Jem and Scout consider Atticus to be inadequate as a father. They are acting somewhat childish, they don’t realise that they are wrong, Atticus is a good father. Atticus is a fantastic Role model for Jem and Scout; he is patient, caring and highly respected by the Maycomb community. Atticus teaches Jem and Scout about morals and values. He guides them with everyday lessons on life.\nAtticus is an excellent role model to his children; Jem and Scout. When Atticus explained to Scout that he would be defending a Negro, Scout asked him, “Why are you doing it?” Atticus Replied “For a number of reasons”, “The main ones is if I didn’t I couldn’t hold my head up in this town, I couldn’t represent this country in legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem no to do something again.” (Pg 81)\nThis shows that Atticus is a fine role model as he is representing that he isn’t racist, he will defend Negroes and respect them also. .
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Hi,\nthe evidence you give is OK but there are billions of more examples. Here are some.\n1. Atticus' modesty: read the chapter about the dog shooting again and Jem's final words.\n\n2. Atticus' direct answers to direct questions 'what's rape?'\n\n3. His reasonable strictures: 'leave the Radleys alone'\n\n4. The way he makes Scout read to Miss Dubose and see an example of 'true bravery'\n\n5. 'turning the other cheek' when spat uopn by Ewell\n\nAll these can be reflected against the main event which is of course Tom's trial. \n\nAtticus is a father who gives his children an example in life: a way of life that shows it is wrong to persecute, be prejudiced, and that it is right to be modest, discreet and to stand up against oppression of the underdog, \n\nIn short he shows his children that it is a sin to kill a monckingbird, and no one can ask anymore than that surely as an example?\n\nDan
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ok. in the bible God mainly choose the bad boys to do his work. God choose these people becuase first off they could better understand the sins of others. Second of all the work of God was not easy he needed hardened characters to toughen things out and get the job done.\nthird of all the bad boys could serve as an example onto others. What a powerfull tool to have a sinner made whole and then to teach the love and forgiveness of the bible.\n\nas a reverand i find it touching when an x-felon or addict turns his life around and teaches about the saving grace of christ!
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Haha,I just did an essay on it.....\nBut,it's wrong to claim someone else's essay as your own,so I can't write it for you.\nI can give you some pointers,though.\n\nWell,you can write on Tom Robinson(in general), write about Francis's and Aunt Alexandra's reaction to Atticus taking the case,about Cecil Jacob's fight with Scout.You can write about the fact that Negroes and whites sit in different places in the courtroom.\n\nThe whole book is practically all about racism,so it won't be hard AT ALL to find quotes and evidence.Good luck :)
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Yes i do know him, but all to well. He was the one who came up with the idea of how to control blacks. This is what is meant by black following that old slave masters plan. People say that blacks should forget the past and move on. Black have move on, but they still follow his plan, by forgetting the past.\n\nHis plan was genius that the only reason they could control them for so long. His plan was to control them mentally, by cause them to enslave each other. If blacks knew this they would stop the habit that are hurting them. just because they know they are following the slave masters plan.
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Oh my goodness!  I can't believe parents still haven't taught their kids not to bully others.  Has everyone forgotten Columbine?  Anyway, John shouldn't have to put up with all that crap.  He has done everything in his power, without resorting to violence, to stop those idiots.  Now I think he has to fight back.  If the teacher, parents and other adults in his school know about this, and are powerless (obviously!) to stop it, then he needs to protect himself.  He needs to prove to them that he can also give, not just receive.  I feel awkward advising this, but it worked for me in the 2nd grade, so hopefully it'll work for him.
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Fathers that you speak of is sorry men. A real man takes care of his children. He speak into their lives and guide them so that they will be successful in life. He sees things in them others don't see. I have two sons and they mean the world to me.
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I have one son in private and one in public. The one in private has always been highly driven & motivated in school and an excellent student.  The other son has never cared too much for school and just gets by. So, I decided to only send the older one to private school for the high school years.  The younger is in public school and I think this had been a relief for him. The pressure of private school is difficult.  It's very expensive and demanding.  I felt it was important to not set my younger son up for failure and it iseems to have worked out as the best decision. The older son thrived in high school and the younger one is now beginning to apply himself. Kids (even from the same parents are so different).  I think it is importsnt to give them what they need and it is okay if it is something different for each one.
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The first link is excellent and I will include some things from it.  It also offers the observation that throughout history, "disliked minority groups" have been stereotyped as a threat to society's most vulnerable members, from the Middle Ages when Jews were accused of murdering Christian babies in ritual sacrifice to the "threat" Black men posed to White women.\n\nThe study most often quoted as demonstrating that homosexual men were more likely to molest children was done by Paul Cameron.  Cameron, however, misrepresented all male-male molestation as being commited by homosexuals   He also went so far as to claim that male to female molesters were often bisexual, and "misquoted" (lied) about other studies in order to skew his data further.   \n \nIt goes on to list two other studies including a study by Dr. Carole Jenny which showed that in the  352 emeregency room cases she studied, the molester was a gay or lesbian adult in only 2 of the 269 cases in which an adult molester could be identified – fewer than 1%.\n\nI wish I could find the study that shows that something like 80% of male-male child molesters are in a sexual relationship with the boys' mothers, and I hesitate to quote that much, but it's such a good stat.
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summary:\n\nScout (Jean Louise) Finch lives with her brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, in the sleepy Alabama county of Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a prominent lawyer and the Finch family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of society. One summer, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Charles Baker Harris (Dill), who has come to live in their neighborhood for the summer, and the trio acts out stories together. Eventually, Dill becomes fascinated with the spooky house on their street called the Radley Place. The house is owned by Mr. Nathan Radley, whose brother, Arthur (nicknamed Boo), has lived there for years without venturing outside in daylight.\n\nScout goes to school for the first time that fall and detests it. She and Jem find gifts apparently left for them in a knothole of a tree on the Radley property. Dill returns the following summer, and he, Scout, and Jem begin to act out the story of Boo Radley. Atticus puts a stop to their antics, urging the children to try to see life from another person’s perspective before making judgments. But, on Dill’s last night in Maycomb for the summer, the three sneak onto the Radley property, where Nathan Radley shoots at them. Jem loses his pants in the ensuing escape. When he returns for them, he finds them mended and hung over the fence. The next winter, Jem and Scout find more presents in the tree, presumably left by the mysterious Boo. Nathan Radley eventually plugs the knothole with cement.\n\nTo the consternation of Maycomb’s racist white community, Atticus agrees to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who has been accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Because of Atticus’s decision, Jem and Scout are subjected to abuse from other children, even when they celebrate Christmas at the family compound on Finch’s Landing. Calpurnia, the Finches’ black cook, takes them to the local black church, where the warm and close-knit community largely embraces the children.\n\nAtticus’s sister, Alexandria, comes to live with the Finches the next summer. Dill, who is supposed to live with his “new father” in another town, runs away and comes to Maycomb. Tom Robinson’s trial begins, and when the accused man is placed in the local jail, a mob gathers to lynch him. Atticus faces the mob down the night before the trial. Jem, Dill, and Scout, who snuck out of the house, soon join him. Scout recognizes one of the men, and her polite questioning about his son shames him into dispersing the mob.\n\nAt the trial itself, the children sit in the “colored balcony” with the town’s black citizens. Atticus provides clear evidence that the accusers, Mayella Ewell and her father, Bob, are lying: in fact, Mayella propositioned Tom Robinson, was caught by her father, and then accused Tom of rape to cover her shame and guilt. Atticus provides impressive evidence that the marks on Mayella’s face are from wounds that her father inflicted; upon discovering her with Tom, he called her a whore and beat her. Yet, despite the significant evidence pointing to Tom’s innocence, the all-white jury convicts him. The innocent Tom later tries to escape from prison and is shot to death (though it might be that he tried to escape so he could get shot deliberately because he wanted to die looking like a hero. However, in the book, it is said that he could've escaped if he had two good arms instead of one). In the aftermath of the trial, Jem’s faith in justice is badly shaken, and he lapses into despondency and doubt.\n\nDespite the verdict, Bob Ewell feels that Atticus and the judge have made a fool out of him, and he vows revenge. He menaces Tom Robinson’s widow, tries to break into the judge’s house, and finally attacks Jem and Scout as they walk home from a halloween pageant at their school. Boo Radley intervenes, however, saving the children. Atticus at first believes that Jem fatally stabbed Mr. Ewell in the struggle.
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Can you be more specific? What question are you asking? If it is about a son who is 23, but is living on welfare and food stamps, while many young men are fighting for their country, remember he learned from the people who raised him, his values, his morals and his actions were taught.... \nNo where in any piece of literature does it say that life is fair. We all have to make choices. Instead of judging other peoples choices, perhaps we need to judge our own in order to better understand someone else's choice.
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He is an idiot, but aren't we all sometimes? He's done some bad things, but he'll be out soon. \n\nPS. In Yale and Harvard or whatever he went to, he made a good solid C average (which an idiot can and apparently does make), his daddy was the only reason he was able to even get into either school because he gave them very nice donations (I mean look at all the pseudo-celebs who get into places like Harvard and Yale, I doubt it was because of a killer SAT score). What did W excell in? Well, I hear he was a great cheerleader. \npss. I'm in Texas and voted for Kerry even though I knew it was hopeless here, and I was very very right. \n\nAnd IQ tests are generally valid depending on which one you take. Taking online ones are usually not a good reference, but if you were to call up a psychologist or someone in that area and ask to be tested for IQ, they would probably have a much more accurate version. I would also look into MENSA, the orginization that accepts extraordinarily smart people based on their IQ score and how many standard deviations they are from the normal score of 100. It's also used to pick out mentally retarded children when tested early on in their school year, and are usually considered to be retarded with a score of 70-75 and below. To be of genius status, or at least very much above average status, you usually need about a 130, I think MENSA accepts people who have scores of about 150 or more.
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VERY GOOD. So true, and yet so many say He let them down when it was them that told him to leave.\n\nDo not listen to these degenerates that say it is not good. Honey Hod gave you a talent use it and do not listen to nay sayers.
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john proctor - at first he was afraid to tell everyone that abigail told him it wasn't about witchcraft, because she told him when they were alone together and he had no way to prove it except for confessing his fornication, which he was hesitant to do.  after realizing the severity of the situation, he confessed, giving up his pride.  later in the play, he decides to sign his name and confess to being a witch to save his life, because his honesty is already broken, but then his pride refuses to let him sign his name, and he refuses to blacken the names of martha corey and rebecca nurse by confessing, and dies with them as an honest person.  john proctor's pride is at first a hinderance, and by the end of the play is a beneficial.\n\nabigail williams - less multi-dimentional than john proctor, her pride is a hinderance throughout the entire play.  her pride is hurt when john rejects her, and being what he calls a "lump of vanity", she retaliates by accusing people of withcraft, eventually calling the name of john's wife elizabeth in hopes of sentencing her to death and being with john.  even when she is directly accused of lying, she lashes out and plays it up even more.\n\nreverand hale - uses the idea of pride to try and convince john proctor to confess to witchcraft, saying "it may be that God punishes less the man who lies to save his life than he who throws it away for pride" (or something similar...i forget the exact quote).
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this is not necessarily correct. It depends on their sentence most of the time, good behavior is nowadays rarely considered...if in NY\n\nJohn Jay College may have some links or the legal aid society.
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I have to agree with jannie you should be doing your own homework.  How else are you going to learn anything?\n\nThat being said:\n\n1.  External constraints cannot imprison someone whose spirit and thoughts are free. \n\n2. In this novel, Winnie Foster learns the importance of the life cycle and that it has a natural beauty and balance; that it should not be disturbed by human greed.  Tuck said "Good girl" because Winnie decided not to drink the water but to live her life as it was meant to be lived and to come it's natural conclusion.
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My father.  He is a preacher,and a special education teacher.  He cannot teach Christ at school, but he is retiring this year and somehow just by how he is all the notes from kids and teachers has commented how much they have learned about the love of Christ just by watching him as a person, a gentlemen, and how he deals with the events of every day.  That's success - letting Jesus shine through even when in an environment Jesus has been banned from.
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How can focusing on helping someone be unethical? I have seen the movie, and I found it incredibly touching that his parents were willing to do anything to help him. Yes they took a risk. But, what was the risk? He didn't have much quality of life, nor did he have much time left. Would you do any less? So if the risk was that they would cause more serious problems, how could they be any worse than what he was currently afflicted with?