana and the mouth of the Mississippi River. Katrina went down in United States history as the single most catastrophic natural disaster. The damage caused by Katrina were estimated at $108 billion. The most costly hurricane in U.S. history. Fatalities in Louisiana alone were 1,577 people. There were fatalities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi had 1,833 fatalities resulting from hurricane Katrina (CNN, 2015). The…

Our Changing Welfare System: Mississippi Department of Human Services Isaiah 41:17 (King James Version) states,” When the poor and the needy seek water, and there are none, and their tongue failed for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.” God loves everybody, and he recognized that some of his children would be at a disadvantage; therefore he recognizes the poor and made provision for their wellbeing. God commanded that his people help the needy.…