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    Lee Iacocca is a transformational leader who took over Chrysler when it was on the brink of bankruptcy in 1978 and transformed the corporation’s culture to turn it into a profitable venture. The first turnaround With a vision of turning around Chrysler‚ Iacocca started by focusing on the three pillars of people‚ product and profits. His trait of promoting intellectual stimulation led him to first deal with Chrysler’s inefficient management. He fired a huge number of people‚ replacing them by

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    Examine the ways in which Harper Lee presents the black community in To Kill a Mockingbird The book was written by Harper Lee during the 1950’s in America‚ and coincided with the rise of the civil rights movement. At this time in history‚ racism played a very important role in society. There was a lot of racial hatred between black and white people. It is set in the 1930s a small town called Maycomb‚ in Alabama‚ one of the Southern States. Although Maycomb is a fictitious place‚ real places

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    Notions of Justice and Fairness in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel that was published in 1960‚ the times where our nation had segregation and injustice amongst the colored and the whites. Racism presents itself in many ways in the town of Maycomb. Some are blatant and open‚ but others are more insidious. The plot focuses on a lawyer‚ Atticus Finch‚ and how he defends a colored man‚ Tom Robinson‚ who is wrongly accused of raping a white woman‚

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    The Inequality in Maycomb‚ Alabama In the novel‚ “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ by Harper Lee‚ the character Jean Louise Finch‚ also known as Scout‚ is from a mature perspective looking back at her childhood. This novel is considered touching by many‚ and the novel takes place in the summer of nineteen thirty-three. Readers meet the characters Scout Finch and her brother Jem who lived in a fictional town in Alabama called Maycomb. During this time in the south‚ there was a lot of segregation between whites

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    including people. People judge other people by their appearances and actions without even knowing people. We see this theme a couple times in the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”‚ by Harper Lee. Harper Lee’s appearance message shows that people judge based on looks but the rumors and looks are never trusting. The theme Harper Lee followed in her book was‚ “ appearances do not always reflect reality.” One way she followed this theme was when she introduced the character Arthur “Boo” Radley. Boo Radley is

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    KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Very few authors able to introduce real life themes like Harper Lee. The Los Angeles Times calls Lees Pulitzer Prize winning novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ “Memorable… Vivid… a gentle persuasive‚ humor and a glowing goodness.” This is entirely true because Lee is able to introduce various conflicts that happen in present time. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Lee denounces prejudice and racist people. Lee tries to open humanities eyes so it won’t make the same mistakes it made in the

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    Justice in To Kill a Mockingbird In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee justice is shown as unfair to many people. In the book a black man Tom Robinson is accused of rapping a girl named Mayella Ewell‚ and he was sent to trial. Atticus was assigned to the Tom Robinson case but Tom was accused guilty‚ Tom was later killed trying to escape. Mayella’s dad Bob was angry that the whole town accused him of putting Tom in jail‚ then Bob went after Atticus’s kids trying to get back at Atticus. The rumors

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    What is the Significance of Jem in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”? To Kill A Mockingbird‚ written in 1958-1960 by Harper Lee explores the irrationality of attitudes to race and class in the ‘Deep South’ in 1930s America. This bildungsroman presents in a stark reality the challenges facing civil rights activists‚ as Harper Lee sets out to bring racism and the fight against it clearly to the reality of a modern readership. Jem‚ the son of the lawyer Atticus Finch is caught up in this world

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    The Strength of Theme Today‚ most everyone in the United States is free of racial discrimination‚ however this was not always the case. Ellen Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ reminds the reader of a time in the 1930’s when prejudice existed. This classic tells a story from the perspective of a six year-old girl‚ Jean “Scout” Louis Finch‚ who lives in Maycomb‚ Alabama. She is a rugged and headstrong girl‚ who is the daughter of a prominent lawyer‚ Atticus‚ and her deceased mother. This

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    How does Lee make the injustice that happens to Tom Robinson so Powerful in the novel? In the novel TO Kill a Mockingbird the injustice that happens to Tom Robinson is so powerful because Harper Lee uses emotional effects through the attide of her characters‚ Vividly describing how the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird feel and what they are going through/what they are feeling. Throughout the series of unfortuante evnts that happens to Tom Robinson: Harper Lee gives the characters a tone of hopefullness

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