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Everyday, in our world, there is always something blocking us from the truths and realities that lie ahead. Whether it be technology, family, friends, etc. There will always be something or someone blocking us from what goes on in the world. What Harper Lee is trying to show us, through the town of Maycomb, that so much can go on in our world and no one would notice or pay attention to what is going on. For an example, 67% of the American population gets their news from social media. This shows…

throughout the novel. So, naturally, people are trying to find there way around such derogatory terms. A Twain scholar has found his own, controversial way around it by helping publish a new version of Huck Finn, “edited by Twain scholar ALan Gribben of Auburn University, all 219 occurrences of the so-called N-word will be cut.”(Pitts). Gribben is trying to bring people a version of Huck Finn that cuts out the language that makes it so hard to teach, or to just read. But, some say it’s even more…

In Peggy McIntosh’s paper “White Privilege and Male Privilege”, Macintosh expresses that white privilege is unearned dominance that whites posses unknowingly, which gives them an advantage in society. She argues that by reviewing the denials surrounding white privilege, acknowledging white privilege’s existence, and the factors that protect these unearned advantages and dominance, we can then use these same unearned privileges to weaken the invisible privilege systems (McIntosh). Whites are…

ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT  AUTHOR: JHUMPA LAHIRI  BY: SANYAM JAIN  BBA.MBA 2014  TO: PROF. JAGDISH BATRA ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jhumpa lahiri is an Indian American author and won 2000 Pulitzer prize for fiction. Her first novel the namesake is included in the same and got many awards for it. The story namesake tells us about culture and living sense of two country as the character gogol brought up in another country. It show the difference of mentality. CHARACTERS: Before the summary we should be…

are disembarking and head down the jetway. Passing through the door which leads to the airport, I hear a lady with a light German accent, yelling in excitement. “Lilith! Lilith, over here! A woman shorter than me with tanned skin, along with short auburn hair…

Introduction/ Title of book/ Author information: For my Book Review, I decided to read Delirium by Lauren Oliver. While reading this book, I encountered complex dilemmas that the characters faced. I had to evaluate many different ideas that I had never even thought about. The author did a great job of going out of the box during the writing of this book. She payed a lot of attention to making all of the little details right and making sure that every detail fit into the story perfectly.…

ADD The n-word is said to be the most debatable and unique word in the English language, dating back to the early 1880's. This word has a history of being a very racial and offensive word. Some people feel that this word should be taken out of the dictionary and never used again. While on the other hand, others believe that it should only be used for a positive purpose, such as talking about historical events. It is the ultimate insult that has tormented generations of African Americans; but…

Chapter 3 Cruelty & Isolation Q: “At last Carlson said, ‘’If you want to, I’ll put the old devil out of his misery right now and get it over with.’…. Candy said, ‘Maybe tomorra. Le’s wait till tomorra.’ …. ‘Let’s get it over with,’ Carlson said. ‘We can’t sleep with him stinkin’ around in here.’” (Steinbeck 44) C: Carlson wanted to end the life of the one thing which mattered most to Candy which was his dog. Candy had had that dog since he was a pup and he always tells stories of how it was…

This novel, unfortunately, has lived through its entire life being censored or banned; for example, a professor of English at Auburn University produced a copy of the novel that removes the “n-word” and replaces it with “slave,” and multiple schools around the country have fully cut the book out of literary study. In fact, the first time it was banned was only a month after its…

"...They had walked the halls of congress with a bag of 200 glossy pictures and beseeched lawmakers to look at their son, his auburn hair curling at the ears, his front teeth sacrificed to a soccer collision, his arms wrapped around Ninja Cat, the stuffed animal that had travelled with him everywhere, including the hearse and underground" (Salsow). The Barden family was one of the many who lost a child in the Sandy Hook massacre. It claimed 26 innocent lives, lives that could've been saved. It…