To Kill a Mockingbird Writing Assignment “Ain’t it a long time?” Scout asked me as we were waiting for the Jury to come to a verdict. “Sure is‚ Scout‚” I said happily because I knew when it took a long time for jurors to make a decision that they were putting the evidence into consideration. I knew that they would prove him innocent Atticus gave the Jurors no reason to think other wise. Mayella’s testimony didn’t match up with the facts. “This court will come to order” Mr. Tate said
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Alexandra Blooding Leif Swanson Composition 1010-13 04 December 2011 MA for Mature Audience: Too Risqué? “Oh‚ how the times have changed”. This simplistic cliché describes modern situations concerning television perfectly. On might hear‚ “When I was your age‚ there were only thirteen channels on television; heck‚ only half of them worked. The other half showed a gray fuzzy layer over ghostly figures of people”. Boy‚ have the times changed. After about thirty-five short years there are
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Reflection journal #1: Scout and Atticus Scout and her father Atticus have the strongest relationship of all the characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird‚” from the novel’s outset‚ and that relationship is tested when her world is flipped upside down after Cecil Jacobs declares that Scout’s dad is a “nigger lover.” Inquisitively‚ Scout pesters Atticus as to what a “nigger lover” is. “Scout‚” said Atticus‚ “nigger lover is just one of those terms that don’t mean anything – like snot-nose. It’s hard
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Research Question: The government should not engage in the surveillance of their citizens in the interests of national security. After the occurrence of the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001‚ President George W. Bush signed a law‚ the PATRIOT Act. The PATRIOT Act made it easier for the law enforcement officials to use certain techniques such as wiretapping and other surveillance technologies to aid in the war against terrorism. The reason why this topic needs to be addressed is located
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Guy Montag is a fireman in charge of burning books in a grim‚ futuristic United States. The book opens with a brief description of the pleasure he experiences while on the job one evening. He wears a helmet emblazoned with the numeral 451 (the temperature at which paper burns)‚ a black uniform with a salamander on the arm‚ and a “phoenix disc” on his chest. On his way home from the fire station‚ he feels a sense of nervous anticipation. After suspecting a lingering nearby presence‚ he meets his new
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landscape.” (Hitt‚ 2010‚ p. 8) Technlogy – The rate that technology is changing affects the business environment in many ways. Two types of changes are Perpetual Innovation and Disruptive Technologies. Perpetual innovation is a term used to describe how rapidly and consistently new‚ information-intensive technologies replace older ones. The shorter product life cycles resulting from these rapid diffusions of new technologies place a competitive premium on being able to quickly introduce new‚ innovative
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The Impact of a Graphic Novel Maus‚ written by Art Spiegelman‚ is a graphic novel that tells a story within a story. The book portrays Art’s father’s experiences as a Jew caught in the middle of World War II. What makes this portrayal especially interesting is the way the Art tells the story in his father’s own words. Vladek’s accounts of what happened to him are displayed within the bigger picture of the novel‚ which is how these experiences affect his current relationship with his son Art. Maus
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Review on Atonement It is not often that the protagonist of a story be the anathema of the story as well and it is even more of a rarity that the particular character be a young child. Yet‚ this is exactly what Ian McEwan has done with his Crime Novel‚ Atonement. McEwan intentionally turns his readers against Briony Tallis‚ a young girl transitioning from the naivete of childhood into the new and confusing years of adolescence; a point in one ’s life when mistakes are dubbed as necessary stepping
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The Bildungsroman Genre. The narrative mode Dickens has adopted aligns his novel with the Bildungsroman genre of literature. The term Bildungsroman is a German word meaning ’novel of formation’ or ’education novel’. A Bildungsroman novel frequently puts an emphasis on the moral and psychological development of its protagonist. Morality is an important theme in Great Expectations‚ one of the episodes of Great Expectations which illustrates the conventions of the Bildungsroman form is the story’s
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Could the story of the novel exist without the class difference between Amir and Hassan? Make a case‚ using specific plot points and historical facts to ground your argument. Examine the concept of circularity in the novel. What important cycles exist in the characters’ lives and histories? How is circularity connected to redemption? Explore the way in which courage is portrayed in the novel. What constitutes true bravery? What are the key moments when characters are brave and who is the bravest
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