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Based on a true story
The Hero of the Ghost of Mississippi
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Based on a true story, Ghosts of Mississippi recounts the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist of the time. Scripted by Lewis Colick and directed by Rob Reiner, the film is about the cold-blooded murder of Evers and the decades-long struggle to bring his killer to books. The tale screams outrage over racism that is still rampant in the new integrated South of America. The hero in his film is Robert ” Bobby” Delaughter. Alec Baldwin played the role. This essay discusses Bobby Delaughter as the main hero of the film Ghosts of Mississippi.
In June 1963, Medgar Evers was shot dead outside his driveway. Evers was the leader of the NAACP in Mississippi. Byron De La Beckwith was charged with Evers’ murder, but he was later set free after two juries comprising of white people overturned the decision. Although it is evident that Beckwith was the killer, it was impossible to get a conviction, noting the apparent parallel case of OJ. The Mississippi courtroom atmosphere was so poisoned that the-then governor, Ross Barnett walked and shook hands with the accused. Bobby Delaughter re-opened the case in 1989, and eventually he won against De la Beckwith. Worth noting, De LaBeckwith had spent the years openly boasting about the murder and how nobody could do anything about it. Justice was eventually served because of DeLaughter’s persistence and his need thirst to see justice served.
Twenty-five years after the death of his civil rights activist and lawyer husband, Myrlie decided that it was time to pursue justice for his death. She reopened the case against the suspected murder De La Beckwith with the help of his lawyer Bobby Delaughter. At the time, DeLaughter was a mere assistant attorney who had a lot to lose but despite this, he decided to help her. DeLaughter is a hero because the case could kill his political aspirations, but this did not stop him from pursuing justice for Evers (Rucker, Baden, Llewellyn, & Pappas, 2021). Delaughter is a hero because he single-handedly managed to bring Evers’s killers to justice with the help of his wife. DeLaughter worked on the case for a couple of years. People who supported De La Beckwith and did not want to see him behind bars targeted and threatened his family. This coupled with his commitment to bring De La Beckwith to books made his marriage to Dixie collapse. His marriage was already strained at the time. But soon enough, DeLaughter met and fell in love with Peggy Lloyd, a nurse he had met when taking one of his children to the local emergency room for an emergency. Pursuing this case cost DeLaughter his first marriage.
With the evidence from past trials saved by Myrlie, De laughter took the case to trial and laid it out before the grand jury. He told the jury that it was never too late to rectify and injustice and that no statute of limitations existed on the crime of murder. After both the prosecution and the defense rested, the trial was now in the hands of the jury. Delaughter admitted to Mrs. Evers that this was the hardest part of the trial; waiting to see the verdict that the jury would arrive at. Upon extended deliberations, the jury resided back to the courtroom where they found De La Beckwith guilty of Medgar Evers murder.
In closing, the Ghost of Mississippi is about the quest for justice by Evers widow whose husband was murdered in the driveway outside their home in 1963. After twenty-five years, Mrs. Evers reopens the case with the help of DeLaughter, an assistant attorney at the time. Despite having so much to lose, Delaughter decided to help her pursue justice. Delaughter is a true hero because in pursuing justice for Medgar Evers, he lost his first marriage, his life was threatened, and he jeopardized his political aspirations.
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Rucker, A. J., Baden, M. M., Llewellyn, M., & Pappas, T. N. (2021). The Assassination of Medgar Evers. The Annals of thoracic surgery.
A Feminist Communicology Of Organization
A Feminist Communicology Of Organization
Introduction
Gender is a central constitutive quality of organizations which investigates the complex relationship between gender and working organization and is referred to reworking gender. The main reason for this study is to provide a framework for a communicative interpretation of human categorizing processes, as well as distinguishing those procedures take on character mostly within a diachronic, dialectical and substantially grounded set of principles (Ashcraft & Mumby, 2004).
Communication composes organizing as well as recognizes that the procedure disclose within a specific professional life and work. These grounded principles include; a feminist postmodern account of subjectivity; a dialectical of power and resistance; a historical context and a conception of discursive and material practices as mutually constitutive. For this study to investigate on issues of discourse, power, identity and organization the structure must include the approaches of both modernist and postmodernist theory (Ashcraft & Mumby, 2004).
Feminism maintains a commitment to communal transformation and supports justification that are materially and historically grounded. Feminism’s concentrates in voice, doubt of common knowledge claims, and debates over vitalized ideas of ‘woman’ parallel definite postmodern anxieties. Positioned within modernism whilst lasting significant of it, feminism is the best direction for mediating and navigating the anxieties between modernist and postmodernist logic. Conception of the relationship between modernist and postmodernist is build on the dialectic tension while power is measured at micro and macro levels as a procedure of subject.
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Discourse is deliberation in connection to a material world created by historically-specific political economic forces. The feminist communicological method can be used in a case study that outlines the historical building of the airline pilot as a masculinized specialized individuality.
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Ashcraft, K., & Mumby, D. K. (2004). Reworking gender: A feminist communicology of organization. (Pp. 169-190). United States of America: Sage publications.
A Female Pioneer on the Oregon Trail
A Female Pioneer on the Oregon Trail
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Taking the journey down the Oregon Trail was one of my greatest explorations accompanied with unbelievable adversity. I was part of the big group that was looking for new territory with underutilized opportunities. Our journey started in 1843 with almost 800 people, numerous wagons that were almost 100 as well as almost 4500 cattle. The Oregon Trail took us over five months to complete even though some of us did not live to see the end of the journey (Harrell, 2005). Indeed we were going to the new world that we did not know anything about although we felt that there must be wonderful things that we needed. Reaching the new land which was strategically located in the Pacific Northwest part of the country prompted us to take a journey which is popularly known as the Oregon Trail. The hardship we experienced with our children was one of its kinds. I influenced my family because I wanted to start of life in the west. In the beginning, the desire to explore new world overwhelmed me and I could not think about any other thing (Peavy & Smith, 1998).
Before the adventure life was very interesting and relaxing especially to women who did not have much to do in their homes. Women did not expect their men to explore the tales of gold and prosperous green land in the west because their husbands were already established businessmen or working on their lands. I initially believed that life was satisfying because I did not lack anything I wanted (Woodworth-Ney, 2008). However, one time I just changed my mind and decided to explore the great things that existed in the west. There was severe depression in the Midwest as well as propaganda from fellow traders and other government officials regarding the fertility and the value of land in the west. I fully packed my wagon with foodstuff such as beans, coffee, dried meat, flour as well as clothing and furniture. Interestingly, I had to drop some of my heavy household items such as furniture because they were too heavy to be carried while crossing rivers (Peavy & Smith, 1998).
Although we ran through fairly even country of the Great Plains, there was a good number of obstacles on the way such as the perils of crossing rivers as well as the candid risk of the Indian attackers. We drew our wagons into a circle at night to create a rough-and-ready barrier for fear of the India attacker. Few people died from accidental discharge of firearms or be drowned while we were crossing rivers. In addition, there were other more mundane causes such as diseases, some people would fall off horses and the difficulties of walking along rocky terrain that was full of steep ascents and descents as well as injuries got from overturning and runaway wagons (Woodworth-Ney, 2008).
I travelled almost 2000 miles along with other pioneers whom we were forced to travel through five states after the journey began in Missouri. The journey was full of people with different ages and sex. Most of the women we travelled with complained that their husbands forced them to take the journey in search for new places despite the fact that they were already established in their homes (Woodworth-Ney, 2008). Travelling in group was amazing since we could make stories and also for our safety. Some of our properties were being robbed at gunpoint by highway people along the trail. It was really heartbreaking to see women bearing children and losing them on the way due to unbearable conditions thus forcing them to live the bodies behind (Morito, 2012).
Jefferson wanted to boost the economy by using resources which would arise due to exploration of new fertile land. I currently stay in Williamette Valley. There were several significant technological, infrastructural and economic growths that resulted as the Oregon Trail. Domestic farming was introduced into the West because of enormous herding and introduction of the domestic animals by us. Surprisingly, I can see some of the modern highways and railroads built alongside the Oregon Trail. Furthermore, Oregon Trail resulted into devastating effects on the environment due to increased farming activities that led to clearing of land (Harrell, 2005).
We grabbed natives’ land turning our acts to be that of manipulation and incursion. Oregon Trail played an important role especially in incorporating most of the West states such as California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon due to our hard work that transformed the cultures and the economies of the states (Morito, 2012). I may say that I am economically stable simply because of my decision to travel along with others. I found better and fertile land where I can grow almost every crop to feed my family and even give extra to other people. California is now a rich state supplying farm commodities to the nation because of the bitter decision we made.
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Harrell, D. E. (2005). Unto a good land: A history of the American people. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans.
Morito, B. (2012). An ethic of mutual respect: The Covenant Chain and aboriginal-crown relations. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Peavy, L. S., & Smith, U. (1998). Pioneer women: The lives of women on the frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Woodworth-Ney, L. (2008). Women in the American West. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO.