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    our world. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ there is an emphasis on the mistreatment of individuals due to the colour of their skin in Maycomb County. Throughout the novel it is evident that there is an enormous prejudice towards coloured people through the treatment of Tom Robinson‚ Dolphus Raymond‚ and Atticus Finch. Simply due to the colour of Tom Robinson’s skin he is wrongly convicted of rape. There is strong evidence that supports the innocence of Tom yet is ignored due to the prejudice

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    To Kill a Mockingbird In Harper Lee’s novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" courage can be shown in several diverse aspects‚ such as Mrs. Dubose‚ Jem‚ Atticus and Maycomb County itself. The first courageous character in the novel known for her great moral courage is Mrs. Dubose. She was addicted to morphine as a painkiller prescribed by her doctor for many years. Despite her illness Mrs. Dubose no longer wanted to continue to use her medication to make things easier. She persevered‚ choosing to‚ "die

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    Japanese and Italian immigrants. How are they harming other races with discrimination? They harm them by verbally and physically abuse them like kidnapping‚ beating‚ punching‚ shooting and even hanging. Lynching is murdering by mob action and without trial‚ as by hanging. By the 1880’s 90 percent of all lynchings in the United States occurred in the southern states. Most victims were black and some victims were poor white families. There are well-known people who got lynched for their most innocent actions

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    Before I get into telling you about courage in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ I would like to tell you what courage means. Courage takes many forms. For example‚ courage can be a person with a gun in their hand or a person that wants to finally do the right thing even though there are several difficult obstacles in the way. Individuals may demonstrate courage in a way that helps other people or in a way that benefits them. It can even take the form of a personal or family goal. A whole country could even

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    ENG-1D-09 May 14‚ 2013 Atticus Finch: An Ideal Role Model in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird No matter which conditions they grow up in‚ almost all children and adolescents have someone that they want to be like. They have someone that inspires them and pushes them to do their best all the time so that one day; those children can achieve their dreams about becoming like their role model. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Atticus Finch is an ideal role model to his children‚ Jem and Scout Finch

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    Geography is the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmospheres. Foster would classify To Kill a Mockingbird under geography. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the Great Depression. Alabama was one of the eleven states to succeed the union in 1861. Because the Confederacy lost the war‚ Alabama was forced back into the union. Alabama faced many hardships during the Reconstruction Era‚ the era that took place in the South after the civil war. To make matters

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    novel To Kill a Mockingbird is written about two siblings‚ Jean Louise and Jeremy Finch. They live with their father Atticus‚ a respected lawyer. Living in a town called Macomb County‚ this family has endured many hardships. Despite the odds‚ they manage to maintain a very healthy relationship. In today’s society people people do not usually care about others‚ it is one for all instead of all for one. Lee writes about how having compassion can help create and strengthen bonds with others. To Kill a Mockingbird

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    among the Innocent In our society‚ people are always being treated unfairly whether it is or is not intentional. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ the character Tom Robinson was a hardworking crippled Black man living in 1930’s America. He was convicted for raping a White young woman named Mayella Ewell. Throughout the course of the book‚ Robinson was consistently victimized by the citizens of his predominantly White town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Tommy Lee Hines is a 26-year-old mentally

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    Shannon Wester May 1‚ 2005 Mrs. Takehara To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mocking Bird In my diorama I depicted the scene of Jem walking Scout home from the Halloween pageant‚ in full ham-suit‚ when they are attacked in the woods by Bob Ewell. He first attacks Jem‚ and then Scout‚ until someone pulls him off of her‚ and Scout assumes it was Jem. The man who saved Scout and Jem was Boo Radley‚ the Finch’s reclusive neighbor. He carries an unconscious Jem and scout back to their house‚ where

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    person.         Racism in “To Kill A Mockingbird” is very common‚ and it is an important part in the story. Racism is shown by the Caucasian’s in Maycomb against the African-Americans in many different ways like when the jury convicts Tom Robinson guilty of raping Mayella Ewell. The details of Tom Robinson raping Mayella Ewell are very vague and do not show enough evidence that Mayella Ewell was raped. When the jury of all Caucasian men decide to vote if Tom Robinson is guilty or not‚ they all vote

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