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    Imagine a mockingbird soaring through a beautiful blue sky with white clouds. It glides down onto a branch and settles on it. The bird starts chanting it's beautiful music, dazzling all who listen. Suddenly, a vicious raven swoops down and plants his sharp talons into the poor mockingbird, killing it instantly. The mockingbird represents innocence. The raven represents evil, killing and destroying that innocence. In Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”, she compares the children of the…

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    When you grow you will find that you have to make different decisions in your life some harder than others and some simpler than others. In the novel Lyddie by Katherine Paterson. The story is about a girl named Lyddie her mom and her 2 sister left to live on their aunts farm and her mom sold Lyddie and her brother to work. Lyddie started to work at a mill as a maid then she was transfer to a weaving room and her brother to work on a farm to pay det of her family. While there are many reasons…

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    Boo Radley Innocence

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    mockingbirds. These people haven’t done anything to hurt anyone. They try to help and make things better. While other people try to “kill” them. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee uses the symbol of the mockingbird to display to them that it’s a sin to kill innocence. The first mockingbird is Arthur Radley or Boo Radley. Boo Radley is seen as a terrible and scary person because of his history in Maycomb. All the things said about him were made up and still people think he’s evil.…

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    In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the mockingbird symbol is mentioned multiple times. The mockingbird is symbolic for innocence hence the quote by Miss Maudie Atkinson, “... that’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (pg.119). Mockingbirds do not do anything but sing for their enjoyment. In the novel there are three mockingbirds, they are Boo Radley, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson. The mockingbird is symbolic for innocence. According to Miss Maudie Atkinson, “Your father is…

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    The RIRA: Go Back To War

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    October 2013 Campbell was freed on appeal, only to have the Supreme Court of Lithuania order a retrial in June 2014. Campbell has maintained his innocence, accusing British intelligence of attempting to frame him. In June 2013 Gardaí arrested eight people after a Real IRA meeting and uncovered a massive haul of the plastic explosive Semtex in two raids in Dublin. In October 2013 the Real IRA claimed responsibility for "executing" an alleged leading cocaine dealer in north…

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    The book uses mockingbirds as a symbol to show some people as innocent just like mockingbirds. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee makes three main “mockingbirds”. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...but sing their heart out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(pg.90) Mockingbirds only really sing, that’s why they’re innocent. Their names are, Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell, and Arthur Radley. Arthur Radley is the first mockingbird to ever…

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    Calpurnia explains to Jem and Scout how she has to live a double life. When Calpurnia is around white people it is not appropriate to talk about African Americans. Additionally, when Calpurnia is around African Americans it also is not appropriate to talk about white people. Racism is very effective in many…

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    word patriotism” . Although Connolly is predominantly remembered for his role in the Easter 1916 Rising, his role within Irish Socialism was also an extremely important attribute which helped to further strengthen Connolly’s lasting legacy on the people of the island of Ireland. When James Connolly moved to Dublin in 1896 he immediately recognised that Irelands struggle for national independence was an inseparable part of the struggle for Irish Socialism and that combining forces, both…

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    state. It also gave Northern Ireland an opportunity to secede from the Irish Free State and become a part of the United Kingdom, an opportunity they quickly grasped. The treaty was supposed to help Ireland, but it didn’t help at all and there are several reasons for this. The treaty dissolved the republic that was founded in 1918 and forced them to swear allegiance to the British monarch. It split Ireland in to two parts, the north and south. All of these factors made the people dissatisfied…

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    The conflict between the government of Great Britain and the people of Ireland extend from the farthest reaches of the 12th Century when Norman invaders conquered the Ireland. The most recent iteration of this struggle began in the 20th Century with the rise of the most prominent Irish independent group to date, the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The origins of the IRA began as other smaller splinter groups had become inefficient at fighting for Irish independence. Former members of the Irish…

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