Reflection Paper Cornelia C. Welch-Dick University of Southern Mississippi Reflection Paper After a summer internship at a news station that was in direct correlation with my declared undergraduate major, I am anxious to begin focusing my work and study toward higher education student affairs. My experience this summer forced me to do some self-evaluation and assessment as far as my strengths, weaknesses, and what kind of environment I envision myself thriving in. My vision for my
feel they have the most direct correlation between the film and classroom discussions. I will follow these up with my opinions of the movie and some of the key players. When Marcus started playing youth football; his hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi was a decade removed from one of the most infamous cases of racial crime in the history of the United States. Ironically by the end of the film, Cecil Price Sr. which was the Deputy Sherriff at the entire start of the civil right crimes did not
The University of Mississippi is an institution of higher learning just as any of the 629 public 4- year universities in the United States. Due to the location of the university, the school faces criticism and publicity for its unconscious efforts and decisions to uphold its southern heritage. Though there were attempts to modernize the school, “Ole Miss” still holds the image of the Old South. The decisions and actions of supporters of the school’s traditions are weighing heavily on the universities
is known as one of the most important writers of American literature and of Southern literature especially. According to Wikipedia, Faulkner was born on 25 September 1897 in Oxford, Mississippi. He was a Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning author who was highly acclaimed for his numerous novels and short stories. He also wrote a play, movie screenplays, and essays. Faulkner used his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi as the model for the fictional city of Jefferson. Faulkner was very influenced
The Story of My Search When thinking of a career I would enjoy, I kept my interests and hobbies in mind. Through life I have developed an interest for helping people, and a career as a Nurse Practitioner will allow me to do so. From going to mission trips and assisting children to lending a hand at the local nursing homes, I knew a career in the medical field was where I needed to be. To begin my research about the career of a Nurse Practitioner, I looked for information on the Choices 360 website
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission No Southern state was more resistant to segregation than Mississippi. Initiating a ‘southern respectable’ resistance, Mississippi set out to create a permanent authority for the maintenance of racial segregation, fully staffed and state funded. On May 20, 1956, Mississippi state legislators passed House Bill 880 establishing the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (MSSC) as part of the executive branch, under the protection of the U.S. Constitutional
everyone, regardless of color and race. Let me appeal to the consciences of many silent, responsible citizens of the white community who know that a victory for democracy in Jackson will be a victory for democracy everywhere” (Medgar Evers in Jackson Mississippi, 2013). This excerpt is taken from a 17 minute speech by Medgar Evers on May 20, 1963, in response to the vocal criticisms of Mayor Allen Thompson’s view of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as being ‘outside
of the twentieth century. Faulkner became known for his diction and literary techniques. William Faulkner chronicled the history of Mississippi: however, his choice of universal themes made him a literary giant around the world. Faulkner achieved many great accomplishments without a high school diploma or college degree. Faulkner had proved to the world that Southern writers were not as substandard as many viewed them to be. They were, in fact, quite phenomenal. William Faulkner born on September
Magnolia State into what it is today. Before the Mississippi was discovered by Europeans, Native Americans inhabited the land. There were three ethnic groups of Native Americans living in the land which would one day become Mississippi: The Natchez, the Choctaws, and the Chickasaws. The Natchez Indians were known for worshipping the Sun (Fant 9). The Choctaw Indians lived in South Mississippi while the Chickasaw Indians lived in the northern part of Mississippi (Fant 7). Choctaw Indians and Chickasaw Indians
"It's awesome," Smith added when asked about her signing with the University of Mississippi. "I have kind of always dreamed of this since I was a little girl, going to play at Ole Miss.” Making the decision to sign with the Rebels was an easy one for Smith, whose parents are both supporters of the Rebels. Mary Kate’s father, Dr. Jesse Smith is a graduate
Born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was an American author who made readers understand the Southern life. His parents, Murry and Maud Falkner, named him after his great grandfather, William Clark Faulkner (William Faulkner: Olemiss). Faulkner‘s mother taught him what was right from wrong, to be loyal to one’s family, and the politics of sexuality and race, which would later be written about in some of Faulkner’s works (William Faulkner: Olemiss). Faulkner was a
the oppressive system of Apartheid in South Africa and its American counterpart of segregation in the South. Segregation was America’s Apartheid. Nowhere was it practiced with such harshness as in Mississippi. After the Civil War and the failure of Reconstruction, Mississippi and the other Southern states were allowed to establish Black Codes which restricted the freedoms and liberties of African-Americans in the South. This group of laws included restrictions on things like “curfews, vagrancy
Kennedy were based on the phases of conflict Mississippi. At first Kennedy did not want to put any emphasis on the civil rights movement, as a result his brother Robert Kennedy was in charge of these situation in order to divert the problems form his brother. As the situation began to get out of control between Meredith and Mississippi, John F. Kennedy began to intervene in the crisis. This was done in the form of political negotiation with
programs are to the students that need them to gain the proper stepping stones to success. There are unfortunately many colleges that do not have a mentorship program let alone a proper mentorship program in their college. Especially at the University of Southern Mississippi that seems to be lacking a mentorship program for their students. Until you are forced to perform research to discover that there supposedly a mentorship, but it goes under the name academic coaching an sounds far from something that
Eudora Alice Welty practically spent her whole life living in Mississippi. Mississippi is the setting in a large portion of her short stories and books. Most of her stories take place in Mississippi because she focuses on the manners of people living in a small Mississippi town. Writing about the lives of Mississippi folk is one main reason Welty is a known author. Welty’s stories are based upon the way humans interact in social encounters. She focuses on women’s situations and consciousness. Another
When I found out I wanted to have a career in nursing I was playing with my mother's stethoscope when I was younger, I wanted to be just like her. From going to her job seeing how she work to watching her as a child study and learning more about nursing motivated me. Seeing how my mom did what she did and how determined and head strong in her work she was motivated me to pursue a career in nursing. I want to be able to be a nurse anesthetist one day so whenever I get the chance to be close to an
from six schools and four countries tested our presentation skills and shared the projects we’d worked on for months with an academic audience. Graduate and undergraduate students from Augusta University, Georgia State, the University of Florida, the University of Alabama, Samford University and Southern Miss –
States beginning in the 1954 to 1968 led primarily by Blacks for outlawing racial discrimination against African-Americans to prove the civil rights of personal Black citizen. For ten decades after the Emancipation Proclamation, African-Americans in Southern states still live a rigid unequal world of deprive right of citizenship, segregation and various forms of oppression, including race-inspired violence. “Jim Crow” laws at the local and state levels. The nonviolent protest and civil disobedient were
Biography of Brett Favre Brett Favre was born in Gulfport, Mississippi on October 10, 1969. He was the second child of Irvin and Bonita Favre’s four children. His younger years were spent growing up in Kiln, Mississippi. He was very well rounded and enjoyed baseball as well as football. Many people say Brett inherited his skills form his father, who had been a pitcher at Southern Mississippi. Years later Brett gave another version crediting his mom, who had played a great deal of softball
South that can be felt by just reading his words. Growing up in Mississippi, Faulkner was exposed to the Deep South and everything it had to offer, both good and bad. Through his writings, William tackles some of the most difficult issues of his time period and sheds light to the every day issues going on in the South. William Faulkner set the precedent for future generations, and he will arguably never be contested in his southern style. Without William Faulkner, American literature would be blind