Southern blot

Country music—not an average person enjoys this genre on a daily basis. Tractors, trucks and trailers don’t seem to appeal unless one is dressing up on Halloween with overalls and bucked teeth. Yet, if the stereotype could fall down from the genre itself, and the lyrics could be built up, a newfound love for country music may arise. Truthfully, the most meaningful songs derive from the mouths of country artists. Tim McGraw, a talented veteran of the country genre, has an entire song dedicated…

and a Southern region. The Sudanese had their first civil war in 1955, which ended in 1972 when an agreement called the Addis Ababa Agreement was reached between the Government of Sudan and the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement. The Addis Ababa Agreement gave the Southern region of Sudan more control over itself and promised the Abyei, which is located on the north and south border the right to decide if they wanted to remain part of the Northern region or join the newly formed southern…

The Little Rock Nine were mine students who were ‘allowed’ to attend a ‘white school’ in Little Rock, Arkansas, due to the verdict of Brown vs. Topeka. However the students were blocked from entering the school by the Arkansas National Guard, under orders by Governor Faubus. However President Eisenhower intervened in a civil rights event for the first time in his presidency, contradicting his usual uncommitted approach, and sent the US Army to escort and protect the nine students. This instance…

despite the harsh times that she had happened to face, she created another greatly appreciated novel known as The Ball of the Sad Cafe. Due to her thinking more and more about her childhood and the past in general, she based this story around the Southern setting once again for her hometown and also depicting a “love triangle affair” that, as her audience already knew, occurred shortly before. Even though the marriage between her and her ex-husband James Reeves, he did not seem to stay her…

Courage The dictionary definition of courage is “the ability to do something that frightens one” (courage). But maybe that is not the only definition. The concept of courage is essential to understand the book To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee develops the theme of courage throughout the actions of the characters Atticus, Mrs. Dubose, and Boo. Atticus displays a great deal of courage from the beginning of the book until the very end. He first demonstrates…

Traditional southern gothic writing uses grotesque and disturbing events to create a specific tone and atmosphere within the writing. “A Rose for Emily” is a short story written by William Faulkner. Faulkner’s story is told by an entire community within a town and narrates the development of a mentally-ill woman named Emily Grierson. The reader is shown the downfall of this woman and eventually the dark secrets that she bears inside the house that her father left her after his death. This…

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird contains a title that is very relevant to the plot of the story. The mockingbird is used as a symbol of innocence, and the “killing” of it represents characters like Scout, Jem, and Boo Radley losing their innocence. The story, as told through the eyes of Scout, shows her journey from an innocent six year old to a nine year old who no longer sees the world in such a pure way. This loss of childhood shows clearly how the title relates to the storyline. Similarly…

In situations of injustice, do you stand on the side of justice or on the side of the oppressor? This is a question that many people had to ask themselves in the south during the 1930’s and The Great Depression. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch, an ambitious lawyer and single father to his two children, Jeremy “Jem” and Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, most definitely stands on the side of equality and expresses this through his words and actions. Even though Atticus is a non…

The political cartoon, “Little Goldilocks Riding Hood,” was drawn for the American public by the US cartoonist's Herb Block in 1939. The message of this cartoon denotes a small grill labeled as Poland and that is confronted by two fairy tale predators. The undertone of the cartoon is that the little girl is vulnerable and weak and is about to be eaten by two predators. Essentially meaning that Poland is in danger. The cartoon also includes the words “Nazi Germany” on the wolf’s pillow who also…

but everyone ignored it up until Harper Lee said something by writing a book. Continuing, the author of an article says "To Kill a Mockingbird" gave an accurate depiction of life in the South. It dared to speak the truth about the immorality of Southern society” (Sutton). Nowadays, people recognize that the things spoken about the South in “To Kill a Mockingbird” were true. However, people weren’t always aware of or didn’t care about the hateful events taking place in the South 50 years ago.…