South Carolina

For my volunteer service, I chose the South Carolina Democratic Party to participate with. I was connected with Ernest Boston Jr. and Maria Reyes, two of the people there who supervised volunteers. My experience did not explicitly focus on campaigning, however. For the first few volunteer sessions that I attended, I was responsible for phone banking potential volunteers to assist in phone banking and canvassing. Closer to Election Day, I was responsible for phone banking voters in the Columbia…

In “ Last Words: Two Confederate Flags ”, there are two different kinds of display of the confederate flags. One is in a form of a headstone with words and a picture of Big Ed extending his middle finger, the other is a simple flag hanging on a wooden stick waiting to be destroyed by a strong wind. Bethe Dufresne argues that the confederate flags are history factors, and we should embrace their historical value. Furthermore, the flags should be displayed as " a muted artifact of unspeakable…

When describing a sense of place many people seem to neglect the importance of the physical environment. The physical environment plays a large role in a person 's connection to a place and culture. This article breaks the feeling of a sense of place down to two factors, first the social and cultural contest and second the nature of the space which is described as a place. This article uses qualitative measures to describe landscape amening, environmental values, and a comprehensive social…

What is Chucktown Squash? Chucktown Squash is an afterschool program that provides a unique blend of physical and educational activities that allows students to excel in the classroom and the world. It all started in 2010 when a group of people in the community became aware of the lack of beneficial afterschool programs in the area. “In Charleston, more than 1700 children lack daily supervision after-school, during the hours of 3:00-6:00pm”(Chucktown Squash). This means all of those children…

Jim Thorpe was born on May 28,1887, and he died in the year of 1953 at the age of 65. He was a Native American Indian who was treated different since he was not White. He was born with his twin brother in a one room cabin with a dirt floor in what is now Oklahoma. He was born with a personality that was both competitive and stubborn. When he was little, he would play with his siblings who would become tired of the way he almost always bragged about winning. Due to his bragging, his siblings…

Evangelicalism in Colonial South Carolina (2013), by Dr. Samuel C. Smith, explains the consequences Evangelicalism had on the government and people, both socially and religiously, in the low country of South Carolina during the eighteenth century. Smith begins with explaining the influences that initiated Evangelicalism, and moved into a discussion on how this movement had a significant impact during the revivalism of the Great Awakening. Evangelicalism politically and socially affected South…

SYNOPSIS: On the 6th of November, 2015, I, CPL. Lessane, along with Deputy Green, Deputy Griffin, and Deputy Jordan, with the Hampton County Sheriff 's Office, responded to 320 Thorn Circle, in the county of Hampton, regarding a disturbance incident. Upon arrival, Deputies made contact with all parties involve and gathered the pertinent information needed to complete this report. INTERVIEW WITH COMPLAINANT: (KRISTINA BARNES) Mrs. Barnes stated she came to the incident location in an attempt…

deadliest prisoner of war camp in the Confederate States. The creation of Andersonville Prison affected the Civil War by providing the Confederacy with a place to store captured Union soldiers and by turning public opinion in the Union further against the South. Camp Sumter affected the Civil War by providing a better storage area for the Confederacy’s enemies. According to the Civil War Trust, “Confederate officials decided to move the large number of Federal Prisoners...to a place of greater…

On 10/20/2016, in Durango 4 D Pod cell 56 at approximately 2145 hours, I noticed Inmate Schlicht, Nathan R T302915 had a bruise on his left eye with a bandage covering it up. I stopped and asked him what had happened to his eye and he stated “I hit it on my bunk." At approximately 2146 I had locked D-Pod down and had Inmate Schlicht step out so he could be taken to medical to receive medical attention for his injury. At approximately 2150 hours, I notified Sergeant Burnside B1124 that I was…

1. Introduction This memo is a failure analysis report on the Boston Molasses Disaster. On January 15, 1919, an industrial storage tank ruptured, causing 9 million litres of molasses to spill out onto the streets of Boston. The following sections of this report document the events leading up to and during the disaster, the causes that led to the failure, and the lessons that can be learned as a result. 2. Description The tank in question was owned by United States Industrial Alcohol Company…