"Good Country People" is set in the mid -twentieth century American South.  How is it significant in the plot?
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at the end of the civil war the gentry wasn't treated like they used to be. a good name meant nothing. no one cared. they are just bumpkins now.
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Country music tends to be songs about real life. For more info see:\nhttp://www.roughstock.com/history \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music \nhttp://www.geocities.com/ddriver41\nhttp://countrymusic.about.com/od/history
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Writing that explores the customs and landscape of a region of the United States.
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Rabbit Proof Fence\nIn 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.\n\nPinky\nPinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school.\n\nImitation of Life\nIn 1947 at Coney Island, down-on-her-luck actress Lora Meredith and her young daughter Susie meet coloured Annie Johnson and her daughter Sarah Jane... \n\nBlack like me\nBlack Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man. John.\n\nBeloved\nBased on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by a very odd stranger.\n\nThe Tuskegee Airmen (1995)\nThe true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II\n\n\nThe Birth of a Nation\nTwo brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection to major historical events, like the development of the Civil War itself, Lincoln's assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.\n\n\nBooks\n\n'Destined to Witness : Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany'...\n\nMassaquoi, the retired managing editor of Ebony, presents an unusual perspective on the Nazi era. The son of an "Aryan" mother and an African diplomat, he grew up in Germany on the wrong side of Nazi racial ideology, confronting not only the bigotry of his countrymen but the danger of Allied bombs on a nearly daily basis.\n\n\n'Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945: The Untold Truth!'\n\nIn the 1890s Blacks were tortured in German concentration camps in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) when Adolph Hitler was only a child. Colonial German doctors conducted unspeakable medical experiments on these emaciated helpless Africans decades before such atrocities were ever visited upon the Jews.\nThousands of Africans were massacred. Regrettably, historians neglected to properly register the slaughter—that is, to lift it from the footnote in history that it had been relegated to—until now.\nIn an attempt to give the incidents their rightful recognition in the historical context of the Holocaust, Dr. Firpo W. Carr has authored a new book entitled, Germany’s Black Holocaust: 1890–1945. In it, he reveals the startling hidden history of Black victims of the Holocaust. The mayhem and carnage date back to the turn of the 20th century, many years before there were ever any other unfortunate victims—Jew or Gentile—of the Holocaust. \n \n\n'The Other Victims : First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis'...\nThe author of Escape or Die sought survivors of other groups deemed undesirable by Hitler, including blacks, clergy, Jehovah's Witnesses, Poles, political prisoners, Gypsies (the only other group Hitler wanted to eliminate entirely) and homosexuals (very few survive and none could be found to interview). Suspenseful vignettes are enlivened by historical background, dialogue, and a not-always happy yet satisfying afterword, telling what eventually happened to each individual. Valiant efforts in the face of total degradation are nothing short of inspiring, and many of these stories are not widely known
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When are you talking about?\n\nFor example, the St. Valentines Day Massacre (gang slaying) took place in Chicago during the depression.  Really fun research into that one -- lots of movies on it too!\n\nGoing back further, there were Mormon massacres in Nauvoo, IL in the 1840s.  Is that what you are talking about?  Less available on this, but you can read "Nauvoo, Kingdom on Mississippi" by Robert Bruce Flanders.\n\nThere have been lots of massacres in Illinois.  How far back are you talking, and what is the subject?
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50's and 60's and old and new country.
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The country music is troubled by the same social problems for decades: whiskey drinking guys, unfaithful wives, traffic on the interstate highways, and really funny song names.\n\nLately it is also troubled by the terrorists, however the country singers didn't even like New York and New Yorkers to begin with. I wonder why do they care.
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I would also like to know the same thing... but at one point they mentioned a town in North Carolina... and Joy does have a southern accent in the show. Who knows???
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The Tension Between Urban and Rural Society: Alan Paton uses the conflict between urban and rural society and the various qualities they represent as a major theme of the novel. For Paton, rural life is best exemplified by Stephen Kumalo and his personality, while urban life is best exemplified by John Kumalo. Paton clearly places his sympathy on the qualities of rural life: rural society comes to represent family, religion, morality and stability, while the chaotic urban life that Paton describes represents the breaking up of families, hedonism, and atheism. Paton also illustrates this theme through the development of several characters in the novel: the literal move of characters such as the pregnant girl to rural life in Ndotsheni represents a change to a greater moral sense, while the most corrupt character in the novel, John Kumalo, is fully enmeshed in urban Johannesburg society.
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Well that is complex. But to start off before the war. The north and the south differed greatly. The south was a farming area(mostly very labor intensive products like cotton) hence the need for slavery in the south's eyes. Where the north was mostly industrial compared to the south. So more machines and less hand labor. The reason this is important is because a factory can be rebuild. But farm land takes a lot of money to redo and a lot of time to start producing again. Well after the war the South lost its way of life and it lost it way of surviving. After the war the south was pretty well destroyed.  The farms and there crops were gone burned, destroyed, or used by the union forces. Also after the war the south was occupied by northern troops for many years to come. But southern people at the time also believed they were right on the issue of slavery. That is part of the reason the civil war happened. But basically it all of this combined as to why I believe the south is still hung up on the civil war.
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The skull with the cowboy hat is a symbol of the CSA or Confederate States of America....When you hear someone say "The South Shall Rise Again", this is generally the organization they're talking about, which has also been connected to the Ku Klux Klan and more than one group of fascist neo-Nazis.  Several bands have also used this image to sell albums including Lynard Skinard, Pantera and Guns & Roses.  Eventhough SOME of their music can be 'southern rock', they have not been connected to the CSA or any of the other groups mentioned. \nHope I helped!
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By "good" I am going to assume you mean well-written. You want this to draw in your readers so they can identify with or feel emotion towards your characters and the situations that they are in.\n\nYou want memorable characters so people don't forget them.
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Again, this is one of those dumb questions, but everyone has their own answers.  I think that this one might get some ANSWERS, like you did. It shows that people think the southern states are full of dirty redneck, hillbilly,pipe-smokin', sittin on the front porch, doing nothing but keepin the women barefoot and pregnant in the kithen, cookin up supper, that was caught by the men folk, so they can sit and drink their moonshine.  But, I guess it is no different than the big city people are considered to be killers next door as your neighbor, no street safe to walk down because the drive by shootings by people who probably does not work, but thinks they rule a territory, probably owned by their parents. And, a good job, is standing on the corner,lol. We all have answers.  But, hey, I've try not to judge a person by the way they part their hair, their size, or the color of their skin, because I know I'm not perfect, I don't want to judges seat.
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There was a hugh fear of communism in the '50s and you could write about McCarthyism and the blaclisting of actors in Hollywood during this period.  The movie about Edward Murrow "Good Night and Good Luck" would explain more on this subject.\n\nAlso, in the fifties the nuclear family was the "norm" and people tried to be like "Ozzie and Harriet" - the perfect family.  That could be another essay.\n\nOr the economic advantages of the generation in the 50s, where homes and cars were affordable, and these families went up within the middle class.\n\nBest wishes.
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It has its roots in running moonshine and most of the races are in the south. enough said. But, Im a huge Mark Martin fan and not a redneck.
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yes,I have read it!!\njoney,                   \ntom,     It took place in the catskill moutains around 1967\nbilly,     \nann,and\ngrandma billybob,I know strage names!!
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"Bacwood"? You have a pretty big set, insulting other people's intelligence when you apparently can't find the little "Check Spelling" button Yahoo provides. \n\nThe Midwest tends to share more values with the south than with the coasts. If you want to slam an entire region of the country, at least get your facts straight. \n\nAnd us "redneck hicks" in Alaska would LOVE to divorce ourselves from the "values" of the coasts - I'll bet the south feels the same way.