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In the 1960 novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” Harper Lee shines a spotlight on the best and the worst characteristics of society. Lee uses her characters to display different qualities of humanity, such as tolerance, morality, justice, innocence, and acceptance as well as hatred, hypocrisy, and ignorance. The text is written from the perspective of a child, an unbiased, untainted view of the world and its people. This allows the reader to really understand the story from all sides, and see how blind…

Anthony, I agree with what you stated about plea-bargains allow defendants to get off with a lesser sentence. A plea bargain is not a confession, and it does not involve detailed admissions of guilt. According to Garrett suggests, some scholars have argued that plea bargains, in contrast to interrogations, produce particularly credible and valuable admissions of guilt. Indeed, the argument is sometimes made that plea bargaining is superior to trial because "the fact-finding task assigned to the…

and not causing a fight like Atticus asked. Another time Scout showed courage was on the first day of school, in her first year of school. Walter Cunningham Jr. didn’t have lunch money but Miss Caroline said that she could lend him the money and he would have to pay her back the next day. When Miss Caroline held out the money for Walter he shook his head. This event happened three times until someone said “Go on Scout and tell her.” Scout explained to her that he’s a Cunningham and that the…

Snow Fall The snow fell gracefully onto the ground flake by flake. As my family packed each bag into the car until they pressed tightly against the rear hatch, I tilted my head back towards the sun attempting to catch each fraill flake with my tongue. My entire family piled into the car slowly as I continued to stand motionless in the snow. Finally, forty minutes later when every mitten and hat had managed to make its way into the car, summoned by my parents who were anxious to get home, I slid…

started school, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” (39), she learns that he was right. When Atticus mentions that to Scout, she is upset with her new teacher, Miss Caroline, and Atticus is trying to teach her that maybe Miss Caroline is like that for a reason. The reason being that she is a new teacher and is probably insecure that she might not teach Scout anything. What Atticus says instigates Scout to try to be empathetic towards others.…

Prejudice Shown in To Kill a Mockingbird Michael Crichton stated “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.” This is applied to To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee because the people in the city of Maycomb discriminate against others without knowing anything about them. This is a standard way of thinking in the small city of Maycomb, Alabama during the 1933 and the depression. Told through the eyes of Scout, the story follows the 3 characters Scout, Jem,…

Miss Caroline sees a disgusting kid who looks like he has not showered in months who is Burris Ewell. She sees something crawl around in his hair that is being called cooties to keep everyone calm. When Burris took the cootie out his hair, he took it out like it was no surprise and then we realize he probably had the cootie before. After Miss Caroline told Burris to go home, Scout said Burris was the dirtiest human she had ever…

THE DYNAMICS OF ‘USE OF FORCE’ IN INTERNATIONAL LAW I. INTRODUCTION The use of force by states is enshrined under A. 2(4) of the UN Charter. A. 2(4) states that members of the UN shall refrain from the threat or use of force against, inter alia, the territorial integrity or political independence of another state. However, UN members enjoy two exceptions to the general prohibition against use of force. Firstly, a state can invoke A.42 of the charter through the UN Security Council to…

Mary Shelley was a significant reflection of her parents. Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft who published one classics manifesto of sexual equality, A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman(1792). Her father was William Godwin , he had established his preeminence in radical British political thought with his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice(1793). William won a permanent spot in literary history with his novel Caleb Williams(1794). Mary’s mother died due to complications of her birth and later…

The Fence to Adulthood: Sexuality in The Sound and The Fury Throughout William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury, the patriarchal construct of virginity controls women through the creation of fences -- both physical and metaphorical barriers. Traditionally, when a Southern girl reaches adulthood, she is expected to settle down and raise her children, obeying her husband as the family patriarch. These Southern power structures are like fences in that they have traditionally restricted women’s…