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- 3231: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... school she finds that there are both social and poor classes in society, some are respectable and others not. She also learns that her father is an extra-ordinary man, fighting for a Negro's rights in court. At the trial of Tom Robinson Scout learns about equality and inequality, about justice and injustice and finally about racial prejudice. Many times during the course of the novel the idea of the ...
- 3232: Green Grass Running Water
- ... his pleas, another five days in jail for disturbing the peace," to finally be resolved. This unfortunate "mistake" causes Lionel to drop out of university and leads to his "third mistake," taking a job at "Bill Bursum's Home Entertainment Barn." By simply taking a job at a store that advertises the exploitation of anything that might be of public interest, Lionel is unknowingly denying a part of his culture. The ...
- 3233: Great Expectations & Oliver Tw
- ... is a very curious young boy. He is a "child of intense and yearning fancy."10 Yet, Oliver is well spoken. Even while his life was in danger while in the hands of Fagin and Bill Sikes, two conniving pickpockets, he refused to participate in the stealing which he so greatly opposed. All Oliver really longed for was to escape from harsh living conditions and evil surroundings which he had grown ...
- 3234: Grapes Of Wrath 7
- ... for no just reason because they wanted the Okies to leave the state. The police killed Casey for no just reason. They killed him just because they thought the was a Okie fighting for more rights. The Californians did not like the Okies even though they were Americans, just like how the Blacks were not liked by the whites, even though they were Americans. White mistreatment of African Americans was not ...
- 3235: Grapes Of Wrath 4
- ... farmers. He starts to realize that in order for the migrant workers to survive and succeed they must unite. He knows that if they band together as one, they can demand that their God-given rights under the constitution be honored. They can begin to gain respect from their fellow man. After Jim is killed, Tom takes up the cause of his people. He plans to work with them. Just as ...
- 3236: Go Ask Alice 2
- ... to help her grandma. Alice cant tell her parents why she wants to leave her grans so she has to stay. In the holidays she sees Roger. She feels strange after she has slept with Bill. Alice takes pills to feel better. She feels horrible and tired. She is afraid of being pregnant but than her period starts. Beth comes home from camp, but she is hardly the same the same ...
- 3237: Glass Menagerie 2
- ... became unseemingly impossible for Tom to enjoy himself with Amanda's nagging. At every possible moment Tom would speak of some adventure, something grander he could be experiencing. Eventually using the money for the electric bill tom paid dues to the Union of Merchant Seamen. That organization was his savor from suffocation and a ticket to the life of adventure. Malvoli the Magician was an act that Tom would often see ...
- 3238: Gender Issues In Lysistrata, A
- ... similarities that arise with our culture today. Even though today women are not treated as bad as they were. It is sad to say that even in the year 2000 women don t have equal rights and don t get equal treatment. Women still make .70 cents to the dollar as men. Their role is still to be the homemaker. And they hold such a small percentage of any policy making ...
- 3239: Ernest Hemingway
- ... a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The ...
- 3240: Heart Of Darkness - Cruelty
- ... stole their property, and enslaved them. George Washington Williams stated in his diary, "Mr. Stanley was supposed to have made treaties with more than four hundred native Kings and Chiefs, by which they surrendered their rights to the soil. And yet many of these people declare that they never made a treaty with Stanley, or any other white man; their lands have been taken away from them by force, and they ...
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