The laws and culture of the Jim Crow South make it possible for a jury to have full confidence that although a black man is innocent, he will still get convicted. ... He believes that despite a person's personality, morality, integrity, or lack thereof, white people are always above black people, and he fought for discrimination against blacks until the very end. ... " The "code of society" is an unwritten law that states that whites and blacks are forbidden to interact in any kind of friendly or romantic way. ... The supporting characters in To Kill a Mockingbird stand up ...

• Word Count: 1682
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Huckleberry Finn fits this criterion by demonstrating Huck's moral journey of breaking away from society's morality towards discovering his own. ... Even during the post-Civil War era, Southerners showed strong racist sentiment towards African Americans through the Jim Crow laws and "separate but equal " treatment, influencing the nature of the novel. ... Through reading this novel, students can further understand the deep rooted racial segregation between black and white Southerners, and the absurdity of the laws the deep South enforced against African-Americans. ... Huck believes...

• Word Count: 2046
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Aquinas, in his views of deontic morality, believed that just because something felt good, did not make it just. ... All through the letter, King questions the laws of humans compared to that of God's laws. He also brings into question whether or not Negroes breaking laws were any worse than white "heroes" of the past that had broken laws in an effort to do justice. He suggests that the colonists defending themselves against unfair and tyrannical rules broke such laws, but were considered freedom fighters and doing right. ...

• Word Count: 1396
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Any hostile actions taken by whites toward blacks were looked upon without any feeling of remorse, whites had the freedom to act in any way desired toward blacks and to do so without regard for law or morality, unlike blacks who had the freedom only to think hostile thoughts toward whites, of which had there been any way to prove such thoughts, it is not entirely far-fetched to imagine there would have been a radical punishment for those thoughts. ...

• Word Count: 2353
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

Groups such as these ignored the many laws put into to place to prevent such violent discrimination and have an equal nation; Laws such as the Civil Rights Acts, the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment. ... Sadly those responsible for breaking the new laws in many cases became wealthy and famous. ...

• Word Count: 2136
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The symbolic scene transcends racism over morality and human mentality, emphasizing its powerful nature which can subconsciously succumb one's well being. ... Desdemona's rights and powers continues to minimize as we witness Brabantio call upon the Dukes and Senators, horrifically diminishing her womanhood as he tries to reclaim her as his possession through law. ...

• Word Count: 1401
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate