The place where the novel is set is a county called Maycomb, an imaginary county in Southern Alabama in the United States. ... Also the people in Maycomb did not know much about what was going on in other places outside the county. ... This parochialism resulted in people having small minds, narrow views and suspicion of anything different. ... In the end it is Atticus's struggle to overcome the small town stereotypical attitude and their system of segregation which underlies the story. ... Hence the time and place play an important role in creating the whole plot and the characte...

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Before this play was released the roles from black people on stage were mostly small and often times not serious roles. ... At first Walter was against moving out of their small and overcrowded apartment. ... Walter does not tell any of his family members and contemplates to himself whether to accept the money and stay in the small apartment in the "ghetto" or to start a new life in the white neighborhood. It is a difficult decision for Walter to make but he ultimately decides that he and his family must leave the poor, run downed area and begin fresh in a new place. ...

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Bigger Thomas never met his Father and couldn't afford to go to school or to move to a different and better place, he was forced to work to feed himself as well as his family. Like Bigger, Richard Wright was forced to live with his family in a small apartment, through most of his life he struggled to feed himself, his family, and tried to attend school as well. Richard Wright didn't get far in school and was forced to move to a different place as he constantly argued with family members. Seeking a better place and a brighter future Richard moved north to try and start a new life...

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Afro-American students began to realize how to harness the small power they had. ... Though a small inconvenience, it makes a big impact when the reasons behind it are so outrageous. ... One of the most common places to find a drinking fountain is in a school, whether it be a grammar school or a high school. ... If it were not for him many of the marches and demonstrations which won them their rights may have never taken place. ...

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Born a slave on a small farm in Virginia, he recalled his childhood in his autobiography, Up From Slavery. ... "In meeting men, in many places, I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least" (Up From Slavery, pg.229). Have you ever experienced the gratification of giving a gift to another person, or helping someone out with something small? ...

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It is set in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. Maycomb, like most small southern towns, has a problem with widespread racism toward Negroes. ... Atticus defended Tom because otherwise he would not be able to tell his children what to do any more, and also for moral reasons to " " The court battle was not the only place that Atticus showed courage. ...

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In the period between 1860 and 1877, many major changes were taking place within America. ... This shows how changes were beginning to take place in America due to the new amendments. A new banking system was put into place, as to nationalize the country. ... A few small social changes took place in the period after the Civil War, the most important being the Freedmen's Bureau. ... These changes are a revolution because new ideas and ways of life were coming into place. ...

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Jones was born in May of 1931 in a small town in Indiana, a part of the country, which at this time was divided by racial segregation and imbued with Christian fundamentalism. ... It was not long after this encounter that Jones was able to create his own place of refuge, the Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. ...

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The blacks and immigrants went from a place that they truly loved and that truly loved them back to a place where they were forced to love those whom they had hated just weeks before. ... They were in places where they were loved and their skills were much appreciated. ... On the other hand, when these blacks and immigrants were called over to the city after the yellow fever hit, they were basically being used by the people who had kicked them out in the first place. ... It simply stated that "The small strength I was able to muster each morning was sorely tried the moment my eyes and e...

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It is also done in a manner that I feel wasn't overbearing but should be things that all whites should know in the first place, so therefore it wouldn't be anything surprising. ... It may have been a bit too strong but I think its better to take a larger step than to take a smaller one. ...

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He knows and accepts his place in society, but also knows that it is not right and he does not agree with it. The invisible man, perhaps the other black boys too, feels he wants "to love her and murder her, to hide from her, and yet to stroke where the small American flag tattooed upon her belly- (155). ...

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To many, the small efforts they were making may seem minimal but in Anna Cooper's mind they were just the begin of how the world was going to open up to women. ... They were once thought of as just housewives, Kitchen workers, nursery worker, caregivers of prisoners, and the women had a place. ... They wanted nor of what has been offered in life they stated to feel the unreachable is now attainable are not the one's place on men of society but the limits they place on themselves. ...

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Each era of history is remembered for something significant that took place during that era. ... A small town girl named Scout is subject to the savageness of the townspeople as her father Atticus Finch tries to defend a black man named Tom Robinson. ... The era of the story was well portrayed by placing the correct attitudes of southerners in the story. ... All of the people live in small houses. ...

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They were packed very tightly on ships for months at a time chained to each other with no place to go to the bathroom, little water to drink, and hardly anything to eat. ... There were small farmers with two or three slaves, planters with ten to thirty slaves and big planters who owned a thousand or more slaves. Scholars generally agree that slaves received better treatment on the small farms and plantation that did not employ overseers or general managers. ... A former slave recalls, "Children had to go to the fiel' at six on out place. ... As a child, Ross was "hired out" by her maste...

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Emma Lou is carrying the prejudices instilled in her in the small town of Boise, Idaho where she was surrounded by fair skinned people and the faith of the blue veins in the idea of "Whiter and whiter with EVERY generation" (11). ... Harlem is represented as a place where black people of all color are supposed to be able to find freedom through segregation from the predominately white world, but even in these circumstances, Emma Lou cannot recognize the composite nationality of her people. ... Thurman is showing a common view of 1920's society in a small segregated town and giving the r...

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Critical Essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a fictional story set in a small Southern town, Maycomb, in the early 1930. ... The Great Depression was the combination of the unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920's, and the stock market speculation that took place during the latter part that same decade. ... In contrast, wealthy only had to spend a small portion of their income. ... In the seventy years since the fictional scenes in To Kill a Mockingbird took place small steps in the improvement of the race relations might have take...

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This book generally is about all of the migrant workers, all with their own dreams. The main characters George and Lennie go from farm to farm, trying to work up a stake and save enough to buy their own farm. The other characters in the book are also all lonely in their own way. Crooks is black and ...

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It was a place where black actors, both men and women, could work, learn, and perfect their skills. ... New York was very excited to be the founding place of this big up and coming thing. ... No other place had a bigger spotlight on black entertainment. The Harlem Cotton Club is where most of the performances took place. ... Since then, Freedom has grown from a small community theatre to an award winning, nationally recognized regional theater. ...

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Curley Curley is described as a small man. ... But he forgets about his place in life and he is shown where he belongs by Curley's wife. ... Well, you keep you place, then, ------. ... George is a small and fairly intelligent man while Lennie is a large man of very little intelligence. ... The characters and places he creates seem real, and he uses real places to mark the general area that the story is set in, the Salinas river, for example. ...

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One of the most troublesome areas of racism is in places of education. ... A small percentage of them taught themselves to read and write and they began to teach others. ... Even though education was instituted for African Americans, which was a step in the right direction, it was a very small step and still didn't give blacks the education they deserved. ... This is just one example of the racial prejudice in colleges, even in a small college of 9,000 students. ...

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All slaves were free and had to go find a new place to live and a new place to work. ... To blacks living within post- Reconstruction South, Washington offered industrial education as the means of escape from sharecropping and allowed blacks to become self-employed, while owning their own land, or small business. ... They settled in a very small house with many other black and very poor white neighbors. ...

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In Henry's time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles of sand. ... Livingstone first planned to become a medical missionary in China, but the Opium Wars made China a bad place for a westerner with good intentions. ... Nomads travel from place to place in search of food. ... The British government paid owners for their slaves, but the Boers complained the payments were too small. ...

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As one of the few attorneys in the small, rural hometown, Finch is called upon by the county court to defend Tom Robinson, a black laborer. ... But because this story takes place in the south where many people are racist he was accused of the crime. ... Prejudice is a strong word; it is as black as the night, as black as the soul of a small town called Maycomb. ...

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They moved into every place imaginable, plantations, cities, towns and villages looking for ex-slaves. ... At first the Klan was thought up of by a small group of men, mainly to just have fun. ... It didn't take long for the small group of men to realize that what they had created was a powerful tool which then developed into a militant, guerilla order group. ...

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Some were princes and warriors, rulers of kingdoms large and small. ... "Stations" along the way--barns, attics, storerooms, secret rooms, and even straw mattresses--were places where the fugitives were fed and sheltered. ... The book does have a small anti-slavery message, but there is still a negative view of slavery in her book. ...

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