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    gain strength from those events and when then find that strength, then they begin to truly grow up. This lesson is learned throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The story takes place in the 1930s in the small town Maycomb County, Alabama. The main character Scout starts the story out as a young girl who behaves as a tom-boy and she favors fighting rather than talking out her feelings. Scout’s father Atticus is trying to teach her how to mature, but it is a long process. Her older

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    Since the beginning of this great nation there has always been a racial caste systems due to slavery, money, and greed. The End of slavery was after the civil war and enfourced through the 13th Amendment. The loophole that was created that was the exception that criminals can be treated as a involuntary servitude, which was noted in the U.S constitution. To speed things along you have the slavery which transferred to convicted leasing to Jim Crow Era and now Mass Incarceration which all has striped

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    Marketing Strategy: Joyride Background: We are in the business of providing reliable micro-transportation to the downtown Auburn area. There is no free on demand transportation in the area but many growing businesses. A joyride in Auburn would provide thousands of people an easier opportunity to commute around campus and downtown Auburn. Over the next two years I plan to grow Joyride to a stable, household brand to students and residence alike of the Auburn community. I plan to grow to Joyride

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    rich and poor -- ordinary people who came together across differences to advance this nation 's core value of equality and demand an end to the discrimination against African Americans. Each year at the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama, we welcome thousands of visitors, many of them students on school-sponsored trips. Among our goals is ensuring today

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    Ethics and Research In 1932 the American Government conducted a study named the Tuskegee Syphilis study, this project was administered by the US Health in Macon County, Alabama. The Government promises 600 plus African American citizens access to free medication and access to proper health care. This study subjects was all tested positive for Syphilis when they enrolled for the study. However, these subjects were denied medicine and were experimented on to help the Government to better understand

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    In the world, all children are born pure and innocent. It is through corrupting events that society slowly spoils their purity and rots their innocence over time. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee manifests the process of said corruption of innocence and purity through the growth of the three main child characters. Dill Harper Lee implies throughout her novel To Kill A Mockingbird that loss of innocence occurs, especially in troubling times, through Dill, Jem, and Scout. Lee uses the middle

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    To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has been banned by some school districts since its publication in 1960, but it is also loved and treasured as a classic “full of wisdom” (Greitens) by millions. It is a story of learning to accept others, learning to compromise, learning to be uncomfortable in certain situations. Governor Greitens of Missouri writes to his sons about To Kill a Mockingbird: “part of the wisdom of the book is how the characters respond to… troubling words. But you can’t appreciate

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    The Civil Rights Movement

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    the Selma marches were some of the most memorable major contributing events to the series of protests in the fight for Civil Rights. The Montgomery bus boycotts were a series of protests against the Alabama public transportation system due to the unruly arrest of Rosa Parks. In Montgomery, Alabama the buses of

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    friendship is “the state of being a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard” (dictionary.com). In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, friendship drives the interactions between the main characters that live in Maycomb, Alabama. Miss Maudie Atkinson, a neighbor whom is kind to the children; Jem, Scout’s older brother; and Arthur Radley, a neighbor whom rarely comes out of his house and is kind, all have a friendship with Scout in different ways that grows throughout the

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    she has shown me and my brother that with determination and perseverance you can accomplish anything you put your mind to. She also is an essential part of my life and has shaped me into the person I am today. Marie Dean was born in Montgomery, Alabama to Walter Marie Dean and Herron Dean. She has lived in Montgomery all her life. She is the oldest of five children. She attended St. John Middle School, then for high school she attended Montgomery Catholic Preparatory High School. Along with going

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