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An interesting fact is that many Nazis actually embraced the play Antigone. In contradiction, the German superiors attempted their best to limit any works that implied anti-Fascism. "Antigone" is perceived as an enduring metaphor for the Nazis and someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force which can also be referred to as treason. In World War II the collaborationist was the Vichy regime. What is extremely interesting is through the war the play was being staged all over Europe from 1941 until the end of the war.

” In the time period that Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird blacks were oppressed, looked down upon, and treated as they are in her book displayed with Tom Robinson. This was also the time when Dr. King was using peaceful protest to help promote blacks’ rights and how they were looked upon on society. Dr. King furthers this topic by saying in his I Have A Dream speech, “And some of you have come from areas where your quest - - quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs is Jacobs life story under the pseudonym Linda Brent. Jacobs’ main focus or theme in the novel is motherhood and the effects of slavery on the female sex. She directs the novel to a female white middle class audience. She initially wrote the novel under a pseudonym to protect her identity and herself from cruelty because it was published in 1861, also the year the civil war started. She agreed to writing her story to expose the wretched life African American female slaves endured.

“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society” (“Famous Angela Davis quotes - We have to talk about ….). Angela Davis no longer accepted the philosophies or ideas she could not modify within others, but worked to change the beliefs she could no longer accept. Davis aimed for her voice to be heard, so that her perspectives would perceive and taken into account by society. Davis is best known as a profound African-American educator, extremist for civil rights, and other advocate of other social issues. She realized about racial prejudice from her experiences with discrimination growing up in Birmingham, Alabama.

In the famous Angela Davis book, Freedom is a constant struggle, chapter seven she describes her powerful motivates and aspirations towards freedom in America. She speaks on Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and the countless deaths of other African Americans and how she appreciates the Ferguson activist. Davis’ purpose in this novel is to express her feelings towards racial America, the different positive movements that have formed during the tragic times in America today. She creates connections between the violence in America and the injustice treatment throughout history and as well as around the world. Davis opens the chapter by speaking on the vicious, racism violence that has tainted America for many years.

Have you ever had any emotional or physical struggles in your life that sometimes made you feel as if though you were caged and unable to achieve your goal? To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a historical fiction novel told in the eyes of a young girl named Scout  as her father, Atticus Finch , a lawyer in the 1950’s in  Alabama, is burdened with the task of defending a black man, Tom Robinson, of harming a white girl, Mayella Ewell. “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou is a poem that compares and contrasts a free bird to a caged bird. “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a poem that explores a caged bird that was once free, and how it is struggling to be free but hasn’t given up his hopes. Harper Lee’s characters Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch,

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that show the life of a southern state od Alabama during the “black racism” time period, where majority of the people had the mentality that (quote) with the exception of a few. To chosen to portray it from the eyes of Scout Finch, from a child’s point of view. Living in Maycomb, in the midst of a conservative society of the 1930’s and 20’s Southern America Scout Finch is an extra ordinary child. She is in fact extraordinary from various perspectives .She differs from the rest of the children with her brother because of the way that they are being brought up. Scout and Jem’s father, Atticus Finch is a modern viewed broad perspective lawyer who believes in integration, democracy and equality.

The Flaws of Adult Society The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, demonstrates a young child’s perception of adult society, making it a fascinating point of view to read it from. This leads the story from being a love story, to becoming something far more marvelous. To Kill a Mockingbird, is set in Maycomb County, Alabama, United States of America, after the Great Depression, when the farmers were hit the hardest. Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout, is a young girl who is the narrator of the novel . Scout has a father named Atticus Finch and a brother named Jeremy Atticus Finch, while her mother passed away when she was two.

Lucas Garvey Mrs. Tavares H. English 10 21 May 2016 Inequality in American Society Today The book To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is a novel based around social inequality present in the Southern United States during the 1930’s. The novel takes place in Maycomb, a small town in Southern Alabama during the depression era. Lee 's novel is told from the perspective of a young girl, Jean Louise Finch, nicknamed Scout. Scout grows up in a racist and complicated world. She struggles to understand subjects like rape, racism, and discrimination.

Arnold David Arnold Hensley English 11/ Fifth Period 27 February 2018 Part 12: Rough Draft #1 In Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” one will notice Chopin’s well known use of racism and local color in the story. With the story taking place in the deep South prior to the Civil War the reader will start to notice racism being incorporated into the story. Chopin uses this theme to show how crooked some people’s morals are in this time period. As a reader, you will notice the impact racism has in the everyday life .Many decisions were impacted do to thought of blacks being inferior to whites. When reading Kate Chopin’s “ Desiree’s Baby” the reader will be introduced racism and the use of local color all throughout the story.

Qualitative and quantitative method have been applied in data collection and will be applied in the analysis of the collected data. Qualitative analysis is necessary to critically obtain information which cannot be statistically derived through Analysis of secondary data. Quantitative analysis will capture the figures and enable analysis of the information to offer detailed and informed decisions through Interview and survey. From the studies and results, I hope to find that Social feminism theories and feminism theories to focus on theories related to black female segregation like feminism theory. I hope to prove that Social feminism has been instrumental in the fight for the women rights especially the blacks.

The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee follows the childhood of Scout Finch. Scout grew up living in Maycomb, Alabama along with her brother Jem and her father Atticus. In the midst of her childhood Atticus was called upon to represent Tom Robinson, a black man living in Maycomb who was accused of raping a girl named Mayella Ewell. During this time Scout and her family had many hardships due to the towns criticism while doing the right thing and helping an innocent man. In the novel, Harper Lees’ use of tone helped to develop the central idea, which is the importance of having a moral compass.

Set in the southern United States during the height of the Great Depression, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, it is predictable that the time’s biases and prejudices play a role in the novel. However, the extent of this discrimination and strict expectations of conformity found in the novel is surprising. The book, which follows Scout, a young girl growing up in the sleepy town of Maycomb, Alabama, illustrates the different ways in which the members of the community treat others based on their races, conformity to societal standards, and upholding of the biases of the time. The case of Tom Robinson is the clearest example of the prejudices that permeated most communities in the southern region of the United States. Robinson is charged

Harper lee wrote a novel to kill a mockingbird.The novel is about racism and what is right and what is wrong. The Scottsboro Boys were an influence on the writing if lee’s writing To Kill a Mockingbird.The nine African American teenagers accused in Alabama raping of Ruby Bates and Victoria Price on a train in 1931.The scottsboro trial was one of many subjects that Harper lee talked about in her novel.Tom robinson 's trial was similar to scottsboro trial because they were both black and they both got accused of something they did not do. The Great Depression was an influence on the writing of lee’s novel.The Great depression was a worldwide economic failure that took place during the 1930s.The timing of the Great Depression was different across

Harper Lee, one of the greatest influences of literature brought the idea of racial segregation to life throughout her works. She grew up in a time period in which Southerners suffered segregation and discrimination, this played a part in her political standpoints and inspired her to take a stand on issues such as discrimination. Her works became prominent in the Civil Rights Movement because she addressed topics such as blacks being falsely accused of crimes and false assertions against people of that race. Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, released in 1960, brought to life the ongoing racial problems that lived in America during the time of the Civil Rights Movement. Her life directly paralleled her novel, her father took on an occupation