Powell v. Alabama

Helen Keller, a woman who at a very young age, had to adapt to a whole new way of life, and no one around her knew about it.” Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880,” Helen was a healthy newborn until the age of “nineteen months” when she developed an illness which led to the loss of her sight and hearing. Because of this, her parents didn’t know what the next step to take was so she could be led down the right path. Eventually they found a woman named Anne Sullivan who could potentially…

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are many quotes. The quote “you never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” sticks out the most. The thing that makes it stick out the most is about how true it is. In our generation we usually judge people by the way they look or dress but will never get to know them. Some other quotes similar to this quote are “ i had to put ourselves in her shoes…

“To be or not to be, to judge or not to judge, to fight or not to fight, to die or not to die, these are the questions of our generation”(Levi Jorgenson MVP of life).The experiences of two children in To Kill a Mockingbird really helps to bring these questions into focus. Scout and Jem are faced with extreme racism and have to decide exactly what they are going to do. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee uses Scout and Jem’s experiences in order to convey the idea that people should not…

Commitment Essay “She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.” -Atticus. The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, was published in the year of 1960. Written beautifully about the pros and cons of racism with plot in-between, Harper Lee accepted the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize is an award that recognizes an achievement in either a magazine, newspaper, and or online journalism. Ever since publication, the book has become a classic…

He is a black man who lives in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Tom can be considered a good citizen. He does not steal, drink, curse, or look for any trouble. He is a working man looking to provide for his wife and kids. One day on Tom’s commute to work, Mayella Ewell asks Tom to help her move a wardrobe. Showing…

The Tuskegee Study The movie Miss Evers’ Boys came out in 1997. It uncovered “the true story of the U.S. Government 's 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed” (IMDb, 2016). This experimental study was conducted to see if the reaction of untreated syphilis had the same physiological effects in Caucasians as it did in African Americans. The test group for the study came from an existing group of African…

Both Maya Angelou and Lawrence Ferlinghetti explore the idea of inequality in their poems ‘Caged Bird’ and ‘Two Scavengers in a Truck Two beautiful people in a Mercedes’ respectively. Angelou explores the inequality between black and white people by comparing and contrasting a free bird to a ‘caged bird’ while Ferlinghetti describes inequality between the rich and poor by comparing a wealthy couple with a couple of garbage men. ‘Caged Bird’ is written in response to the civil rights act, with…

In to Kill a Mocking Bird Harper Lee creates characters that grab our interest. In the 1900’s, the rural town of Maycomb, Alabama where the story takes place, Lee creates a feeling of freedom through the young characters that contrasts to our 21st century structure to life. The rural setting compels the reader to feel freeness that couldn’t be compared to a large city setting. Lee choices when writing the book make it feel like real life. In To Kill a mocking bird, Lee creates multiple…

Speakers Evoking Empathy Have you ever wondered how a speaker awakens feelings of empathy in the reader? Both the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and the Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. given by Robert F. Kennedy use rhetorical devices to reach out to their audience in a certain way. They have a goal. Harper Lee’s character Atticus and Robert F. Kennedy both evoke empathy in their audience to either generate understanding or inspire action with the use of logos…

“Just” best describes the environment and values Atticus is paving for his children—honest, righteous, virtuous, and principled. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mocking Bird,” justice is the ideal that is heavily expressed on because of its scarcity in the novel’s historical setting. However, injustice can manifest itself at any time, period, race and gender. Without a doubt, injustice is more prevalent in the current generation, indistinctness and subtleness are the only differences. Atticus Finch…