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    To Kill a Mockingbird

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    1. Ask someone “Do you want to see bofa?”  They respond “Sure‚ why not?”  You then call out “Bofa Deeeeeez Nuts!”  It is then up to you whether you honor their request to actually see bofa. Originality Factor 8: We only heard this once before it moved us so deeply as to create this website. Effectiveness Quotient 10: Almost no one sees this coming. They may not understand why you would ask if the want to see bofa‚ but they will have no idea that an affirmative response may give them a view of your

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    heroism and courage are shown in To Kill a Mockingbird? Discuss. Courage is defined as "the quality of mind or spirit enabling one to meet danger or opposition with fearlessness." According to Atticus Finch‚ one of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ "Courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin‚ but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." (pg.121). Harper Lee clearly portrays the theme of courage in her novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. One likes to think of a hero‚

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    Realistic fiction is a type of genre that contains situations that could happen‚ but the characters are fictional. Realistic fiction can have a historical element to it such as in Harper Lee’s‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee is an American author widely known for this dramatic‚ realistic fiction novel based on racial prejudice in the south many years ago. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28‚ 1926‚ in Monroeville‚ Alabama. Her mother was Frances Lee‚ and her father was Amasa Coleman. Lee was

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    To Kill a Mockingbird In Harper Lee’s novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" courage can be shown in several diverse aspects‚ such as Mrs. Dubose‚ Jem‚ Atticus and Maycomb County itself. The first courageous character in the novel known for her great moral courage is Mrs. Dubose. She was addicted to morphine as a painkiller prescribed by her doctor for many years. Despite her illness Mrs. Dubose no longer wanted to continue to use her medication to make things easier. She persevered‚ choosing to‚ "die

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    of courage)Moral courage: defines it as “the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down” | Arthur Radley | Courage to overcome his fears of interacting with people/step out of his comfort zoneRisks his life to save the childrenSymbol: Mockingbird | Tom Robinson* | Depended on himself to stand up for his own rights (standing firm to the fact that he did not raped Mayella; could have succumbed to pressure and confessed)Knew that the case would not be in his favour since he’s a black but

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    Task T: How are the themes of the novel revealed to the reader? In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee employs a variety of narrative tools to reveal the themes of the novel. It is through the insightful reactions of characters to situations that affect them physically or emotionally that give us a deep understanding of the themes that Lee is conveying. It is also through the setting of the novel in the fictional town of Maycomb and in the nonfictional southern state of Alabama in the US that we comprehend

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

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    1. Chapter one introduces readers to the town of Maycomb‚ its inhabitants‚ and the particular attitudes of many of its people. Reread chapter one and find a sentence or a paragraph which illustrates each of the following attitudes/ideas. Then discuss how the passage fits into the attitudes/ideas of the town. a. pride in ancestry and “tradition” b. pride in conformity and distrust of those who are different c. awareness of difference in social class 2. Calpurnia lectures Scout on manners when

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    and class. Today I am here to talk about the aspects of prejudice in our lives. Through Harper Lee and Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ we can explore the significance of our past and examine the prejudice aspects in the texts. Through Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ we explore the power of the innocent and the importance of discovery in a prejudice community. When we explore Son of Mine‚ we can uncover the hardships of Indigenous Australians in the past through alienation. Texts have the capacity to challenge individuals

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    In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a novel by Harper Lee‚ the symbols of the mockingbird and the snowman helped to develop the underlying idea of social and racial prejudice in the text. This idea showed how prejudice can become ingrained within a community and how that can affect innocent people subsequently presenting the idea of innocence. Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is the story of how prejudice‚ when ingrained within a person‚ can cloud and impair their way of thinking. This novel is set in the mid

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    Power Of The Supreme Court

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    The Supreme Court is a very powerful part of the government. The Supreme Court is the highest federal court in the United States. This court has a higher power than any other court in the nation meaning that they alone decide the meaning of the constitution. The Supreme Court has nine justices that decide the constitutionality of cases that petition them. The Supreme Court derives their power through “judicial review” Judicial review is the act of declaring of a law or act of another branch as constitutional

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