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It was 1845. A farmer checked in on it's potato crops. Nothing seemed wrong with them at first. When the farmer looked around, he saw other farmers staring at their crops. Confused, he dug up one of them and noticed brown spots covering the potato. The farmer later was unable to get potatoes and decided to sail to America. He eventually died This is what happened to everyone in Ireland. When faced with this problem, many people had a life-changing choice. They could either try to move or stay in

When you hear the word mockingbird, the first image that might pop up in your head is just an innocent regular bird. A mockingbird is a beautiful bird that is different from any other bird. They love to sing and they sing beautiful songs for anyone who wants to hear them. In Maycomb, this small town is filled with prejudice, which creates a town full of misunderstood and innocent people, also known as mockingbirds. Throughout the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she demonstrates the use

The Legacy that Britain left for Ireland is that Ireland is and is not better with England. In this you will find out about Ireland and its history. Before England took over there was the founding of Ireland and the Vikings. During British rule you will hear about the Potato Famine and how few survived. Then After the British left Ireland alone and the Protestants and the Catholics try to show their dominance over the other. Finally you will read a paraphrasing of a short story by Mary Beckett in

“’Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,’” (119). The book To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, takes place in the 1930’s. It is set in Maycomb County, Alabama, and is an engaging “coming-of-age” novel. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, having good manners, different types of prejudice, and the importance

As tensions rose in Northern Ireland, British troops were deployed in an effort to control the situation; because of this the Provisional Irish Republican Army looked to new ground to be the centre point of their campaign. Britain became the Provisional IRA’s ground of choice

The spark that ignited Maguire’s discontent into open rebellion was the appointment and ensuing depredations of Captain Humphrey Willis. This was the same Willis, who had previously been driven out of Donegal by Hugh Roe O’Donnell in February 1592. He was appointed sheriff in the spring of 1593 and quickly re-established his pattern of raiding and spoiling that was familiar to the inhabitants of Tirconnell the previous year. Willis had no legal reason for spoiling Maguire’s lordship, and the authorities

Symbols, symbols, and more symbols everywhere we look. For example the recycling symbol, the caution symbol, and even the symbols on your television remote. The book To Kill a Mockingbird features various symbols, but one in particular is what the book focuses on, and that is the Mockingbird symbol. The Mockingbird is a symbol that represents many things, it represents innocence, a mocking behavior, and defense. This symbol is crucial to the book because throughout the story many characters display

A young boy sits in the living living room of his house in the early 1900s, happily cutting up some family photos to scrapbook. Then, completely out of the blue, his mother runs out of the house screaming “He’s going to kill us all!” (Page to be found). But this is simply not true, the boy would never do such thing. This boy, now a man, is Arthur “Boo” Radley, a good spirit injured and corrupted by the evils of his father. This boy becomes a recluse among men, never leaving the house and seen as

San Joaquin River Restoration Project: Irrigating the Valley The San Joaquin River is the backbone of the San Joaquin Valley. The valley is not only the nation's most agricultural area but it is also one of the entire worlds. Millions depend on the crops that come form this luscious valley. The river has gone through many drastic changes over its illustrious lifetime. Once it was a magnificent 350 miles long it is now one of the nation's ten most endangered rivers. The river once flowed with

In “A Barred Owl” by Richard Wilbur and “The History Teacher” by Billy Collins, the authors both argue that innocence is necessary to cultivate the ideal child via their protective tones, deceptive plot, and contrasting rhyme schemes. In both Wilbur's and Collins’ poems, they convey a protective tone to maintain the idea that children must remain pure. In “A Barred Owl”, Wilbur talks of lying to the child that the owl was asking “Who cooks for you?” rather than a scary animal call. The protective