Raymod’s Diary Entry: Dear Diary‚ Today was tryouts for the Franklin High School boys’ basketball team. I am a sophomore this year‚ I am proud that I made it this far. This year will be my first year trying out for a basketball team. I am nervous‚ what if I am not good enough for a team? There was only 2 other white kids there at the tryouts. During the drills I think I did pretty well‚ but when we started doing ball handling drills…. I think that’s where I messed up. Some boy that was smaller
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Mockingbird by Harper Lee focuses on the challenges of racism during the 1930’s. In the novel a man named Bob Ewell accuses a black man of raping his daughter. Throughout the novel‚ Bob Ewell remains prejudice. Towards the middle of the novel Bob Ewell accuses a black man by the name of Tom Robinson of rape. Bob Ewell sees his daughter kissing Tom and decides to accuse him of rape. At the trial Bob states‚ “-I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella” (231). Mr. Ewell has “Maycomb’s usual
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Mockingbird‚ three characters‚ Bob Ewell‚ Jem and Atticus demonstrate the different ways courage is driven and the many effects of having courage. Bob Ewell shows how anger can drive courage and how this anger-driven courage can be perceived as cruelty. For example‚ Bob Ewell goes up to Atticus‚ spits in his face and calls him a “nigger-lovin’ bastard” (291). Bob Ewell is courageous to openly admit that he despises Atticus‚ which leads Atticus and others to believe Bob Ewell is temperamental and rude
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“Whoever does wrong‚ wrongs himself” In other words‚ when someone does something wrong it back fires and they end up hurting themselves. I agree with the above quote from personal experiences and from factual evidence I have found. Bob Ewell‚ from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird and Macbeth‚ from Shakespeare’s play Macbeth demonstrate that by doing wrong it only hurts yourself in the end. Through the use of characterization‚ Shakespeare illustrates that by doing wrong only
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What is the American Dream to you? In “Bernice Bobs her Hair‚” and “The Great Gatsby‚” F. Scott Fitzgerald use love‚ wealth ‚ and social status to depict what the American Dream. According to Fitzgerald‚ the 1920s‚ the American Dream was to be happy and successful. In today’s society‚ it has the same concept but different ideas. In Fitzgerald’s idea of the American Dream‚ finding love is a key idea for happiness. In “The Great Gatsby‚” Gatsby has been trying to meet his love again‚ Daisy.”Gatsby
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time high. Music was a powerful resource that many people used to illustrate their opinions and views on the social reform occurring in America at this time. One such example of this use through music is musician and songwriter Bob Dylan. Robert Allen Zimmerman‚ or Bob Dylan‚ was born on May 24‚ 1941 in Duluth‚ Minnesota. He was raised in a tight-knit Jewish community in Hibbing‚ Minnesota on the Mesabi Range west of Lake Superior. He spent much of his time listening to the radio and creating band
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Bob Rath in his article “The Dropout Rate of Community College Is Problematic‚” discusses exactly what its title says it does. The key focus of this entire article is about how dropout rates for community college students have risen within recent years and how it can affect our nation’s economy in the years to come. With less people in the workforce‚ businesses nationwide will be understaffed and as a result unable to make as much profit as it should. The author elaborates on this crisis when discussing
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Compare a daughter’s tribute to her mother in ‘Praise song for my mother’ with the poem ‘Nettles’. ‘Praise song for my mother’ is about a daughter showing how much she loves her mother by writing her a praise song. There are very strong emotions in this poem and the mother meant a lot to the daughter “You were moon’s eye to me”. ‘Nettles’ is about a young boy who falls into a bed of nettles‚ the boy then goes to his father “seeking for comfort”‚ the father identifies the wounds and the son gets
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Hiding From Reality In the article “Hiding From Reality” author Bob Herbert emphasizes the death of the American dream‚ and what Americans need to do to re-establish it. The American dream needs to be resuscitated and that entails drastic change to the education system‚ job creation‚ and a halt to mindless spending that only serves to broaden the inequality between wealthy and the poor. Herbert describes Americans as a “hapless‚ can’t do society” and argues that no change will come unless
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Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan are considered and accepted as legends in the field of literature. Their themes are universal but they talk about their own land its beauty and pain. Leonard Cohen was born on 1934 in Canada; Dylan was born on 1941 in America. Their entry into the literary world is almost same and moreover‚ they have faced the effects and impact of Second World War. In economical condition‚ both Canada and America started to flourish with the concepts of capitalism. From the article “American
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