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    through the literature of the book To Kill a Mockingbird and the movie The Help. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, showed a small town girl named Scout in town, while on the outside are nice hard working people, but on the inside are divided by the discrimination towards the blacks. In the movie The Help black maids are working for the “superior” white race where they deal with constant segregation and discrimination.…

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    Moore, D. (2011, August 10). Octavia Spencer maxes out Minny. USA Today, P.D1. Moore’s review of Octavia Spencer’s role in The Help focuses on how well she played the part of Minny Jackson. Minny was created with Octavia in mind, her attitude and strong will are just a few of the similarities that they share. The paper goes on to discuss how Octavia’s past helped her prepare for her “big debut”. Octavia first appeared in the film A Time to Kill in the late 1990's. Since then, however, she…

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    The help can be viewed through the critical perspectives of Gender, Psychological and Psychoanalytical. These two perspectives to give added depth or to better explain why the movie portrays and develops characters in a certain way. It is worth noting that the Gender critical perspective will have a lot of crossover with historical and cultural given the circumstances in which this story is set. In the film ‘the help’ it is set in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960’s. It follows the…

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    Does Learning Help Me

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    Often times, the question is asked, “How does learning this help me? What can I possibly do with this?” The answer, while not necessarily concrete, is simple: Our knowledge is cumulative, and it prepares us for tomorrow by helping us learn how to learn and understand, even if its not a related topic A question that has been asked before, and likely will be proposed many times in the future, is: “Does what I learn today build upon what I learned yesterday?” The answer to that question is yes,…

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    often alter them as a person. Either altering their behavior, or their outlook on life. These ideas are clearly represented in a novel called The Help by Kathryn Stockett. In this novel, set back in time when segregation was still normal and accepted, multiple events happen to the main characters that cause a change to occur in them. In the novel , The Help, Stockett demonstrates through her characters that a change of events will always alter a person. Initially, Stockett reveals through her…

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    “Racial Discrimination is treating someone differently, unkindly, and/ or inhumanely because of their race, their ethnicity, the color of their skin, and so forth.” This discrimination is clearly shown in the novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The Help is about African- American maids living in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s. The book details maids and their employers' lives, and how these characters are affected and how they change due to racial discrimination in the community.…

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    Sexual Assault: A Cry For Help Sexual assault is a cry for help. There are people that walk this earth that has been sexually assaulted, and you wouldn 't even know it. Speak up America. Victims aren 't just women, no it extends to children and men. Victims keep silence because they are afraid of the outcome, and some that do speak out die because that didn 't obey orders. It 's time to speak up and out people. Sexual assault exist because it is important that people know the signs…

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    Undercover Help In the streets of NYC, James and his best friend Tyler on and about. There talking about what they should do. Tyler and James really like music and they were trying to start making music. James said if you want to be a rapper you need street credit, Tyler asked if he was joking. James said maybe he was. Tyler head out to go in his car and drive off. Tyler was an undercover cop, he feels bad because he watches James do bad actions. Sometimes Tyler…

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    Help the homeless where they will not be getting cold they will have somewhere to go to get warmer they will have a coat.Where they won’t have to stay out in the cold all the time from when they get up to the time that they go to bed.Help the homeless people. First help the cold help them find a home or a place for them to go with heat.where they won’t have to stay out in the cold or they may just won’t a coat to keep them from getting to cold while they are looking for a okaces that may have…

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    this book made can help them realize the similarities there are to a novel named “The Help”, by Kathryn Stockett. In the novel, “The Color Purple”, other wives married women to men whom already had children. When another women would be married to a man who was once already married, the women would also have to take care of their children. The book had several similarities in comparison to "The Help". These books are being compared to each other due to the face that "The Help" had black people…

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