Great Northern War

To Kill a Mockingbird can be a vague, confusing title for a book. However, this is just a metaphor for what the book is really about. “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em,” said Atticus, “but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee, 90). The mockingbird, in this context, symbolizes innocence. It would be pointless and cruel to kill an innocent bird. They’re small creatures.They’re helpless and harmless, just like black people were in the sixties. This is what Harper Lee,…

There are numerous comparisons, similarities and differences to be noted between Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Emily Kame Kngwarreye none more than their art work. Both being from the central desert region of the Northern Territory, Australia and the Anmatyerre language group both Clifford and Emily share simular life experiences, beliefs of the dreaming, geography and views of their country. Both artists produced their work in a matching time and place with simular preferred mediums and both…

A Search For Justice In To Kill a Mockingbird “Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, whenever found, against the wrong’’ - Teddy Roosevelt. This highlights the actions that Atticus and Mrs. Dubose take throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus always does what he thinks is right and does not follow what the other citizens of Maycomb, Alabama do. Atticus, the father of Jem and Scout, who live in…

Independent Reading Essay The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word innocence as, “freedom from guilt or sin through being unacquainted with evil.” One major component in being considered innocent is one’s age, as a whole; younger people and children are heavily portrayed as innocent. In Stephen King’s “Firestarter,” Andy and Charlie Mcgee are on the run from a secret government operation that has given them psychic abilities. This father daughter duo narrowly escape capture a couple of…

status as a murderer, Balram also fights against the systemic poverty and oppression the poor of India face due to the corruption and simple negligence of the wealthy and powerful of India. Balram compares the plight of the poor with the image of the Great Indian Rooster Coop, where hundreds of chickens stand immobilized in a slaughterhouse, knowing full well of their futures. Balram compares those chicken to India’s poor, seeing that both do nothing to rebel against their situation. Balram…

Questions of the Nevermore The black bird that haunts the night, slews towards its prey, and makes no obeisance to any living creature that walks on this earth. The bird of Plutonian shore is what many believe to be the raven. With the raven being a symbol of good and of evil in many different cultures it undoubtedly has its symbol of evil in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”. With the narrator, a man of grief for the loss of his wife Lenore, and the raven, a bird that speaks of the word nevermore.…

Jem and Scout’s curiosity can get the best of them in some situations and cause them to become involved with conflicts.An example is, Jem and Scout wanted to find out what Boo Radley looked like because all they have heard is stories. They decide to sneak into the Radley’s backyard and look into the windows. During the middle of their adventure it was brought to a abrupt stop. Scout explained, “Halfway through the collards I tripped; as I tripped the roar of a shotgun shattered the…

Australian media has always been a prevalent force associated with Indigenous Australians. Ever since the mass spread of information through media was invented, it has been used as both a negative and positive way to promote certain agendas. Social media is also a mechanism that is changing the way Indigenous Australians interact and use media, and has had an important impact on Indigenous Peoples around the world. Despite many changes for the better in regards to how the media is used to…

In this essay I will argue that religion is not inherently violent, it is in the nature of the people to be violent. I will do this by showing, through various case studies such as the Caribbean and de la Casas and the troubles in Northern Ireland. I will also use the Holocaust as a case because even though it may not have been religiously motivated, it is still grounded in the context of religion. These will help to further my view that it is the people who are violent because I will show that…

A mockingbird is a symbol of innocence, purity, and goodness. Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley is portrayed as one if many mockingbirds in this novel. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Harper Lee uses symbolism, irony, and metaphor to characterize Boo Radley as misunderstood and innocent. Harper Lee metaphorically compares Boo Radley to a monster through Jem’s over exaggerated description of Boo at the beginning of the novel. Jem describes Boo as “about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks” (page…