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To Kill a Mockingbird taught us many lessons, one of the most evident lessons was “it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird”. Mockingbirds aren’t just present in the novel, they appear in our everyday lives as well. The only question that remains is, how can we prevent mockingbirds from being killed? As previously stated, the most important lesson taught in To Kill a Mockingbird is how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is shown in the book when the police officers killed Tom Robinson. Tom…

A mockingbird is a unique type of bird that should never be harmed because all it does is make beautiful music. This special bird is the very symbol of innocence. Throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, there are many important individuals that represent a mockingbird. From the beginning to the end of the narrative we have characters that are the embodiment of the mockingbird because all they do is help others and they themselves get harmed in some way. However, there are some…

Since To Kill a Mockingbird has unrealistic characters and its lack of useful life lessons prevents the story from being a timeless classic. One reason why the story is not a timeless classic is how the lessons it teaches are all simple, which is from what Atticus lectures his children. After Scout comes home from an awful first day of school, she tells Atticus what her teacher says to Walter Cunningham. Atticus comforts Scout and explains to her that “you never really understand a person until…

There are many pieces of evidence in the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”, but here are the ones that stand out the most throughout the book. For example, when Jem argues with Atticus about Mrs.dubose and how she is nothing like a proper lady should be, he says, “She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe...son, I told you that if you hadn’t lost your head I’d have you go read to her-I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man…

During the period that Maria Edgeworth wrote her short stories including the “The Purple Jar,” there was a lot of violence and political unrest in Ireland. Ireland had just lived through an uprising and were forced to live under the rule of the British Parliament, through the Act of the Union. One of the themes that are presented in “The Purple Jar” is the nature of growing up. The narrator highlights the importance between a mother and daughter relationship, as the daughter is growing up to be…

Atmospheric Global Circulation is the movement of air caused by solar energy and the interaction of warm and cold air - this convergence forms cells or belts over the Earth’s surface. George Hadley (1685–1768) a British physicist and meteorologist, who first described this theory in 1753, did so using what is known as the Single-Cell Atmospheric Global Circulation Model or Hadley Cell (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007). Hadley’s Single-Cell theory failed to consider the Coriolis…

For at-risk children in the commonwealth of Virginia, early education interventions could result in positive short and long-term outcomes. According to Barnett (2008), “well-designed preschool education programs produce long-term improvements in school success, including higher achievement test scores, lower rates of grade repetition and special education, and higher educational attainment; some preschool programs are also associated with reduced delinquency and crime in childhood and adulthood”…

both center right of the political process. Finding a difference among the two proves to be very difficult. Both of the main political parties of the Republic of Ireland want a unified Ireland. This proves difficult, as most of the people in Northern Ireland would prefer to stay a part of Great Britain. Both of these political parties are Catholic in majority. They both want to preserve as much of Irish culture as possible, especially the language. The two parties are both in agreement…

Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 General Background (Framework): The Irish Republican Army, or IRA, fought the English rule over Northern Ireland in the twentieth century and aimed to unite Northern Ireland with Southern Ireland to form the Republic Ireland. It stemmed from the times of William of Orange in 1690, where William’s Protestant Army defeated Catholic King James II in the Battle of the Boyne[1]. In the years leading up to 1703, thousands of Catholics were deported and relocated to live in…

Everyone has a different personality, and where they get it comes from the lessons that are taught to them in their childhood. The lessons people pick up shape them into who they are today. For the majority, those lessons are taught by the important adults in their lives. It was the same for Jem during his childhood. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem learned what real courage looks like, how to stand up for his beliefs, and what it means to be a gentleman. During Jem's childhood, he learned and saw…