Tom Robinson Tom Robinson is an African American man Atticus defends when he is accused of raping a white woman‚ Mayella Ewell. Tom is a young‚ harmless‚ innocent‚ hardworking black. As Scout realizes‚ His left hand had been injured in an accident. Tom was married‚ with three children and worked for Mr. Link Deas in his farm. The only mistake he made was that he took pity on Mayella and often helped her by doing small household chores for her. He pitied Mayella for her deplorable condition and
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does Fitzgerald make you feel about Tom Buchanan? Tom is one of the more negative characters in the novel and has been described to be disliked from the start. Tom is described as having “arrogant eyes” at the beginning of the novel and as always leaning aggressively forwards. These two factors alone lea us to dislike Tom is then shown to be forceful and dishonest and it is an unsurprising that there are many people who “hated his guts”. In the first chapter‚ Tom is shown to be uneducated and racist
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1. What is the nature of self-esteem‚ how does it develop‚ and what are its consequences? The nature of self-esteem is the experience of feeling competent to cope with the basic challenges in life and of being worthy of happiness. Self-esteem is developed from a variety of life experiences‚ many of them being from early life. Childhood experiences are key to developing long term healthy or low self-esteem. A person’s success and failures also play a role in development. Experiences later in
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The poem Identity by Julio Noboa Polanco is a free verse poem that is made up of 5 stanzas. The theme of the poem is identity and the poet compares a flower to a weed saying that sometimes it’s better to take a risk in life and be different to everyone else rather than being rooted to the ground and stuck in the same place. The poem has a strong and defiant tone‚ as seen in ‘Let them be flowers‚” and “I’d rather” and the poet appears to be very confident with his decision. It is written in a positive
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Company Profile An introduction to the LEGO Group 2007 It is LEGO philosophy that “good play” enriches a child’s life – and its subsequent adulthood. With this in mind‚ the LEGO Group has developed and marketed a wide range of products‚ all founded on the same basic philosophy of learning and developing – through play. It all began in 1932 ... The founder‚ Ole Kirk Christiansen‚ hit upon the LEGO name in 1934. He took the first two letters of
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Character Analysis- The Great Gatbsy‚ Chapter 1 Nick Carraway serves as the novels narrator and tells us in chapter one that he is tolerant‚ open-minded‚ and quiet and a good listener‚ which makes others; want to confide their secrets in him. Nick is repulsed by the phony nature of the socialites and his moral sense sets him apart from the other characters in the novel. “ Unjustly accused of being a politician”. He seems to be a biased narrator‚ and possibly unreliable as he seems to contradict
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Lastly‚ the two paintings use perspective‚ color‚ and light very similarly. In Death of General Wolfe‚ the artist‚ West‚ clearly and realistically paints the figures in the foreground and in the background in uniforms that would have been common during that time. Similarly‚ Giotto paints his figures in robes which were common‚ and what painters usually depicted their figures wearing. They both have knowledge about what it is their are painting are are able to use color to accurately show what may
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Why Stuff Expands There is a reasonable explanation to the question of why water expands both when heated and cooled. Not only is the explanation reasonable‚ but the effects of this odd property have their own advantages and disadvantages as well. This process of expansion by cooling starts when the water temperature nears 4° C. The hydrogen atoms begin to line up into neat rows of six molecules‚ but the water retains the same density‚ except for the slight drop that is common with most matter
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through life‚ there are moments where we all have to learn how to stand up for what we believe in‚ even if we feel embarrassed or shy. Scouts role in To Kill a Mockingbird is a great representation of intelligence; the willing to fight for what is right‚ and bravery. Scout is said to have learned reading all by herself: “I never deliberately learned to read‚ but … now that I was compelled to think about it‚ reading was something that just came to me” (p. 23). Since not many children can read at
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Calpurnia Character Analysis In many All American novels it is important to have both dynamic and static characters. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Calpurnia is a static character. Throughout the whole novel Calpurnia is motherly and she does not change at points in the book where she should change. Calpurnia is the maid‚ nanny‚ and cook in the book. Her main job is to look after the kids while Atticus is gone and when he is home she cooks. Since Calpurnia looks after the children she has
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