Mississippi Kud : Characters And Corruption In Mississippi Mud

Well, my essay is about Mississippi. It’s a great place to be. There all kinds of events you can participate in. Blues music its part of Mississippi’s culture. This music comes from slaves in the fields, singing about their struggles, their conditions and their sorry. Many of the songs carried secret messages of escaping the plantation life. The music told of life experiences as slaves knew them. The stories sung about in their music went back before the Civil War and even to the western coast of Africa where men, women and children were captured and sold into slavery and brought to America as slave laborers to work in Southern plantations. The Mississippi Delta is considered to be the birthplace of the Blues, with

12) Taylor is a part of the state and owns a large part of Mississippi’s industries. 13) Smith puts up a noble fight against Payne and Taylor’s political machine by performing a day long filibuster that eventually forces Payne to tell the truth and announce his resignation. [did not directly answer #8]

The character Ulysses Everett McGill is a dashing ex-convict bestowed with the “gift of gab” and crafty scheming skills he employs to help him and his friends escape the law on their way to stop a “bona fide” suitor from marrying his wife Penny. The similarity between these two characters improves and gives direction to the plot because Everett applies his Odysseus-like skills to escape various perils and assist him and his friends in their journey home. For example, Everett’s smooth talking allows the group to record at a radio broadcast station under the name of and disguise of “the Soggy Bottom Boys” and this leads to their fame. As a result of their fame, they are pardoned by the mayor, allowing Everett to provide for his family. His ability to disguise himself in costume also leads to the discovery of the non-incumbent governor’s status as the leader of the Ku Klux Klan in the area. These significant developments in the plot are spurred by the action and characterization in The Odyssey.

The Mississippi River is highly regarded as the most important river in Louisiana. One of the lesser known rivers is just as phenomenal, however. The Atchafalaya River (pronounced At-cha-fa-lie-uh), which is adjacent to the Louisianan southern half of the Mississippi River, is so much of a phenomena that the United States Army Corps has been put in charge of controlling the river!

The Mississippian culture was composed of a series of urban settlements and villages linked together by a loose trading network The Mississippian culture flourished from 800-1600 AD. It encompassed the southern shores of the Great Lakes at Western New York and Western Pennsylvania in the Eastern Midwest, all the way into the south/southwest of the Mississippi Valley and into the Southeastern United States.

In his powerful memoir, Mississippi, Anthony Walton explores race relations in Mississippi in a historical context in an attempt to teach readers about Mississippi’s dark and muddled past. In the third section of the memoir, entitled “Rebels”, Walton focuses on the history of Mississippi through the lens of famous and not so famous changemakers who shaped Mississippi as it is today. Walton purposefully tells this story in chronological order, so that the reader can see the evolution of the Mississippi rebel; beginning with union and confederate troops, and ending with civil rights leaders and white supremacy groups. Walton’s purpose of creating such structure becomes abundantly clear at the end of the section, where he juxtaposes the success of the civil rights movement with that of the white supremacy movement in Mississippi. Walton argues that the ability of a cause to inspire fear ensures its continued survival.

In American history things have been done in order to shape our country. The Trans-Mississippi West should be remembered for the terrible things that occurred. The Trans-Mississippi West shaped the future of America but did it in a harmful and disrespectful way. The Trans-Mississippi West built railroads and set up communities but the treatment of Native Americans and small farmers looking to start a new a life in the west was to much to turn your head away. The Trans-Mississippi West should be remembered for the violence and harm it caused because Indians suffered, there source of food and living was over hunted, and big businesses took good land from farmers and gave them bad land.

The Outsiders is a novel written by a then 15 year-old by the name of S.E. Hinton. The tale of social divides revolves around a group of six teenage “greasers”. One of these greasers is Dallas “Dally” Winston. The greasers are the poor and underprivileged in society. The greasers as a group are in a constant struggle against the socialites, the high point of society, who are referred to as “socs”. Dally Winston is among the worst of them in terms of respect for the law. “He had quite a reputation. They have a file on him down at the police station. He had been arrested, he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids--he did everything.”(11). Dally is said to have lived in New York for three years and had been arrested at the young age of 10. His behavior seems wild and unexplainable, but it can be deciphered through the means of Erikson’s theory on the stages of development, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs.

Salvador Dali once said, “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”, meaning that without ambition the world would never progress. Ambition is “a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work”(Google Dictionary). Ambition is what has made the world what it is today, whether that be a good thing or bad. People all around the world have ambitions, hopes, and dreams for the future; to give their family a better life in a new country, to get a promotion, to get straight A’s. Ambition gave women and people of color a right to vote, and same sex marriage. While ambition is intr to change, it's not always a good thing. It can cause the conceding of others and their own core values. Many characters in the novel Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Christopher E. Crowe are ambitious, but in the end, only a few characters ambition results in good. Throughout the novel the ambitions of Earl, Harlan, and Hiram all intertwine

Joining Places examines the day-to-day life of an enslaved man in his neighborhood, socializing, working, and the relationships built. Kaye argues that the lives of slaves were not uniform and all the same, the detailed accounts of the lives of slaves proves could have a dynamic life unlike popular belief.

Mississippi’s history tends to be one of the hardest places’ you can come live in the south has a memory of poor culture, slavery, and a soulful music background the history of Mississippi it’s very inspiring a place of true hardship specially for the African American during slavery there were plantations they planted cotton, corn, and other vegetables as they were slaved on these plantations and beaten. They lone for a escape for freedom some of the women were raped by their owner and had mixed- race children they wanted the population to grow so that they could produce more products to support them and their family their job was to serve the owner of the plantation by fixings meals, doing laundry and out in the field and other chores are duties that was demanded upon them finally the 13th Amendment to Ban slavery in Mississippi nearly 150 years after it adoption.

Mississippi history is a sad history of slavery and oppression. It is a history of racism and refusal to let go of segregationist ideals. Mississippi history is enough to give many the blues. In fact, the Blues style music originated in Mississippi and gravitated outward from there. .Mississippi history and Blues history are intertwined. Delta Blues is a blues style that originated in the Mississippi Delta and influenced many musicians. Another musical art form, Jazz may be considered an offspring from the Blues and also started in the South. There are many Blues musicians and singers that come from Mississippi or have become linked to Mississippi for various reasons. Bessie Smith, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, and Cassandra Wilson have

The impoverished conditions in which the residents of this community live are difficult based on the surrounding violence and discrimination they face. Tre, Ricky’s best friend, is able to survive the surrounding violence and discrimination through his father’s sensational leadership; he therefore knows what to do in situations he faces among his friends. However, his friends are not so lucky. For example, Dough doesn’t have great leadership or a father figure, but is raised by a single mother who is determined to get her children to succeed; nevertheless, her main focus is Ricky because he has the most potential; he is an athlete who has trouble in school, but obtains All-American in football, looking to get a scholarship to USC. The mother’s lack of leadership over

The main storyline of this play is that of Zoe, an illegitimate octoroon (meaning 1/8 black blood and 7/8 white blood) daughter of the deceased late Judge Peyton and his slave mistress. The judge’s wife loves and has accepted Zoe as part of the family. Brought up with equality, the judge wife often worries what will happen to Zoe as her neighbors only treat Zoe as if she were a mere servant. The judge’s nephew, George Payton, who comes down to Louisiana to

Jack Smith a 17 years old teen from (Ontario, Canada) is invited to stay with his cousin Mary Loose-Doe from (Water city, N.Y). Accompanying him in his trip is his other cousin 21 year old Bill Jones, both boys are foreign to the United States and the city life as they derive from a small settlement. Mary shows the boys a good time, taking them out to party’s offering them marijuana and alcohol. The boys are later introduced to Mary’s boyfriend 21 year old Pete Poorchoice. Pete is a High school droop out and veteran of two reformatories.