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- 10051: Injustice To Kill A Mockingbir
- ... the unfair treatment of people through actions and words based on stereotypes, which ignorance and fear have fueled, has been prevalent throughout the ages. The prevalence of this injustice from the period of the 1930's in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is shown through the unfair treatment of people based on racial, societal, and gender stereotypes. Racial injustice, the unfair treatment of people based on their race, is a frequent occurrence ... a white person was unacceptable; it was to be the reverse. The verdict of the all-white jury came right down to the color of his skin, even though Atticus had more than proved Tom's innocence. The "Old Sarum" mob played a part in this injustice as well, when they came to harm Tom and instill fear in Atticus so that he would decline from defending him. However, it ...
- 10052: Prejudice of a Bigot
- Prejudice of a Bigot "The only people I'm prejudiced against are bigots." That is a quote that has been used often by many people over the years. While most of a bigot's prejudices are directed against the "obviously different," that is, the people with different colored skin or with different accents, one may still feel uneasy around them, as if that abundance of ignorance might slop over ... of school and appraise them. That guy over their looks a little sleepy -- maybe he attends many parties, better watch out for him. The lady across the aisle is looking perky -- too perky. Maybe she's just out to brown-nose the instructor to try to get a good grade. The prejudgment phase is why many students wear nice and well-mannered clothing the first two weeks of class. They know the very real danger that other students might dismiss them as second class citizens if they just wore comfortable clothing such as jeans and a T-shirt. Everyone knows the problem with prejudgment because everyone has been a receiver of such. One such occurrence may be if a couple would be repainting their house when they realized they had an ...
- 10053: Dyslexia
- Dyslexia General information Imagine if my report was written like this: Dyslexia is wehn yuor midn gets wodrs mixde pu. If you were dyslexic, that's how you might read my report. The word dyslexia is derived from the Greek “dys” (meaning poor or inadequate) and “lexis” (word or language). Dyslexia is a learning disability characterized by problems in expressive or ... written or spoken words, and individual letter sounds. Extremely poor spelling and illegible handwriting are common symptoms. Problems may emerge in reading, spelling, writing, speaking, or listening. Dyslexia is not a disease, therefore it doesn't have a cure. Dyslexia describes a different kind of mind, often gifted and productive, that learns differently. During my extensive research of this topic, I have become very interested and sympathetic for people who have ... Similar problems among relatives * Difficulty in mathematics - often related to sequencing of steps or directionality or the language of mathematics Who has dyslexia? The National Institute of Health estimates that approximately 15% of the U.S. population is affected by learning disabilities. Of the students with learning disabilities who receive special education services, 80-85% have their basic deficits in language and reading. Every year, 120,000 additional students are ...
- 10054: An Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper
- ... wife observes that patterns of the parts where lights shine right at it is the non-active parts. It symbolizes women are more settle when men are watching over them. Under their pressure, they don't dare to rebel against them. Her wife sees images moving around on the dark side. That brings up a big contradicting point comparing this to our present society. Back then, woman does not have much freedom. They are under man's hands. Secretly they tired to struggle through this strangle. But they failed after all. My favorite passage of this story is on page 163. The detailed description that the wife describes really draws much attention ... interesting point, that she sees John and Jennie put their eyes on the wallpaper too. That she was surprise John and Jennie may see there is something going on about the wallpaper. But I don't know if that is what the wife is determines or have a guess that's what they are doing also. Last sentence of the passage: "But I Know she was studying that pattern, and ...
- 10055: The Bean Trees, By Barbara Kin
- Taylor's fears In the Story, The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingslover we see a character named Taylor overcome several fears that she has. Taylor Greer, a woman who once saw a man being thrown several feet ... She always seemed to think that the same thing might happen to her if she ever did something like, overfilling it too much with air. Her mom, who was fairly normal, decided to test Taylor's tire-changing-skills shortly after she bought her 55 Volkswagen. She knew what to do in a case of emergency but she was afraid to do it. Mattie, the sole owner of a shop named ... car, taking out the tire, and finally dipping it to see if air bubbles would come up. "I'm sorry to tell you, hon, these are bad. I can tell you right now these aren't going to hold a patch. They're shot through." (page 40). Mattie was exceptionally nice to Taylor and told her to come inside and have some coffee. After drinking a cup of coffee and ...
- 10056: Constructing Indentity In The
- ... white software consultant running the Native American seminar and chat room offered by AOL, Rapp, said Basically, what we did was done in fun (127) after he was discovered that he was dishonest, he wasn t a native American. Rapp was a host of Native American seminar, discussing about Native American culture while he was not a member of any Indian group. All he was saying were fraud. As Marc Towersap, one of the first Indians to query about Rapp s tribal credentials, said There is a difference between adopting online identities ad perpetrating fraud (Martin, 125) and he also said Rapp was promoting herself as a genuine native elder, and AOL was making money on the chat room because a lot of people logged on to it (Martin, 125). AOL, a biggest Internet service on the world, didn t care about what Rapp talking and discussing was true or not. They just wanted to make money as much as they can. Miller, one of the Native activists went against Rapp s dishonest and ...
- 10057: Nicknames
- Nicknames My friend Amanda is also known as “Mandy”. Mandy is just one of the names considered to be a nickname. Nicknames whether positive or negative, are only describing a person’s general characteristic, or can be used when shortening a persons name. Although hurtful nicknames can lower a person’s reputation and self-esteem, joyful nicknames give the person a sense of pride. Nicknames are a substitute of a name given to a person in fun, affection, and belittlement, usually descriptive. People sometimes can take ... little thing they did, good or bad, and it may somehow get turned into a nickname that stays with the person for a long time. For example: When I was in middle school I didn’t develop my body as fast as my friends, and the boys would say I looked like a pole. So, from that school year on they called me “Poley”. I hated that nickname, because when ...
- 10058: Talk Shows In Society
- ... an hour. Talk Shows in the world of television, have undoubtedly taken up almost every inch of space on daytime television, and while doing so has caused much controversy. In the nineteen eighties, soap opera’s and game shows ruled the daytime airwaves, but the nineties are definitely the decade of the talk shows. The craze of talk shows all seemed to start with the originals such as Geraldo Riveria, Donahue and Sally Jesse Rafael (now called Sally) In fact, many of their original topics are still being used in today’s talk shows, but with a different style and format. Some of the talk shows on the air today, such as the Oprah Winfrey Show and the Montel Wiliams Show are focused on improvement of society ... on the clan is to let people know about racism. Although he actually did it for publicity, I think that Jerry Springer actually did help us by exposing this man for what he was. Jerry’s rebuttal to his bad wrap is that he is helping these people get the attention they need by letting them be on his show, and helping to avoid them trying to get it elsewhere. ...
- 10059: Self-Expression
- Self-Expression Self-expression is a way in which a person can express his or her thought processes through hand gestures, writing and verbalization. The “ Webster's Dictionary” defines it as “expression of one's own personality or emotion.” Sometimes, people use hand gestures when they are trying to express a point. Usually, the person doesn't realize that they are moving their hands. Another way a person can “expression one's own personality” is with writing. Journals or diaries are good examples because writers can say anything they want, any ...
- 10060: Louis XIV
- Louis XIV Louis XIV was a good leader for many reasons, some of which will come out in this essay. Louis ruled with an iron fist, he didn't let anyone mess with France, and if they did , he made them suffer. Second, Louis had mercy on those who betrayed him, a trait rarely seen in his day and age. Third most he did his best to bring down the nobles of France, particularly the more richer ones who thought they were above the law. Louis ruled with an iron fist he didn't let anyone mess around with France, if anyone had the guts to even think about challenging his power over the people of France he would do he would go out of his way to make them suffer. (*1) “At the same time he regarded himself as God's deputy in France and would allow no challenge to his authority, from the Pope or anyone else” Louis got into many wars while he was ruler of France, he was quick to the draw ...
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