Essays on Scout

Caucasian and African women are segregated by the differences in their salary and education. With the persistence of racial-based wage and education gaps in modern society, the status and role of colored women, specifically those from the African descent, remain discriminated due to the prevalence of indissoluble racial and gender stereotypes. Although the philosophy of racial and gender equality has, in essence, created “equal education opportunities” for all females, the provision of racial equity has yet to be fully realized. In reality, however, the education and economic gap between Caucasian and African women evinces that the school and professional ...

Question 1. Give the name of the film, producer and the year. The name of the chosen film is Hoop Dreams. It was produced in 1994 by Steve James, Peter Gilbert, and Frederick Marx.

Question 2. Why did you select this film for your review?

There are few reasons to select this film. The first one is that I have an interest in basketball, so a documentary related to basketball players is attractive for me. Then, the other reason is that this film helped me know more about the social behaviors and psychology of people. Being a neurobiology student at UC Irvine, I believe that this film helps me to ...

Definition of Community-Identification and History

Jersey City is in the Hudson County of New Jersey State and it part of the New York metropolitan. It is the largest and the capital the City of Hudson County, and the second largest city in New Jersey. The history of the city runs back to the 17th century when it was inhabited by the Lenape people, an East Asian community that migrated to the Unites States. Jersey City acts as a transit center for manufacturing companies in New York due to the availability of the waterfront, and the population is highly mixed as a result of a ...

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Abraham Maslow hierarchy of needs and Herzberg Two-Factor theory are some of the motivation theories that underlie the switch to the new scheduling system at Montego Bay. Abraham Maslow Hierarchy of needs postulates that human beings have a set of five needs arranged in a definite order with three low-level level needs (physiological needs, safety needs, and social needs) and two high-level needs (esteem needs and self actualization needs) (Griffin, 2016). The scheduling system generates work schedules based on the daily performance metrics. Consequently, employees like Sylvia find themselves with lesser hours with which they are not able to ...

There are two stories that Harper Lee had written over the years that portrayed a child’s life into adulthood. The two stories reflect each other in a sense of experiences throughout the character’s life. The two stories focus on a girl who grew up with an unrealistic view of her father. The two novels interact with each other from child to adult point of view. The two books that will be discussed involved To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman. The author displays a unique comparison between the two novels. Harper relates the child’s ...

The problem of terrorism is one of the most dangerous and prevalent in today's society. Over the past decade, the actions of terrorist organizations have reached a new level. The attacks occur more often, while it becomes more and more difficult to find the perpetrators of the attacks. Terrorism has become a global problem, and it threatens more and more people with each passing day. The US government and a number of leading European countries introduce various technical and design elaborations to combat international terrorism. Today it is possible to prevent the increasing number of terrorist attacks by means ...

When a person does a thing that can help many people, he or she is remembered even after he or she is dead. Many people like Harriet Tubman are always remembered for what they did when they were alive. To those who do not have a clue as to who Harriet Tubman was, she was a woman who faced many challenges from when she was a child to the point when she was an adult; however, she helped many people despite the challenges. Araminta Ross was the name that Tubman was given just after she was born. She was ...

Communication is not typically simple as what the mass think. The opinion that persons offer is significant because using language is learned social behavior. Furthermore, the mode in which individuals talk and listen are significantly experienced by cultural exchange. Sometimes individuals might think that their ways of passing the message are natural and evaluate others as if they necessarily felt the same we would feel if we spoke the way we did (Tannen 138).

What happens when a black man and a white woman speak for each other?

Darius Simpson & Scout Bostley’s poetry slam performance “Lost Voices” gives recognition to both the silent women & black men. In addition, the poem demon states ...

Peyton Farquhar is trapped by a Union soldier who, dressed like a Confederate soldier, influences him into committing the act of sabotaging the Owl Creek Bridge to prevent the advancement of the Union forces into the South. Why does the Scout visit the Farquhar estate disguising himself as a Confederate? The third person narrative portrays the feeling of Peyton as he is ready to hang under the very bridge he tried to sabotage to control the expansion of the Union army in the South. The soldier appears in the Farquhar grounds for a drink of water and reveals Peyton ...

As a member of the scouting organization, there is a lot of fun, challenging activities, as well as unique experiences. Such activities include kayaking, climbing, and zorbing. There is also learning of survival skills, first aid, and computer programming. It has enabled the children to develop skills in teamwork, time management, initiative, planning, leadership, and communication. However, these are only possible with an effective scout leadership. Leadership is the process in which a person has direct or indirect influence on others or the goals of an organization (Day, 2014). Two aspects of leadership are critical in identifying a leader ...

Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of Scout Finch, the six year old daughter of Atticus Finch, a strong father, a virtuous lawyer and the defender of Tom Robinson. Scout grows up in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s, among the other interesting and entertaining people in the town. Going through her life and growing up with her friends, she learns many lessons from her father and the town itself. Much like Atticus with Scout, this book is incredibly important because of its teachings of morality and virtue; the book teaches the ...

Illinois is a Midwestern state with its headquarters in Springfield. The largest city in the state is Chicago. The population of the state according to 2014 figures is approximately 12.5 million residents, which make it the fifth largest state in terms of population. Chicago, the largest city in the state also boasts the third highest city population in the United States behind New York and Los Angeles. As mentioned, Springfield is the seat of government with the Illinois state capitol located in downtown Springfield. The state is largely balanced politically with both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party almost ...

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Background of the Hospitality Pioneer There are a large number of prominent pioneers/leaders who changed the face of the hospitality and tourism industry. These leaders have either introduced something new to the tourism and hospitality sector or improved the existing practices in the industry. The lodging pioneers such as J.W Bill Marriott, Cesar Ritz, and Steve A. Wynn and food and beverage/club pioneers like Howard Schultz have made invaluable contributions to the hospitality and tourism industry. The following part discusses the background of these four hospitality pioneers.

J.W Bill Marriott

John Willard Bill Marriott Jr. is an American lodging ...

Children, as our messengers into the future we will not be able to experience, are our most valuable resource. Hence, the serious threat juvenile delinquents pose to the current and future safety of the American society. Debates have aroused about parents’ legal responsibility for their minor children’s behavior, both civil and criminal. So far, there are laws established that hold parents only civilly liable, like the Parent Liability Child’s act, where the parent’s obligation is to pay, depending on the State’s maximum monetary amount, for damage done by their minor children until they reach the ...

Reaction to articles

Federal judge strikes down Michigan’s gay marriage ban. By Paresh Dave, 4:12 PM PDT, March 21, 2014. http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-michigan-gay-marriage-20140321,0,418570,print.story The article depicts the striking down the ban on gay marriage. Bernard Friedman, the U.S. District judge, so it unconstitutional and it was time to give liberty to a lesbian couple in Michigan-the right for marriage. But the couple must have lived together for eight years. The judge also hoped that the children of same-sex couples will mature up with admiration for their families and comprehend that they are no diverse than other families in their ...

Literature Review

Sexuality and gender are social constructs, which may differ depending on the norms of society (Reis & Carothers, 2014). In a heterocentric society, certain attributes are reserved to describe either male or female individuals, with characteristics such as aggressive and strong being relegated to males and women being considered as more caring and emotional (Reis & Carothers, 2014). However, not all individuals fit neatly within the categories dictated by society and the challenges of individuals who are treated as “outliers” of society’s norm can be overwhelming, leading to emotional and physical distress, bullying, and social inequalities that have the ability to impact ...

Any time I watch Hoops Dreams I always conclude that this is the best documentary of all times. It is a film that is rich of heart breakings, complexities and ultimately deep rewarding ending. The co-director who also sums up as the producer, Steve James, brilliantly uses high school hoops to explore societal issues affecting the African-Americans such as class, race and access to quality education in the modern America. The storyline for this film is so theatrical and captivating to the point of appearing to be crafted from fiction. It follows the careers of two high school boys, William ...

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a highly influential American novel for many reasons, not the least of which is the compelling, well-drawn and uniquely American character of Atticus Finch. A strong, paternal presence to his family and his community, Atticus is highly principled, hard-working and dedicated to a sincere sense of justice. Both in his parenting of Scout and his defense of Tom Robinson, Atticus’ virtue is shown throughout. While America may not always live up to the standards Atticus Finch himself sets, he represents a set of ideals that America hopes to strive towards, including equality, fairness and standing up ...

There are two scenarios. In one, a coworker asks me to become involved with an herbal health supplement home business. In the other, a coworker asks me to buy Girl Scout cookies. While these incidences may seem similar on the surface, they are very different, on further inspection. Selling herbal health supplements with a coworker is a breach of personal (and possibly ethical) conduct. Buying Girl Scout cookies is a benign action. Herbal health supplements may or may not actually help the people who take them. These supplements often aren’t regulated the same as other types of over the counter medications, and ...

What concepts did the match game illustrate?

Alex Rogo invented the match game in order to create the ideal system describing the dependent events and statistical fluctuations in the manufacturing plant. He imagined that the bowl is the resource and the amount of the matches in the bowl is the capacity of each resource, in the actual plant it is the capacity of the certain worker. The match game had shown that the more chains are involved in the process the more the system is balanced and the less is the range of statistical fluctuations. There is certain planned output for each plant. According the ...

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Battle Analysis of the Battle of Little Bighorn Introduction: Battle of Little Bighorn was a battle between the combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and the Arapaho tribes, against 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, which took place on June 25-26, 1876 at the River Little Bighorn, Montana. Seventh Cavalry Army was based on 647 troopers, including, 31 officers, 566 personnels, and 35 Indian scouts. Number of soldiers killed in this Battled are counted as 268, including 16 officers and 242 troopers. Approximately 100, Indians were killed in the War, this number is conflicting in historical ...

Introduction

Nelle Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird, thrived in an era in which racial injustice against African-Americans flourished. To Kill a Mockingbird drew several references from the life of Harper Lee, whose father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was a lawyer and state legislator of Alabama who once served in the defense of two African-Americans (the Scottsboros) accused of murder. Rotating around themes of racial injustice, class and gender issues, To Kill a Mockingbird stood as a heavy social critique by Harper Lee against American society, which was undergoing turbulent changes such as the African-American civil rights movement that coincided with ...

US History

In 2012, critical acclaim, academy awards, and millions of box-office of dollars went towards the film Argo.1 A movie about the Middle East and terrorism, Argo touches upon this familiar topic in the United States. The film portrays a segment of the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979-1981; a tense period of 444 days in which fifty-three American hostages were seized from the American Embassy in Tehran.2 Argo chooses to ignore those fifty-three victims, and focuses on the successful escape of six Americans from the embassy in November 1979. Tony Mendez, the CIA operative who came up with the ridiculous, yet successful ...

Christopher Columbus and Leif Ericsson

Every year on October 12, inhabitants of the Americas celebrate one of the greatest event in history – the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. Norseman Leif Ericsson was the one who with at least 35 men on boat hit the beach of America five hundred years prior to Christopher Columbus. The connection is the Americas, its discovery.

Benjamin Franklin and Richard Saunders

Benjamin Franklin and Richard Saunders relate to one person – one of the founding fathers of the United States of America – Benjamin Franklin. The connection is the “Poor Richard's Almanac” published between 1732 and 1758.

Mary Dyer and Richard Nixon

Mary Dyer, English Puritan, who joined the Quakers, ...

Just like any other child in the village, I grew up with great element of enthusiasm and optimism to face the future. After school I spent most of time in the playground with other kids because I was the only kid in my family and could not play some childish games with my parents: I needed that child filled environment with the noise and all sorts of games. I was brought up by my two parents who I knew from childhood as daddy and mummy. They were too compassionate and caring and they provided me with every material and ...

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The state Appeals Court of New Jersey found in favour of a gay scout who had been excluded from the state’s boy scout association on the basis of his sexual orientation. This was later overturned by the Supreme Court in a majority opinion written by the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist who stated for the majority that if someone whose sexual orientation destabilizes the operation of an organization then that organization has a right to exclude him/her from the group. Ina minority opinion Justice John Paul Stevens ruled that the decision was a violation of civil rights and was discriminatory based on ...

A literary analysis

A literary analysis

Introduction

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is one of the earliest of T.S Eliot’s works, published in 1915 (Sparknotes, 2013). This poem has been perceived by different reviewers differently. Several poets, readers and reviewers did not approve of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as a piece of good poetry. Newspaper columnist and radio host, Garrison Keillor has criticised the poem as follows: “This poem pretty much killed off the pleasure of poetry for millions of people who got dragged through it in high school (‘The Old Scout’, 2007)”. Many poets consider this poem ...

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a book by Harper Lee, which was first published in 1960. The author lived during a civil rights movement era. During this period, there were high racial tensions especially in the south where Lee resided. She is a white female writer who was anti-racism. It is through the experience she had and what she saw that inspired her to write the novel. The aim of the novel was to highlight some of the challenges that blacks faced at the height of racism and civil wars. However, she is also informing the audience that despite the looming racism, there ...

Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of Scout Finch, the six year old daughter of Atticus Finch, a strong father, a virtuous lawyer and the defender of Tom Robinson. Scout grows up in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s, among the other interesting and entertaining people in the town. Going through her life and growing up with her friends, she learns many lessons from her father and the town itself. Much like Atticus with Scout, this book is incredibly important because of its teachings of morality and virtue; the book teaches the importance ...

There are two radically different and competing versions of family and community in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. One of these is the semi-feudal status quo of rigid divisions by race, gender, caste and social class and the other a more democratic, integrated and humane community of the future symbolized by Atticus Finch, his children and supporters. Broadly speaking, these two conflicting ideologies are not simply taking place in the small, fictional community of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. They are in conflict throughout the entire country and perhaps the world, and are not confined to one particular ...

Introduction

Movie review is a very important aspect of a movie as it gives a general information about a given movie and we can be able to understand what people think about a given movie. In this part we are going to cover a movie review on Trouble with the curve. We will then compare two reviews and establish the similarities and the differences between the two reviews. Trouble with the curve is a smooth and a successful family resolution drama that is set against the background of expert baseball. The film presents a sprightlier and a more consistent Eastwood than the furniture whisperer. There are several reviews of ...

Blacks live in complete poverty in Maycomb and have hardly any rights at all, but most of the whites are also poor, and the whole county is basically backward and marginalized, especially because of the Great Depression. Most of the whites do not even have money to pay the legal bills that they owe Atticus, but in compensation they do have a sense of racial superiority over the blacks, who are even poorer and more degraded than they are. That someone like Atticus even exists there is highly surprising, although he has no real chance of changing system as it ...

PART A

Question 1 Atticus Finch, although belonging to the white community, defends Tom Robinson, a subjugated black who stands of raping a white woman. Through his actions, Finch promotes equality and liberty, having a simple purpose of having justice served, regardless of race. However, he is opposed by the accusers; Mayella and her father Bob Ewell, while other members of the white community term him a "nigger-lover". In the novel, Bob Ewell is portrayed as a villain. His disregard for other human beings and his uncaring attitude towards his own family reveal that he is a man of limited values. It is his hatred ...

Richard Angelo and the Ethics of Self-Delusion

THE ‘ANGEL OF DEATH’ Abstract

Charge nurse Richard Angelo was responsible for the deaths of at least 10 patients at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, New York, between 1986 and 1989. A former Eagle Scout and volunteer fireman, Angelo sought to create situations in which he would be seen to revive patients he had brought to the brink of death by injecting them with lethal paralytic drugs. As such, Angelo violated his professional ethics on multiple levels and called into question the very nature of the patient-nurse compact. The Angelo case, and others like it, elicited a reassessment ...

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“To kill a mockingbird” is a luminous piece of literary work by Ms. Nelle Harper Lee. The novel was written in the year of 1960 wherein author portrays her childhood memories beautifully in the novel. The theme of the novel revolves around some serious issues including racism, rape, gender, audacity, empathy and inequality in American Lower South. The characters depicted in the novel are inspired by author’s family members and neighbors. The lead character Scout Finch is inspired by her father Atticus Finch. The Novel carries lot of humor and tenderness regardless of serious issues. The work done by author ...

Book Review: To Kill A Mocking Bird

The main reason for using the title “To Kill a mockingbird” is to bring out the theme of innocence. The mockingbird though small, is renowned for its ability to mimic the sounds produced by other animals. The bird innocently sings in the trees near houses and can at times be irritating which prompts people to kill it. However, the bird, just like any other animal is always innocent.

The central story in the novel concerns a black man (Tom Robinson) who had been unjustly accused of rape. In spite of insufficient circumstantial evidence, the courts are prejudiced and convict Tom of ...

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Harper Lee’s classic novel is built on two main themes, racial injustice and the disruption of innocence which are skillfully interwoven together to create a complex web of intricacies that continually develop throughout the book. The theme of racial discrimination is rampant in the old Southern town of Maycomb in Alabama which positively reeks with the heat of injustice. However Lee is interesting in the sense that she manages to create a link between the innocence of children who do not think about racism in their heart of hearts but can observe it first hand through the noble doings ...

Introduction

Over the 20th Century the New York Yankees have proven to be the most successful franchise in professional sports because their dominating players and their overall work ethic to success. The Yankees have made immense contributions to sports. Over the years, the Yankees have continued to remain relevant and even after their demise, their legacy still lives on. Among the most celebrated Yankees are Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe Dimaggio, Marino Rivera, and Derek Jeter. Below are biographies of these baseball players.

Babe Ruth

Ruth was born on February 6, 1895, in Baltimore. Only Ruth and one sister survived infancy. His ...

Atticus is a reputed citizen and he is a very good lawyer. He is very tolerant person and a humble human being who satisfies several queries of others and believes in helping other people. Atticus As father of Jem and scout pays his responsibilities in a proper manner. He inspires them to study, satisfies their queries and on the other hand, is always ready to help others in his social life. When his daughter scout refuses to go to school, Atticus not like other parents, merely tells him that she has to go to school but he patiently listens her and ask ...

Abstract

The coming of age novel To Kill a Mockingbird ,by Harper Lee uses her experience as Southerner to examine the ethical issues during the great depression taking the readers to a time when discrimination dominant.Setting the story in the southern town of Maycomb country, where the story is viewed through the eyes of a young girl trying to learn that life is a blur of good and bad. Through the innocence of Scout, Harper Lee presents the varying aspects of intolerance and racism evoking the vivid racial discrimination around the melodramatic town of Maycomb; provoking the distinctive characters to challenge their values to ...

Introduction

The case of Boy Scouts of America (BSA) v. Dale was a controversial case decided in 2000. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the unanimous decision by the New Jersey Court and ruled that because the Boy Scouts association was a private organization it had constitutional tight to remove openly gay persons from leadership positions. The petitioners in this case were the BSA and their Monmouth Council. The organization was a private non-profit making whose work was to instill values in the youth. This organization emphasizes that homosexuality is not consistent with the values it aims at instilling. The respondent in this case ...

‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” starts with Peyton Farquhar standing on bridge, with his hands tied behind his back and a noose around his neck. His execution is near and he diverts himself from reality and focuses on his imagination in which he is with his wife and children. Again he opens his eyes and sees driftwood in water below. Soon he imagines himself as the driftwood floating and escaping from water, away from his executioners and near his home. He finds his way home, travel throughout the day and when he is about to embrace his wife, the ...

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The individual nominated for this life-story interview is AJ. He is a family friend who was born in Alexandria in Egypt. He was born on the ninth day of November in the year 1956 thus making him 54 years old. He currently resides in Waterbury, CT with his wife of 19 years. He is also blessed with three children with whom He lives with: 16 years old, 12 years old, and 10 years old. However, unfortunately, he could have had four children since he lost a daughter at a tender age of 4 days and if she were alive today, she could ...