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Cherilyn Firoozan Professor Perry Sophomore English 26 March 2015 Using “The Force” For Good George Lucas has a significant impact on modern popular culture through the changes he brought the movie industry. No other twentieth-century movie producer has had a massive effect on the film business than George Lucas. His enthusiasm for development produced innovation that altered films. His business understanding transformed film into a multibillion-dollar industry. His "Star Wars" set of…

Ironies of Imprisonment James Wader November 18, 2017 University of Southern Mississippi It would seem highly ironic to think a country whose motto is “the land of the free” could be imprisoning more of its citizens than any other place on the planet. Unfortunately, this is all too true in the United States, as it has the highest rate of imprisonment per capita in the entire world. In 2005, Michael Welch decided to write a book breaking down all the issues associated with imprisonment in…

Instead, volunteers, especially college students who were home from school on their winter break, participated in picking up boycotters and delivering them to their destinations (58-61). In was in part due to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), consisting of several “leaders of various protest movements around the South (67) was organized in Atlanta. In 1957, Dr. King was elected President of the SCLC. According to Joseph E Lowrey, what made the…

could never start my papers on time. I always waited until the last minute to write my papers for a class. By me waiting until the last minute, my papers were always half done and not done to the best of my ability. When coming to the University of Southern Mississippi, I was terrified of having to write a paper for high school, but having to write a paper on a college level was even…

Detroit in 1991, Faulkner has had mostly humble beginnings with a few odd exceptions that will make him another unique writer for his time. According to Skei’s biography, Faulkner quit school as a junior to work. Eventually he went to the University of Mississippi for one year as a special…

to be read as the mutual voice of black people from ancient times to present day. The narrator speaks of bathing in the Euphrates River, building shelter near the Congo River, building pyramids by the Nile River, and watching the sun set on the Mississippi River. “My soul has grown deep like the rivers,” connects the movement and power of the rivers to the movement and power of black…

and leaders joined with European war groups to make war against others. They went after more dominant native alliances, states, and empires. “ The Indian slave trade was of central importance from the Carolina coast to the Mississippi Valley for nearly fifty years, linking southern lives and creating a whirlwind of violence and profit-making” argues Alan Gallay (The Indian Slave Trade). In most slave societies in America a free man of color would serve as a soldier to defend that society from…

The Story of My Search Not once have I ever really thought about where my name originated or how deep of a meaning it had. I knew the basics like, my mother named me after my grandfather, and that my middle name came from my mother, but that was the extent of my knowledge. If it was not for my English teacher making me do an assignment researching what my means, and where it is most popular, I still would not know, if it was not for school I am sure a lot of kids would not know these things. I…

The purpose of this paper is to exploregive the reader an educated perspective on how racism is perceived so that the reader may understand the difference between implicit and explicit racism and discrimination, and how both are equally offensive. Throughout American history, African Americans have been mistreated physically, legally, and emotionally. In 1619, a Dutch ship brought the first 20 Africans to the shores of Jamestown, Virginia. In the following years of the 17th century,…

High Risk Nutritional Practices Health care providers understand that food is needed for physical survival, however to provide culturally competent care it is imperative to have a broader comprehension of the meaning of food to a culture. (Purnell, 2013). The types of food eaten, the order they are ingested, and avoidance of certain foods are often interwoven in the religious and spiritual beliefs of specific ethnic groups. Understanding these concepts provides the knowledge needed for…