Mississippi

The Mississippi River originates in Minnesota and winds it way down to the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi is iconic to American culture, and there is a fondness for the Old Man River; where images of paddleboats and Tom Sawyer come to mind. What does not come to mind is our nation’s river is sick. According to a report in the St. Louis Dispatch, the Mississippi is the second most polluted river in the United States, coming in just behind the Ohio River (Bernhard, 2012). The Mississippi is experiencing

Legalized Gaming in Mississippi "Once given up dead, Biloxi this summer celebrates the 10th anniversary of a casino-driven rebirth that has been dubbed 'The Mississippi Coast Miracle' " (Biloxi, Miss., Celebrates... 1). In 1992 the first legalized gaming facilities opened on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The casinos gave Mississippi's economy the boost it has needed for a long time. Religious groups and other activists were against the legalization of gaming because they

Robert E Lee, if it should stay or be removed. I have come to believe that since the general was a “Confederate’” general that the question arose, should Mississippi be to able to keep its state flag presenting the emblem of the confederate flag, or should it be stripped from the sky. In this essay I will present to you why I believe that the Mississippi flag should stay flying high in the sky. I will also present when, why and how the flag is important to us as a country. I believe that the Ms. Flag

Mississippi Delta became very industrialized in the early 1980s. The Delta had risen from a swampy wilderness through its heyday as the New South’s Old South to its post-New Deal status as a planter’s paradise, where those who reaped the benefits of a rapidly modernizing plantation economy also managed to maintain their dominance in social and political sphere. Agriculture remains the backbone of the region 's economy, but farms that once required hundreds of people have become more technical.

began as a dispute between the state of South Carolina and the federal government over a series of national tariffs that many of the southerners viewed as excessive. (6) The leader of the nullification movement in Mississippi was John Anthony Quitman. Quitman died in 1859 and the Mississippi finally left the Union in 1861. (8) As a result of the Nullification crisis, the Mexican War took place. Many Mississippians volunteered to fight with much enthusiasm. After nearly two years of war, America won

Is the shoreline of the Mississippi River Undesirable? In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain the shore line of the Mississippi river is undesirable, because it is violent, full of trouble, and demonstrates conformity. The first reason the shoreline of the Mississippi river is undesirable because Huckleberry Finn experiences violence on the shoreline. “When I got down out of the tree I crept along down the river-bank a piece, and found the two bodies laying in the edge of the water

It was formed because of the mighty Mississippi river. It plays a very important role in the everyday lives of the Louisiana people. The conceivable redirection of the Mississippi River and man1s push to oppose it, present one of the best stream designing issues ever experienced. The proof that backings the case that catch of the Mississippi by the Atchafalaya is inevitable, is accessible and plentiful. Information on the decay of the limit of the Mississippi underneath Old River and the expanding

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

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 first settlers of the Atchafalaya River Basin were different Native American Tribes, including the Houma, Chitimacha

steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, and he learned about the river. Throughout his journeys of being a steamboat pilot he gathered much information about the river. As he learned about the river, his viewpoint on how he saw things changed during his journey on the river. In the beginning of the story “Life on the Mississippi” he saw the river as beautiful and as the story goes on his view on the river changes. In the beginning of “ Mark Twain life on the mississippi” he says the river is