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. ... It was not that the surplus products of our society were not wanted, but rather that those whose needs were not satiated could not afford more. ... Farmers, most of who had been on their land for generation of their families, fell into debt and were given no assistance from our government. ... The Cunninghams send their children to school, as apposed to keeping them home to work in the field, and refuse to accept welfare o...

• Word Count: 1892
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The book, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the sleepy Southern town of Maycomb, in the 1930s. ... Atticus knows that he is going to lose everything, and so does everyone else in the town. ... After Scout realizes that most of the town doesn't approve of what Atticus is doing, she asks him why he's doing it. ... Miss Maudie demonstrates this as she states to Jem, "I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world that were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. ... When the entire town turned against him, and looked down on him, she was there, standing by...

• Word Count: 1682
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Colored families faced an unemployment rate that was much higher than whites, which caused many to be forced into poverty stricken homes and to settle in small towns where there were less whites and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mockingbird soon settled into an easy soft spoken racist mindset. This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Sc...

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" In the same document, the African American citizens of Boston passed a resolution stating, "Resolved, that our feelings urge us to say to our countrymen that we are ready to stand by and defend the Government as the equals of it's White defenders-to do so with "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor" (Pg. 97) Though their attempts were unsuccessful, they kept trying. ... We can afford to pay these licenses, and will do it before we will be defeated, and then we will have full control of the city's washing at our own prices as the cities have control of o...

• Word Count: 1964
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People see Car Lee as a hero shown in the following quote, " They gonna make this nigger a hero"pg 97 Meaning that killing two murders was a good thing, now our town Is so much safer. ... The town was divided; half the town wanted to pin a medal on Carl Lee and the other half thought he should be punished severely. ...

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Another concern Mayella has is being ostracized by the whole town of Maycomb. ... Atticus elaborates on this idea during his closing argument at the trial saying: "She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time honoured code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with...she tried to put the evidence away from her.... Tom Robinson is an innocent man who loses his life simply because he is black in a town with immense racial tension. ...

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There are multiple scenes in Django Unchained where Django is riding into various towns on a horse. It was difficult for white people within the towns to grasp the notion that a black man had the capability of riding a horse on his own. ... There is no way we will be able to combat the issue of racism in our country, if we continue to allow the use of objects such as the Confederate flag, which still carries a significant racist connotation. ... If we gave more sufficient opportunities to members of disadvantaged groups who suffer from discrimination within American culture, we would come to ...

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Charlie is a story/play loosely based on the murder of the black youth, Emmett Till, in a small town in Mississippi in 1955. ... Meridian must deal with the conflict drawn between the bitterly divided Whitetown and Blacktown (fictitious towns used by Baldwin to simultaneously emulate and mock The United States' racial tension). ... Charlie, in other works Baldwin wrote of integration as a loving means through which we would force our "brothers" to love one another. ...

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This is representative of the how our nation's white population treated African Americans for many years. ... The town's "leading white people" loved the speech and asked him to deliver it at a local hotel in the ballroom. ... This group of "town's officials" turned out to be the local men's club. ...

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(whiteracist.com) His view is that all cities and towns should be white run and that all businesses should be white owned. ... "We always stress the inportance of our POWs. ... These racist movements are poisoning our society and sucking up our children. ...

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If we needed to buy groceries we had to ride a bus or asked my grandfather to take my mother and me to buy food and buy our personal things. ... In this town everyone knows one another. ... Our biggest focus was school. ... We owe it not only to ourselves but also to our families, communities and our homelands to put our best foot forward and represent our cultures in a positive light. ...

• Word Count: 1963
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• Grade Level: High School

Pieter's father is chairman of the local National Party and reportedly wields considerable influence in the Parliament at Cape Town. ... She speaks casually of the reserve "which our forefathers gave to Maduna when he yielded to them, a hundred years ago" (56), without questioning the precise nature of the giving and taking involved in the Afrikaner seizure of land. ...

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She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ...

• Word Count: 1938
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" because even tough they were not hurting anyone they were not obeying the black and white segregational ordinances of the town. ... " The activities of MLK were referred to as "unwise and untimely" and in response King replies by saying "We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights" he also compares the progression of equality to that of a "horse and buggy", so to paint a mental picture as to how slow the progress is being made. ...

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There are acts that are so discreet that you almost don't catch them, but along with those, there are blatant acts of bigotry that would never occur in our time. ... Most of the blacks live in the bad part of town, or the "slums." ...

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Our history is a contradiction; a nation based on freedom once did not give all people the right to live freely. ... Anne Moody reflects on the murders of her town, "At least when other animals (hogs, cows, etc.) were killed by man, they were used as food. ...

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Toni Morrison wrote this novel in 1970, when racial tensions were high and the model of white beauty was accepted as the norm, but even now in today society we can see that it still applies to our culture. ...

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One of my favorite childhood memories was going to the carnival with my grandma whenever it was in town. My grandma and I would spend a whole Saturday riding all of the rides and eating as much junk food as our stomachs would allow. ...

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Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. In Henry's time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles of sand. Today we know t...

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