Boy Scouts of America

Lee establishes the idea that children are free from the racism of American society as they maintain their innocence until their moral education begins. She weaves into the novel that the transition to adulthood in the early nineteenth century in America, especially in the South, caused the development of unethical views of African-Americans by white Americans as part of the instillment of societal values. In contrast to this ideology, Lee crafts Atticus, a lawyer, as a model of pristine…

and taking away from boy’s masculinity. This argument, instead of putting the blame on increased/hyper masculinity boys are being raised with today, blames women. They call this the “wussification” of America, when actually in reality, boys now are becoming more and more exposed to masculine expectations than before. While watching the film it surprised me to find out that the Boy Scouts were created in response to the women’s rights movement back in the 20’s, in order to reinforce manly…

The media and politicians have portrayed Hispanics to only be drug dealers, aggressive people, killers, and they are coming to America still your belongings. Some politicians want to build a wall across the boarder to keep Hispanics out. Sometimes when people hear things from the media and politicians, they believe it to be true. Rather it’s true or not! This is how prejudice…

out to be deceptive, in outstanding and unfortunate ways, and this idea is shown by Harper Lee in To Kill A Mockingbird, a fiction novel written in 1960 set in the segregated american south during the Great Depression. Throughout the novel, Jem and Scout, two children who lose their innocence, are introduced to many examples of deceptive appearances…

Caltech: Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story. (250 - 650) In my home, I am known as the IT department. Whenever anyone in my family needs technical support, they come ask me. My family first noticed my knack for computer skills when we got our first family computer. I would always be playing around with settings and games. One…

An example was Scout acting like a boy. Scout states, “Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stove tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace” (Lee 108). In the novel, Aunt Alexandra has the stereotype image how women played a role in society, including…

According to a poll conducted by the American Society for Quality in 2009 of people ages eight to 17, “24 percent of boys but only 5 percent of girls said they were interested in an engineering career” (qtd in “Why So Few?” 21). Since even in childhood and adolescence young women demonstrate a lower interest in engineering, an initial obstacle in increasing female participation…

There are many innovations that helped America be successful in WWII: bombers, radio, women working on the homefront, etc. However, a less known but still very important innovation was the creation of war bonds. During WWII, war bonds were created/advertised, used to produce war supplies, and then paid back after the war. War bonds existed before WWII, but it was Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. who began planning a defense bond program for the United States. He recruited…

traditional America, but one other thing is missing: To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee and takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. I thoroughly enjoyed this book because of its vivid descriptions of southern life during this time and its morally dense content. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book of fiction, though it is taken from the childhood of Harper Lee. The book is told from the perspective of Jean Louise Finch (Scout) as an…

Racism is alive in America. Acts of violence against individuals because of race or color have occurred well before the birth of our nation and are still ongoing today. Decades after the civil rights movement, there are still painful reminders of the injustice and depravity allowed by us against other humans just because of differences in skin pigmentation. Author of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, grew up in the Monroeville, Alabama during the 1930’s and observed discrimination…