University of Southern Mississippi

Mrs. Gales started by obtaining her bachelor degree in Social Work in 2003, months later she obtained her license to practice Social Work, October 2003 she started working Mississippi Division Human Service, Spring 2008 she started her master’s studies in Social Work, Summer 2010 she graduated from The University of Southern Miss, also she obtained her licenses on a master level, Mrs. Gales continued working for DHS and while at DHS she worked in the hospice and dialysis unit. In May 2012…

the first martyers of the civil rights movement. This also explains his work to secure rights for black people inspired fear and hatred among white racists. Medgar was inspired by his experiences and decided to bring his civil rights movement to Mississippi. NAACP was started in 1909, white didn’t like the verbal…

which Jim-Crow segregation, a law separating African American from white, and white supremacy without effective restricting law prevailed. He was born in a wealthy family of New Jersey, and completed his degree in a prestigious school, Columbia University. Despite…

Collis made America much better by being involved in all these projects that affected the american people in such a positive way. Now people from the south were able to travel to the west because of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Major Wickham was able to get Huntington involved in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, because of Huntington’s involvment this railroad became a success. This railway was from Virginia and in West Virginia there is a town named after him. He established a coal business…

their writing and allows them to create a unique voice that is entirely their own. William Faulkner lived in a time where racism and prejudice were prevalent and grew up adventurous and independent; therefore, he wrote As I Lay Dying that includes southern settings, grotesque characters, and the theme of an inescapable death. William Faulkner published most of his writing…

-The author of the novel in question, Subduing Satan, has extensive experience in southern culture. Dr. Ted Ownby is the Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, and he offers a paramount dissection of the male persona. This piece discusses Religion, recreation, and manhood in the rural south from 1865-1920. This time period of the American south faced many difficulties such as that of the Reconstruction of the South fueled with racial tension,…

born Fannie Lou Townsend in Montgomery County, Mississippi on October 6, 1917. She was born into poverty and grew up in a tar-paper shack with a roof patched up with tin, sleeping on a cotton sack stuffed with dry grass. She was the youngest child of twenty, which included fourteen boys and six girls. Her parents, Lou Ella and Jim Townsend, were sharecroppers. Her family moved to Sunflower County, Mississippi in 1919 from the east of the Mississippi Delta to work on the E. W. Brandon plantation.…

Falkner. Falkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi and before, turning five his family moved to Oxford, Mississippi. Later, he added the letter u to his name to resemble a more British surname. At a young age, Faulkner developed the talent for drawing and writing poetry. Also, his first works imitated the works of English poets like Burns, Thomas, Houseman, and Swinburne mirroring a romantic style. Consequently, he enrolls at the University of Mississippi with a special provision for war…

Coming from a small town in southern Mississippi it is not every day that you hear of someone with an interest in studying Fashion. From a very young age I have been interested in the Fashion Industry. While attending fashion prep summer camps at Mississippi State University, I learned about both the business and designing aspects of the industry. Attending these camps showed me that studying fashion is exactly what I want to study in college. Over the next four years I expect to learn…

Throughout my senior year of high school, I was bombarded with myriad versions of the same question, “What do you want to do when you get out of college?” The growing pressure I felt to decide on a college major, as well as a career path, weighed heavily on my mind. Of course I knew certain attributes I wanted my future job to have, such that I wanted to work with people on a one on one basis, particularly children; and I wanted my job to challenge me. However, I possessed such a limited…