The Cunninghams

“identity” in a social way or how people express themselves based on the demand for acceptance by others. Chris Cunningham, in “To Watch the Faces of the Poor”: Life Magazine and the Mythology of Rural Poverty in the Great Depression”, details the desire for middle-class citizens to be viewed as or compared to “the pioneer” due to the positive reputation given by the media (200). Cunningham describes the effects of labeling through the changing attitudes of citizens towards each other once they…

Google describes social class as a division of a society based on social and economic status. “There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes.” (302) According to Jem, social class in Maycomb is split into four different categories: the ordinary middle class, the poor, the outcasts, and the blacks. Although some cannot fit into these…

This is a passage from the book To Kill A Mockingbird by: Harper Lee. In this passage Scout Finch remembers a conversation she had with Atticus Finch, her father, about the Cunninghams. Atticus was explaining to Scout how the Cunninghams are poor. From this passage my take away was that the Cunningham family is trustworthy. The passage is written in 1st person, as is the rest of the book. Scout is the narrator in the story. The author’s tone in the story is according to the time period in the…

someone’s life, one would leave a lasting mark on his or her actions, tendencies and personality. Graham left more than a lasting mark on the lives of Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor; she gave them training to become the dancers and choreographers that they were destined to be. Martha started the idea of innovation and modernization in dance; Cunningham and Taylor continued it. Martha Graham had a lasting impact on the lives and work of these two men; although they both went their own ways and…

Southeast campus off I-45, Fraga and Coleman. “They operate inside whatever that geography is,” noted HCC Police Chief Greg Cunningham, “very rarely do we take you out of Southeast and move you to Southwest...migrating people across these colleges is not real easy to do.” Officers are currently working five days a week in eight…

Smiles And Women “Why Women Smile” by Amy Cunningham is a compelling piece that showcases why women smiling all the time is not as harmless as it may seem. She makes the reader, especially the women, ask themselves, “Is smiling all the time really a positive thing?” Cunningham gives multiple sound reasons as to why it is not, such as social pressures women receive to always smile. I agree that women have a complicated relationship with smiling, from being not fully in control of our smiles, to…

Amy Cunningham is an American journalist and essayist. Cunningham studied English at the University of Virginia and has been a freelance writer since she graduated in 1977. Cunningham wrote the essay Why Women Smile in 1993. Cunningham talked about how women, including herself have faced the same issues during the decades. Cunningham stated “American women’s smile often has less to do with their actual state of happiness than it does with the social pressure to smile no matter what” (page 191).…

a familiar face within the mob—Mr. Walter Cunningham—and encourages small talk by beginning a simple conversation with him about his entailments and his son, despite the acute atmosphere. She bases her topics on Atticus’s counseling: “Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.” This expresses Scout’s complete innocence and…

his false friends, there are also a wide variety of those to Atticus in Maycomb, however Mr. Cunningham is who I’ll focus on. Mr. Cunningham is a great example of a false friend, for a lot of reasons actually. For times sake I’ll just cover the obvious fact that he had been in the mob who had been out to hurt Atticus when Scout came in to save the day. Mr. Finch had always been very kind to Mr. Cunningham, and…

had with his son. As Scout had approached Mr. Cunningham he introduced himself as Jean Louise Finch and when she did introduce himself Scout had thought maybe he forgot who she was or didn't know him after all but then Scout began to mention Mr. Cunningham's son and had asked him if it was his son. After that Mr. Cunningham noded towards Scout which must have given Scout the feeling that maybe he does know her. As Scout kept talking to Mr. Cunningham about his son she mentioned a sentenced which…