Flowing 2‚350 miles from Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico‚ the Mississippi River is the fourth longest river in the world with a watershed spanning thirty-one states and two Canadian Provinces (Mississippi River‚ n.d.). The Mississippi River provides a suitable habitat to many species because of its suspended-sediment flow regime. However‚ damaged caused to the river by human intervention has caused the sediment flow trends in the 19th and late 20th century to decline. In 1936 to 1950‚ the average
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Prom Night in Mississippi In a small Mississippi town‚ racial discrimination was taking place in the year of 2008. The black and white high schoolers had separate proms‚ although they all went to the same school. So‚ why would they have segregated proms‚ if they did not have segregated schools? This might be partially due to the fact that segregation was illegal at that time‚ however‚ the members in power of that society seemed to unethically slither by the law. As many white parents of that society
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ha-ha. I live by one motto‚ it is two words‚ one of them is explicit and starts with the letter f and the other word is it. But for the purposes of this being for school I will use “screw” it instead. I live like this because in my fifteen years of life I have gone through more than you have in your years on this planet‚ do not ask for details. Living the way I do sucks most of the time and I live out the consequences every day‚ but it is who
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The Murders of the Mississippi Summer Project Member and the Birth the 1965 Voting Rights Act SOCI140 Essay February 6‚ 2011 The nefarious act in1964 marked the historic event that changed America history. The Mississippi Summer Project traveled to Mississippi to encourage African America citizens to practice their First Amendment rights. Mississippi was a state known for apartheid‚ bias‚ and contemptuousness enforcement. The civil rights supports traveled though Mississippi retrieving votes
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Jerry Bradshaw Assignment #1 ENG 112 1-23-08 Two Views of the Mississippi One may argue that certain learned abilities become instinctual over time and through repeated practice. I do not believe there could be any solid proof for this theory. Instinct can be defined as something that we do without even thinking about it‚ yet when we are in a panicked state‚ we usually tend to forget some of those learned habits and react in a way that truly is pure instinct‚ having nothing to do with anything
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Mississippi’s Microbe In developing a microbe to represent Mississippi best‚ one must ponder the item most important to many Mississippians—food. For some the food of choice may be a juicy steak; but for others‚ the favorite part of any dinner is dessert. Those in search of the best desserts of every state choose to come to Mississippi for the “Mississippi Mud Pie‚” also known as the “Muddy Mississippi Cake” (Penn; “Mississippi”). The “Mississippi Mud Pie” is a tasty treat composed of three tiers: a cookie
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my oral topic is based on comparing Atticus’ and Agent Ward’s authority in their respective plots. Atticus Finch and Agent Ward are both very similar characters that play the same roles in their respective plots in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Mississippi Burning’. Both characters share the same authority in terms of the way they try to establish justice‚ they also resemble in their characteristics and beliefs. The occupations of Atticus Finch and Agent Ward both aim to establish justice and maintain
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Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi is a narrated autobiography depicting what it was like to grow up in the South as a poor African American female. Her autobiography takes us through her life journey beginning with her at the age of four all the way through to her adult years and her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. The book is divided into four periods: Childhood‚ High School‚ College and The Movement. Each of these periods represents the process by which she "came of age" with
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University of Mississippi. Many civil rights activists shied away from any social progress activities in Mississippi‚ due to the engraved white supremacy ideology in the Mississippian society. When Meredith challenged the state of Mississippi as a whole‚ the civilians
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The autobiography “Coming of Age in Mississippi‚” by Anne Moody is the story of her life as a poor black girl growing into adulthood. Moody chose to start at the beginning - when she was four-years-old‚ the child of poor sharecroppers working for a white farmer. In telling the story of her life‚ Moody shows why the civil rights movement was such a necessity‚ she joined the NAACP to be a rebel‚ an also showed the depth of the injustices they suffered. In her story‚ Anne talked about how whites
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