Scout is getting into a fight at school‚ because a boy named Cecil Jacobs is taunting her father. They are both in the school yard“ With this in mind‚ I faced Cecil Jacobs in the school- yard the next day: you gonna take that back boy? You gotta make me first he yelled. My folks said your daddy was a disgrace an’ that nigger oughta hang from the water tank! I drew
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Chapter One Jacob Jankowski cannot remember his age but thinks he is somewhere between ninety and ninety-three. He lives in an assisted-living center because he broke his hip‚ and his family felt he needed help with his day-to-day living. He is sitting in the hallway and sees a group of residents gathering at a window. Curious as to what they are looking at‚ Jacob climbs out of his wheelchair and uses his walker to join the residents at the window. Down a block from the center‚ a circus is setting
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would be a pageant for the grown-ups; apple-bobbing‚ taffy-pulling‚ pinning the tail on the donkey for the children. pg. 214 2. She thought it would be adorable if some of the children were costumed to represent the county’s agricultural products: Cecil Jacobs would be dressed up to look like a cow; Agnes Boone would make a lovely butterbean‚ another child would be a peanut‚ and on down the line until Mrs. Merriweather’s imagination and the supply of children was exhausted. pg. 215 3. “There’s
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BookRags Literature Study Guide Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde For the online version of BookRags’ Lady Windermere’s Fan Literature Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-ladywindermeresfan/ Copyright Information ©2000-2011 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Literature Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism on Commonly
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Logic An argument consists of one or more premises and one conclusion. A premise is a statement that can be either true or false that is offered to support a claim. The claim is the conclusion that can be either true or false. Arguments can be deductive or inductive. Deductive vs. Inductive A deductive argument is an argument in which the premises appear to provide complete support for the conclusion. An inductive argument is an argument such that the premises appear to provide some degree of
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Do you know how and for what reasons the first 13 colonies of North America were found? Many of us today don’t know why these colonies were established‚ but we should because it’s an extremely important event in history. Many of the first settlers in the North America came from England‚ they came for reasons such as these: wanted land to plant on‚ religious freedom‚ wanted to become rich or famous‚ needed a new beginning‚ wanted to escape paying debts and others. The first successful settlement was
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James practically doubled the debt left by Elizabeth‚ and it was hardly surprising that when his chief minister‚ Robert Cecil‚ Earl of Salisbury‚ tried in 1610-11 to exchange the kings feudal revenues for a fixed annual sum from Parliament‚ the negotiations over this so called Great Contract came to nothing. James dissolved Parliament in 1611. The death of Cecil in 1612‚ marked the turning point of James’s reign; he was never to have another chief minister who was so experienced and so powerful
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in her class but once someone questions her judgement she changes subjects “Miss Gates said‚ “When you get to high school‚ Cecil‚ you’ll learn that the Jews have been persecuted since the beginning of history‚ even driven out of their own country. It’s one of the most terrible stories in history. Time for arithmetic‚ children’” (Lee 249). In this quote you can see that Cecil has asked a question that is outside of the box‚ a valuable lesson on asking interquite questions‚ and the school responds
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and Miss Maudie oppose their views. Even the young children of Maycomb portray signs of hating on ‘negroes’ and judges Scout and Jem. For example‚ Cecil Jacobs‚ one of the boys from school‚ shouts to Scout‚ “‘my folks said your daddy was a disgrace an’ that nigger oughta hang from the water-tank!”’(Lee.09.82) which enrages Scout to start a fight. Cecil Jacobs is simply repeating exactly what his parents said about Atticus. This shows that what parents do‚ has a great influence on what their children
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after Burris tells her he was just leaving. An older classmate of Scout says that‚ “ He’s one of the Ewells‚ ma’am. Whole school’s full of ‘em. They come the first day every year and then leave”‚ and explains the division of Ewell’s in Maycomb. Also in school‚ Cecil Jacobs says to Scout that her father‚ Atticus‚ defended niggers. This shows that there was a major rift between the white and black population in Maycomb. Overall‚ the reader receives the information everyone in Maycomb is separated by a division or rift from everyone else
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