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    Graduation of Innocence

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    Graduation of Innocence Graduation‚ or moving up to the next level of life‚ always comes with a wonderful and grand commencement ceremony‚ but many times the graduation is as quiet and seemingly just as natural as any other normal day. In the autobiographical essay‚ "The Graduation‚" Maya Angelou uses three incredibly effective rhetorical strategies to get her point across- detailed comparisons and contrasts‚ a very expressive voice‚ and a wonderful flow to her sentences that keeps the story interesting-

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    Boo Radley Innocence

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    The theme of to kill a mockingbird is the destruction of innocence through the conflict of good and evil. Many people including Jem‚ Tom Robinson and Boo Radley loss their innocence in the events of this book. Jem had a true loss of innocence when Tom Robinson’s trial had ended and he realized Tom wasn’t going to be cleared of the false charges. Jem thought justice would prevail over personal bias and discrimination. When it didn’t however he was confused how people could just stand by and let this

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    The Death of Innocence

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    Book Review “The Death of Innocence” By: Sister Helen Prejean Wallis Belcher In Prejean’s book‚ the Death of Innocence‚ she took and shared with the reader her hands-on experiences and eyewitness accounts of wrongful executions and death penalty sentences. She spent the entire book introducing the reader to two convicted felons and sharing their stories of their journey to execution. Prejean’s stance on the death penalty is almost immediate and clear; she is whole-heartily and passionately against

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    The Age of Innocence

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    REZA Fariha 24/10/12 The Age of Innocence (1920)‚ Edith WHARTON (p. 41) The characters * In this excerpt‚ the first character is Mr. Newland Archer. He is married to Mrs. May Welland because on line 43‚ the narrator calls her by ‘his wife’. He seems to lead a well-off life since he gave to his wife ‘a small highly-varnished Verboeckhoven “Study of Sheep” ‘ (l. 13)‚ which must be quite expensive. Besides‚ it should also have signified that they are a loving couple. Only I can observe that their

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    Is Scout Finch Innocent

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    not with this little girl named Scout Finch. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Scout Finch is the protagonist. She lives in a town called Maycomb. Scout is a young girl who has a brother nicknamed Jem‚ and a father named Atticus. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee shows Scout Finch as literate‚ curious‚ and violent. The first trait scout is portrayed to be is literate. She is above her peers expectations when it comes to her literacy. Scout says “She discovered I was iterate

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    Scout Finch Racism

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    colored people as equals is an idea that the main character‚ Scout Finch‚ learns through her experiences. She starts to realize that the people in Maycomb were more judgy than she had always thought. This idea for her was mainly introduced to her during the Tom Robinson case. This case had racism “written all over it.” During the trial‚ Scout‚ Jem‚ and Dill sat with Reverend Sykes in the balcony where all the black people sit. This shows Scout just how separated these people are. She also learns that

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    Scout A Tomboy Analysis

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    keeping everything simple. Scout‚ a sassy tomboy‚ lives her life in the 1900s with no regard for the great depression or her gender. Upon his own volition‚

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    realize when reading To Kill a Mockingbird that Scout is who she is because of the way Atticus has raised her. While most girls scouts age would be wearing dresses and learning manners‚ Scout‚ thanks to Atticus’s parenting style‚ can decide for herself to wear overalls and learn to climb trees with Jem and Dill. She is very intelligent for her age as Atticus has taught her how to read before she even started school. Atticus builds his morals up in scout very evidently‚ although no so much as to draw

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    Pain of Losing Someone

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    Pain of losing someone According to Wikipedia‚ Pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage‚ or described in terms of such damage." Pain to me has no definition because it is like my world is coming to an end and I do not know how to stop it. There are different types of pain‚ e.g. body pain‚ menstrual pain‚ chronic pain‚ and pain of losing someone. Losing someone very close is an extremely painful experience. People find it very tough

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    Scout Finch Stereotypes

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    things really aren’t what they seem. The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ is a significant example of this. Jem and Scout Finch grew up in the 1930’s‚ in Maycomb‚ a town that’s extremely prejudice towards a lot of different people‚ but also a town that was oblivious to the fact that people are much different from the interior than they are on the exterior. Jem and Scout‚ and the people of Maycomb make conclusions about the ones around them quite often‚ so‚ naturally‚ when they

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