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    Drug Testing in Mississippi

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    DRUG AND ALCOHOL TESTING UNDER THE MISSISSIPPI WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW 2005 I. Is Drug & Alcohol Testing Required? The Commissioner of Insurance shall promulgate such rules and regulations as to require each insurer to establish a safety program for the health and benefit of the employees of the insured employer. Such safety program shall include language to explain the rights of workers under the Workers’ Compensation Law. Such safety program shall require that all insured employers implement

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    Hooded Americanism

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    Hooded Americanism: The First Century of the Ku Klux Klan: 1865 to the Present by David Chalmers records the history of the Ku Klux Klan quite bluntly‚ all the way from its creation following the civil war‚ to the early 1960’s. The author starts the book quite strongly by discussing in detail many acts of violence and displays of hatred throughout the United States. He makes a point to show that the Klan rode robustly throughout all of the country‚ not just in the southern states. The first several

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    Salvage the Bones

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    1. Compare the portrayal of Katrina in Salvage the Bones to what you saw of the hurricane in the news. Which aspect of the storm’s devastation does this novel bring to life? What does Esch’s perspective add to your understanding of Katrina’s impact? When Hurricane Katrina occurred‚ I was an eleven year-old child with little to no concern about the current events happening around me. Nevertheless‚ I was still saddened by the hurricane that killed almost 2‚000 people

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    Life Changing Experience

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    There has been one experience that I can remember where my survival was literally at stake. It was in August of 2005. That was the time Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana‚ demolishing the city of New Orleans and surrounding areas. I’m from a small town‚ which is approximately twenty minutes outside of New Orleans. The hurricane affected my family both mentally and physically. My family didn’t evacuate for Hurricane Katrina. We decided to stay and “Ride it out.” They had the mindset like

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    It was December‚ around Christmas time‚ in the 1940s. Children were running and playing in the snow. It was during the time at the end of the Civil War. After reading Eudora Welty’s‚ “A Worn Path‚” and understanding the story we must consider an old Negro woman name Phoenix Jackson‚ a worn rough path in Natchez that she traveled‚ and the prejudices she had to endure to get medication for her sick grandson. Phoenix Jackson was an old‚ negro‚ almost blind‚ uneducated cripple woman. Phoenix lived

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    A historic moment in history was the Los Angeles River flood that lasted five days. During this flood‚ there was five days of continuous rainfall and the erosion controls that were in place could not hold the high level of water from coming down the mountains. (Hung 1) This was a flood that was unlike anything the city of Los Angeles had ever seen before. This resulted in the flooding of three area rivers and their tributaries; these were the Los Angeles‚ Santa Ana‚ and San Gabriel. The rain and

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    Phoenix Jackson Hero

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    Is Phoenix Jackson a Hero? Phoenix Jackson is an elderly Negro woman‚ who is a former slave and is walking by herself through the countryside to get to town in order to pick up medicine for her sick Grandson‚ who swallowed a poison. Based on the essay question‚ Phoenix Jackson is considered a hero because of her endurance and her ability to complete a goal. First‚ Phoenix Jackson is a hero because her journey to get her grandson is not an easy one. She has to walk about 30 miles in order to

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    William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily‚” was written during the Reconstruction Period of the South. During this time‚ the North’s economy‚ education‚ and culture surpassed the weak South. Due to the abolition of slavery‚ the South’s economy deteriorated; therefore making the South’s social classes fade away. With Faulkner having Miss Emily’s father cling to the ideals of the old South‚ he’s conveying the South’s struggle to transition from a chivalrous‚ aristocratic society to a modern‚ capitalist

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    Haiti Earthquake “People poured out into the streets‚ crying‚ carry­ing bodies…” (Addley 1) Haiti is one of the poorest countries and home to more than 2 million people. Haiti was not prepared especially since Port-au-Prince‚ their capital‚ has very poorly built construction on its buildings and houses. “Haiti is a poor country with lax building standards and high population density‚ which makes buildings more likely to crumble.” (Thompson 1) Due to the earthquake and all the damage that happened

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    The Hurricane of 1938 was a very powerful storm. There were many deaths and a lot of destruction.There were some conditions that made the storm bad like conditions‚ human error and large waves. The way the Hurricane hit the Eastern U.S was a surprise to all. The storm started somewhere off the coast of Africa as a tropical storm. It started small but grew as it moved across the West Atlantic Ocean at 20 mph. Soon the winds reaches 74 mph.The tropical storm had become a hurricane. The storm kept growing

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