University of Southern Mississippi

who is it? Jim Crow may sound like a person’s name but it is the racial law that segregated among the blacks and whites and it arose after Reconstruction that ended in 1877 and continued until the mid 1960s. Jim Crow laws were primarily seen in southern and border states. The African Americans were always looked down upon as second class citizens. The whites thought that they were superior to blacks in all ways and even after Slavery ended in 1865 with the South’s defeat in Civil War, slavery…

BART Bay Area Rapid Transit, known by the acronym BART, is the main rail transportation system for the San Francisco Bay Area. It was envisioned as early as 1946 but the construction of the original system began in the 1960s. Origins and planning The idea of an underwater electric rail tube was first proposed in the early 1900s by Francis "Borax" Smith. There were also plans for a third-rail powered subway line (Twin Peaks Tunnel) under Market Street in the 1910s. Much of BART's current…

sexual extramarital affairs while he was both Governor of Arkansas and President of the United States. My mother was appalled that the Office of the President was disgraced with scandal. My grandmother, on the other hand, loved Bill Clinton and his southern charm. Although she too, remembered the scandals, it did not affect her opinion of President Clinton as much. My father just didn’t like President Clinton’s policies and felt he couldn’t be trusted. My family all agreed that the extramarital…

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…