University of Southern Mississippi

The Native Americans are the original Americans. At one time many tribes lived as hunter gatherers and farmers made of different tribes spread though North America for numerous years. However, through the settlements of the New World by Europeans, unfair treatment from state and federal government, slavery, and suffering (diseases like smallpox, measles, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhus, bubonic plague, cholera, and scarlet fever. All imported by the Europeans, to which they have no…

International week at Southern Utah University has covered many areas of inquiry, from the transatlantic slave trade to globalization in the modern age. This course featured a movie on an African prince and his journey as a slave, the story of William Wilberforce, and the abolishment of slavery, how slavery boosted the economies of European nations, modern trafficking, child labor in chocolate plantations, the stories of Vannak and Solomon, and global studies and globalization. This course has…

“The fact is, you don’t know what directing is until the sun is setting and you’ve got to get five shots and you’re only going to get two.” - David Fincher, director of Fight Club and The Social Network spoke these words about film directing. Those words can truly sum up the rewarding yet stressful career of a film director. Film is a broad spectrum that has been shaped throughout history, from silent films to the invention of sound and color. To advance in the film industry, directors need to…

paranormal domain. Indeed, even into the present day, generalizations have endured with respect to African Americans and superstition, especially in regards to ghost stories. It is with the long history of both Western, white venue ghosts and of southern slave cosmology that Wilson composes a play loaded with ghosts. In both The Piano Lesson and Hamlet the creators utilize a ghost as an emotional gadget for a few reasons. How are the ghosts critical in building up the subject of each play? How…

Oprah Winfrey, an entrepreneur, actress, director, producer, and philanthropist, has a net worth of $3.1 billion (Forbes). With all of this in mind, before I began reading about her, I assumed Oprah had a sturdy childhood, a sturdy family, and a sturdy upbringing. I couldn 't have assumed anything farther from the truth. Oprah endured many hardships throughout her life as a child. She was an African American child in the late 1960s when they were aggressively demanding their rights, she was a…

On December 5th,1933 the 21st amendment replied Prohibition. Listed as the 18th amendment, prohibition banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption. The 21st amendment also allowed each state to set its own alcohol consumption laws. Nearer to this change, states kept the drinking ages higher around 21. It wasn’t until the passing of the 26th amendment that lowered voting ages from 21 years of age to 18 years. Soon thereafter states began to lower there…

moved because of his father’s job, he never let himself fall behind in his academics, and understood the importance of being able to adjust to the differing curriculums. This drive would later help him while in college, where he attended Harvard University and graduated in June of 1940 (2). There, he received a bachelor’s degree in science and graduated cum laude (St. Petersburg Times Staff). Shortly after he graduated, he enlisted and gained a vast amount of knowledge and experience in terms…

Maya Angelou overcame a difficult and traumatic childhood to become a prize-winning poet and the author of several best-selling autobiographies, including her celebrated first volume, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970). She was also the first African American, and the first woman, invited to read a poem at the inauguration of a president of the United States. Born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928, Maya was three when her parents were divorced. She and her…

American literature is a large of part of our English systems in American schools. Edgar Allan Poe and American author and editor who is very well known for his despairing life and dark stories. Mark Twain an American author who is known for writing during the slavery period of America. Though both are American they had very different styles, lives, and inspiration for their stories. Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe are two American authors that lived at two different times in American history and…

In November 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected as the 35th President of the United States in one of the closest elections in the nation’s history. He was a mere 43 years old and thus became the youngest ever President of the United States. “Jack”, as he was called, had to overcome the doubts that he was too young and immature to be president, and he did just that. He also had to prove that as the first Catholic U.S. President, he could keep separation of church and state. Despite the…