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    Cousin Lymon

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    similar to “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. The grotesque characters exhibit physical deformities such as To Kill a Mockingbird’s Tom Robinson, his left arm has seized to grow and lays mangled at his side. Ballad of a sad café’s Lymon is a hunchback. The townspeople in both of these stories influence the characters. Tom Robinson is ridiculed and everyone who stands by him. The town also creates rumours pertaining to Arthur Radley and the Radley family. Cousin Lymon and Miss Amelia are also ridiculed

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    his master through the crowd in the circus and as he ran he had to be hunched over with his shoulders at an angle. Not only that but Daniel also had to be in a back brace throughout the entire movie to accurately represent himself as a recovering hunchback of 18 years. The actors had to go through a lot of dangerous stunts and painful acts to become the characters they were

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    Richard III is seen as a monster and a horrible person, but why? What if people saw him differently or if his family treated him equally like others? Also nobody wants to love an ugly hunchback. This is how Richard is treated in the play. He despises everybody including God and all of is creations so he decides to conquer the land and become King of England. The house of Lancaster treats Richard very poorly, he grew up with a hateful mother and his family always put him after all of his brothers

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    Media And Diversity

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    Can an attitude be changed? It is often believed that it cannot, however, by prompting behavioral changes, potential changes in the attitude may follow. Social barriers set up by certain attitudes toward something, different behavior in different situations, and, in general, misconceptions of others create many disadvantageous environments for people with disabilities. But by shifting these social barriers through better education and understanding and representing the disabled community, disabled

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    example of standing against a nation with the help of comradery. Romeo and Juliet fight for their forbidden love with the help of personal friends, but despite their efforts the tale ends in great tragedy. Transition to the classic tale of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”. Quasimodo is hated by every person in the country. People are terrified of him and will run in fear when they see him. One day he meets a beautiful woman and together they show the world how Quasimodo is a beautiful person that should

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    of detail only things that added to the story were included. An example of this is when describing Sundiata’s mom, Sogolon, she normally is only referred to as “hunchback” (Niane 8). She is someone at the beginning of the book who whenever is brought up gets laughed at or is spoken very poorly of because she is so ugly. However, hunchback is as far as the story goes in describing her ugliness which shows how focused the storyteller was on telling only the most important details along the hero’s journey

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    The source of this propaganda piece is an anti- Semitic children's book called The Poisonous Mushroom . The publisher of the book is Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer-Verlag.This propaganda piece is formatted as an illustration. Due to the classroom setting in this picture, it can be inferred that the intended audience for this illustration is children, specifically grade school students. The purpose of this picture is to teach children to isolate and fear Jewish people. The caption of the picture

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    The Cursèd Body of Richard III Richard III is seen as a monster and a horrible person, but why? What if people saw him differently or if his family treated him equally like others? Also nobody wants to love an ugly hunchback. This is how Richard is treated in the play. He despises everybody, including God and all of is creations so he decides to conquer the land and become King of England. The house of Lancaster treats Richard very poorly, he grew up with a hateful mother and his family always

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    Amelia’s actions especially towards her ex-husband Marvin Macy and her cousin Lymon? This is seen throughout the passage: “The café was opened every night as usual, and, strangely enough, when Marvin Macy came swaggering through the door, with the hunchback at his heels, she did not turn him out.

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    Pierrat Torterue

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    In both life and literature, often overlooked are those whose livelihoods follow the status quo without question. Although the magnates of the world do indeed deserve their credit, it is evident in such works as The Hunchback of Notre Dame that complacency gives way to tragedy. Pierrat Torterue, otherwise known as “The torture”, is only one of the many sycophantic characters in Victor Hugo’s novel . Despite his few appearances throughout the novel, the repercussions of Torterue’s blind adherence

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