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    n in Flint Michigan they are a black family. Kenny the middle brother he is the narrator in the story The Watsons go to Birmingham. There is five people living in his family in flint Michigan. Kenny had a rough The book the Watsons go to Birmingham is a family that lives childhood because of people making fun of him at school. Kenny goes to school at Clark elementary there is a kid there that bullies him all of the time his teachers say he is a smart kid people make fun of him because he looks…

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    In life people will misunderstand you not everyone will understand what your saying or doing. In the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” shows misunderstanding in society because the characters don’t understand why one of the characters is defending a negro. This is shown in a child’s point of view because this child went thru all these misunderstandings in society. People will misunderstand what you will say because they might understand something else then what said. For example,…

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    Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been “With great power comes great responsibility”, this very old saying famously appears in the Marvel comic series Spider Man. Uncle Ben uses these wise words to warn Peter Parker that with any sort of power, there is also a negative side that comes with it. We can observe this in, Where you going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates. In this story the main character Connie realizes that she has this great power to attract boys, she is very much…

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    There are two children, Huck and Tom, as main characters who go through lots of adventures in this novel. When Huck and Tom were trying to escape from Jim’s surveillance, it is very clear the contrasting attitude of them dealing with the situation. While Huck wanted to escape from this situation as quick as possible, Tom wanted to take even more risk to move Jim’s hat because of his spirit of adventure. Also, when Tom have created the gang, Tom Saywer’s Gang, there are many words that children…

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    In Jacqueline Kelly’s book The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, the author quotes Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species at the beginning of each chapter. The quote above is from Chapter 14, “The Short Hoe.” In choosing this quote Kelly references Darwin’s pragmatic view of nature, in which animals or creatures likely do not care about what they look like, except to the extent that their form serves function or purpose. For example,, animals may look like their surroundings so that they are hard…

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    Comic books are contemporary forms of art that touch in the categories of art, literature, and entertainment. From DC and Marvel (which are my personal favorites) to the other comic book companies and brands that are less known by the outside readers, there is a broad range of comic book characters and story lines. Like art and literature, comic books and their characters, styles, and icons change over the course of time. Similar to entertainment in general, these changes are made to better the…

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    If you are reading this letter I am dead or on my death bed. I wanted to prepare you for Language class in high school. I will be discussing the Romantic era and why it is so important in American Literature. The first poet I with be talking about is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was the middle child out of three and in the first three years that he was born his parents have died. Poe was adopted and then they moved to London, where Poe attends school. Five years have passed and then he returned to…

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    Before I get into who I think has the best leadership qualities in A Lesson Before Dying, I’m going to give you a quick overview of the book first. I won’t go totally in depth in the book, because if I did that, I would basically be telling you the same story twice in a row. There’s a man named Jefferson who is basically caught up in the wrong place at exactly the wrong time. He’s a little on the slow side, but he’s not stupid by any means. He was on his way to a bar, but then decided to tag…

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    The play “Twelve Angry Men” displays an interesting story with compelling characters. This play plays with your mind on about who’s right and wrong. The case tricks the Juror's mind if the boy is even guilty at all. This starts a huge drama story with a few cases of confusion . The “Hero” of the play or the person who convinced every Juror that the boy was Not-guilty is Juror Eight. Juror Eight is the hero of the play because of him convincing the other juror’s that the evidence was false and…

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    The Model Parent Atticus Finch is the father of the protagonist Scout and her brother Jem in the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It is definitely evident that he is a good parent to his two children. Atticus is an exemplary father due to his sense of fairness and his good morals. First and foremost, Atticus Finch is a very fair man to his children because he always takes their opinions into account. An example of this is when Scout tells him that she does not want to go to…

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