Sundown

On January 10, 1861 the state of Florida seceded and became a separate state from the Union. Only a month later six other southern states joined Florida and started a new government, the ‘Confederate States of America’. Following the start of the new government of the Confederate States, four more states joined a month late. Once the civil war between the north and the south came to start, an estimated 15,000 Floridians joined and fought in the war. Most of those 15,000 Floridians fought for the…

These laws restricted where African Americans, Native Americans and Asian citizens could associate with whites in nearly every aspect of life including housing, employment, restaurants, schools, and hospitals. The laws also included sundown town where African Americans were not allowed within the town overnight, and prohibiting race mixing between white Americans and non white Americans. Woodward asserts that Jim Crow laws were an unsystematic creation devised by white southerners…

North Richmond Street was not a noisy neighborhood which the siblings and friends enjoy playing around old houses and one of the boys had a desire for love of the neighbor. North Richmond Street was a quiet dead end street until the kids were release from the Christian Brothers’ school. Also on that street, there was an abandoned two alarm house that was far away and lonely from the neighbor’s houses. The rest of the house on that street were aware of the ok living within each other, they…

quickly it was as if God needed them urgently. That is what I told myself, at least. I was captured by the raiding army and forced into slave labor. Life was extremely difficult from there on out for me. For multiple years, I worked from sunrise to sundown, till my blisters had blisters. My back had so many lashings that the scars went as deep as my bones. My complexion darkened over the years, as the dirt and grime permanently tainted my skin. I continued to…

consideration in this matter brings understanding as to how this could happen with this culture. My intervention would be to explain to her the causes, effects, and symptoms of dehydration and teaching that it is important to stay hydrated during the “sundown” hours of the day to compensate for any fluid loss. The patient admitted that she was so busy during the day before that when she went home after work,…

There 's an old verbal expression that “A man works from sunup to sundown, but a woman 's work is never done." As a single mother of two very adolescent children I could not concur more with that quote. I am currently going through the tail terminus of a divorce and have commenced college recently to become a respiratory therapist. Life has never been more of a balancing act for me than it is right now and, at this point I can use all of the help that I can get. After reading The Career moms:…

History: Throughout history, Afghanistan has been used a gateway from Europe through to Asia, due to where it is situated. Many tribes and cultures have passed through, and made it their home. Those included Persians, under Darius the Great as well as the Greeks who were brought over by Alexander the Great; this all come about around 323-522 BCE. Throughout 699-700 Islam became a part of Afghanistan, due to an Arab invasion in Kandahar. Within the 13th century, Genghis Khan (the founder of the…

genitals, especially in burials of adult females. The Hadith stipulates burial custom in detail, and therefore Sunni Muslim law places great emphasis on speed and simplicity in the treatment of the dead. The body should be placed in the ground before sundown, on the day of death or early on the following morning. The Tal al-Hasi cemetery was most likely used by bedouins who had relatively good health, with a balanced diet indicated by the rarity of bone deformations and other signs of disease…

what one needs, not wants. This 21st century American Dream is also based upon spending time with family and friends and helping out the community. "The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown..." (Whitman, line 7). Written by Whitman in the 1960's, it gives a glimpse of the…

“He was deeply impressed with the curse which hung over the family, and when this tragedy came I naturally felt that there must be some grounds for the fears which he had expressed,” (Doyle, 106). In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, the curse of a mysterious Hound that haunts the Baskerville family which is feared that it will kill the last Baskerville, Sir Henry. Compared to the book, the movie, The Hound of the Baskervilles has different characters,…