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Maycomb was a tired, old town back in those days. People moved slowly, ambling across the town square. Days seemed long, especially on hot summer days. People didn’t hurry, because there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy, no money to buy it with, and nothing to see. We lived on the main street, Atticus, Jem, and I. Our father played with us, read to us, and treated us fine. We had a cook too, Calpurnia. She was strict with me. She always asked me why I didn’t behave as well as Jem. But he was…

Excerpt from The Great Fire by Jim Murphy It was Sunday and an unusually warm evening for October eighth, so Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan left his stifling little house in the west side of Chicago and went to visit neighbors. One of his stops was at the shingled cottage of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary. The one-legged Sullivan remembered getting to the O’Learys’ house at around eight o’clock, but left after only a few minutes because the O’Leary family was already in bed. Both Patrick and Catherine…

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. Malcom X I grew up in a nameless small town that was destroyed by the russian war machine. When they came they destroyed anything they wanted to and killed anyone in their way. They destroyed half the town on a whim and killed anyone over the age of 30 so we wouldn't be a threat later. After that they…

Growing up, she lived with her parents, four brothers, and three sisters. Her house consisted of a kitchen and two bedrooms, one room for the parents and the other for the children. They didn’t have running water or indoor plumbing; there was an outhouse out back close to the…

In the beginning of season three of Madmen it highlights the theme of the nineteen sixties. There were a large number of crisis in the economy that makes many changes. For example, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the America facilitated the Vietnam War. Furthermore, there were drastic change in the economy. In episode Love Among the Ruin it shows a lot of emphasis of what have occurred during that time period. There are many ruins associated with establishments of businesses, economy…

these unsanitary conditions. This technology, which started out with toilets, lead to engineers developing indoor sinks and showers. Because of this, people are able to have warm, running water in their house. We don’t have to go outside to use an outhouse or bathe in a stream or river. The Ancient Indians had many important and lasting contributions to society. Ancient civilizations had many important and lasting contributions that are still seen and used today. These inventions improved our…

The idea and practice of freedom has increased dramatically throughout the course of American History. From the American revolution in 1776 for freedom from British rule to the progressing equal rights treatment of blacks and women, America is a nation that has seen freedom for its citizens increase throughout the centuries. The Revolutionary War of 1776 was a war fought by American colonies against the British as a means of gaining freedom from the colonial government’s rule. The American…

Most people have heard the name “Auschwitz”, but they probably don’t realize how many people walked in there and did not end up walking out, in fact the number was around 1.1 million. Thousands of Jews were pried from their ghettos into concentration camps like Auschwitz. Jews, Gypsies, and other helpless people were separated from their families and forced into different jobs at the camp, and some were even killed off immediately if they were seen as useless for any type of work. Auschwitz…

Abstract Both short stories The Destructors by Graham Greene and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson show the reader the destructive facet present in human nature. Although the settings and time frames differ, the character of the stories are quite similar. Both stories expose a surprising end and turn of events as the characters personalities become known. While the climaxes grew, the conclusions to each story became harder to predict. The Bible instructed us to, “love others as you love…

In life there are many sacrifices one must make in order to create a beneficial outcome in the end. There are many types of sacrifice in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, and John Updike’s Pigeon Feathers. In The Lottery, the society sacrifices one person for the greater good. In The Cask of Amontillado Montresor destroys many wine bottles to lure Fortunato into the catacombs to kill him. In Pigeon Feathers, a boy sacrifices the life of birds to realize…