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Kill A Mockingbird Jem And Scout
1,430 wordsDiscrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. " Martin Luther King, Jr. , speech, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a classic novel that takes place during the 1930 s where we are introduced to the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, in which there was prejudice and ste...
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Los Angeles Police Los Angeles Times
2,973 wordsThough sparked by the Rodney King verdict, there were many other causes of the riots that erupted on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The Los Angeles riots in 1992 were devastating. The obvious issue portrayed through the media was black versus white. If you did not live in Los Angeles or California chances are you did not hear full coverage of the story, you heard a simple cut and dry portrayal of the events in South Central. If you heard one thing about the riots, it was that ther...
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Central Los Angeles South Central Los
1,312 wordsBelieve it or not, Los Angeles was just waiting for an event like the Rodney King verdict to explode. All that was needed was that one spark to ignite the anger in the citizens of South Central and cause the area to explode. One of the recent and most significant riots took place on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The case was controversial because Rodney King was a black male beaten with excessive force by four white Los Angeles police officers. The not guilty verdict of the four ...
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Kill A Mockingbird Boo Radley
1,136 wordsThe movie To Kill A Mockingbird is based on the novel by Harper Lee. The movie was directed by Robert Mulligan and produced by Alan J. Paul. The main characters were Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch), Phillip Alford (Jem), Mary Badham (Scout), John Media (Dill), Brock Peters (Tom Robinson), Collin Wilcox (Mayella Ewell) and Robert Duvall as Boo Radley. The film begins with Scout, as an adult, looking back and narrating the events that took place in a small Georgia town in 1932 when she was only six y...
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Guilty Verdict Fair Trial
458 wordsFalsified System The adversarial system of our country is that whoever presents the best case wins the trial. This means that it is possible for an innocent person to be convicted of a crime that they did not commit. However, there is a saying in America, and it go like this: We d rather have 10 guilty people go free, and have 1 innocent person be convicted (Mr. Perse, 4 th period Law). Throughout the movie, the boys right to a fair trial was taken away, violating his Constitutional rights. 12 A...
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