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    Mob Mentality Mob Mentality is when people are influenced by their peers to adopt certain behaviors. When others are committing a certain activity‚ people in the group that normally won’t commit those activities will just because others are. I feel like in all situations‚ this is true‚ no one in a group wants to be that outlier that’s not doing what everybody else is. People don’t want to be different than than other people. It can turn an individual into a completely different person. I had some

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    Mob mentality happens when people come together because they are emotional and or angry about something. It can take just one act of violence to turn a crowd into a fury. One of the main factors that contributes to mob mentality is having the same feelings or views on an issue‚ such as something that is political or religious. Another factor of mob mentality is distribution of responsibility. Also‚ emotions are a key factor in mob mentality. The main factor that contributes to mob mentality

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    Depression is occurring and it has some references to how it was hard to find jobs. There was also the Jim Crow laws‚ mob mentality‚ and the Scottsboro trials that influenced a few things in To Kill a Mockingbird. The Jim Crow laws have the first influence in the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The Jim Crow laws are a set of laws that set a racial caste system in the

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    people act when they are part of a crowd. The image of disordered society also influences the act of Rome populace since there are no rules. Shakespeare realized that people tend to follow the crowd; therefore‚ he uses this point to exemplify mob mentality which is prevalent throughout the play. In Act I‚ the commoners are cheering for Caesar after the defeat of Pompey‚ Marullus‚ a tribune‚ reminds them of how they had similarly cheered for Pompey in the same streets. The people once wait “with

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    Mockingbird is mob mentality. Mob mentality is the negative mindset of a large group. The mentality is usually to cause harm and create chaos (Edmonds). People did this for a couple of reasons. One reason is because people felt like they could get away with something if they were with a large group of people (Smith). They thought that it would be harder for them to get caught and get punished if a whole group of people were doing the same thing (Smith). One behavior of mob mentality is that people

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    Nina Munteanu discusses how one person within a mob can feel a certain way about something may compel an individual to do actions that he/she would never do on their own. This may have happend in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ but we do not know who the leader is. Mob mentality is someone who feels a certain emotion and expresses it to their mob/group and influences them to feel a particular way and makes them do actions they wouldn’t on their own. The reason that these statements are similar‚ is because

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    Mob Mentality in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The critic Kenny Williams states that the Colonel Sherburn scene inThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark twain‚ “allow[s] a brief platform for Twain to express his own contempt for mobs in an era known for such activities and lawlessness.” This draws the attention to other scenes Twain uses to show his contempt for activities in society. In his novel Mark Twain uses characters and scenes to show his disdain for zealot faith‚ corrupt human

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    point of her book. People can relate this book to Jim Crow laws‚ mob mentality‚ and the Scottsboro Trials. Jim Crow is the first connection seen in Harper Lee’s book. Jim Crow is a set of laws set for the black community to keep the white and black people separated from each other. People believed his law was needed to protect the white women from being raped and beaten by black men. people also wanted to keep black people

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    Harper Lee’s Inspirations The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Harper Lee almost immediately in 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was inspired by real-life events. The Jim Crow laws‚ mob mentality‚ and issues with racism are connections with the novel. Firstly‚ the Jim Crow laws relates to Harper Lee’s novel. Jim Crow was a system of laws that were created to enforce that blacks and whites were not equal. These laws were needed because they thought blacks were not superior to whites. An example

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    What Are the Main Factors‚ Responsible For The Loss of Civilisation In Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” 23rd February 2014 “Lord of the Flies” is a social allegory written by William Golding. It is an allegory‚ meaning that every actions or characters‚ in the book represent an event‚ character or action in the real life. William Golding was an English writer‚ who served in the navy during the WWII. This gave him an understanding of what mankind was capable of‚ how dark and evil it‚ in truth

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