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amazing performance if he’s covered in 15 layers of the thickest blue makeup you’ll ever see. For example, take a look at Ronan the Accuser from Guardians of the Galaxy. While Guardians of the Galaxy was a smash hit, it’s villain was shockingly bad. Lee Pace, the actor of Ronan, is a talented actor with lots of potential. But, all that potential gets thrown away when you can’t even recognize him. All of the makeup on Pace’s face ruins his performance, and takes away from the otherwise great…

Shades of OutrageIda B. Wells, a brave journalist in a troubling time, wrote “Southern Horrors: Lynch Lawsin All Its Phases” and “A Red Record” to illustrate the unjust lynching of African Americans in the south. In these pieces, Wells uses an objective tone and indisputable evidence to argue against the unjust and brutal practice of lynching African American men for any crimes, proven or otherwise. Horrifyingly, in several cases, there is no crime involved at all. In her arguments, she uses…

IKWTCBS Essay Adversity, a word that simply means bad luck or a bad situation. Imagine being an eight year old African American girl living in the south in the year of 1969, that alone is a bad situation. In the novel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou, Marguerite Ann Johnson is the eight year old girl that goes through countless hardships. She was moved from Arkansas to Missouri, to multiple cities in California, from living with her grandma to her mother then to her…

In the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, we are introduced to the sleepy yet racist town of Maycomb, Alabama. It’s here that author Harper Lee explores topics such as race, gender, and class discrimination through the eyes of a child. It’s also here that our Narrator Scout Finch is taught various lessons about theses forms of discrimination. Along with these topics, there is also a lot of prejudice against certain characters like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson that greatly affect other characters…

In the first 55 pages of Blindness, I believe the the loss of the thief’s sight does not change the thief’s sense of self at all. The thief is the first person who contracts the white blindness, as he was the first person to directly interact with the blind man. At first, the thief seems like a good Samaritan, as he is the only one to volunteer to drive the blind home and help the blind man get into his house. He even offers to look after and keep the blind man company until his wife comes home,…

seen as unfeminine, causing the people of Maycomb to want to make Scout more ladylike. As the novel progresses, Scout starts to realize the gender role set up in Maycomb County and the role that is required of Scout. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee focuses on Scout’s point of view because society has dictated Scout’s change as a female through Scout’s inexperience, tomboyish attitude, and authority. Scout, an innocent child is inexperienced with, society dictating strict…

Why would an old-school barber have the thoughts about killing their customer? Why would a dentist make the removal of a tooth so painful for a mayor? The story “Just Lather, That’s all” written by Hernando Tellez and the story “One of These days” constructed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, both of these stories have strong similarities between both of them but what really sticks out is how similar both the Barber is just as similar to the Dentist. Both of these stories have hatred in them either if…

Racism has always been such a big problem. It is a big problem now, in 2015, and it was a big problem in the 1930’s when Harper Lee wrote the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Racism was shown in the Scottsboro trials, where nine boys were accounted for raping two women (Kindig). Racism was also shown in the Emmett Till trials, where two white men killed a young boy but were not punished (Linder). Racism is a horrible problem, it has caused many deaths and false accusations. Another case that has…

her mind. It is insightful to evaluate Atticus in Go Set a Watchman and examine how Harper Lee had refined him into the character he is in To Kill a Mockingbird. It is known that Harper Lee’s own father was a lawyer, and was largely the inspiration for Atticus Finch. It is known that Harper Lee’s father had once been a segregationist who opposed school integration during the period of time that Harper Lee had been working on Go Set a Watchman but later changed his mind and believed in…

Do you ever imagine a world in which everyone has the ability to fly, read minds, teleport, and more? There are more than a thousand of comic book heroes, each with their own unique powers and perspective. Along with all new films being released based on different comic book characters, it is no wonder why the imagination we have is endless. However it has been questioned whether or not comic book heroes are mainly American and portray American culture only. Why is it that most of the super…