FIRST INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION | | | SUBMITTED BY: POOJA SHRESTHA | BBA-BISECTION- A | SEMESTER-1 | 12/6/2011 | | My mother never worked COMPREHENSSSION 1. What kind of work did Martha Smith do while her children were growing up? List some of the chores she performed? The writer Donna Smith-Yackel’s mother did lots of work throughout her life. She was a mother of more than half dozen of children. While her children were growing up she had to
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With the possible diversion of the Mississippi on the line‚ man’s effort to resist the diversion is becoming one of the greatest river engineering problems ever encountered. There is evidence that does indeed support the theory that the Mississippi river is being captured by the Atchafalaya River and the evidence is available and very bountiful. The data on the deterioration and the loss of the capacity of the flow of the Mississippi below the old river and the increased capacity of the Atchafalaya
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The Progression of African Americans from 1865 to 1920 America has changed‚ as a whole‚ throughout this time period. There have been many different presidents‚ elections‚ wars and other world issues. These factors contribute to the drastic change in America and to the American people. African Americans have gone through many different changes other than those of the other races. With the end of the Civil War‚ African Americans went through a lot of change with the end of slavery. Throughout this
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What Is Freedom? Reconstruction 1865-1877 Four days after the meeting Sherman issued Special Field Order 15: It set aside Sea Island and a large area on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts for the settlement of the black families on 40 acre plots of land. He offered them broken mule too. With Slavery dead‚ which black institution strengthened after the war? a. The free blacks’ church b. The secret slave church c. The back family d. The free blacks’ schools e. ALL OF THE ABOVE- Correct
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Mississippi Damned was written and directed by Tina Mabry and is based on her struggles growing up in Tupelo‚ Mississippi. Mabry has a history of pouring her life into her work. After receiving her masters of Fine Arts in Cinema and Television from the University of Southern California‚ she went on to create two emotion filled short films‚ Brooklyn’s Bridge to Jordan (2005) and Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)‚ before debuting her first feature masterpiece. Before premiering on Showtime in 2011
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The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the book Mississippi Trial‚ 1955 by Chris Crowe are two different books surround by the same ideas. To Kill a Mockingbird was a book about a girl named Scout‚ whose dad‚ Atticus‚ is a lawyer‚ who tried to win a case defending an innocent black man. Atticus did not win the case and Scout started to learn about injustice and what went on at that time in the South. Mississippi Trial‚ 1955 was about a boy named Hiram‚ who lived in the South with his grandpa
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preserve the Union. The period between 1865 through 1877‚ created many questions as to whether African Americans were free or still enslaved. During reconstruction‚ some African Americans were free but others were still slaves. Many African Americans were free during reconstruction. The 13 th Amendment specifically states‚ “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist in the United States.” Considering the fact that the 13 th Amendment was ratified in 1865‚ it is illegal to participate in slavery
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Anne Moody in his book ’’Coming of age in Mississippi’’‚ isn’t sure that the civil rights movement will end up as being a success. She is having a lot of doubts about the future‚ questioning herself about her sacrifices and the suffering she had to endure as an activist. In 1968‚ the civil rights movement and the freedom summer are still recent memories and nothing is won. The author wonder‚ if Mississippi will always be stuck in another time. She had gave so much to the cause that she cannot envision
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over by European control. Hernando de Soto was the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River‚ but French explorers‚ Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette were the first to explore the river while searching for a water route to the Pacific Ocean. Although the two explorers did not discover all there was to the river‚ Sieur de La Salle was the first to sail and complete the journey of the entire Mississippi River. La Salle declared that the river belonged to the King of France (Lecture Notes
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of power‚ what is power? What forms of power are presented in the film? Who has the power (How/why)? Who is powerless? How has power obtained? How is power maintained? How is power used and abused? Does the balance of power change? The film Mississippi burning presents a strong theme of power‚ throughout the film it shows both lack of power for some and also the ways others can abuse it. The film accurately demonstrates how little equality and respect was shown to the African Americans and how
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