Mississippi

Hurricane Katrina Imagine a deadly hurricane that will destroy anything in it’s path. Hurricane Katrina has changed the United States in many ways. Hurricane Katrina was larger than anticipated, and had a huge outcome for many cities and states. It was a catastrophic event in United States history. To begin, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was caused by many things. According to www.history.com/topica/hurricane-Katrina, “Weather forecasters thought that…

This group of laws in Mississippi was clearly passed to suppress former slaves. The authors were most likely white men, whom previously had slaves. Although this document did not give much hope for former slaves at the time, some sections of the document seem to be beneficial to all. This first law in the document, the Apprentice Law, was made to apprentice orphans to masters. This gave orphans a home, but it probably wasn’t always a good home. The next law, the Vagrancy Law, made it so that…

The Mississippi River as a Symbol An important factor throughout the book of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is the Mississippi River. In the book, the Mississippi River represents a sense of freedom and independence for Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Huckleberry Finn and Jim were very different before and after they took the trip on the raft down the river. The differences may be how they were treated before and after by other people, or the difference in what The Mississippi…

Mississippi Goddam! Slavery and racial discriminations are both irremovable stain for the history of America. Not many American people are proud of these historical facts, and many were against the idea of slavery and racial discrimination. However, until the Civil rights act in 1964, which abolished racial segregation, there were few southern states who supported the racial segregation. The song “Mississippi Goddam” written and performed by Nina Simone in 1964, expresses the feeling of…

While the majority of the population was looking for a place to stay, Mississippi was making a new justice for people who need help to recover. The main reason for this was because people couldn’t afford to live in their homes because rent was increased. The economy couldn’t stand, so gas prices grew and many people lost their homes. However, $132 million dollars was saved for those who have low-incomes in nine of Mississippi…

Different states recorded different number of deaths that totaled the 1,836 people. In Kentucky 1 person died, 2 from Alabama, and another 2 from Georgia and Alabama each. 14 people died from the state of Florida while 238 more people died from Mississippi. The majority of deaths were recorded in the state of Louisiana where 1,577 people were reported dead. The hurricane Katrina had a major effect of the economy. The Bush government gave out up to 105 billion US dollars to repair the places that…

born Fannie Lou Townsend in Montgomery County, Mississippi on October 6, 1917. She was born into poverty and grew up in a tar-paper shack with a roof patched up with tin, sleeping on a cotton sack stuffed with dry grass. She was the youngest child of twenty, which included fourteen boys and six girls. Her parents, Lou Ella and Jim Townsend, were sharecroppers. Her family moved to Sunflower County, Mississippi in 1919 from the east of the Mississippi Delta to work on the E. W. Brandon plantation.…

facilitate our understanding of the situation and course of action development State Mission O/O MSNG responds to an event impacting the State of Mississippi by providing capabilities requested by the Governor IOT support local and State authorities in the preservation of life and restoration of self-governance to the Citizens of the State of Mississippi. State Intent The unpredictable nature of man-made disasters, natural disasters and terrorist incidents means that units must be prepared to…

The National Guard plays many roles in keeping our country safe from protecting the United States to assisting in helping civilians during natural disasters. The National Guard has played quite an enormous role in the past when Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina hit the coast of the United States of America. Hurricane Katrina had arrived on August 23, 2005 and disappeared on August 31, 2005. Hurricane Sandy came into effect October 22, 2012 and the storm died out on October 31, 2012. The storms…

During the 1960s, each member of society had a mould, a niche in which she was expected to fit. For white women it was that of a wife and child-bearer, for African American women it was that of a maid paid 95 cents an hour while being expected to put food on the table for two families, and for those born in lower social class is was that of proverbial white trash, society’s backwater. While some at this time relented to the pressure exerted upon them by social standards and expectation, social…