Alabama

Camellias to prove that racism existed in the South during the 1930’s. To begin, Harper Lee uses the symbol Snow to prove racism existed in the South during the 1930’s. Scout, Jem, and Atticus, they’re father, live in the small town of Maycomb County, Alabama. During the winter it normally never snows, but this year it did. The white snow covered the whole town, showing the town covered in the white ideals, white personalities, and white people. Scout narrates, “‘The world’s ending, Atticus!…

Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story about two young siblings, Jeremy Atticus Finch, or Jem, and Jean Louise Finch who is mostly referred to as Scout and is the narrator of the story. To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the deep south called Maycomb, Alabama. Jem and Scout 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…

Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, is a novel about a family consisting of Scout, her older brother Jem, and her father Atticus. It takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. Tensions rise in Maycomb due to all of the segregation that takes place between the blacks and whites. The Finch family, which is white, is put to shame when Atticus defends a black man in court. Throughout history, racism has gotten better overall since the Civil Rights Movement of the1960’s, but racial…

said “Don’t judge my path if you haven’t walked my journey.” Scout has to think about this quote when learning about different characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird was written about a little girl living in Maycomb Alabama in 1930. She and her brother are obsessed with Arthur Radley, a recluse living with his older brother Nathan Radley. Scout's father is a lawyer and has to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, accused of raping Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell's…

and feel oneself into the inner life of another person”. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the Finch family, consisting of Scout, Jem, and their father Atticus, are unlike most families in the prejudice and racist town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. Different from other families in their small town, the Finch children are taught to tolerate other people’s differences through empathy, and to not judge people based on what they see on the outside, rather than on…

as two generations of women struggle with the social etiquette of their time, and their hopes for the future. Three movies that capture this bond and all that it implies are Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, Steel Magnolias, and Sweet Home Alabama. In each movie, the mothers are effected by the confinement of their lifestyles, which in turns effects the wishes and dreams of their own daughters. Meanwhile, their daughters struggle with trying to shed…

J.R. McWane was the founder the Birmingham Company that bears his family name in 1921. It is today called McWane Inc. It is one of the biggest producer of water and sewer pipes. Over the years, it has made a name as one of the 500 privately owned companies in the United States. Its iron foundries spread across 10 states in the United States and Canada. McWane has aggressively expanded since the 1970s by buying up antiquated plants and increasing their profitability through their management…

which sung without hurting anybody to illustrate how people were injustice and judgment of innocent people like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson, who mentioned in the novel. Scout Finch narrates her story as a child and what happened in Maycomb town, Alabama. Her point of view illustrates the prejudice of the people. Her story happened during the 1930s scout live with her father and her brother, Jem. She and her brother and their summer friend, dill, interested in their unseen and isolated neighbor,…

The Giants Stood Upon Many people today are well aware of the amazing feats done by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From the nonviolence in the Montgomery Bus Boycott where he picked up a following, to the historic March on Washington where he delivered his awe-inspiring “I Have a Dream” Speech (History.com 1). There is no doubt whatsoever, Doctor King was an incredibly influential person in the Civil Rights Movement whose legacy would never be forgotten. However, Isaac Newton once said “If I have…

sometimes made you feel as if though you were caged and unable to achieve your goal? To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a historical fiction novel told in the eyes of a young girl named Scout as her father, Atticus Finch , a lawyer in the 1950’s in Alabama, is burdened with the task of defending a black man, Tom Robinson, of harming a white girl, Mayella Ewell. “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou is a poem that compares and contrasts a free bird to a caged bird. “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar…