struggle of the first quarter

Coming to the end of the first quarter of my junior year I have realized that I cant handle things the way im used to. Everything I have all ways had good grades for the most part. This year is going to be a lot harder just from the first quarter i can all so tell im not doing as good as im used to. I have been letting myself slip in school waiting last minute to do my homework and mostly my blogs and reading. I know that has to change now because if i don't change now i will continue to wait last minute. When i first started my junior year i thought my english class would be some what like it was my sorphmore class but i was wrong. We have less time to do are work and we have more work on top of work. My main struggle in english is reading when is comes to reading i just don't have the mind set to be able to site and read three or four chapters in a row. Im good when is come to my these but test and quiz taken i all so struggle because most of the time the test or quiz is from the book we are reading.Beside just worrying about english i all so worry about my other classes i heard junior year was the most hardest and important year of your life and they were not lying.

"Waiting on the World to Change"

I think that "Waiting on the World to Change" by John Mayer is an excellent example of a song that relates to. To Kill A Mockingbird because the The lyrics, which state: "Me and all my friends We're all misunderstood They say we stand for nothing and There's no way we ever could Now we see everything that's going wrong With the world and those who lead it We just feel like we don't have the means To rise above and beat it
So we keep waiting Waiting on the world to change We keep on waiting Waiting on the world to change. These could be the thoughts and words of Atticus who was waiting for the world around him to realize that it was wrong to judge a person based on their race.

justice (emmitt till)

Back in 1955 Emmett Till a 14-year-old African American boy was brutally murdered by a white man all because he whistled at his wife. Emmett Till did not get any justice until many years later. The case of Emmett Till is just like the case in the book To Kill A Mockingbird with Tom Roberson. Tom Roberson was a simple black man who worked on a white mans land who all so would help his daughter with other things. Than one day Tom Roberson was acutes of beating and raping his daughter when it was untrue. The only thing the people in the court room could see was a black man and a white women and they figured right away who and who was not guilty. Still till this day we have problames in the court room but we make the best of things because one day the truth will come out it all ways does

Brown v. bored of eductation

Segregation was a huge issue at this period of time. African American children were denied the rights promised in the Fourteenth Amendment by a majority of public schools. Arguments about this issue came from Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. Each case involved people representing African American children who were trying to obtain access to their local public schools without being denied because of their race. African American schools were suppose to equal to Caucasian school, but in reality, they were inferior. It was argued that the African American children were being sent a message that they were on a lower level than Caucasian children. The Board of Education argued that the segregation simply prepared the children for the segregation they would face in adulthood. The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision did not abolish segregation in public areas, such as restaurants and restrooms, and they did not require desegregation of public schools by a specific time.What it did do was declare the mandatory segregation that existed in 21 states unconstitutional. It was a small step towards complete desegregation of public schools, but it was a step in the right direction. still till this day brown v,  bored of Education is till used in many court cases. it shows that still today 2010 people are still being treated unfairly

what role does gossip play in to kill a mockingbrid that connests to doudt?

The clip from the movie Doubt relates to To Kill a Mockingbird in many ways. The priest tells a sermon about a woman who gossips and feels very bad about it so decides to go to confession and tell the priest her sins. The reason she begins to feel very bad about gossiping is because in her dream the hand of God was pointing down at her and she felt an over-whelming sense of guilt. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout and the rest of the residents in Maycomb would be the person/people who are gossiping and the person who she has been talked about would be Boo Radley. Gossiping plays a huge role in To Kill a Mockingbird by affecting the life of Boo Radley. Scout and everyone that talks about Boo Radley have made up stories saying or exaggerating stories heard about Boo Radley, making him seem like an insane person who eats squirrels and hurts people. Scout also made up a rumor that Boo Radley stabbed his father making everyone scared of Boo Radley and what he is capable of. People have also told stories that Boo Radley has died but during the novel you find out that he is not. After all the gossip that has been spread about him, no one really knows what is true about him anymore. He is really just trying to make a connection with the kids and trying to make a place for himself in the outside world. How everything said about someone spreads is explained in the Doubt clip by the priest using an analogy about a pillow and the feathers within the pillow. The priest tells the woman who is gossiping to go upon her roof and cut open a pillow and let all the feathers fly away and spread out to where she lives. After she tells the priest that she has done that the priest tells her to pick up every last feather. She tells him that it is not possible to retrieve every single feather and he tells her that that is gossip. He believes that gossip being the feather spreads all over and will never be able to be taken back. This is like how everything has spread about Boo Radley and it will never be able to be taken back. Every feather represents every rumor that has been spread about Boo Radley. You do not know where all the rumors about Boo Radley have spread just like all of the feathers. These words will never be able to be taken back because people told other people who then spread the stories to people they knew and now you do not know everyone that has heard a rumor about Boo Radley so you will never be able to take back everything that has been said. The people of Maycomb should do as the woman who had confessed to gossiping. They should stand on their roofs and cut up pillows and watch all of the feathers fly away. After doing this they would understand how the gossiping of Boo Radley can spread to everyone around them. Maybe if they realized how much all of the gossip affected his life they would not talk about him or spread any more stories about him anymore.

The Ways Of Harper Lees Life

  Harper Lee was boren on April, 28 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, the youngest of four children (three girls and a boy). harper lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning to kill a mockingbird her one and onley novel.She grew up in a small town as a tomboy. most of lees life her mother suffered from mental illness they believed it was bipolar disorder. Her father was a lawyer, a member of the Alabama state legislature. One of her closest childhood friends was Truman Persons who was picked on for being a sissy and for the fancy clothes he wore. so harper lee had to be his protector. The two were nothing alike however, they both had problems at home. Truman  was living with his mother's family as a result of being abandonded by his very own parents. While Lee was in school she started geting into english literature..