Essays 31 - 60
who saves her life. She learns that women can be abused, and can also be evil and lie. She learns that race is a very confusing an...
in Scottsboro, Alabama (Champion). In these proceedings, nine black men were accused of raping two white women; both groups had be...
of play. The summer is very representative of a simplistic and conservative community, giving us an ideal setting in a simpler tim...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
however, such as "The Verdict" try to show the benefits of due process within the legal system. [The concept of the "role of law"...
they are adults who can understand issues at his level. By the time Scout attends her first day of school she is highly literate,...
Montgomery. It could be contended that even the geographical location of Maycomb is a critical element in Lees plot. Montgomery,...
This research proposal begins with a three page proposal for a project that will consider the influence and impact of Harper Lee's...
adaptation of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move eac...
yet this innocence is rejected by the culture in which he finds himself; therefore, he is marked as "guilty", and it is revealed h...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at racial themes in To Kill a Mockingbird. The reality of these themes is made apparen...
This film review is on "To Kill A Mockingbird" (1962), directed by Robert Mulligan, based on the novel by Harper Lee. The writer t...
involve particular forms of employment, and perhaps what employment demands from a religious person, such as Atticus in Lees novel...
Tom is convicted for only one reason: hes black. Although hes sentenced to death, the sentence is commuted to life in prison; even...
a giant step forward for the town, because many of its white citizens are beginning to understand that racism is wrong. It will ta...
narrator is speaking of fences, a fence that divides his land from his neighbors. He wonders about why people have fences, especia...
the struggles of a brother and a sister as they try to uncover the meaning of life, the spiritual nature of life, and many other d...
Different theological philosophies attribute free will and freedom to different other theories. This paper explores libertarian fr...
There are currently more than 20,000 gun laws on the books in this country as of 1994. (Cottrol 11) Simultaneously 40 states assur...
insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...
This paper reviews author Scott Shackford's defense of violent video games as published in the article Imaginary Guns Don't Kill P...
like those. Again, when a woman is raped she does not want the burden of having offspring tied to such a horrific event. This is p...
how it was back in the early part of the century. In the 1930s, the criminal justice system had a veritable open door policy when...
greeting at the marketplace. By Finch taking on Robinsons alleged rape case, it sets a new precedent for the narrow-mindedness of...
Kill A Mockingbird"). The Radleys would ultimately play a very important part in the novel, and in this humble beginning which ill...
and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...
"Scout" Finch as she reflected on her Depression-childhood. It is Scouts father, respected local attorney Atticus Finch, who dare...
he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...
the townspeople, although they dont agree with him being Tom Robinsons legal counsel, respect his integrity and honesty. He repre...
told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...