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The article titled: “South Carolina Settles Its Decades-Old Dispute Over a Confederate Flag” written by Richard Fausset and Alan Blinder is to be considered a featured article. In contrast, the article titled “South Carolina House Votes to Remove Confederate Flag” also written by Richard Fausset and Alan Blinder is to be considered a news article. There are a variety of ways why the first article is to be considered a feature article.The featured article primarily consisted of the various reactions

this a traumatic experience for the campus of Clemson University, this devastating news hit my families heart’s real hard. Tucker was apart of the Sigma Phi Epsilon ,and he was participating in an early morning group activity when things went bad. Tucker was last seen at the bridge, and it was reported he missed breakfast( WSPA staff). With investigations still going on with Tucker Hipps death, evidence is becoming more prominent. Clemson University crowds around together to remember the good times shared

Drug Rehab in South Carolina Searching for a drug rehab in South Carolina? We have compiled a number of key elements to make the search easier and more productive. First off, it is important to determine whether the addicted person is willing to enroll in an inpatient or outpatient program. Inpatient programs range in length from just under a month to several months on end. They offer structure, a drug-free environment and support around the clock for the recovering person. This intensive form of

there were some who were in bondage able to obtain freedom through a process that became known as manumission. Manumission is the liberating of a slave from bondage. It is the formal act of freeing one from slavery. In South Carolina, as with several other states in the Deep South, slaves could be manumitted by one of two ways. Manumission could be given privately by an individual or it could be done officially by state law. Private manumission was rare in most states, and was restricted, but it

Richard and Elizabeth Spaight on March 25, 1758. Dobbs was orphaned at the age of 8, where he was then sent to ireland to grow up. Years later he graduated from Glasgow University before he returned to North Carolina in 1778. After coming back to Carolina, at the time the war for Independence, although a member of the North Carolina legislature, Spaight remained active in the militia, eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in command of an artillery regiment. Under General George Washington's

sit-ins occurred in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Greensboro Sit-Ins was a movement with the purpose to banish the inequalities that black people faced. A black person was treated very differently, unequally, and unfairly compared to how a white person was treated. The Greensboro Sit-Ins was noted to be one of the most important events in the Civil Rights movement. Racism and unequal treatment had been a common occurrence around North Carolina since colonial times. Even though slavery was

Renee Stewart. Her parent’s names were Michael Stewart and Cathy Stewart and she had an older sister named Angel Stewart who was born in 1972. Her father, Michael, served in the army and when my mom was three years old, they moved to Hanahan, South Carolina, which is right beside Charleston. My mom has two sisters who were born in Hanahan, named Melissa and Lindsy. Catina and her sisters all went to Northside Christian school from kindergarten to eighth grade. Northside was located in Charleston

We'll soon be free, When de Lord will call us home. For almost eight decades, enslaved African-Americans living in the Antebellum South, achieved their freedom in various ways—one being religion—before the demise of the institution of slavery. It was “freedom, rather than slavery, [that] proved the greatest force for conversion among African Americans in the South” (94). Starting with the Great Awakening and continuing long after the abolition of slavery, after decades of debate, scholars conceptualized

It is Time to Expand Medicaid Coverage in South Carolina When it validated the constitutionality of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2012, the United States Supreme Court also ruled that states could decide for themselves whether or not to expand their Medicaid programs (Sonfield, 2012). Predictably, South Carolina said no. The Palmetto State’s decision not to expand Medicaid in concert with the Affordable Care Act was wrong, and it is time to correct that mistake. The leadership’s

Georgia. She is best known for her most influential piece of writing, The Secret Life of Bees, which has found its way into many classrooms across the country. Many of her fiction novels have tackled controversial and well known issues and themes of the South over the course of history. Life Before Writing Born in Albany, Georgia on August 12, 1948, Kidd grew up in Sylvester, Georgia specifically in Worth County. Her father and English teachers encouraged her to write, and through this, she discovered