Good Afternoon guys! I went Diamond mining back in 2016 in Arkansas. I need to write at least a paragraph for an essay i'm doing for school. Needs to be about how the experience was. (which was amazing, but expensive.) If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated and is worth 30 points! Thanks!
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Arkansas: A Different State
For many people the very mention of the word “Arkansas” conjures up images that are unflattering and certainly not very complimentary. To suggest that Arkansas is “a different state” is to guarantee almost immediate agreement from any given audience, but such agreement is usually about the negative aspects of the state instead of the ones making for actual difference.
Those negative aspects extend back to the early days of the territory. When Cephas Washburn was on his way to Arkansas in 1819 to serve as a missionary to the Cherokees, he stopped at the present site of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to obtain specific directions to the territory, only to be told that “the way to get there was wnknown.”1 …show more content…
A Little Rock banker, Virgil C. Pettie, was head of the Arkansas Advancement Association, a group that had been trying to put together at least two hundred reasons to justify the nickname of Arkansas as the Wonder State. In words just as cutting as those of Mencken, Pettie described the Baltimore journalist as “sufficiently obnoxious to a majority of the American people to warrant deportation.”7
Finally, the reader should remember the famous observation about Arkansas contributed by Harry S. Ashmore, the former executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette: “In the statistical accounting from income to education, Arkansas ranked near the bottom of the list of states; at the Chamber of Commerce the census reports provided only an occasion to thank God for Mississippi.”8
Comments such as those made by Ashmore and others in the preceding paragraphs could be expanded upon almost without limit; many travelers wrote about their experiences in Arkansas, and all too frequently those comments did not convey a favorable tone. Arkansas, it seemed, was “a different state” primarily because of so man
For many people the very mention of the word “Arkansas” conjures up images that are unflattering and certainly not very complimentary. To suggest that Arkansas is “a different state” is to guarantee almost immediate agreement from any given audience, but such agreement is usually about the negative aspects of the state instead of the ones making for actual difference.
Those negative aspects extend back to the early days of the territory. When Cephas Washburn was on his way to Arkansas in 1819 to serve as a missionary to the Cherokees, he stopped at the present site of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to obtain specific directions to the territory, only to be told that “the way to get there was wnknown.”1 …show more content…
A Little Rock banker, Virgil C. Pettie, was head of the Arkansas Advancement Association, a group that had been trying to put together at least two hundred reasons to justify the nickname of Arkansas as the Wonder State. In words just as cutting as those of Mencken, Pettie described the Baltimore journalist as “sufficiently obnoxious to a majority of the American people to warrant deportation.”7
Finally, the reader should remember the famous observation about Arkansas contributed by Harry S. Ashmore, the former executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette: “In the statistical accounting from income to education, Arkansas ranked near the bottom of the list of states; at the Chamber of Commerce the census reports provided only an occasion to thank God for Mississippi.”8
Comments such as those made by Ashmore and others in the preceding paragraphs could be expanded upon almost without limit; many travelers wrote about their experiences in Arkansas, and all too frequently those comments did not convey a favorable tone. Arkansas, it seemed, was “a different state” primarily because of so man
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