Essays on Alabama

Introduction

Social work is a noble endeavor of the highest order. In the midst of all sorts of negativity, man still finds time to help his fellow beings. A charitable organization can also be a source of income if one has the resources to further this cause. Donations and volunteering are the major source of income for non-profit companies today. Twin Cedars is one such organization that is involved in charity for empowering children, youth, families, and the community in general. This essay begins with the goals and objectives and the formal structure of Twin Cedars. It also discusses the ...

Dry Goods Manufacturers

Madison Dry Goods Company: Phone1-3364277099, physical address104 West Murphy Street Madison. N.C. 27025, United States. Madison also distributes its products. Gray & Holt Dry Goods, Inc.: Phone1-1-877-599-2427. Physical address 214 West Market Street Athens Alabama 35611, United States. The company also distributes its products to wholesalers and retailers. Drowning Creek Dry Goods: Address, PO Box 1026, Commerce, Georgia, United States. The firm also distributes its products to wholesalers. Independant: Phone1-832-382-2532, physical address 304 Robinhood Dr., Nacogdoches, Texas, United States. The organization also distributes its products. Glens Falls Produce Co., Inc.: Phone1-518-7929933, physical address 194 Maple St, Glensfalls, New York, United ...

Surviving winter in the Late Woodland period in Ohio was a daunting task. The period is dated between AD 450 – AD 1000, time of great innovation evidenced by the creation of the bow and arrow (Lepper, 2005). Also, trade was abandoned as well the construction of large burial mounds. I am going to highlight some of the cultural practices and tools which played a key role in ensuring that safety was guaranteed in the harsh weather. Keen insight into the technology, economy and basic human biology will be offered in an effort to show their application in the era. ...

Battle of Columbus 16 April 1865

Battle of Columbus 16 April 1865

Introduction

The Battle of Columbus happens to be the final battle of the Civil War. On the Easter of 1865, a day after the assassination of President Lincoln by a Marylander, the Battle of Columbus took place in Columbus, Georgia. The Civil War revolved around the idea of white supremacy and privilege and the need to justify the rights of the slaves in the nation. The Union triumph in the Battle of Nashville allowed for the General George H. Thomas to order General James H. Wilson to rally forward into the Deep South and ...

Introduction

One of the most common strategies of criminal defense attorneys when representing a defendant who has an unusual condition such as a mental abnormality, is to argue either that regardless of their actions, they are nevertheless not responsible for the crime or that they never had the capacity to commit a crime. The reason that criminal defense attorneys can make these arguments is that criminal law recognizes a number of unique situations where otherwise criminal conduct should not be subjected to a determination of guilt and the offender should be exempted from the crime (LaFave, 2000). These arguments, which ...

Tuberculosis is a serious bacterial infection that is usually spread from one individual to the other by inhalation of very small droplets originating from the sneezes or coughs of an infected person. The bacteria that causes TB is known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Kelly, Wilker, & Ambrose, 2011, p. 14). The main organ affected by the disease is the lungs (also called pulmonary tuberculosis) but it can also affect bones, the nervous system, and the glands. Each droplet of sneeze may contain between 1 to 400 bacilli each. Because the disease is airborne, the bacterium can also be transmitted to a ...

Book Review

Book Review 2: ‘Children of Dust’ by Ali Eteraz Background Introduction The book ‘Children of Dust’ by Ali Eteraz focuses on his narrative regarding his religion centered childhood. He grew up in a deeply religious Islamic family, and like most children, he follows in the same religion pathway as his parents. However, Abir Eteraz’s relationship with the religion identity is far way complex than his peers and age mates in his neighborhood in America. With time, the young boy becomes fanatical and obsessed with Islamic faith with the limited comprehension of a child. Largely, his parents are a ...

Book Review

Introduction Black Like me is a unique nonfictional book that has the author as the main character. Motivated by the socio-political dynamics John Howard Griffin take a bold but unusual step. He sets out to explore the experience of the Black people, but he could not just find it in books. The central themes to be dealt with in this review include racial profiling by the judicial system and the baseless segregation of the blacks. John frustration takes him to Mansfield in Texas. Black like me is Griffin’s own story while coexisting with the black community. The book ...

Child abuse is one of the debatable issues in the United States. In a broader perspective, child abuse refers to sexual, psychological or physical mistreatment of children by a caregiver or a parent. In the State of Alabama, child abuse is defined in both criminal and civil statutes. Sometimes there are mechanisms that parents and caregivers used to discipline their children that may lead to criminal charges and child abuse. In Alabama, there are various code sections that focus on child abuse prevention, reporting of child abuse, as well as the general perspective of child abuse. In the state ...

"I'm glad there's some folks gettin' interested in the old ways. This new generation don't know such things, but when they find the old songs and the tales, they'll delight in them." --Granny in Grandfather Tales (Chase & Williams, 1948) The Southern Appalachian region has a rich heritage of folklore and songs passed down orally from European immigrants settling in the mountain range situated from New York to Georgia (Abramson & Haskell, 2006) from the 18th to the 20th centuries (Hanlon, 2000). Since the middle of the 20th century, variations of the folktales have been compared to publications such as Grandfather ...

Research Paper

The Civil Rights Act and All the Way The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most arduous and hard-fought social progress movements in American history. Capitalizing on the confluence of aggressive resistance to Jim Crow laws and increased pressure from the American public to foster racial equality, President Lyndon B. Johnson had an extremely difficult time reconciling the deep divisions that existed between progressive whites and blacks and Southern whites who wanted to maintain social restrictions on black people. This conflict is depicted in Robert Schenkkan’s play All the Way in an accurate, dramatic manner, showcasing the ...

The American Version of Apartheid

Like apartheid in South Africa, the segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as the Jim Crow laws affected every aspect of life of African Americans living in the American South from the 1890s until the 1960s when the Civil Rights Movement began reversing the system of laws that turned blacks into second-class citizens. The term Jim Crow is an insulting slang for a black man. “Jim Crow” originally referred to a character in an old song and was the name of a popular dance in the 1920s. Around 1928, Thomas Daddy Rice began dressing in old clothes, painted his face ...

Issue 1

1) The issue is whether president Ingles can limit Professor Castro’s freedom of speech. 2) The law is from the Putnam v. Keller, 332 F.3d 541 case in which the court held that the campus was a public forum (Lee & Kaplin, 2013). Putnam, therefore, had the same level of access to it as any other member of the public. 3) Because the school is a public forum, the students should be free to speak Spanish in the school compound. I picked this fact because it relates to the stigmatization claim in the Putnam case. The students were being ...

Introduction

The entrance in the sport apparel and footwear arena of Under Armour, a relatively young sports brand followed its founder, Kevin Plank’s mission to provide athletes with fabrics that would prevent the accumulation of sweat, allowing them to focus on their games. This is still the company’s mission today: “Our mission. To make all athletes better through passion, design and relentless pursuit of innovation” (Thompson 53; Under Armour official website). Mission statements should answer the question why the company exists, it should be short, memorable, inspiring, market focused, indicate what the company wants to be remembered for ...

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill occurred in the location of Gulf of Mexico on April 20th of 2010 due to an explosion which took place on the Deep Water Horizon oil rig. Transocean, the operator and owner of the oil rig, is an offshore-oil-drilling company. However, it had been leased by BP Oil Company. A natural gas caused the blasting which caused a wellhead blowout. The blowout resulted in the worst marine oil spill in the history. Despite attempts to put a temporary seal to prevent the further oil spill, the equipment malfunctioned. The oil the contamination extended spill ...

For a country to run smoothly the issues emanating from the congress, parties and state authorities should go hand in hand in making sure the constitution is followed to the later. This paper addresses issues to do with congressional ethics, third party candidates and their impact on the overall governing rule.it will also look at the role of Federal and State authority in the education sector.

Congressional Ethics

Roy Moore, Alabama’s idealistic chief justice, is a member of Congress who faced elimination from the bench, for being indicted on six counts of violating judicial ethics. Moore’s order monitored a ...

Basic Identification

While confined in Birmingham prison, Martin Luther King Jr. jotted down a letter that explained the reasons for his arrest in 1963. Martin wrote the manuscript on scrap papers, newspaper corners, and the toilet paper while imprisoned in a solitary cell in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. He wrote the letter to respond to the nine criticisms of the clergymen regarding King and his fellow activists. Racism was highly prevalent in Birmingham during the 1950s and 60s. King was arrested for taking part in an anti-segregation parade in the town because he did not have a permit (King, par. ...

Introduction

The state of California has been making major budgetary cuts across all sectors of government. However, these reductions have not been applied equally to the different sectors. Regarding discretionary spending, a couple of areas have had different treatment especially during times of recession. When the monetary aid for higher education was condensed by the state of California, it decided to increase state prisons’ funding to a great extent. Even though the mentioned governmental areas are not directly linked, the ever enormously increasing financing of prisons contrasted to the constantly decreasing education funding has raised concern among citizens. This paper ...

Annually on the third Monday of January in the USA, the Day of the black fighter for the civil rights Martin Luther King is celebrated. This holiday is confined to the birthday of King on January 15. The preacher Martin Luther King headed the Movement for the rights of black Americans. This movement was devoted to fighting against racism and discrimination. At the same time, King supported only nonviolent methods of the fight. In 1964, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to him, and in 2004 the American authorities have posthumously appropriated him the Congressional Gold Medal which ...

Introduction

Rosa Parks was born on 4 February 1913 in Alabama. Parks grew up in Pine Level, Alabama, on her maternal grandfather’s farm. Parks had to experience racial discrimination early in her life, with race divided schools in Alabama. As a child, Rosa suffered from poor health, especially her sore throat. She was also weak for her age and used to be bedridden with her sickness. Rosa grew up in segregated South where she had to live in an environment that rejected African Americans to enter segregated hotels or restaurants (McDonough, 2010, p. 1-12). Her long struggle toughened her ...

On Thursday, April 28, 2016, at 7.30 in the evening, I attended the Eighty Fourth Concert of the University Chorale and the USA Concert Choir at the University of South Alabama’s Laidlaw Performing Arts Center Recital Hall. The Concert was dubbed “Star Light, Star Bright” and was organized by the University’s Department of Music. The event featured Laura M. Moore as the main conductor, Elizabeth Bemis and Tracy Mank as the student conductors, Jasmin Arakawa and Robert Holm as the main pianists, and Jennifer Bemis as the accompanist. The major pieces of the night included “A Rose ...

This semester at the University of South Alabama has been very enlightening for me, as I have overcome many obstacles and now feel much more mature and prepared both academically and emotionally. I decided to apply to this University for several reasons, including its rich history considering that its origin goes back to the 1800s. The main factor that drove me to this school is the highly recognized quality of its undergraduate and graduate academic programs, for which the University of Alabama is consistently ranked among the best 50 public universities in the US. After much deliberation, as I ...

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Introduction

Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 comedy dram film written by Carol Sobieski and Fannie Flagg. The film tells the story of a friendship between two pairs of women – Ruth and Idgie during the Great Depression of early 1930s as well as that between Evelyn and Ninny in the 1980s. It happens that Ninny knew Idgie and Ruth and she tells of the stories about these two women to Evelyn who is in her middle ages (Avnet, 1991). The central issue in the film concerns the murder of Ruth’s abusive husband Frank after which numerous accusations on the ...

Introduction

The secession or sequential exit of the Southern states from the Union was a major event in the American history that led to the Civil war. Southern secession was seen as a necessity in the plantation economy based Southern states and betrayal in the eyes of the Union. Therefore, the main research question to be explored is the factors that led to the Secession of the Southern states. The factors that played an important role in session of Southern states were abolitionist movement in the South, violation of the sectional balance and economics of slavery in the South (Meadwell & ...

The civil rights movement was a succession of political protests in the United States that sought to bring racial equality before the law. In many instances, the protesters used nonviolent acts in enhancing the emancipation of women and the rights of minorities. Despite the fact that many women played a significant role in leading the local civil rights groups and volunteering as lawyers on school segregation suits, their efforts were overshadowed by men who got more attention and credit for the popular historical process in the US. Many women suffered from sexual discrimination and gender-based discrimination within the movement ...

Abstract

This research looks into the introduction of new products and services to another county by a native Alabama country’s company. It is a paper which looks into the whole process of product introduction in the market, and the process of introducing the new products into the market. This research focuses on the Westervelt Company, based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in a process of introducing its new services to another country, that is, Canada. The research also looks into the whole process of marketing of the Westervelt products, as well as the entire process of the company’s management in ...

The HIV prevalence in men who have sex with men (MSM) has been on an upward trend over the last several decades. Indeed, the global HIV epidemic in MSM remains unabated. In Alabama, the prevalence of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among MSM remains high. This epidemic could be attributed to low level of awareness among MSM of the dangers associated certain sex-related behaviors such as engaging in unprotected sex and having many sexual partners. Furthermore, low level of awareness of condom use and HIV risk factors contribute to the high prevalence of HIV among MSM. Indeed, ...

The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys

The world is filled with webs that are so big, one has to struggle really hard to get out of them. Others may not get out from such massive, detailed and meticulous webs. Some may get out but not have the strength to make it to the other side. Many could say that one of their biggest fears is to be accused of a crime that they did not commit. In the true story of the Scottsboro Boys, these young African American men were living a worst fear and fighting for their lives. The trials of the Scottsboro boys ...

While the Civil War may have legally ended slavery, remnants of slavery and racial animosity continued to exist, and perhaps still do, in many parts of the country. Even after the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, which attempted to empower newly freed African American slaves and give them equal rights of citizenship, states managed to find ways to disenfranchise blacks from exercising their newly acquired rights of citizenship. Racial prejudice was especially pervasive in the South. The era of Jim Crow laws, which controlled nearly every aspect of Southern public life, maintained strict separation of whites and blacks (Welke, ...

Abstract

The movie Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, directed by Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman, was a documentary film based on a true story of the wrongful conviction of nine black boys (the Scottsboro Boys) for the rape of two women on a train. Directed by Daniel Anker, Barak Goodman, the movie follows the narrative that began on March 25, 1931 on a train that had set out from Chattanooga, Tennessee, with both African Americans as well as white homeless people who were travelling in search of work. The paper will explore the societal, political and economic environment at the time ...

A poor person should have legal representation during trial in order for the proceedings to comply with the right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment and due process clause under the Fourteenth Amendment. Development of this idea took decades and started with providing counsel for those who do not have knowledge of the law, who are also likely to be indigent, and evolved into the appointment of legal counsel for indigent defendants in state courts. In Powell v. Alabama, the case showed that legal representation for the poor during trial was necessary to give effect to the right of ...

The university of South Alabama provides students with an opportunity to visit Symphony Orchestra and enjoy well-performed classical music concert. This month, on April 7, the University of South Alabama Symphony Orchestra, directed by Dr. Robert Seebacher, presented its Spring concert. The series of concerts included works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Weber and Hindemith. This concert featured the University Concert Choir under the direction of Dr. Laura Moore, Dr. Jasmin Arakawa on piano, and six vocal soloists as well: Dr. Thomas Rowell, tenor, Dr. Patrick Jacobs, baritone, and four student soloists: Elizabeth Bemis, soprano, Kate Frazier, soprano, Brianna Smith, alto, ...

Abstract

Hurricane Katrina touched ground in Louisiana in August 2005. The resulting lack of coordination in a catastrophe of this size by federal agencies led to large numbers of evaluations, reports, and recommendations for improvement. Particularly under fire was the FEMA organization tasked with management of the disaster operations. The inability to coordinate local, state, and federal resources lead to billions of dollars in waste and additional loss of life secondary to lack of food, water, and shelter. Government policies and restrictions in addition to complicated definitions of responsibility delayed relief for the stricken areas by as much as a ...

Introduction

What I find inspiring about Boggs is her life right from the beginning. Grace Lee Boggs was an activist, whose life was dedicated to writing wrongs. She dedicated her life to leadership in civil rights, labor, and Black power movements. Boggs was born in the year 1915 at Rhode Island. Her parents were Chinese immigrants. Boggs father’s expansion in business made her move to New York. During her stay in the New York, she experienced the racism that her fellow Chinese Americans were exposed to. This motivated her to come up with ways to curb the situation. Boggs ...

This research paper will examine the struggle between state and federal power by looking at three examples where state and federal law have come into conflict. The argument behind this research paper will be that ultimately the federal government has the final decision in making laws. In 2003, the federal government brought charges against Ed Rosenthal for possession of marijuana after being authorized by the City of Oakland to distribute the drug under Californian state law (Ryan 312). Nonetheless, Rosenthal was not able to present this argument during his trial because federal law does not recognize state laws regarding ...

1. What is Angela Davis’s overall objective (purpose) in writing this book? What is her overall THESIS (argument—her position on prisons)? Since the 1970s, the growth of prisons has been exponential, and Angela Y. Davis worries why the community allows such a thing to happen. The growth is associated with the larger economic and social situations of the country. Davis argues that the growth of prisons is rarely seen, but it creates a cycle of incarceration and joblessness. She argues that prisons permit individuals to disassociate from the issues in their community (such as social, economic ...

After the emancipation of black slaves from bondage under the yoke of slavery, the United States witnessed a change in its social order as for the first time in history the federal government supported egalitarianism. Now, the liberation of persons of African descent came after the American Civil War of between 1861 and 1865 in which the anti-slavery Northerners won under the Union flag. As a result, the pro-slavery Southerners conformed to the abolition sentiments of the North simply because they lost the war and were in no way for the equality of races in the country. Accordingly, within ...

The sixth amendment to the United States Constitution is a simple aspect of the constitutional rights of the offenders. It means that if someone is charged with accusations for committing a serious crime and facing a punishment, he/she has the right to have a lawyer to assist in his/her defense. A very substantial part of this concept is if the individual cannot afford to hire such, the offender has to be offered a qualified counsel at public expense. The offender must be notified about this constitutional right at his/her detention along with the rest of the rights that are ...