Meridian

This chapter focuses on the narrator’s point of view, description of the town, and how the town was formed. The story begins with the narrator, Scout, a daughter of the Finch’s family. Scout talks to the minds of the audiences through an adult-like voice and with a mature viewpoint since now she is older and telling herself about her childhood. She starts with telling how the Finch’s family has landed on this land near the Alabama River. While describing the Alabama, the narrator mentions the…

Also, processed food is becoming a large issue. If it is not grown, it is most likely processed which is really a tragic thing. Because kids don't want carrots or apples, they want French fries and hamburgers. Obesity is a very large and rapidly growing problem in our nation. It starts out when you are young but most people still struggle with it when they are older. Childhood obesity is the beginning of obesity so we need to control it at a young age. “What a horrible place we've come to in…

Oscar, saying goodbye to Hilda in Tallinn ferried to Sweden and boarded the ship Gripsholm in the port of Göteborg at the beginning of April, 1929 and set sail for the newly opened, and to become famous, Pier 21 of Halifax. On April 14, 1929 he officially became an immigrant to Canada and headed towards Winnipeg. The trip took 3 to 4 days via a locked wagon, sitting on wooden seats, for the 3300 km trip from Halifax to Winnipeg. Once there Oscar was placed in an immigrant barrack which was a…

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” is a novel by Harper Lee. This story is told throughout the eyes of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, a 6-year-old girl. The book is set in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Although most of the town is suffering, her family is doing well because of her father, Atticus, who is a well-known lawyer. Scout has an older brother named Jeremy “Jem” Finch, who is 10 years old. During the summer, they meet a boy named Charles “Dill” Harris, who they become friends…

father and son even through the darkest of times. This iconic novel was written by the world renown Cormac McCarthy, who typically writes out of the ordinary, dark, and menacing books and is also known for several other of his works including Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men. McCarthy published this novel on September 26th, 2006 and took the world by storm with a whole new type of novel that made its readers do more than just scratch the surface of the novel; leaving a lot of questions…

Miguel Arredondo 6/12/14 #302 BOOK: To Kill a Mockingbird AUTHOR: Harper Lee TASK: Response Journal BACKGROUND: Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, writes about her experience and the events that took place in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. The time period of 1929-1939 was a fretful time in American history known as the “Great Depression,” leaving many Americans unemployed with the crash of the stock market. The Scottsboro Trials had taken place during Lee’s childhood in 1931…

America is a nation its people are proud of. Those people think it is the best at everything. In the last couple of decades, however, the United States has witnessed itself slide backwards in the areas of equality, prosperity, and education. Many would ask how the U.S. could possibly be failing to educate its students. The U.S. spends more money per student than any other developed nation. Yet American high school students have posted average to subpar performances in math and science testing…

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”(E.E. Cummings) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a six year old girl named Jean Louise, whose nickname is Scout, living during the great depression. The story follows Scout as she is growing up in a small racist town called Maycomb in Alabama. Every summer, Scout and Jem, her brother, play with their friend Dill and attempt to make their creepy neighbor, Arthur “Boo” Radley, come out of his house. Then their father, who is a…

There is little doubt public education in the United States is under intense scrutiny from the American public in recent years. In Mississippi, years of negative student outcomes have created a great deal of negative publicity for the state’s public schools. It is important for educators, whether at the district level, research level, or policymaking level, to continue to study available data to identify areas of weakness with the realm of education and work collaboratively to remedy those…

evening for an early day: “There was a strange, inflamed, flurried, flighty recklessness of activity about him. He would be incautious in dipping his pen into his inkstand. All his blots upon my documents, were dropped there after twelve o’clock, meridian” (Melville). His other employee Nippers works better in the evening, but not in the morning so he is excused from coming in early in the morning. Ginger Nut, the youthful lad, is never able to sit at his desk because he is always out running…