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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"To Kill a Mockingbird"”.
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Scouting for a Tomboy: Gender-Bending Behaviors in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
<p>In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch challenges gender stereotypes in her determination to remain a tomboy. Scout interacts with five parental characters (Atticus, Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, and Boo Radley), who offer models for Scout's behaviors. Though primarily …
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Don't Put Your Shoes on the Bed: A Moral Analysis of <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>.
… insight for its readers; through a use of history, moral instruction, and character development, Lee establishes a foundation for how people in an often intolerant world should live peacefully together. Moreover, she reminds the reader that regardless of socioeconomic status or race everyone …
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Truly antiracist?: An investigation into the effects of an anti-racist approach to To Kill a Mockingbird
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-14 without embargo terms
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Small Fires
… its protagonist. The purpose of this thesis is to utilize the traditions of the Bildungsroman novel in order to create a work that conforms to the expectations of literary art as they pertain to character, theme, and language. The novel is inspired primarily from Harper Lee's Bildungsroman, To …
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Exploring the political impact of literature and literary studies in American government
… Court have deliberately embraced the humanities to fulfill their respective responsibilities. I begin by examining the interpretive practices these groups employ, then turn to lists of recommended reading published by the PCBE and Justice Anthony Kennedy. I investigate how their endorsements of …
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Growing Cold: Postwar Women Writers and the Novel of Development, 1945-1960
… Jackson’s Hangsaman (1951), and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) – I show that postwar women writers were actively shaping the genre in a way that would fundamentally shift how adolescent girlhood would be represented in second wave feminist and contemporary female Bildungsromans. By …
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Beyond Lip Service: How teachers in a private school utilize multicultural literature
… of the teacher participants ranged from nine to twenty-five years. This bounded case study was investigated through the interpretivist paradigm over a seven-month period during the 2009-2010 school year. The teaching of six texts defined by the school as multicultural (one of the texts would …