.... the mutual hatred between African Americans and ‘whites’ in a legal sense. Groups like the ‘Idler’s club’ and the Mennonites enjoyed seeing a Black man’s freedom taken away from him. Tom Robinson was found guilty of raping Mayella Ewell, in the face of very strong evidence that his accusers were lying. One reason why he was convicted was because it was a white man’s word against a black man’s one. Tom, who is black, would be denied justice because of this. Atticus reinforces this idea when he tells Jem ‘in our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man .....

.... V. He then died shortly after and Richard III became king. Thirty years later, More would become Rchard’s biographer. Two years afterwards King Richard III was slain in the Battle of the Roses. Henry VII later became king (The World Book Encyclopedia 802). During the reign of Henry VII More grew into manhood. His father was John More, a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn. After schooling at St. Anthony’s he lived with John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (Comptons Encyclopedia 582). Morton recognized the talents of his young page and advised him to go to Oxford to study. He became a .....

.... tells Uncle Jack that if they don’t pay attention to her she’ll get over this "stage". I believe it takes a lot more control to ignore the comment and continue doing what you were as opposed to punishing the child for such a minor incident. By taking this approach to the problem, it shows that Atticus took the time to assess the problem before taking any action. If she didn’t understand what it meant then there is no point in punishing her. More times than not, children hear someone older say things and they just mimic it and assume its all right to say it. Many times, to my ex .....

.... leads to happiness, and if one already possesses happiness, then there is no need for freedom, especially if your government is making sure that all your needs are satisfied. Religion plays an important role in people's lives. It represents our principles and values. Religion guides us, gives us something to believe in and a set of rules to live by. However, who is to say that one hundred years from now people will still believe and practice religion? Mustapha Mond when referring to the Holy Bible says that "they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God Now" (Huxley, .....

.... it matured and changed, from being stuck on land to airborne, from being ugly to beautiful, from being young to old. All living things mature, all things change, wherever time is a variable identities are changing. Janie is no different from these things, she too has a changing identity that can be traced throughout four main parts in the book. Janie is a young girl who at first docent even know her own identity. Being rose by her Nanny in a house full of white people, you could see how this could have been the start of an identity crisis. Janie was always treated like a white person duri .....

.... The main character in the novel, Pip, portrays a life that is similar to the life of Charles Dickens, his creator. It is evident that Charles Dickens drew on personal experiences in Great Expectations. Pip and Dickens have numerous similarities beginning in their childhood and ending in their adulthood. Both appear to be unloved by their mothers. Both of their mothers died when they were young. Their fathers did not help the situations. They both were abandoned by their fathers. Pip’s father died also when he was young and Dickens’ father was imprisoned for debt in Marshals .....

.... how the town treated her when she gave them their mail, or (2) the neighbors were untrustworthy and false. Myrt’s attitude towards her neighbors makes the reader think she is envious and hypocritical. Holcomb did show a friendly side. The town seemed to act more like friends that did for each other than friends that just associate with each other. “Any one who has been sick and had Mrs. Ashida walk nobody can calculate how many miles to bring them some of the wonderful soup she makes. Or the flowers she grows where you wouldn’t expect a flower to grow. And last year at the county fa .....

.... married and then O-lan took care of both of them until they could afford servants (toward the end of the book). I liked the way the Chinese respected and treated their elders. I think we should try harder to do this here in our culture too. Wang Lung's uncle was a lazy and greedy man. Wang Lung did not like him that much and wished that the Chinese custom of paternal relatives living with their families did not exist. The only thing his uncle was good for was preventing a local group of marauding bandits from pillaging the house of Wang because his uncle was an important official in the .....

.... it appears to have benefitted him. Doc Daneeka was making a nice sum of money from various illegal means. He received kickbacks from drug stores in the area that ran an illegal operation. He also utilized beauty parlors to perform two or three abortions a week to bring in more revenue. When the war begins, Doc Daneeka's practice starts to pick up because of the lack of other doctors. Originally, he thought of the war as a "godsend"; however what he did not realize was that, the war would catch up with him soon enough. One day someone from the draft board came to check on Doctor Daneeka, .....

.... for himself the lessons of French society. The Child of Nature comes into the French society with no worldly knowledge of his own or beliefs. He is a spontaneous, curious young Huron and is viewed as quite naive. The French feel that they can easily mold him into their society. All he has are his youthful charming looks, "HE was hatless, and hoseless, and wore little sandals; his head was graced with long plaits of hair; and a short doublet clung to a trim and supple figure. He had a look about him that was at once martial and gentle" (Voltaire, 190) and an awkward manner of being courteous t .....