...In the fictional town of Maycomb County, Alabama, that Harper Lee used for her novel “To Kill a Mocking Bird”, the church life was very similar to the rest of the communities throughout the south at that time. Alabama is in the middle of the so called Bible belt. Church is a routine to the folks of Maycomb County. Their parents and grandparents went to church every Sunday; therefore, their kids are expected to do the same thing. Although the citizens attend church on a weekly basis it doe not seem to affect their everyday life. The community of Maycomb County all believe themselves to be devout, wholesome people; but as you read you discover that they are using their religion to cater to their own opinions and thoughts. Although they listen to the sermons about their religion and pretend that they practice it outside of church on a Sunday, the rest of their time, their beliefs on social harmony are far from the perfect Christian morals they believe themselves to have. A perfect example of this is when the Finch family’s maid Calpurnia decided to take Jem and Scout to church at First Purchase African M.E. Church. Calpurnia’s church did not welcome them with open arms. A comment was made that the white folk have their own church and why must they come to ours. Scout also made an observation the sermon Reverend Sykes preached that day was very similar to what she normally hears at her own church. Throughout the entire book the church was a part of their life but...
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...Mara Arisman 8A Literature March 06,18 To Kill A Mockingbird Essay To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee. This novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama around 1933. Scout, the narrator, Jem, her brother, and her father, Atticus Finch, have to help a black man, Tom Robinson, who was convicted of rape. Along the way, they meet many new people and learn a lot of valuable lessons like never kill a mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in a “sleepy town” called Maycomb, Alabama around 1933 during the Great Depression. Scout said that Maycomb is a “tired old town” where “people seem to move slower” (6 Lee). This is s small town so everyone knows everything about everybody. Southern Alabama has “summers that drift into autumn, and autumn...
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...Coming of Age For many generations, coming-of-age has impacted the perspectives of many perspectives. Coming-of-age occurs in everyone at one point or another. Gaining new perspectives and seeing the world in a different way is an important part of life. Coming-of-age involves recognizing different perspectives. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is an example of a character whose coming-of-age process involves gaining a different perspective. Scout’s maturity can be proven when To Kill a Mockingbird says, “I carefully picked up the tray and watched myself walk to Mrs. Merriweather. With my best company manners, I asked her if she would have some” (Lee 318). Scout is coming-of-age when realizing how to appropriately react to certain events and by learning how to use her manners. Scout’s perspective has changed when she says, “an’ Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . .” (Lee 376). Because Scout realizes that people are not always what they seem, she gains new perspectives as she comes-of-age. From acting mature to seeing the world in a different way, Scout comes-of-age throughout To Kill a Mockingbird. In the National Geographic article “Beautiful Brains” David Dobbs shows how gaining new perspectives during coming-of-age helps individuals to be smarter and more successful. The clarity of how coming-of-age matures individuals is stated when saying, “Teens take more risks not because they don’t...
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...Coming of Age There comes a time in each person’s life when they reach a point in which they are no longer children, but adults. The phrase coming-of-age is typically associated with this period in a teenager’s life. Some teens reach this point by simply growing older and obtaining a better understanding of the world surrounding them. Others reach this stage by experiencing an event or events that will affect them for the rest of their lives. Examples of coming of age can be found in many stories, books, and magazines throughout literature. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and “Beautiful Brains” by David Dobbs are excellent examples of literature that contain the trait coming-of-age. Coming-of-age involves recognizing different perspectives. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is an example of a character whose coming-of-age process involves gaining a different perspective. Scout is at the age where she does not understand the differences of others: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 92). Scout does not understand that every child in her class has yet to learn how to read or write. She gets angry at Walter Cunningham for not knowing how to read or write. Miss Caroline lectures Scout about her actions. This leads to Atticus explaining that to understand where a person is coming from, Scout has to be where Walter was and feel what Walter has been through. Scout...
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...Branching Out In Silence In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s use of the Radley's tree as a symbol shows the communication Boo Radley had with Maycomb county and its citizens. One way Lee symbolizes the communication Boo has with the coFunty is by the spreading of the trees’s roots. When Scout is describing the scenery she says, “Two live oaks stood at the edge of the Radley log; their roots reached out into the side-road and made it bumpy” (Lee 33). In this quotation when Scout says that “the roots reach out into the side-road”, this expresses Boo Radley’s want to reach out to the community because he feels isolated. The fact that the tree roots are showing proves that the children are more in contact with Boo Radley. This also displays foreshadowing that Boo Radley will make more appearances in the town. It says though, that the tree roots are making the road bumpy, so they are causing an uneasy effect on the town. Since Boo Radley is characterized as a monstrous character, it makes sense that the people in Maycomb county view him as a disturbance. Boo is trying to interact with the town, but is seen as a disruption which causes him to find new ways of communication. Another way Lee symbolizes the communication Boo has with the people of Maycomb is by the knot-hole of the tree. The knot-hole is the first type of communication Boo has with Scout and Jem. When Scout finds the gum she says, “I stood on tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the...
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...Company Ownership/Legal Entity Chesapeake Pet Resort is a sole proprietorship specializing in service. Chesapeake Pet Resort is an already existing business that Mary and Thomas Blake wish to acquire. Location Chesapeake Pet Resort in located in the Heart of Hollywood Maryland located in St. Mary’s County. This is the perfect location. Close to the base but far enough away to create the feel of the county in a safe environment. Located a short distance from some of the larger cities such as Leonardtown, California, Lexington Park where many business are located. Hollywood is also a short distance from other county’s as well including Calvert and Charles County. Chesapeake Pet Resort is conveniently located on 10 acres of land, offering...
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...To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus is a kind person who believes everyone should get a chance even if it could hurt him and his family. To kill a mockingbird is about the life of a little girl named scout and how her father is a lawyer that helped a black man in court. They were made fun of and hurt but still got through.Atticus should take a stand because he has courage and he is kind. The first reason is Atticus has courage for standing up for Tom Robinson even though he will be made fun of. “ In Maycomb grown men stood outside in the front yard for only two reasons death and politics. Jem and I went to the front door, But Atticus called Go back in the house”(Lee 193). This shows that Atticus stood up to Heck Tate and men who wanted to take Tom back to the county jail. Atticus also protected his kids. Atticus has reasons for taking up for Tom. “The main one is, if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town. I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature. I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again”(Lee 100). This shows Atticus took this case even tho he would get a lot of threats . He should feel bad if he didn’t help him. The second reason is Atticus is kind because he stood up for Tom because he didn’t do it. “So you did ma’am you’ll have to bear with me, Miss Mayella, i’m getting a long and can’t remember as well as I used to”(Lee 243). This shows that instead of saying Mayella or girl Atticus is very kind saying Ma’am and Miss Mayella. Even...
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...In the time period of 1963 in Birmingham Alabama there was a lot of discrimination towards blacks from the whites. One main event that happened during that time was the blacks tried getting the same rights as the whites. Differing from the book the author didn’t talk about how the blacks got treated differently with discrimination and segregation. The book didn’t mention really anything about whites the author really based the book off of a black family. On the contrary another historical event is that in Birmingham the population of the blacks was 135,113 people and for the whites it was 205,620 people. Having there be more whites in Birmingham then blacks it was easier for the whites to get what they wanted. In contrast the book didn’t talk about the population of the blacks and whites...
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...To Kill A MockingBird by Harper Lee is a story about Scout and Jem growing up in a small town. A small southern town. The character, Scout faces a wide variety of trials and experiences throughout the story that help her come of age. Scouts coming of age is developed at school, with the help of Miss Caroline, through conflict, setting, and theme. Scout begins as a girl who is quick to violence, and kind of rude towards her authority. Throughout the story, one would see that she has started to come of age. With the help of people around her. Firstly, Scout begins to come of age with her conflict between her teacher, Miss Caroline. On pages 17-18 of the book, To Kill A MockingBird, It says “ Before the first morning was over, Miss Caroline Fisher, our teacher, hauled me up to the front of the room and patted the palm of my hand with a ruler, then made me stand in the corner until noon”. This is an example of conflict between Miss Caroline and Scout. Miss Caroline is upset with Scout because her job is to teach, and she can’t do that is Scout already knows how to do everything. Scout had already known how to read and it’s probably a struggle for Miss Caroline to teach Scout something she already knows. Miss Caroline feels as if Scout is interfering with her job. That must be worrying for Miss Caroline. There are quite a few examples of conflict throughout the story. This is just one example. Secondly, One would see Scout coming of age through setting. On page 18 of...
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...Have you ever decided what a person is like based off of rumors? Can you really know a person just by what people say? This happens to many people. An example of such would be Arthur (Boo) Radley in the book To Kill A Mockingbird. Boo Radley is a secluded mysterious figure who never comes out of his house. Scout and Jem (who are young children) are fascinated with the stories and rumors of Boo radley and hope to meet him one day. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee represents the theme that rumors do not define a person through Arthur (Boo) Radley and his relationship with Atticus’s children (Scout and Jem) and how their relationship changes from the beginning to the end of the book. An example of Harper Lee using this theme would be at the beginning of the book. During the summer, in a small town called Maycomb, Scout and Jem meet a new friend. His name is Dill. They have neighbors called the Radley’s who are a secluded family that don't talk to people. Dill becomes curious and asks about Boo (Arthur radley), the son that lives in the house . People have seen the mother, and the father (who is now deceased) and the older brother (who visited during Christmas until his father died, then he moved to Maycomb and lived in the house) but never Arthur (nicknamed Boo) Radley. When describing Boo, Scout says, “ inside the house lived a malevolent phantom (Boo)... people said he went out at night… and peeped in windows...any stealthy small crimes committed in his where his...
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...In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee reveals Scout's empathetic tone toward Boo Radley through details and diction. Throughout the novel Boo protects Scout frequently(Pattern A). Toward the end of the novel(pattern B) Boo saves Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell and Boo brought them back to their house, Lee uses diction to describe Scouts tone toward Boo. “I looked from his hands to his sand-stained khaki pants; my eyes traveled up his thin frame to his torn denim shirt” (270). This quote talks about how his clothes are torn and stained. This could make someone, like Scout, feel empathetic because his clothes got ruined by protecting the kids like he has done many times before. In some cases words like “torn” and “sand-stained” might give off a negative tone but in this context they give off the opposite tone. Later in the book, Lee reveals Scouts tone through details after Boo saved the kids from being injured or maybe even killed, Boo asked Scout to walk him home. Boo asked Scout, “Will you take me home?” He almost whispered it, in the voice of a child afraid of the dark.” (278). In this quote, it portrays Boo as childlike. This is the least Scout could do for him since he has protected her so many times and she just wants to help him in any way she can. This can create a empathetic tone because Boo seems scared to walk by himself and it makes you want to help him like Scout does. Lee also shows Scouts empathetic tone through details. Scout shows her empathetic tone...
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...Courage is the strength to do things that you fear. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird is packed full of examples of courage and bravery. Some subtle some very direct. One of the many examples being Boo Radley's house. Many of the direct examples of courage was seen there. Harper Lee uses courage to create rising action and to develop or further a character's motives and beliefs. Like in the beginning of the book they showed Dill running to Boo Radleys gate and touch it at a time when most of the children in the neighbourhood feared him. Atticus and the entire court scene was also filled with courageous acts even if most were subtle and not easy to spot at first glance. Boo’s house even went though a few phases that we saw that greatly influenced others view on the house and of Boo himself. In the book almost all examples of courage was done to progress or tell the reader something about that character from totally changing our views of them to just minor details that aid to the describing a character. Examples being when Dill ran and touched Boo’s house gate, we learned that Dill won't really say no to a dare which adds to child like innocence we see also having huge themes in the book. Another great example is when Boo goes out his house and saves Jem and Scout from the evil clutches of bob ewell, eventually stabbing and even killing bob to save the two kids. Not only to go out of his way to save the kids but almost risking his life too as there was a chance bob might...
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...In the book “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien it featured a character named Mary Anne Bell going through a transformation into a new character called the Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong. Mary Anne Bell was a very friendly girl, straight out of Cleveland Heights Senior High whereas the Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, a character more determined and adapted to war decided to join the Green Berets because she loved the feel of the ambush and wore her human tongue trophies threaded along a copper wire necklace. When Mary Anne was introduced in the book she was described as being young and innocent. She didn’t know about all the aspects of life in the Vietnam war, but it was just like Eddie Diamond had said “This girl will most definitely learn” (92). After learning about how to treat wounded soldiers and how to use an M-16 she became more determined in what she wanted. She even said that everything she wanted was in Vietnam. This was when she began to transform into the Sweetheart because she was already determined in what she wanted, which was the surge of adrenaline that came with the Vietnam war. Mary Anne completely transforms into the Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong after her first ambush with the Green Berets. Mary Anne stated “When i'm out there at night, I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and my fingernails, everything, it’s like i'm full of electricity and i'm glowing in the dark... you can’t feel like that anywhere else” (106). She...
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...Baptism of Pocahontas John Gadsby Chapman Artist I believe the artist portrayed reverence and family connection in this painting. He shows a convergence of Christianity and the uncivilized Indians. It shows that different tribes or civilizations can love each other even though their belief systems can remain somewhat different. This painting was commissioned in1836 and was placed in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building in 1840. William Henry was elected as President in 1840. During the time this painting was commissioned, the fight against slavery actually began and cotton prices went up. Women also became antislavery abolitionist, which help link the two fights together. A state education board was also started in Massachusetts. Declaration of Independence John Trumbull Artist This painting shows a group of individuals working for a better United States. The painting does not show the actual signing of the Declaration. It does show a united front with strength and authority around the desk being well balanced, which was a show of republicanism. I feel Trumbull portrayed this well with great detail of strength and authority in the face and stance of each individual. Trumbull was commissioned to do four paintings with this being the first completed and the first to be hung in the Capitol in 1819 and later was moved to the Rotunda in 1826. The painting was also one of four to be done in the Revolution-era. During this time period the founding fathers were...
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...Analysis of BP’s Response to the spill in the Gulf BP’s Response to the Deepwater Horizon Spill On April 20, 2010 an unprecedented oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. BP suffered not only personnel and equipment loss, but public relations loss as well. Many Americans felt outraged at BP for the effects of the spill on the Gulf Coast communities. Although the media immediately discussed the environmental implications of the disaster, many people felt that the impacts on the Gulf Coast communities, such as the negative effects on the seafood and tourism industries, received inadequate attention. An article that came out less than two months after the spill in The Working Waterfront mirrored the feelings of many Americans, “Each day we are confronted with media coverage of oiled birds, coastal wetlands, beaches and aggrieved local politicians, but little about the personal and community impacts ” (Herz, 2010). BP lost its good reputation and needed to create an initiative to show its commitment to the communities in which it resides. In an attempt to rebuild its reputation, BP’s “Gulf of Mexico Restoration” website uses these three strategies: it uses testimonies of Gulf Coast locals to highlight BP’s understanding of Gulf communities; it uses images of its sponsored events to highlight BP’s involvement and immersion in those communities, and it uses repetition of the word “engage” to emphasize its commitment to the Gulf and the people in it. BP uses testimonies of southern-accented...
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