I met him in town one day. He was walking with his little sister‚ Scout‚ and he was the only one who greeted me as if I fit in. He invited me to his house for dinner that day‚ and although hesitant‚ I was desperate for a friend‚ so I accepted his offer. His personality was fascinating‚ and I started to look up to him.
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Raising Awareness By: Tina Vu As a cadette‚ The Girl Scout Silver Award is one of the most important things to achieve in my life. This is an important step to help me build leadership and organization. My purpose for this project is to raise awareness for problems in the world‚ and maybe even discover solutions for them. Raising awareness isn’t just about educating people of what the things are‚ but on how you earn them as well as how you can stop yourself from getting such. What I basically
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To Kill a Mockingbird How does Jem and Scout change during the course of the novel? How do they stay the same? Through the perspectives of Jem and Scout Finch‚ the world’s famous classic‚ Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ explores adults’ discrimination towards race and colour‚ as Atticus Finch defends a Negro. Caught in the midst of it all‚ his children were forced to experience the severe consequences. Reluctant at first‚ Jem and Scout took everything to heart‚ but over a period of time
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What lessons does scout learn in To Kill a Mockingbird? The whole of the part one of this novel is a series of life lessons preparing Scout for the hardships she is going to face in the second part of the novel. Due to the influence of the likes of Atticus‚ Miss Maudie and Mrs Dubose‚ Scout goes from a naïve young girl who thought with her fists rather than her head‚ into a more mature‚ empathetic girl. This essay is going to discuss some of the lessons Scout learns and how they impacted the way
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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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One might wonder what a fifteen-year-old was doing standing atop a thirty-yard dumpster‚ chainsaw in hand‚ and yelling‚ "Give me more! It can hold more!" During my ninth grade year I saw an opportunity to complete my Eagle Scout project‚ helping the Lenape Valley Church remove massive piles of downed pine branches fallen during an early March ice storm‚ creating an eyesore and complaints from the local community. The project I was tackling was Herculean‚ and I‚ compared to now‚ very inexperienced
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Way and the Boy Scout of America. The United Way realized that the national Boy Scout of America policy that allowed discrimination against avowed gays goes against its own antidiscrimination policies. However the national UW permits local UW chapters to determine their own antidiscrimination policies. And that is how Larry Norvell (local head of the UW of Columbia) had to face the issue of allocations to the local BSA organization -- Cascade pacific Council of the Boy Scouts of America (CPCBSA)
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A characteristic that Scout has is that she is curious. This curiosity stems from her being young‚ talked down to and not knowing much about the people around her. Scout is interested in knowing more about her mother‚ so she can feel closer to her. She asks about how her mother looked‚ how she acted and if she loved her mother. Noticeably‚ she is curious about her mother and she is looking for a connection between her and herself. Along with being curious scout can also be described as a tough person
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United Way and the Boy Scouts of America Background The United Way of America is an organization which takes in donations from people and businesses and distributes the funds to programs across the nation to help serve the community. One of the organizations which receive funds from the United Way‚ is the Boy Scouts of America. In 1990‚ an assistant scoutmaster was found out to be gay and was expelled from the Scouts as consequence. This went to the courts with the final verdict being that
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Scout Finch. Harper Lee uses many great writing techniques to create vivid characters in "To Kill a Mockingbird". One of the most defined characters as well as interesting is Scout Finch‚ the young daughter of Atticus and loving sister to Jem. Scout is a girl full of many qualities. Three of Scout’s salient characteristics‚ which contribute to her charm but also keep her in trouble‚ are her feistiness‚ intelligence‚ and curiosity. Scout Finch is a girl who stands up for her family heritage‚ whether
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