Journal Entry #1 I can relate to the scene where Holden Caulfield’s history teacher Mr. Spencer lectures Holden about applying himself and trying in life. Sometimes during school‚ I struggle with the same issue. Especially during stressful situations‚ it can be difficult for me to apply myself and find motivation to do my best. For me‚ physics is a class that I struggle with. Even after pouring hours upon hours of studying for tests‚ I always end up getting a low score. Like Holden‚ I ask myself
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Paul Shim Miguel Estagle Crystal Yun Katelynn Mayfield Rachel Duncan 2.Evaluate the extent to which the American West a land of opportunity for various groups from 1865 to 1900. (Paul Shim chapter 27 #2) The popular idea of westward expansion was still thriving in the United States‚ which caused many people to migrate towards the west. The American West in the second half of the 19th century was a land of opportunity on the surface‚ but it also had its hardships for people such as the average farmer
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Mark Lockard Zayn Adv. Lit/Comp 3rd 22 April 2012 To Kill a Mockingbird Novel Chart About the Author-Harper Lee- * She grew up in Alabama during the Great Depression * To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee’s first novel * She based the novel upon actual childhood events in her life * Lee’s mother died from severe illness when Lee was young and a mother is never mentioned in the novel Setting- * Maycomb‚ Alabama * The Great Depression Similes- * Page 10- “It drew him as
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The book To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the town of Maycomb‚ Alabama during the Great Depression. Scout‚ Jem and Atticus are the main characters and Atticus is their father. Atticus who is a lawyer had to defend a black man for a crime that he did not commit. The white people in town believed that a black man‚ Tom Robinson‚ raped a white girl. At the trial‚ Scout and Jem are exposed to racism and stereotypes and in the end Tom Robinson is found guilty. In the book‚ Atticus says to Scout “You never
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Emma by Jane Austen Journal entry 1 The beginning of ’Emma’ is set in a small imaginary country village called Highbury‚ in around 1814 and the mood is playful and happy. The main characters in this scene are Emma Woodhouse the persona‚ Mr Woodhouse‚ Ms Taylor and Mr Knightly. Emma Woodhouse is described as ’Handsome‚ clever‚ and rich’ and happy because she ’had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her’ The writer portrays how she is used to having
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Tristan Vigil Engl – 112-02 3/12/15 Journal Entry 9 1. Most of the main characters are introduced in the beginning of the story except for the murderer who the reader learns about more and more through the story. 1. The emotional meaning of the story has a large impact on the how how the plot is worked out. In the story the lawyer is continuously trying to convince people that the murderer is going to murder as soon as he get out of jail and in the story that is what happens. Without this part
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Task T: How are the themes of the novel revealed to the reader? In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee employs a variety of narrative tools to reveal the themes of the novel. It is through the insightful reactions of characters to situations that affect them physically or emotionally that give us a deep understanding of the themes that Lee is conveying. It is also through the setting of the novel in the fictional town of Maycomb and in the nonfictional southern state of Alabama in the US that we comprehend
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statement correctly identifies of how all men were created equal no matter of what race‚ gender‚ or color they are. In this book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ equality is not present .Tom Robinson‚ a black person was accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. Tom accusation immediately created tension between the White and black community. In To Kill a Mockingbird justice and equality can defeat prejudice; this occurs when Atticus defends Tom Robinson in the court of
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King Benjamin continues his address—Salvation comes because of the atonement—Believe in God to be saved—Retain a remission of your sins through faithfulness—Impart of your substance to the poor—Do all things in wisdom and order. About 124 B.C. And now‚ it came to pass that when king Benjamin had made an end of speaking the words which had been delivered unto him by the angel of the Lord‚ that he cast his eyes round about on the multitude‚ and behold they had fallen to the earth‚ for the fear of
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Conscience is the voice viewed as a guide to the rightness and wrongness in one character and behavior‚ and in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the brother of the narrator‚ Jem‚ changes throughout the story and realizes that the conscience of plenty of the residents in Maycomb is disturbing and wrong. When Atticus said “…before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience” (105). Jem represented the theme
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