Additional blog posts that don’t fit in my other categories!
For the general election ballot on November 8th for my hometown address in Kennesaw, I learned that the candidates for Senate in Georgia are Republican Johnny Isakson, who is an incumbent, Democrat Jim Barksdale, and Libertarian Allen Bucksley. Specifically for my district, district 11, the…
I created my own GIF file using Adobe Photoshop. In this animation, an emoji tear is running down a native american’s face. This sadness represents the harsh cruelties that the Trail of Tears entailed for the migrating natives.The native populations were coerced by unjust United States…
This collection of maps shows the change in population of slaves from 1790 to 1860 in the United States. I used Social Explorer, which takes United States census data and creates maps based on different demographics, to analyze the movement of slavery. In 1790, much…
Recently I had the opportunity to visit a historic site close to home, Pickett’s Mill, a preserved Civil War battlefield in Dallas, Georgia. In my visit, I learned the rich history behind the the site while experiencing nature and its simplicity. As an avid hiker,…
Above is a screenshot of my two Zotero library entries which I utilized in my reading annotations. In one entry, I used a supplemental reading article by Crowell about unequal housing opportunities for minorities and in my second entry, I used a website that displayed…
Above is the route that my GSU Honors Mapping class took on our walk to the civic center today! We learned about Atlanta’s mixed-use properties, Buttermilk Bottom, a “poor, black” neighborhood, in the 1950’s, the transition to “grandiose” almost suburban-like structures in the 1970’s, and the transition…
This here is an image of a building located on Luckie Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Luckie Street has immense significance to me, specifically during my adolescence, because I had spent my best memories at the Tabernacle, a local concert venue that hosted a multitude of…