Coming Of Age In Mississippi
Arthur Miller--Appreciation
The dramatist inhabits an altogether different world. He or she is limited, particularly in the modern theater, to no more than a couple of hours. (Unless your name is Eugene O’Neill, whose Strange Interlude ran for six hours, including a dinner break.) Increasingly, indeed, the dramatist is limited as to the number of actors he can deploy and the number of sets he can call for. The theater, of course, is quite capable of turning the few into many and a single location into multiple settings but the pressure is toward concision. The 800-page book becomes a 100-page play text. The pressure, in other words, is toward a kind of poetry, not the poetry of Christopher Fry or T. S. Eliot, but a poetry generated out of metaphor, a language without excess, a language to be transmuted into physical form, the word made flesh. Miller collapses the history of his society into the lives of his characters and in doing so, exemplifies a truth adumbrated by Ralph Waldo Emerson a century and a half ag ... [Read More]
951 Frontage Road #51, Oxford, Mississippi 38655
This two-level, single family condominium has 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a kitchen, family room, dining area, laundry, and 3 assigned parking spaces in front of the home. Amenities include a fireplace, rear patio with privacy fence, and covered front porch. The Autumn Ridge condominiums is located in Lafayette County, and is 1 mile from the downtown square of Oxford. The home is convenient to schools, shopping and medical centers, and is near the University of Mississippi campus. ... [Read More]
Charles W. Pickering
Chip holds a bachelors degree in business administration from the University of Mississippi and a masters degree in business administration from Baylor University. He and his wife Leisha have five sons: Will, Ross, Jackson, Asher, and Harper. They reside on a small farm in rural Madison County. ... Before coming to Congress, Chip pioneered the first full-time presence by a Southern Baptist missionary behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest, the capital of then communist Hungary. President George H. W. Bush appointed Pickering to the United States Department of Agriculture to bring economic and democratic reform to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. ... [Read More]
President Discusses Strengthening Social Security in Mississippi
Now, this is a pay-as-you-go system; you pay in, andwe go ahead and pay out in Washington. You pay into the system -- somepeople say, well, there's a Social Security trust, we'll just take yourmoney and hold it for you and give it back to you when you retire.That's not the way the system works. Part of my responsibility as yourPresident is to tell you exactly what's going on, to lay it right outthere for you to hear. The way it works in Social Security is yourpayroll taxes -- and you pay a lot of payroll taxes -- go into thesystem, and we're paying for retirees, like two of the people sittingup here today. And if we have any money left over, it goes to fundgovernment programs. And all that's left is an IOU. That's how thesystem works. And so you're paying in, and it's going out. Nobody is --you're not paying in and we're holding the money for you. You're payingin and it's going out. And in 2017, because baby boomers like me aregetting ready to retire, the system starts to go in the red ... [Read More]
NIFL-WOMENLIT 2005: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:3211] Re: Mississippi
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"Old Man River: Life Along the Mississippi River" an exhibit at the Hoover Library-Museum
After being linked with black magic and sorcery, the clever Marie used fear to her advantage by casting spells during fiery rites along the bayous, accompanied by hypnotic drumbeats and snakes. The Voodoo Queen's city-wide spy network of servants and slaves provided her with the private secrets of community leaders in New Orleans. Through innuendo or outright blackmail, Laveau easily influenced the behavior of those in power, or they would face dire consequences. ... ~ Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine IA ... [Read More]
13th National Veterans Golden Age Games: News Media
Sports and fitness are vital ingredients in VA's rehabilitation programs. Physical activity and friendly competition engage the mind as well as the body. At VA health centers across the country, recreation therapy fills a special need in the lives of older patients. VA research and clinical experience verify that physical activity is particularly important to their health, recuperation and overall quality of life. The National Veterans Golden Age Games encourage VA patients over the age of 55 to make physical activity a central part of their lives, and support VA's comprehensive recreation therapy programs. The event is a national showcase for the preventive and therapeutic value of sports, fitness, and recreation in the lives of all older Americans. ... [Read More]
Fact Sheet - HIV/AIDS among Youth - CDC-NCHSTP-Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention
Among all people in the United States , the annual number of new HIV infections has declined from a peak in the mid-1980s of more than 150,000 and stabilized since the late 1990s at approximately 40,000. Populations of minority races or ethnicities are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic. To reduce further the incidence of HIV, CDC announced a new initiative, Advancing HIV Prevention ( http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/partners/AHP.htm ), in 2003. This initiative comprises 4 strategies: making HIV testing a routine part of medical care, implementing new models for diagnosing HIV infections outside medical settings, preventing new infections by working with HIV-infected persons and their partners, and further decreasing perinatal HIV transmission. ... [Read More]
Peace Corps | Learn about Peace Corps
Coming from all walks of life and representing the rich diversity of the American people, Volunteers range in age from college students to retirees. Every Peace Corps Volunteer's experience is different. From teaching English to elementary school children in Zambia to launching a computer learning center in Moldova to promoting HIV/AIDS awareness in South Africa to working on soil conservation in Panama, Volunteers bring their skills and life experiences to where they are needed most. ... [Read More]
President Participates in Social Security Conversation in Maryland
So I think you ought to be allowed to take some of your money, setit aside in a voluntary personal savings account so you can invest inbonds or stocks -- bonds and stocks, whatever you so choose. You can'tput it in the lottery, by the way. There will be go-bys. In otherwords, the government is going to say, we're not going to let you takeit to the track; we're not going to let you -- we're not going to letyou take wild risks. People do this all the time, by the way, and theyget a better rate of return than 1.8 percent. And if you can get abetter rate of return than 1.8 percent, that compounds over time. Andit's that compounding of interest that helps create wealth and securityin retirement. The voluntary personal accounts will complement thatwhich is available to you through the Social Security system. Butyou're going to get a better deal on your own money than in the currentsystem. ... [Read More]
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