Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My father

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Memoirs My Forefathers Left Me I quite remember so many years back when I was ten years old. My great- grandfather, a Chickasaw used to sit me beside a well-lit fire of coal and sometimes wood at night , telling me about 'our people' and how Mississippi became what it is today. We were the earliest inhabitants to live in Miss... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Hunger, Disease & Poverty Why we can't end world hunger

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The Means of Ending World HungerIn recent decades the means of ending world hunger has excited global concern. In the eighteenth century, a English economist, Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus(1766-1834) argued that population growth at a point in time would outrun food supply and catastrophic reductions as a result of famine, d... More..

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Grandparents

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My Escape From Slavery in the 1840s Cinque was my name. I was a little boy playing around in the bush as every motherland boy would do in the 1800s. I was snatched from my family, my home, my freedom, my hemisphere, and all. It's been several years now since that incident occurred, but every bit of the hardships I endured on ... More..

Parenting & Pregnancy > Risky Child Behaviors The negative effects of television on children

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Television Causes Young Children To Act Violently After the tragic shootings at Columbine High School in 1999, Former President Clinton asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether the motion picture, music and video game industuries advertised and marketed violent material to children and adolescents. Work... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Children

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The World of ChildrenThe old always envy the world of children, but this is not always so.For when a child breaks a glass, he is sure to get a scalding,When a child goes to bed late, he is sure to get a rebuke,When a child does not perform well in school, he is sure to get a dressing down.But when father breaks a glass, mothe... More..

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Yesterday's dreams

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A TERRIBLE DREAMI woke up by a sudden unusual knock at my door only to find my pillow soaked with sweat and my nerves near breaking point. I could hardly bear the terrible experience. I turned the lights on to see what time it was. Five a.m. as the hand of the clock moved. For another two minutes, I laid in bed pondering over... More..

Arts & Humanities > History (Other) Lasting effects of slavery on popular culture

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Sharecropping, a System Like No Other Sharecropping set into Mississippi's economy, when traumatic economic hardships began after the Civil War. Sharecropping is an agricultural system, in which the farmers used land, tools and even the houses they lived in, and after harvesting, they paid the owner of the land, tools and hou... More..

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