"To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee begins its first chapter describing the small town of Maycomb Alabama, and the Finch family, this description is mostly from an unbiased perspective. As the book moves on it begins to introduce the childhood innocence of the main character, Scout Finch, and how that influences her view of the town and the people in it. She goes on narrating her adventures throughout the town, the people she likes, the ones she doesn't, her experiences during her first year of school, and her play in the summer. A powerful element to the book is the mysterious Radley house and the almost mythical man inside it. In chapter ten scouts wise father Atticus famously says;
“Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” scouts scout later asks ms. Maudie, her neighbor, why, to receive the answer; “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” even today disproportionate numbers of People of Color and low income White people are snared in the net of the criminal “justice” system, but during this time in history and especially in places like Alabama the government condoned the drastic mistreatment of African Americans. On June 21, 1940, a twenty-six-year-old black man named Jesse Thornton was pulled aside for no apparent reason, by a white police officer. when he addressed the officer by his first name, Doris, the policeman ordered him to repeat what he said, Jesse Thornton quickly corrected himself addressing him as Mr. Rhodes. the policemen hurled a racial slur and proceeded to walk Mr. Thornton into the city jail as a mob of white men formed just outside. the mob then chased Jesse, firing gunshots and throwing debris, they quickly caught up with him, threw him in a truck, drove him to a remote street and lynched him. "to kill a mockingbird," is told from the perspective of a white girl living in the deep south, the book emphasizes scouts gradual loss of her innocence, and how this effects her view of the people around her. scout slowly comes to realize the human tendency to judge without thought of the state of others. she comes to realize that her town is quite dysfunctional because of the lack of effort to overcome this tendency.
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The 1930's marked the early beginnings of the civil rights movement. Segregation was commonplace and lynchings were occasional. This way of life went on undisturbed save a few uprisings and resistance movements. May-comb, Alabama the setting of "To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee, was a sleepy town where the southern way of life was never questioned. The events to come would send the tension that was once bubbling under the surface bursting forth. During this time the American social environment was unsustainable, increased legislation forcing segregation to extremes, reflected the fear of the white population, and only increased the anger of the African American minority. Like a loose thread in a sweater such circumstances, when disturbed, would unravel into the heat of the civil rights movement. At the beginning of the book the main characters Scout and Jem retain a childhood innocence with which they assume everyone and everything is of a good nature, everyone but boo Radley a mysterious recluse who they assume must be malevolent. As the children grow and turmoil besets the town their innocence fades and the tables turn. Whereas before they feared and even hated this mythologized, man they now see the evil in the people who had once seemed goodhearted and have begun to understand Boo. Scout first acknowledges this realization saying; "I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time… it's because he wants to stay inside." (23.117) I believe this component of the book the book is symbolic of the fear hate and prejudice that caused the racial injustice of these times. The man that is different or that we fail to understand must be evil, this concept is childish and without insight, the civil rights movement helped the whole of our country realize the errors in our judgement.
i am an extrovert always curious and inquiring. it may seem externally that i am comfortable with myself but despite weather its because of my environment i believe i am usually self conscious. i am a strong willed leader type i always have an ideal image in my head.
A huge field lies still before you besides little flicks of motion in the distance. White boxes are lined neatly across the expanse with even rows in between them. A small truck slowly bumbles down each row, and when it halts three men exit it dressed in full white body suits each places a full bucket atop a different white box. One carefully removes a panel from within one of the boxes and the rest gather around as he points to a spot in the thick material coating the panel. Can you guess where you are? Probably not. You are on a bee farm. North Carolina has long had a major agricultural industry and today it is one of the most revolutionary states in its farming practices. Bees are crucial to all agriculture, and thus with bigger agriculture we have to have more bees to sustain it. But in recent years a problem has arisen we've named it colony collapse disorder, it is an unexplained disappearance or deterioration of a bee colony. CCD is a growing worldwide problem, in 2007 more than 2.4 million western honeybee colony's were lost to it. These honeybees pollinate over one hundred different staple crops of your diet, and have cost the bee dependent agricultural industry, a growing 10 billion annually. Suspected causes of the disorder are pesticides, climate change, and comercial maltreatment of our bees, while investigation into its cause is needed, an easy solution to. every proposed explanation would be to switch to local, organic bee farming practices. supporting local bee farms and organic produce, could be the key to solving our bee crisis, but without a buzz this problem will almost certainly continue.
North Carolina is a state with a rich natural environment and huge amount of biodiversity. our beautiful ecosystems are all nurtured by our seventeen river basins from Cape fear to Savannah. Even today we depend on our river basins to supply major industry, and provide residents with what they need. Since people have settled here we have leaned on our river systems, but we must be getting too used to them providing support, because we are becoming careless. Water pollution is a growing problem in North Carolina. It is a common misconception that water flowing into storm drains is treated before it flows into our rivers and streams, but pollutants drain directly into our precious rivers destroying our delicate ecosystem. This is but one cause of our problem, worse, industrial company's deliberately dump waste into major basins. This pollution is not just tragic because it is destructive to a beautiful piece of our earth, it could potentially endanger us the more we pollute the more it costs us to treat our water, and even scarier it could potentially affect the health of North Carolina's residents. We have not yet passed the point of no return, but it wont be easy to repair the damage we've done. Action must be taken to prevent illegal waste dumping and agricultural runoff, we have to get in the mud and and remove the pollutants that are suffocating our rivers. And then we must learn to live in harmony with the gift that is our north Carolina river system.
America is a country of immigrants, people who came to this land in search of new opportunities. America has been, and is, a country of the unknown, people have journeyed from all corners of the earth because they know that here, their fate is not sealed. In America you can be who you are and still have an unrestricted path before you. We continue to work towards a fair way of life that provides safety and freedom for all that choose to assume it. However though we strive to be tolerant and accepting, people often struggle to integrate into American culture. the current immigration process is long and arduous, and often discriminatory. it is also quite expensive leaving poorer immigrants with nothing to build a life here. but we continue to welcome and support immigrants, of all races and religions and every single representative in our government is just and fair in determining a process to invite new and wonderful people to share this great country with.
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