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“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is a book set in the mid 1900’s about a small that has quite of few problems, mostly racism against black people. The book is a great book to demonstrate all the PEAC values because throughout the whole book you can clearly see ways that different people try to make the world a better place. The three most obvious character traits that “To Kill a Mockingbird” demonstrates are kindness, community, and courage. The first character trait that “To Kill a…

silent about things that matter.” In 2016, Black people feel as if their lives do not matter and they refuse to remain silent about that any longer. With bad media portrayal to police brutality, Blacks feel as if their lives have been diminished to less than human. Blacks do not feel safe in their own country; they do not feel protected by their law enforcement. Therefore, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was created in the hopes of changing the way Black lives are treated by the police.…

Everything was white. Millions of glistening ice crystals surrounding me. The trees that went on for miles were covered in snow. The cold felt like thousands of needles dancing on my skin. I looked up towards the sky. It was a pale blue with clouds as white as the snow that surrounded me. Everything here amazed me. A small smiled appeared on my face. This was like a dream I didn 't want to end. I start laughing to myself. Too bad this was a dream, and it soon was going to end. I sighed deeply.…

“You must use the DARK skin slaves vs. the LIGHT skin slaves, and the LIGHT skin slaves vs. the DARK skin slaves. You must use the FEMALE vs. the MALE, and the MALE vs. the FEMALE. You must also have white servants and overseers [who] distrust all Black” (Willie lynch letter: the making of slave). He knew what he was doing, because when power over their mind they start to snitch on each other. When that happens they won’t trust each other no more, they will start to inform the boss of whatever…

I gathered my grandchildren for a bedtime story. However, this bedtime story is going to be a special one they will never forget. A story about my past during the 1950’s, a year where African Americans were ridiculed to feeling less than, because we weren’t white. We were treated horribly, they separated us, made us wait at the colored line, drinking from the colored water fountain, and eating on the colored side of the restaurant. I was only six years old, the youngest of five girls. Every…

does not have concern over the way Jim is treated, “When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun... Tom said he slipped Jim’s hat off of his head and hung it on a limb right over him” (15). The reader can start to recognize that Tom does not view African Americans to be significant but rather as a toy, which is the reason why Tom wanted to tie Jim to a tree and misplace his hat. Later in the novel, we see through Tom’s actions that it is blatant that he…

representation of black characters, such as Parnell the Pimp and Sam Schwartzes, in comparison to Oreo, it becomes racial identity is complex. Additionally, conventional institutions such as paternal connections and the male patriarchy are destabilized by Ross’s feminist protagonist. Furthermore, racial identity becomes a tool of inversion as Ross reclaims the treatment of black identity through satirizing a white cultural myth. Ultimately, this novel creates a discourse for Black people beyond…

shouldn’t be against it. If you discover that your child is “gay” be supportive because most likely there is no going back. Don’t lose a relationship you have with your child because you’re not accepting of their lifestyle. Interracial relationships tie into each other a lot because they were once not so easily accepting but today they both are and that’s what they have in common. One wise man said if one dirty rag cannot judge another because they are both dirty, what’s the difference between…

The saying “Don't Judge a Book by its Cover” can tie into the novel To Kill a Mockingbird for many different reasons. To Kill a Mockingbird displays many life lessons, Harper Lee, the author of the book, hopes to teach readers valuable lessons that can change their perspective on life. The story told deals with very harsh subjects and deals with very racist individuals. Some of the main characters in the book are Jem, Scout and Atticus Finch. Scout and Jem are siblings and daughter and son to…

people will fall under the poverty line at some time in their life. Poverty has no color, yet at the same time people see black people in poverty and think it typical due to laziness or they are delinquent and can’t follow the law. Since people also associate lifestyle with class, then the so called “lazy” or “delinquent” life style of black people will place poverty stricken black people in a different class than poverty stricken white people because white people try harder, they just fell into…