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“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…

Connections Along my journey of reading this fabulous book, I have generated numerous connections, most of them are text-to-self due to the fact that this book has truly related to my personal life. Let me begin by bestowing my text-to-self connections, I perpetually choose books that relate to me and my life, many of them are juicy and descriptive, so get ready. One text-to-self connection that I obtained was about Nina’s parents and my parents. Ever since I was a kid, my parents would…

be fictional short stories that he attributed to the members of his platoon. This style of writing shows that sometimes a person 's subjective thoughts and feelings about an event, which O 'Brien calls story-truth, is more meaningful than an objective factual account of the events, which O 'Brien calls happening-truth. O 'Brien blurs the line between fact and fiction right from the start when O 'Brien dedicates the novel to the individual soldiers in his platoon, which the…

Eventually the animal will die from the cold or starvation. Older people have pets and then find that they are unable to take care of them. They try to keep up with the care of their pets but sometimes it is a losing battle. It is not only the elderly that could acquire this problem. People with families that have lost their jobs and are struggling to feed their children tend to turn their animals loose hoping that someone will take them in and take care of them. Animals take a lot of care and…

Huck and Jim or Jim and Huck In Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, readers follow a lonesome boy by the name of Huckleberry Finn. Huck after running away from his often absent, abusive, alcoholic father, goes down the Mississippi river to Jackson’s Island. While the citizens of Hannibal, Missouri believe he is dead, he is actually living in this safe haven for three days while “camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty well satisfied”. However without a father or authority…

Here’s a Google Doc’s of this discussion post in case anybody wants to read it in an easier, readable format. I attached it as a downloadable file to this thread as well. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VOExPc9uO7Dw_H_fCx-Ob6kaJhBEB-f_o12j0B7arJQ/edit?usp=sharing First off, nice thesis, Lewinsky. “How does it feel to be America’s premier blow-job queen?” Shame and Survival could be the most bias “professional” writing I’ve read recently. When I first saw the title and the introduction of the…

“He sees people with curiosity, compassion, grace, and excitement; hears the voices of teenagers…” These are the words of Shailene Woodley, a well known actress who starred in many movies, including “The Fault In Our Stars”, a movie based on John Green’s number one New York Best seller’s book, The Fault In our Stars. John Green was born on August 24, 1977 and is still alive today at age 39. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the son of Mike and Sydney Green. Soon after he was born,…

Anonymous is a group of hacktivists that wanted to expose corrupt companies and businesses while starting mass awareness and staying unknown. It started out as joke on 4chan, an imageboard website in 2003. They went by the motto “none of us are as cruel as all of us.” Anonymous doesn't have a form of organization or logistics but the way an operation is started is by a member talking to other members about an idea. If they think is a good idea, they will support it. If not supported, the idea…

British authors and literature from the 1500-1600 era made a significant impact on how and what British writers covered after this era. There were many other big and important historical events in this era. The first trip around the entire world happened during this era. It was masterminded by Ferdinand Magellan in 1519 and ended in 1522. There were bad things that happened in this era too. One such example is the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre in 1572. It was caused by many causes like the…

their contempt for African Americans. Jim is also portrayed as wise, superstitious. Not dumb, but “simple” as someone who can fly under the radar and appease his white masters. As the story progresses, we get some back story on Jim, but not much as to call it “ character changing.” We learn about his family and his regrets. Mark Twain’s depiction of Jim is consistent with that of the time period. With research, I learned that at the time, black men were basically minstrels: black-faced figments…