Southern American English

Immigrants who entered the United States in the early 1900's often came with merely the clothes on their backs. They had no idea where they would be resting their heads at the end of the day. Typically, where most lived was not glamorous. This is also true for the family of the Shimerdas in the novel My Ántonia by Willa Cather. The Bohemian immigrants came into the small town of Black Hawk, Nebraska where their living quarters were worth much less than they paid. However, their friends, The…

on the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster which held, including himself, 50 soldiers. They were on route to Vietnam to assist Southern Vietnam who were struggling against the Northern Vietnam. The Chinese and Russia helped the Northern Vietnam, this action needed to be countered immediately by the United States. Lyndon Johnson sent soldiers to Vietnam, not to fight, but to train the Southern Vietnam’s soldiers. Antonio sat on his side of the aircraft, fumbling with his fingers. “Eugene, Leone, Andrew,…

be an authority and voting body to pass judgement on an individual, fairly. The strategies and wording that the author used was very effective and worked in order to sway me, a Southern born man living in the modern era, to her side. This argument made by Ida B. Wells matters because it chronicles an ugly side of American justice, from yesteryear. It is said that those that do not remember their history are doomed to repeat it. As the United States moves forward, into this new era with a new…

Board of Education was effective and beneficial to African Americans in this country. Desegregating schools gave children the opportunity to learn and become better people without being in fear. Brown vs. Board took kids out of the streets and caused a lot less of people to get into trouble. Before this law, many African Americans were also unable to read or write which made it hard for them to get good employment. This lead African Americans especially children to a better life and provided…

African Americans, but not white citizens (Justia, 2015). A grandfather clause was enacted – which allowed illiterate people the right to vote if their grandfather had been registered to vote in 1860 (Edwards et al., 2012). This of course did not apply to any emancipated slaves as they had not yet been granted the right to vote in 1860. Very short registration windows and poll taxes were more ways that voting rights were limited. Poll taxes were levied at times when African Americans had…

My education has always been important to me. I always try to do the best I can possibly do in everything I do. I have always wanted to go to college. I actual started thinking about all the colleges in the United States and what how reaching a higher level of education could positively affect my future when I was in middle school. Out of all the schools in the United States, why did I, Jessyka Spivey, choose to attend the University of Memphis? The answer to this question is not simple at all.…

To start this article, Wayne K. Durrill, tells of how four freedmen by the names of Jim and Lewis Coppedge who are brothers, Ned Myers who is Coppedge’s step-father, and George Chambers kill James W. Redfearn. Redfearn is the owner of a general store called Whites Store in Anson County North Carolina. It is believed that the freedmen committed crime because the KKK was coming to the store. Testimony was used to convict Lewis and Ned of Murder. This same testimony was used to convict Jim as well,…

Civil War, lasted from 1865-1877 and was one of the most significant eras in American history. In addition to the South attempting to rejoin the Union, a woman named Ida B. Wells was an activist against lynching and led the early Civil Rights Movement during the reconstruction. In his novel, ‘They Say’ Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race, James West Davidson invites readers to experience the life of African Americans during the Reconstruction and why Ida B. Wells crusaded against…

For at-risk children in the commonwealth of Virginia, early education interventions could result in positive short and long-term outcomes. According to Barnett (2008), “well-designed preschool education programs produce long-term improvements in school success, including higher achievement test scores, lower rates of grade repetition and special education, and higher educational attainment; some preschool programs are also associated with reduced delinquency and crime in childhood and adulthood”…

numerous philosophical thinking competing with each other, the theories regarding physical education got polished. The physical culture got even more nutrition in Han Dynasty, but it soon appeared to polarize in the Wei,Jin and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Unlike the Southern Dynasty…