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are the major characters in the story, however, there are very important minor characters. Calpurnia, Dill, Heck Tate, and Walter Cunningham are all minor characters that have a significant impact. Minor characters are not major characters for a reason, but still have a significant impact on the story because they help contribute to many of the subplots which help develop the story as a whole. One of the most important minor characters is Calpurnia. She was not just the Finches cook she also…

remain stable and strong through one of the country’s most difficult times. The impact of World War II on baseball during the actual wartime was somewhat surprising. The talent of the league dropped as many players left the league for duty, many minor-league systems were completely shut down, attendance skyrocketed towards the latter years of the war, and a whole new league of baseball was created. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a league founded by Philip Wrigley in…

The reason children who are minors should be tried as adults are to keep society safe and better off. The average ages for juvenile delinquents to commit crimes is usually between the ages of fifteen to nineteen(From Juvenile Delinquency to Young Adult Offending), which means they have had at least fifteen years to learn what’s right and wrong. And even then they are seen as to be rehabilitated instead of simply tried and sentenced. If a minor can commit murder, he or she should be sentenced…

characters in her story to express some of the main concerns in the novel. Some of the main themes in this book are the good and evil in people, social class, and the justice system. These main themes are portrayed by some of the minor characters in To Kill a Mockingbird. The minor characters that portray these themes are Mrs. Dubose who the children realized had good and evil inside her, Mayella who used the justice system to her advantage because she is a white women, and Dolphus Raymond…

appearances are deceiving, and decisiveness and hesitation. However, the way the characters are presented and their roles are different in a way. In the next paragraphs, I will explain the minor characters' importance in the movie and how they are similar and different in both movies. To start off with one of the minor characters we see in the beginning of both movies, the mothers, Sarabi and Gertrude. Both of our protagonists love their mother, although…

Minor Divinities Ancient Egyptians believed that every creature either prodigious or human was considered a god as it was involved in rituals. There is no Egyptian identification to explain the word demon, but Egyptologists categorized them as minor divinities. In Ancient Egypt, major gods and goddesses had minor ones whose job was performing and acting tasks instead of the major divinities. They could be transformed to major gods if only they succeeded in getting red of their dependency and…

The 2014 Oscar winning film Interstellar- directed by Christopher Nolan- shadows the protagonist Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) an ex-NASA pilot and engineer. The storyline begins in an apocalyptic America were the environment can no longer sustain human life. Out of chance Cooper and his daughter Murphy (Jessica Chastain) find the remains of NASA and discover just how little time humanity has. To save his children Cooper agrees to join the crew of the Endurance, tasked to locate a…

In 1899, the nation’s first juvenile court was established in Illinois, with the primary goal of rehabilitation in mind rather than punishment. Minors were given certain protections under the juvenile system, and the courts took on a sort of parental role in juvenile justice, focusing on the best interests of the minor child (American Bar Association 5). Today, rehabilitation still remains the primary goal. However, when violent crimes rates began to rise in the 1980’s, many states began to…

In the Spring of 1947, Jackie Robinson would be named the first black player in major league baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Until Robinson, the major leagues and the minor leagues were racially segregated. Jackie Robinson broke the color line, first in the minor leagues in 1946 . He then broke the barrier once again one year later, in 1947, when he began his contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named Rookie of the Year and took home the National League MVP Award in 1949,…

My favorite baseball player is Rod Carew and I decided to read the book he wrote about himself as a kid and as a ballplayer. In the beginning of the book Rod talks about his life growing up in Panama and how he did not have a lot of money. In the middle of the novel Rod talks about his career for the Minnesota Twins and what it was like to become a professional ballplayer. Towards the end of the book Rod talks about the end of his tenure with the Twins and him joining his new team the California…