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Film To Kill a Mockingbird and the Impact of Social Norms on the Judicial System

In five pages this paper discusses the 1962 film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird in a consideration of how social norms prevai...

Comparing Salinger's Catcher with Lee's Mockingbird

This essay contrasts and compares J.D. Salinger's coming of age novel Catcher in the Rye with Harper Lee's account of a Southern c...

Narratives of Racism, Lee and Gaines

Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines, like Harper Lees classic To Kill A Mockingbird, concerns the fate of an African American man...

An OR Nurse Becomes Whistleblower

What should a nurse do when she knows that a surgeon is incompetent and killing children on his operating table? Even today, there...

Film Review, To Kill A Mockingbird

This film review is on "To Kill A Mockingbird" (1962), directed by Robert Mulligan, based on the novel by Harper Lee. The writer t...

Summation and Review/Brother's Keeper

in 1992 and directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky for New Video Group. It concerns the fate of Delbert Ward, one of four ba...

Kilbourne's "Killing Us Softly" - A Critique

in her searches through mainstream media ads. This is a major sampling error that potentially distorts any conclusions drawn about...

“To Kill a Mockingbird”: Discrimination and Innocence

yet this innocence is rejected by the culture in which he finds himself; therefore, he is marked as "guilty", and it is revealed h...

To Kill a Mockingbird and Franny and Zooey

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...

Tennessee Folklore: The Ghost Lights of Chapel Hill

his lantern, as he searches for his lost head" (Brown). In addition to the lights, some people have reported UFOs in the sky; oth...

The Evil of Ambition

in the Aristotelian sense of the word: it shows us a great man doomed by a tragic flaw, in this case ambition. This paper discusse...

The Pandemic of 1918

30 and 50 millions deaths; the number is uncertain because of the scale of the catastrophe. This paper discusses the Spanish Flu w...

The Catholic Church in Nicaragua

some reference to the wars and brutalities that were happening and that had happened since the Sandinistas took power. Each side, ...

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

The Impacts of World War I on the Battlefield and Back Home

The First World War had impacts not just on the areas embroiled in the warfare but on the...

Killing the Buddha

Many people study religion, study such religious works as the Bible, and then assume they know God. They become complacent and fee...

BP’s Problem in 2010

been undertaking environmental strategies as part of their operations and the emerging BP set themselves a goal of being a leader ...

Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

The Trial of Tom Robinson: America in the 1930s

in Scottsboro, Alabama (Champion). In these proceedings, nine black men were accused of raping two white women; both groups had be...

The Development of “Scout” Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird

a giant step forward for the town, because many of its white citizens are beginning to understand that racism is wrong. It will ta...

Von Stauffenberg’s Plot to Kill Hitler

Tenth Panzer Division, stationed in Tunisia, just in time to fight in the battle of the Kasserine Pass, a major battle in North Af...

Murder on Board

dirty clothes and reeking garbage make the atmosphere unbearable fairly quickly, and nobody wants to live in a toilet for the endl...

Princess Diana’s Death

was in terms of the media, so are many people in the world. President Bush is surely a victim of the press, and perhaps rightly so...

Loving Differently? Men and Women

that they are to blame and are being criticized since the woman is not happy. If a woman expresses an emotion, she usually wants r...

To Kill a Mockingbird

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...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

Women and Discrimination in the Workplace

to help the society survive, not to gain positions of power. Womens work, however, was considered just as crucial as that of the w...

The American Dream: Harper Lee and John Steinbeck

who is noble, honest, and humble. He fights for the rights of an African American accused of raping a white woman even though the ...

Women in Ancient Greece

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

Current Prejudices against Women in the U.S.

stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...