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    people, regardless of social classes, race, and gender. Racism, discrimination, and social classes were explored into this book. Despite the taboo topics, it also has a moral meaning behind the story; acceptance. The protagonist, Scout, learns to accept all types of people throughout the novel even though she grew up in a Southern town where most white folks are racist. To Kill A Mockingbird praises the acceptance of all types of people, regardless of social classes, race, and gender. As the…

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    fairly. Many colleges will not accept a student into their school unless their score is at a certain level. The scores the school will accept are different depending on the rank of the college or university. The University of North Alabama will accept a student with a 16 ACT score or a 790 SAT score. (una.edu) The University of Alabama will begin accepting a student that has a 21 on their ACT and a 1000 on their 1000. (gobama.edu) Harvard University will only accept a student that has a 29…

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    King Jr. preparing to accept the Nobel Peace Prize of 1964. He is rehearsing his speech while he is getting dressed. He “says this is not right.” He refers to his tie, but in reality, he feels bad that he is living all high and mighty, while his brothers back home are still struggling everyday to fight for their civil rights. The first shot the audience sees is a close up of MLK. The lighting of this scene is dimly lit. It creates a serious tone because MLK is preparing to accept an award for…

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    To Grieve Is to Be Human To lose a loved one is to lose a piece of self. It is human nature to go through grief. It is human nature to get consumed by each stage of grief, as if each stage is a demon. The funny thing about demons is that they are hard to control. The Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, in the play Hamlet was no exception. In fact, his demons killed him. The play, Hamlet, was written by William Shakespeare, and it was first published in 1603. In the play, Hamlet was a young prince whose…

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    held in Atlanta known as, “The Atlanta Compromise.” In this speech, Booker talked about how African Americans should accept their segregation, and to work hard until the day comes where the white community accepts them. This angered several people, including famous figure, W.E.B. Du Bois. He argued that Booker should be fighting for the right to earn equality, and not just accept disfranchisement. Some of Du Bois’s critics were true, since African Americans did not have the right to vote, due to…

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    social contract as both a set of rules and their consequences. Socrates fails to meet the requirements set forth by King “One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly and with a willingness to accept the penalty”. When alluding to Socrates, King is right in arguing that Socrates dares to accept the painful consequences of his actions, by choosing not to escape in the…

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    Skeeter, being born a white woman, is expected to get married, have children, and trail in the footsteps of her mother. However, she does not accept that a white woman's only role in the community is to start a family. She is "tired of the rules" (180) and wants to follow her own path and live by her own values. Skeeter becomes distant from her social status and as the book goes on, realizes that she does not have to be like every other woman in Mississippi. Skeeter's mother, Charlotte Phelan's,…

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    The book The Shawl written by Cynthia Ozick had a number of deep emotions to it that were very visible to the reader. It was more in the darker range of emotions than anything but there was most likely a purpose for this. Ozick’s portrayal of insanity and instability were a reflection to the horrors many Jewish people went through in the Holocaust. She used these emotions to communicate the past that her people faced and the struggles they went through while trying to come back to normality in…

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    other failures of himself and one of those being how he has such excessive pride and is also such a traditional man that he is not able to accept what the missionaries have done to his village during his time away in “motherland” because he was banished from the village for 7 years. This was one of the big mistakes that Okonkwo made because he wasn 't able to accept how his village was being changed and he couldn 't do anything about it which was one of his past mistakes before he ended his…

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    she will forgot all of her school life and she will enjoy her grown up life. Teenager 's life is the most complicated life because everyone always look down on everyone that they jealous of and will always mock them. She will not mind them and just accept the fact that she loved her parents even if she got two mothers her mothers will always…

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