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    Believes In Maycomb

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    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 this novel‚ I learned that

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    Town Fiesta

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    [pic] International Conference on The Viswakabi and Internationalism: Rabindranath Tagore in the Contemporary World organized under Tagore Commemoration Grant Scheme (TCGS)‚ Ministry of Culture‚ Government of India Organized by: [pic] THE JADAVPUR ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS A non-Profit‚ Non Governmental Organization (Registered under The West Bengal Societies Registration Act‚ 1961) 29‚ BRAHMAPUR‚ GOVT.SCHEME‚ BANSDRONI‚ Kolkata 700070 Tel: 09874490250 # e-MAIL: mailtojair@rediffmail

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    Part a) Lee presents Miss Maudie as a generally optimistic person‚ despite being a widow. She uses many techniques to demonstrate Miss Maudies positive view of Maycomb. Lees use of the superlative ‘safest’ to describe Miss Maudies view of the ‘folks’ of Maycomb‚ this illustrates how highly she regards most of the people who live there‚ this creates a tone of optimism which juxtaposes her positivity. Furthermore‚ Miss Maudie answers an inquisition of jem’s using the verb ‘surprised’ to perhaps demonstrate

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    Doon Town

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    Doon Town It was at night that Doon Town really blossomed. It was not safe to be out alone on the streets then. Stabbings were the one constant feature of life. Along the dark alleys leading off the main street‚ the people plied their trade. On the main street itself‚ stalls lit flambeaux‚ yellow flames bending before the wind‚ lined they pavements‚ selling oysters with pepper sauce‚ oranges and black-pudding‚ their smells mingling with that of the corn being roasted in coal-pots and boiled

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

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    During the south in the 1930s‚ life was horrible. It was time of the Great Depression where countries like the United States were hit hard. It was a severe worldwide economic depression leading to World War II. It originated from a dramatic fall in stock prices in the US with a major stock market crash. The Great Depression had devastating effects to many peoples’ lives both rich and poor in the US‚ especially in the South. Because of the great economic can decline‚ many people lost their jobs. Farming

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    Home Town

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    our family moved to San Francisco. I love to live in kaiping and I miss the time that I live in kaiping‚ for the environment is so comfortable and it around by greens. Like trees‚ flowers‚ mountains and the not harvest cropland. The air in my home town is very fresh. When you breathe in the air‚ you can feel the air inside of your body. Then few second later you could feel that your tired are gone. The neighborhood that I live‚ there has many supermarket‚ food market‚ shopping center‚ and shopping

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    Riza De Asis Jenn Kepka WR 121: TR 1:00 p.m. May 14‚ 2013. City or Town? “Riza‚ we are planning to move to Kuala Lumpur.” As soon as my mother said that‚ my eyes incredibly got bigger and I made a little protest‚ “What? No! I want to stay here. I love this place.” “Then‚ what about your dad’s work? You know your dad is working there‚” my mom added. I argued‚ “Well‚ what about my schooling here?” Then she said‚ “We will have to move you to another school.” “No‚ I don’t want to!” At

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

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    Annabelle English 3 To Kill A Mockingbird Research Paper 10 March 2013 The Similarities of Her Life and Her Fiction Many authors that write meaningful and classic novels have many ways of finding inspiration for their writing. Harper Lee had things throughout her childhood that she used to create the fictional character Scout Finch‚ which was meant to be a reflection of herself. The first similarity of their childhoods is that both their fathers were small-town lawyers; the second is

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    the town of Maycomb County‚ Alabama. “People determined to preserve every physical scrap of the past” (185). The residents of Maycomb are‚ for the most part‚ paper-cut copies of the typical Southerner. They are very traditional‚ keeping much of their former beliefs and activities as possible. However‚ there is a notable few that do not quite fit with the rest of the town‚ Jean Louise “Scout” Finch‚ Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch‚ Arthur “Boo” Radley and Charles “Dill” Baker Harris. In the novel‚ To

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    Mockingbird: The mockingbird represents innocence. Like hunters who kill mockingbirds for sport‚ people kill innocence‚ or other people who are innocent‚ without thinking about what they are doing. Atticus stands firm in his defense of innocence and urges his children not to shoot mockingbirds both literally and figuratively. The mockingbird motif arises four times during To Kill a Mockingbird. First‚ when Atticus gives Jem and Scout air guns for Christmas and instructs them not to kill mockingbirds

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