To: VRoland From: Clarissa Trejo Assignment: Key Cases (Gagnon v Scarpelli Pg. 393) & (Mempa v Rhay Pg. 393) Gagnon v. Scarpelli (1973) The safeguards identified in Morrissey v. Brewer were extended to probationers. The Court of Appeals affirmed. Scarpelli, the respondent, had a felony probationer, then was detained for carrying out a burglary crime. Scarpelli's, probation was cancelled without an official hearing and was not represented by counsel.…
How people see the world can be very different. Even within an individual mind, opinions change and perspectives shift that is just apart of life. A person’s ability to see things in other ways, and from other’s views is an ability that must be learned. No one is born with this power, and acquiring this skill is an important milestone in a person’s life.…
As Bethany Hamilton once said, "Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you. " What people don't know is that fear can have a huge impact on your life, just like courage. Fear can have a negative impact on your life but that fear drives courage. Bethany Hamilton was explaining how you need fear to get through life's scariest challenges.…
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee demonstrates that, it is a sin to demonize the innocent proven through Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley. For example, Atticus is a helpful not harmful lawyer but is prosecuted for defending Tom Robinson, a black man. Scout’s cousin Francis hears from his family that Atticus is a, “nigger lover [...] he’s ruinin’ the family” (Lee 110). This proves that towards the beginning of the novel, Atticus’s family judges him for defending a black man.…
To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a love story. It is a caring story, but it is not romantic love. It is a love story in multiple ways. One way is that Atticus loves his children. Another way is he loves his town, Maycomb.…
Don Brown writes about "To Kill a Mockingbird" and calls it “a sermon on courage as much as anything else”. A passage that shows that Brown’s idea is true is when Atticus is talking to Scout after Jem leaves to apologize to Mrs.Dubose for killing her camellia flowers. Scout doesn't understand why Atticus continues the case when the rest of the residents in Maycomb county insult him for it. Atticus tells her "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience"(Lee 87).…
The Building of To Kill a Mockingbird Among all of the books Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird was the one book that connected to past events. Harper Lee was inspired by the past events. She used actual past-events as inspiration to write her novel To Kill A Mockingbird. There were connections used in the book from the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and the issue of racism. The first example of America’s history used in the book is the Jim Crow law.…
Published in July of 2015, the book is Lee’s second full-length novel following her Pulitzer Prize-winning “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1960). Though initially touted as a sequel, “Go Set a Watchman”—the manuscript of which was allegedly discovered during an appraisal of Lee’s belongings in 2011—is actually the first draft of what would later become Lee’s masterpiece. Following the phenomenal success of that book, Lee shunned public life and returned to Monroeville, Alabama. Now eighty-nine-years-old, she resides in an assisted living facility. Given the great, and controversial, fanfare surrounding the book’s publication—a literary event, if ever there was one—it is somewhat difficult to offer an objective look at “Go Set a Watchman.”…
Since To Kill a Mockingbird has unrealistic characters and its lack of useful life lessons prevents the story from being a timeless classic. One reason why the story is not a timeless classic is how the lessons it teaches are all simple, which is from what Atticus lectures his children. After Scout comes home from an awful first day of school, she tells Atticus what her teacher says to Walter Cunningham. Atticus comforts Scout and explains to her that “you never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). Although this quote has good intentions, the meaning of it is too cliche.…
1. Character: This book helped me get to know it’s character like I never imagined. Scout was a very intelligent girl who always knew what she was doing. Jem started out as a young and crazy kid but later in the book he mature and mellowed out.…
Imagine a wagon with wooden wheels, helping a family move across a valley. The wheels have to endure all of the bumps, rocks, mud, and water, yet a family will not move anywhere unless the wheels are on the wagon. This is similar to the idea of empathy that Harper Lee is trying to emphasize through Atticus. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she keeps proving through Atticus that even though being truly empathetic toward someone less fortunate than you may bring them down in society, standing up for one another could also make a whole society respect one another.…
It has been said that to achieve something, you have to experience it first. Throughout the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout and her brother Jem grow up in the south. During the story, they are presented with many challenges, such as the trial of Tom Robinson. They learn how to best overcome the obstacles, how it affects them, and others around them. Therefore, it could be argued that, throughout the story, real life gives more valuable lessons to Scout and Jem than their school education.…
Jack Scott Mrs.Olsen Pre AP English III-8 29th April 2016 To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 1-11 Retest assignment The novel of TKAM takes various readers across the world the many places of human life and behavior that compels with the dramatic experiences of kindness,love,passion,and cruelty that is present throughout. The cause of exploration in the novel’s larger questions takes place within the perspective of the children in which the education of children is necessarily involved in the specific development of all of the novel’s natural themes.…
We wrote a lot of papers after reading a novel about what we thought about either the book or how the character responded. We also did a lot of research papers on current events each year I took English. I also did a research paper every year for four years of high school. Most of the papers I wrote were usually 1000 words or more. The research papers were usually either 5-8 pages long and had to be a 1000 words or more and just having a picture on a page didn’t count.…
However, throughout high school, research papers were not a common assignment, and while I think this shows in the research paper I did for Writing 102, I think my skills at writing a really fast, but decent paper show here.…