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    Jem and Scout are young kids with a desire to learn but not everything you learn is from a traditional classroom. The importance of an education is emphasized throughout Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird, as an education is a fundamental resource but will not teach life's true lessons. Throughout the novel, Atticus educates Scout and Jem on the significance of considering the perspective of others and the true definition of courage within yourself by doing what is right no matter the repercussions

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    In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee talks about the small sleepy town of Maycomb. Most people didn't leave, and most people don't come to stay for long. Macomb is ware Jem, Scout, and Dill spend their long summers days looking for adventure. Jem and Scouts father Atticus was a lawyer. In this time racism was present especially since they lived in the South in Alabama. It was a big deal not only for the Finches but for the town that Atticus was defending an African American man accused of

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    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel set in the 1930s, a time of many hardships and depression. While we think we have moved on from those times, there are still issues in our modern day society that mirror those in Lee’s novel. The killing of Larry King is an instance that is similar to the death of Tom Robinson in the book. Larry King was a 15 year old student at Oxnard Middle School in California before he died on Valentine’s Day in 2008. He was shot by his 14 year old classmate, Brandon

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    In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the story takes place in the 1930s in a small, close-knit, racially segregated town called Maycomb. This town is controlled by gossip of other families, its indifferent opinions, and the belief that his held high above everyone’s heads that white people are still accepted as a higher authority than colored people. All of these components play a key part when a controversial trial is born, the Tom Robinson Trial. Here the families all over Maycomb

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    Conspiracy Theories: Operation Mockingbird Operation Mockingbird was a operation in the United States that started in the 1950’s where major media outlets (such as New York Times and The Washington Post) were altered and modified by agents paid by the CIA. The goal of this operation was believed to be the CIA trying to influence propaganda and their opinions into the news. The finding of this operation was because of congressional onvestigations in the 1970’s. The operation cost over $1 billion

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    Atticus Finch uses his power in a wise way by being a moral and respectful person. It is most likely that you will be able to like a person that is respectful and has morality. In Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch has to face many challenges from the community for standing up for equality justices for a African American man. Atticus use his power in a wise way by handling these challenges by being a morality and respectful person. Atticus use his power in a wise way by being morality

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    In my opinion, Atticus Finch lives by the golden rule. The golden rule is, “Do onto others as you would have them do on to you. I say this because in the Novel/movie Atticus never did anything related to violence to solve his problems. For instance, when Jem wanted Atticus to play football. Jem said, “I wouldn’t get down from the tree until Atticus plays football for the Mets.” Atticus replied, “I’m too old for that son.” Jem still didn’t get down, Atticus told him to suit yourself and walked inside

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    Scout begins to realize that the dearing town of Maycomb isn’t exactly what she had figured it to be. Evil things are starting to come across her path and her outlooks on fellow citizens are changing. In chapters sixteen to twenty one, Scout watches her father defend Tom Robinson, a man of colour, against Mayella Ewell, a young white lady who has accused Tom of raping her. The only reason Tom was convicted of raping Mayella is simply due to the fact that he received an unfair, bias vote by the jury

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    The highly regarded book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee uses effective metaphors, symbolism and emotive language to represent the writers purpose which is to explore the race relations between African Americans and White Americans in the south of the US (Maycomb, Alabama) in the 1930s from the perspective of a young child. This influential piece of American literature will always have a place as one of the greatest representations of American culture and life in the 1930s. The now iconic Mockingbird

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    Stan Lee has revolutionized the comic book industry through his work and creation of multiple, highly successful characters. Throughout his life and his career, he has had many people to aspire to and to lean on. While working at Marvel, and Timely Comics he has collaborated with many comic book artists sharing his thoughts and ideas with them, and in because he was successful, he helped to become an inspiration to people himself. On December 28, 1922, in New York City Stanley Martin

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