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    Believes In Maycomb

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    November 14‚ 2012 People’s Believes in Maycomb In the novel by Harper Lee‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ she gives a detailed insight into human nature and its consequences. She focuses on a specific time period‚ the 1930’s. In the novel‚ she makes me feel the cruel reality of that time period. However‚ it also gave me a bright perspective of how they kept their spirits alive. Through Harper Lee’s novel‚ she showed us the power of human will to survive in such a segregated time period. As I was reading

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    Chicago Tribune

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    Fax: 212-547-7029 www.ite.poly.edu October 2000 Copyright © 2001‚ Institute for Technology and Enterprise‚ Polytechnic University. I. Background As he sat in his office in The Tribune Tower in downtown Chicago on a sunny morning in August‚ 1999‚ Owen Youngman‚ Director of Interactive Media for The Chicago Tribune‚ reflected on what it was like to manage the Chicagotribune.com: The big deal is that you get up in the morning and come to work and you are on the bus and you know you’ll make a mistake

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    Description of Maycomb

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    To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County‚ an imaginary district in southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s‚ the years of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the United States. For parts of the deep South like Maycomb County‚ the Depression meant only that the bad times that had been going on for decades got a little bit worse. These rural areas had long been poor and undeveloped. Black people worked for low wages in the fields. White farmers were more

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    Racism In Maycomb.

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    "To Kill a Mockingbird" takes place in the 1930’s‚ in a small Alabama town called Maycomb. The story is narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch (known as Scout). Scout lives with her father and her brother Jeremy Finch (known as Jem). Scout is having to grow up with the same racism that effects her father’s‚ Atticus Finch‚ lawsuit. The reason for the despicable attitude towards the Finchs’ is that Atticus defended Tom Robinson‚ a black person. Tom was charged with raping a poor white girl

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    Chicago Tribune Zorn

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    facts containing both sides of the case. This was highly publicized and controversial; a lot of people believe it was so publicized because it was a “race issue”. This story will not go away soon‚ people are outraged about this. Reference: Chicago Tribune Zorn: Outrage at the acquittal of George

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    Tribunes In Julius Caesar

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    Pompey’s sons into the ground. Pompey is a guy who used to rule Rome with Caesar (they were called "tribunes"). After disagreeing with Caesar about how Rome should be run‚ Pompey was defeated in battle and assassinated. Just to be sure that Pompey’s family and supporters couldn’t come after him‚ Caesar chased Pompey’s sons to Spain and defeated them in battle‚ too. Murellus and Flavius‚ Roman tribunes who are friends of Brutus and Cassius‚ come upon a group of common people running about the street

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    The novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee contains few aspects about Maycomb black community. This links very well with one of the most important theme of the novel‚ racism. Harper Lee describe black community as poor‚ uneducated and unfairly treated people‚ but in the end Harper Lee tells us that black people are just like anyone else in Maycomb and they deserve to be treated equally. To begin‚ Harper Lee describes black community as extremely poor‚ uneducated group of people. Harper

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    Maycomb Bad Town

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    Maycomb is a miserable town to live in. Using the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ we get to see maycomb through the eyes of the protagonist Scout‚ learning more about the town itself and the people inhabiting it. Maycomb is a bad place to live because of how the towns folk won’t accept one another for being different‚ how dangerous Maycomb is and how townsfolk discriminate one another. To start of‚ Maycomb is not a good place to live because of how non-accepting the town is. One example

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    Maycomb Conuty Trial

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    Maycomb Sexual Assualt Trial Tom Robinson Found Guilty for Rape November 22‚ 1936 Yesterday at around 11pm‚ Tom Robinson who had been accused by Bob Ewell of raping his daughter‚ Mayella Ewell‚ Tom Robinson has been charged for rape. The court case took place at the Maycomb County Courthouse and enormous crowd of people‚ both white and blacks‚ turned up to observe the trial. The prosecutor was Mr. Gilmer and the defence laywer was Atticus Finch. The case was presided over by Judge Taylor and a

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    Antony was elected as a tribune that represented the people’s interests. His job was to stand up for the rights and the members who were not in the highest classes of the Roman society. When Mark Antony got elected as a tribune it was towards the end of Caesar’s command with Gaul‚ which was a rough time. The Senate was taking Caesar to trial‚ because the Senate thought that Caesar was misusing his power. At this time Caesar needed support from Mark Antony and the other tribunes. Caesar wanted them to

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