Social Attitudes In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Social attitudes are so important in our society, they are brought by multiple ways and that can have a big impact overall on an individual 's life. In the past, our social attitudes to this day where looked at as something negative during that time. Attitudes have to do with a positive or negative evaluation of an object person, group, or idea. What is mostly focused on in this paper is the activities of a certain group pf people. This paper will explore a movie that is based on a book titled “To kill a Mockingbird” and this movie had such a great impact on my attitude towards certain people, it really puts into persecutor just how we are all the time in a sense. This movie is going to analyze and talk about how it relates to what

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