The Carolinas

that remain neutral, This article is not biased because the author does not take a side when informing the audience. We can see this through the quote, “By contrast, even a state like (http://www.transequality.org/documents/state/north-carolina) North Carolina will accept a notarized physician's letter after surgery to update the sex field on a transgender person's birth certificate. In California,…

faucet rather than a raging river and in the last seconds of his life his heart yearned for the family he once knew. He remembered his journey. He once was a small boy named Johnny, who was born in 1945 to a large family, near Greenville, South Carolina. There were four other boys and two girls. At age three old his youngest sister was born. His parents never gave him much attention, the older children raised him. John grew into a young man of insignificant stature, in both his physical size…

suddenly vanished in 1587. After John White went back to England for supplies, and was delayed, he left the settlers on Roanoke Island; only to find them missing afterwards in 1590 (“Wolfe”). This led him to finding clues through Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in order to find the colonists; including his family and granddaughter. Even over centuries of looking for them we are still persistent on any leads towards it. Whether theories and evidence are proven to be true, this mystery is yet to…

But Franklin, at the time was engaged in research on the South’s militant culture and thus rejected the request. However, Franklin was later convinced to write the book after the repeated requests by the editor who even visited him once in North Carolina. The book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, now in its ninth printing has sold more than three million copies worldwide since its appearing in 1947, and has been translated into multiple languages, including French, Indian,…

North’s growing industrial impact, reserving it the most room to prosper. It tended to be more taxing (bad dum tiss!) on the South, deterring trade with potential businesses John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina, argued the his state had the right to nullify this tariff. In 1832, South Carolina called for a special state convention…

In 1848, the first women 's rights convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York. Three hundred women attended the convention to achieve equal rights in society. As an illustration women in the 1840’s couldn’t vote, own property, have custody of their children after a divorce or even share the same religious rights as their male counterparts. Thus, leading to the Seneca Falls Declaration. The Seneca Falls Declaration shared a similar style to the Declaration of Independence except that it…

North and the South. “The leaders of the South were convinced that the welfare of their states was in jeopardy. In short order, they began to secede from the Union. South Carolina withdrew first and was soon joined by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia and then later by Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee” (AWB). The secession of the Southern states caused tension to rise between the North and the South.…

teen teen p[areparenting programs in South Carolina were a result of the public concern for the disproportionate number of teen pregnancies in the state during the 1980s (South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2011). When teen pregnancy numbers declined in the 1990s, South Carolina’s teen pregnancies continued to be higher than the national average. According to The Alan Guttmacher Institute (2004), in the 1990s 56% of teens in South Carolina confessed to having sexual relations…

Summer Vacation “Everyone wake up” my aunt said. I checked my phone to see what time it was considering it was summer and all. I hit the unlock button and the time read five thirty in the morning. I thought to myself what could she possibly want this early in the morning. Then it hit me today was the day we leave for our summer vacation. I was up and off to the bathroom in no time. Once everyone was dressed we headed outside to start packing the car. My uncle rented a minivan so everyone could…

The Queen Anne’s Revenge had sunk in 1718 located in North Carolina, in Beaufort. Not only that, this ship had always had weapons such as spikes, or nails .Also, it was a flagship. A flagship is a main ship that belongs to a pirate, normally a captain. In this case, The Queen Anne’s Revenge was Blackbeard's ship…