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Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, brings to light racial tensions and prejudice that continue to polarize Americans to this day. One of the most prominent example of this is Tom Robinson's conviction, despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence. Robinson, a black man is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white women in Maycomb Alabama. In reality, it is Mayella who had pursued Robinson, and wants to engage in a romantic relationship. Mayella’s father, Bob Ewell, catches his…

has to keep his dignity at every time, confining the private from the sphere of public. As Lord Darlington’s servant this is in the duty of greater reliability and efficiency of the servant. In the beginning of the novel itself in Salisbury at a guest house Stevens discloses his main motivation for his idealized condition of professional indifference- his father. Stevens narrate a story that has been explained by his father and before Stevens at the Darlington House, he was also…

The Pyramids of Tikal The Pyramids of Tikal are structures located in Tikal, Guatemala. Tikal was a city within the Mayan culture and it holds many pyramid structures. There is no specific architect, but it was designed and built by the Mayan society before colonial invasion. Some of the city is in a damaged state as it was left for many years and the jungle naturally took over. This explains why some of the bark the pyramid was made with has rotted. Besides the bark, the pyramids were made…

Led by band music, as if in joy, seven twelve-person carriages departed Frome, Wiltshire, on the night of Monday, March 21st 1831. To unburden the surrounding parishes Poor Law coffers, 85 families, many young and destitute, filled the black, horse drawn coaches as the unlikely procession headed towards the port of Bristol and their shipping overseas. Mr. Beauchamp and two other farmers went along to accompany the lot to Bristol in case any carriages got stuck and to deal with any other wants.…

Grief Therapy Intervention Shanita Dopson SOWK 617: Dr. Mathews Salisbury University Introduction Grief is fundamentally an emotional response to death and loss, such as loneliness, fear, sadness, anxiety, anger, mistrustfulness, guilt, etc. (Barbato & Irwin, 1992). Apart from emotional disturbances, physical symptoms, such as tight feelings in the throat and chest, oversensitivity to noise, breathlessness, muscular weakness and lack of energy are responses of grief (Barbato &…

Double, double toil and trouble! Although witches may be considered a fictional character in many children’s books and movies, people in the late 1690’s actually believed that others in their communities were practicing witchcraft. Taking place in Salem, Massachusetts, the horrific Salem Witch Trials caused many people to be wrongfully tried, hung, or even crushed to death and many more to be tried today in countries such as Europe, India, and Africa. Salem was a very religious Puritan…

Throughout history, music has repeatedly reflected specific events and emotions of people from that time period. Although music is intangible, it is possible to infer exactly how the composer felt while writing a specific piece of music. This is especially relevant with Russian composers in the 20th century. Due to their oppressed and depressing lifestyle, these composers wrote music reflecting their emotions, creating a connection with listeners who experience the same emotions. This is…

South African company had mineral rights in southern Africa which allowed him to search for gold in Rhodesia. 1890 was the start of the century long colony. However, Rhodes expedition was met by local war militias but, they were easily defeated with the help of the BSAC .These events helped capture the Ndebele kingdom and turn it under a new colonial rule under the British empire. The Ndebele kept on fighting the colonial rule with The First Chimurenga uprising in the years 1896-1897. The…

reduce GHG emissions by 11.6 million metric tons of carbon equivalent (MMTCE). There are many various ways that community can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions through recycling. One they are too by purchasing a recycled product. Like cities like Salisbury in North Carolina “is the first city in the country to use locally manufactured 100 percent recycled bricks and brick pavers in city-wide improvements” (EPA). Purchasing recycled products, we conserve land and reduce the need for oil.…

In a 2015 interview, Kazuo Ishiguro described a concept known as the “double cross metaphor,” used when an author implies a metaphor while truly intending the obvious topic to be the real importance of the novel. That is to say, the metaphor is a means of deception with the purpose of getting the reader to focus on the novel, therefore subconsciously intaking the intended deeper meaning (**cite). Though he did not overtly state that this is a strategy he employs, one can argue that his work is…