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Is it true that this “popular public figure and one of America’s best and most beloved writers,” as Thomas V. Quirk, a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Missouri in Columbia, described him in an Encyclopedia Britannica entry, appreciated diseases and epidemics and -- goodness! -- liked the prince of darkness? As it turned out, aside from writing, Mark Twain - the pen name of novelist, travel writer, and humorist Samuel L. Clemens (1835-1910), cherished cats. In fact, he once…

Before we can talk about what a polymer is, we need to know about ATOMS and ELEMENTS and MOLECULES. To learn about atoms and elements and molecules, click here. Paul Lemur This is PAUL LEMUR. He's a lemur named Paul. Polymers are made up of many many molecules all strung together to form really long chains (and sometimes more complicated structures, too). What makes polymers so fun is that how they act depends on what kinds of molecules they're made up of and how they're put together. The…

land and have it be there and they can use the land freely at their pleasure as long as they are not committing any crimes. Although they got laws passed, acts created and amendments ratified, some of them did not help them exactly they wanted. The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was an attempted that worked, but also hurt their efforts. This act made land available to blacks, however, it gave them bad land that they could not even get to. The Freedmen’s Bureau also got congress to promise them…

need of serious reconstruction, not only from the loss of free labor due to the Emancipation Proclamation, which had abolished slavery in the United States, but from the battles of the Civil War itself. In this time, Federal soldiers occupied the southern states enforcing the new laws and amendments which had granted African Americans new freedoms as citizens of the nation. African Americans, though free, were segregated from the White’s facilities and education systems. Inspired by their…

Throughout Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, Anthony Kaye recounts the lives of slaves that lived in the Natchez District, which is in the Southwest region of Mississippi. Throughout the monograph, Kaye attempts to argue how the idea of slave neighborhoods were formed by slaves on adjoining plantations through work relationships, intimate relationships, and travel. The main focus of Joining Places centers around the idea of slave neighborhoods in the Natchez District. These…

Ellen Gilchrist writes about the challenges and expectations faced by Southern girls and women throughout the different times of history in her literature. Next, she writes about the oppression/prejudice that was going on during these times through the characters in her books. Gilchrist also writes about the historical events that were happening, while these stories were taking place, like World War II. She lastly writes about the loss of innocence in her literature, after the characters see…

its injustices towards Blacks were addressed by the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the United States government. Four amendments were ratified and placed in the constitution to give blacks their civil rights. The northern and southern states fought against each other in the Civil War to free the slaves. The North won, and Amendment 13 was passed abolishing slavery in 1865. The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court in 1857 said blacks were not citizens. Amendment…

After decades of persecution through sharecropping and Jim Crow laws, as well as agricultural misfortune in the American South, millions of African-Americans left the southern states in hopes for decent jobs and higher quality of life in the more urbanized, industrialized sections of the United States (“Great Migration”). All of the sudden, a whole new world of business, art, multiculturalism, intellectualism, and nightlife was in front of a people who had been held captive, both in the literal…

whites, separate prisons, separate public and private schools, separate churches, separate cemeteries, separate public restrooms, and separate public accommodations”. The Origins of Jim Crow." Jim Crow Museum: Origins of Jim Crow. Ferris State University, 2014. Web. 30 May 2016. In most cases the black facilities were more dirty, and rundown. In other cases there were no black facilities, no colored public restroom, no public beach, no place to sit or eat. States that acknowledge Jim Crow…

open to the targeted social status that they target to serve. Ridgeland high school targets individuals who are primarily in lower to middle class families, and St. Andrews targets families who are in the upper class status. There are no four-year universities in…