Aunt Alexandria doesn't like a black person raising Jem and Scout so she tries to get Atticus to fire her. ... He symbolizes the mockingbird, an innocent bird that never harms anyone, because he has the same characteristics. ... The Tom Robinson trial shows how hard it could be for a black person to receive a fair trial. ... White Southerners can't see past skin color to distinguish a mockingbird from a guilty person. This paper shows the importance of the innocent mockingbird and why people chose to ignore that. ...

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At the beginning of the novel, Scout is an innocent, good-hearted five-year-old child who has no experience with the evils of the world. ... The fact that Tom Robinson is really innocent is amazing to me as the jury convicted him simply because of his racial background. They believe no black man could be innocent. ... From this I learnt that the dangers posed to innocent people by evil can eventually destroy a person. ... As Atticus says " You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it". ...

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The story is told from a 3rd person point of view and follows the story of Scout Finch and a lot of the time conveys her feelings across towards the events in the novel. ... The book shows that the black man was perfectly innocent and it was the father who beat the girl. ... Imagine if it was written through the eyes of a white person in the jury or any other common white person. ... Evidently , it wasn't written from the perspective of one of these people and more from the point of view as an innocent young child. ... Straight away this strikes you and when a white person in the book use...

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A racist, all-white jury convicts the innocent Robinson, despite Finch's heroic and impassioned defense. Harper Lee's message about fairness in To Kill a Mockingbird is that societies views and actions towards a person, are based on their skin color, who they are, and their personal image. ... The evidence Atticus brought to court proved Tom innocent. ... In the trial itself Atticus says that Bob and Mayella have assumed that they will automatically be believed over a black person. ... She has come to learn the skill of empathy, and can appreciate another person's situation.  ...

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The reason being the person on the page is likable or has some qualities that makes the person sympathetic or at least a recognizably authentic human. ... There are various types of people that live in today's society and each person has a unique aspect of their character to share with the society. ... Although the author, O'Connor, possesses strong anti-racist sentiments, he also simultaneously evokes pity for the "innocent" mother of Julian and criticizes her actions. The narrator describes her eyes as "sky-blue, [they] were as innocent and untouched by experience as they must h...

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Relationship Between Setting And Theme Tom Robinson was prosecuted although he was innocent. ... If some differs from an idea from the community, people will gang up against that person. ... It was a shame that the town's racistness locked away an innocent man. ...

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This was probably the first time any person that I know was introduced to a witch. ... If they didn't fly they were innocent, but if they flew they were convicted and killed. ... If they didn't float they were innocent. ... No test that was given was a fair test because the person always was killed. ... Just like in history, once one person has a set image of another person then everyone else will follow. ...

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Yes freedom does not come cheap and it is usually paid for with the blood of the innocent trying their best to improve this country. ... There is nothing more powerful than idea because given the right person the idea can grow to a reality and can change a whole civilization's thinking on a matter. ...

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For instance, a woman in Texarkana in the early 1890's accused Edward Coy of rape, and he was killed while claiming he was innocent. ... This white woman's rape inspired white men to take violent action against the man accused of being responsible, and also gave them an excuse to act out violently against innocent African Americans. ... She brings up the fact that "29% of these two hundred and eleven persons were charged with crimes against women" and then goes on to say that the other 79% of men were lynched over "some kind of offense against white men". ...

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Unfortunately, these stereotypes tend to stifle the growth and progress of a person, because the individual feels that him or her is not being judged on his or her entire being but rather solely on what meets the eye. ... When the truth was finally revealed, that John Coffey in fact was innocent of not having committed the crime, authorities looked the other way, because to them justice to John Coffey, being a black person, was not an important factor. Due to their ignorance, an innocent man dies wrongfully in the electric chair. ... Martin Luther King once said during his famous speech, " we ...

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The thought of her brought her face back to him, her wide innocent face, the face of a child still, with the eyes that bled into you and the soft lisping breath of a voice that was like the first voice you'd ever heard... America is actually a strong, determined person. ... For she wondered what he would think of her, whether or not he would shame her and make her feel like less of a person. By hiding her tragedies, America remains a strong person and cannot be brought down by the bad occurring to her. ... America is such a young girl, who at first glance may seem innocent and nave to...

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According to Dr. Martin Luther King, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dange...

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One such person is the African American shoeshine man Sterling Williams, an elderly, big and lame, shoeshine man with many pure qualities. ... Williams is full of dignity and self-respect, and just does not only shine other people's shoes but is a lustrous person himself. ... One such person is his friend, the reporter P. ... But before leaving he hopes that white racism will not cause black racism, for then there will be a war that will destroy even the good and the innocent. ...

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This racist war was effecting innocent children. ... If a white person made friends with a black person, then they would have been frowned upon, and told not to continue such a "silly" friendship. ... When Cassie and T.J go to purchase an order at a hardware store, their order is started to be made up, when a white person's order takes priority. ...

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They were convicted and an all white jury sentenced eight of them to death, even though they had strong evidence that proved them innocent. ... The blacks were not allowed to sit across the aisle from a white person. ...

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Atticus proves that Tom is innocent, but he is still sent to jail because of the town's prejudice against African Americans. ... The protagonist is Elie Weisel who is also the author of the book, which makes the novel told in first person point of view. ...

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Lee and Satrapi highlight the intolerance through the use of first-person perspective, symbolism, and textual/graphical irony. Lee and Satrapi both use a child's first-person perspective in their texts to challenge commonly held values and beliefs of the intolerant public society. ... Lee and Satrapi's use of first-person perspective is designed to challenge the readers' values and present the intolerance of their public societies through clashing public and personal values. ... Satrapi's use of graphical and textual form enables her to more successfully explore person...

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Lee and Satrapi highlight the intolerance through the use of first-person perspective, symbolism, and textual/graphical irony. Lee and Satrapi both use a child's first-person perspective in their texts to challenge commonly held values and beliefs of the intolerant public society. ... Lee and Satrapi's use of first-person perspective is designed to challenge the readers' values and present the intolerance of their public societies through clashing public and personal values. ... Satrapi's use of graphical and textual form enables her to more successfully explore persona...

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However, to a person who may be educated on the subject, I may sit down and have a discussion with that person. ... I don't think all the fact were laid out here where an innocent, unknowing person could read this and get a true feel for the truth. ... This article does make a person think about reparations and provides a decent argument for a "repair". ...

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" By this he meant that any small problem that may just be aimed towards one person, is a problem for everyone else. He believes that one person is never left fighting alone because there is always someone else who has that same opinion and that same motive of making a change, speaking out, and making his voice known. ... Hearing this from a person is hard, no matter what your opinion is because it just simply isn't humane. ... The worst possible thing he could've said during this part is when he says that he had to make up an answer for his five-year old innocent minded son ask...

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Regardless of how an intelligent, civilized person Dick is, he is still a black man who stays in the Shepperton's basement and is not allowed to possess a firearm even after his enlistment in the army. The young boys love him, since they are too ignorant and innocent to experience and give in to the standard of racism of their local communities and generation. ... In "The Child by Tiger," the desire of being a good person I, or appears to be, in the heart of Dick Prosser, but he resorts to man's evil innocence due to an ill mind and the environment he was placed in. ...

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In some parts of the book the stories are one sided, and this is probably because of the person or thing he got his information from. ... That person only gave one side of the story, the blacks side, and made it sound as if the blacks were innocent. ...

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First of all why do I have to be politically correct and say that a black person is "African-American" when I hear black men greet each other with the term "nigger" (nigga). ... Is that not the most offensive term that any person could be called, regardless of your skin color? ... We are just very lucky that he only hurt himself and not some innocent child, mother or father. ...

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Americans held a wide variety of opinions about the capitalist system because each American had a different role in society and the system affected them in different ways. The people of society were classified in different ways and the differences between the classes defined the way that each saw the system as helping or hurting their economic statuses and therefore each class people would hold a different opinion on the ideas of capitalism and what Eugene Debs though of the political system. Capitalism was though to be a perfect fit for American ideas because it was a system that was desi...

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"Love" in an Elevator I chose a Reebok advertisement from FHM magazine, "the worlds fastest growing mens magazine," to analyze. The demographic of this magazine is men from the ages of about eighteen to thirty. This advertisement's color scheme only consists of two colors black and white. T...

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