Atticus Character Analysis Atticus is the father of Jem and Scout‚ and one of the main characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird”. He is an outstanding lawyer‚ father and neighbor in the town of Maycomb. The story takes place during the Great Depression‚ and Atticus is an example of a man who worked with justice to maintain his family and educate their children‚ being the only parent they had. Everyone esteems him; no matter their social status he would treat them all as equal. That is something
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ANALYSIS OF “SPINSTER” BY SYLVIA PLATH The word “Spinster” ‚which is the title of the poem written by Sylvia Plath‚ in its literal sense denotes “single‚ unattached or free”. With this plain interpretation alone‚ you supposed to spot in an instant what could be the perspective of this poem‚ you may think that it is all about a person who lives alone‚ unmarried or unaided. This is merely gazing on the title itself‚ but when you come across on the entire poem deeper leaks on its real context will
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| |Social Studies | |Lesson Plan | |For the Week of: February 25‚ 2013
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When Joan Didion said that the “lesson” of her story is that it is distinctly possible to remain too long at the fair‚ she meant that you may enjoyed your time there‚ there is a time where you want to go home. In her essay I think she was talking about how it was fun in New York for a time‚ then there came a time when she just wanted to leave. In the story it gives several times where she couldn’t go into some places because she was so tired of going to them. “There were certain parts of the city
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“Dying is an art‚ like everything. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call” – Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was born in Jamaica Plain‚ Massachusetts on October 27th‚ 1932 and died in London‚ United Kingdom on February 11th‚ 1963 at the age of 31 years old. Sylvia is well known for her astonishing poem such as “The Bell Jar” and “Daddy”. Her parents were Aurelia Schober‚ who was a student at Boston University and Otto Plath
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Macbeth has taught me many valuable lessons that I will carry throughout my life. The lessons learned in this story can be helpful not just to me‚ but to anyone who reads it. Macbeth teaches the readers that they never should let their thirst for power consume them‚ and that one lie always leads to another. Many people get lost and lose the person they once were on there journey to success. As they are on their journey of gaining something new‚ they lose there old self. They become so caught up in
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“Dying is an art‚ like everything. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call” – Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was born in Jamaica Plain‚ Massachusetts on October 27th‚ 1932 and died in London‚ United Kingdom on February 11th‚ 1963 at the age of 31 years old. Sylvia is well known for her astonishing poem such as “Lady Lazarus” and “Daddy”. She always enjoyed poems. She said she can say it started with her love for nursery
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In lesson 9‚ exercise 9.3 we had to choose between five examples and edit one of them for both unnecessary metadiscourse and redundancy. This exercise was designed to help us understand how to eliminate metadiscourse from our writings. we will examine these two examples 1a which is the incorrect version and 1b which is the correct revised version. 1a. It is my belief that in regard to terrestrial-type snakes‚ an assumption can be made that there are probably none in unmapped areas of the world surpassing
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” unjustly convicting people of a crime they didn’t commit. In “A Lesson Before Dying” the setting of the crime was in the 1940s in louisiana in a small plantation. A man named Grant hitched a ride with brother and bear to go and rob and kill Mr. gropa all three were killed in the fire fight‚ while jefferson was unharmed. When the jefferson went to court‚ and his lawyer called him a hog that couldn’t think for himself not thinking it would hurt
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Professor Askassi ENGL 102 Section 021 12 April 2010 Rodnika’s Personal Reflection on A Lesson Before Dying. The story‚ A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines is a awesome book so far. I can relate to this whole situation in numerous of ways. This story just bring back a time that my brother had to go through years ago and how he is still paying the price even though he guilty in all matters. I believe that the court system is full of a lot of stuff. They convict incents people for no reason
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