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    case in 1964. MIBURN is short for “Mississippi Burning” which is also the title of the director Alan Parker’s movie from 1988. The movie is occupied with the occurrences from the original FBI case and gives us a general view of what was happening. However‚ that might not be as true as we think it is. According to “The Guardian” the movie is not very political and historically correct. Actually‚ the writer of the article’s exact words was: “The Mississippi burning is written‚ acted and filmed with

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    The Mississippi civil rights workers murders involved the 1964 lynching of three political activists during the American Civil Rights Movement. The murders of James Chaney‚ a 21-year-old black man from Meridian‚ Mississippi; Andrew Goodman‚ a 20-year-old white Jewish anthropology student from New York; and Michael Schwerner‚ a 24-year-old white Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker also from New York‚ symbolized the risks of participating in the Civil Rights Movement in the South during

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    Mississippi Constituent Services Directory Agency Name: Auditor’ Office Auditor’ Office Constituent Services Contact Name: Brent Henderson Phone: 601-576-2639 Email: Brent.henderson@osa.ms.gov Back up Contact: Bill Pope Phone: 601-576-2667 Email: Bill.Pope@osa.ms.gov Handmail Address: Suite 801 Woolfolk Building Brief description of your agency and how it serves the public. Our Agency audits public funds such as County governments and State Agencies as well as Universities

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    Mississippi Burning – Analytical Essay "Mississippi Burning"‚ directed by Allan Parker‚ is set in the state of Mississippi‚ 1964. In this film‚ Parker shows that he feels sorry for black people‚ by strongly portraying the levels of racism and injustice towards negroes‚ which was implemented by white people (the Ku Klux Klan in particular) within the state. The Ku Klux Klan was a group of white people who believed that negroes were filth‚ and that they didn’t deserve to live equally among white

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    regions” (Kung and Hahn‚ The Mississippi Delta Chinese: An Audiovisual Narrative). Quon said that “the whites were empowered‚ the blacks‚ definitely out of power‚ and then the Chinese were kind of in the middle. We knew it was not right‚ but what could we do” (Kung and Hahn)? Raymond Wong had said‚ “We were-in-between‚ right in between the blacks and the whites. We’re not black‚ we’re not white so that by itself gives you some isolation” (Block‚ “The Legacy Of The Mississippi Delta Chinese”). It was clear

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    Questions for Surrealism (Please copy the following questions to a word document – save in your h: as Surrealism Project in your Art folder) Questions 1 and 2 will be worked on in the first two theory lessons and will be due the following week Questions 3 will be worked on in the third and fourth art lesson and will be due the following week. PAY ATTENTION (submit a copy or print of the EVERY piece of art work you discuss.) (Each piece of art work should have - name of artist‚ title

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    Life on the Mississippi

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    Life on the Mississippi 1. One example of the first point of realism is‚ “After all these years I can picture that old time to myself now‚ just as it was then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer’s morning; the streets empty‚ or pretty nearly so; one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water Street stores‚ with their splint-bottomed chairs tilted back against the wall‚ chins on breasts‚ hats slouched over their faces‚ asleep-- with shingle-shavings enough around to show what

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    “Home on the Mississippi” Brian Stewart’s oil painting‚ “Home on the Mississippi”‚ is an exceptional piece of artwork from the culture it unfolds to the characteristic composition of how it was made. “Home on the Mississippi” is beautifully painted with oil onto canvas‚ colors exuberating realistic features and setting the mood. The painting portrays the reality of America in the late 1800’s. Picking a piece of artwork that I appreciate was easy for me. I turned my attention directly to the

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    Obesity in Mississippi

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    Obesity In Mississippi Veronica Bynum Everest University ENC 1101 September 26‚ 2012 Obesity is the leading health concern in the state of Mississippi today for children and adults. It is on the rise and contributes to major chronic disease killers such as heart disease‚ diabetes and certain cancers. According to USA Today‚ Mississippi has the highest obesity rate with 34.9% of state residents who are roughly 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight‚ and Colorado has the lowest rate at

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    Moody’s Coming of age in Mississippi proivide excellent examples of the hardships African Americans went through for their fight for civil rights. Worse than slavery exemplifies the despair found in the almost forgotten era in black history. Written by Historian Oshlink‚ this texts acknowledges the time period known as reconstruction in the New South‚ where slavery was replaced with convict leasing and eventually the Parchman prison farm. Oshlink sets his book in Mississippi where he uses court records

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