Lee Tockar Essays

“I was at the point where I knew I would never use them all but I didn’t want to throw money away and I didn’t want to re-gift them. What I did want was to cash them out. In the U.S. there are services where you can convert gift cards to cash but not in Canada.” As Frances Ho has a problem of using gift cards, she and Zaheed Poptia decided to created a private company named CardSwap. It is an online service where consumers can convert unwanted gift cards into cash. CardSwap is Canada’s #1 site for

The short story “Roommates” by Linda Heuring revolves around OB and Brad, who are roommates. It touches subjects as jealousy, prejudice and being different. The short story also focusses on how the people you acquaint yourself with influence your behavior. Brad’s friends talk bad about OB, which clearly bothers him, but in the end he takes part in destroying some of OB’s most cherished possessions. This is a result of the friends’ influence mixed with alcohol and jealousy. Brad apologizes to OB three

In Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger, readers follow the story of Mersault, a young man living in Algiers who is dealing with his mother’s death. Right away readers can look at Mersault and see his careless and unemotional life. He clearly does not care for what people think about him, and he would never lie about himself to be recognized. He does not accept the society’s idea of happiness by the way he deals with the moments in his life. He does not believe in life after death and has no religion

One of the most evident themes throughout Chronicle of a Death Foretold is failure of authority as well as the apathy of many of the townspeople. This was an existent problem that made many people in Colombia suffer, so Márquez decided to criticise and expose the leadership and their ways of controlling the town. Márquez depicts the mayor as being more interested in the domino games he was playing than in actually trying to stop the twins from committing a senseless and prejudiced crime that Santiago

To Kill a Mockingbird is essentially a novel about growing up under remarkable circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. The story covers a compass of three years, amid which the fundamental characters experience huge changes. Scout Finch lives with her sibling Jem and their dad Atticus in the invented town of Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a little, affectionate town, and each family has its social station contingent upon where they live, who their guardians are, and to what extent

Introduction: Marvel Cinematic Universe has been adapted from Marvel comics universe which is of genre science fiction, superhero fiction, fantasy, horror and action. The concept of a super human exists since the age of old literature. Beowulf, the Iliad, the Odyssey, they were all stories of superheroes. A Superhero is someone with extraordinary powers. Marvel universe, despite dealing with science, also deals with supernatural, mystical elements and mythology too which brings out the essence

To Kill a Mockingbird - Courage "Courage is when you know you 're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what" According to Atticus Finch, an honest lawyer in Harper Lee 's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. "Real courage" is when you fight for what is right regardless of whether you win or lose. Atticus fits into this definition of what "real courage" is and demonstrates it several times throughout the novel

was sitting with his chair tipped against the railing. He sat up straight and waited for her to answer. ‘Except when he’s drinking?’ asked Atticus so gently that Mayella nodded”(Lee 244). ‘Who beat you up? Tom Robinson or your father?’ No answer. ‘Why don’t you tell me the truth, child, didn’t Bob Ewell beat you up?” (Lee 251). “It was too late” (Cockburn 3). The cross-examination between Mayella and Atticus indubitably shows that Atticus is giving her an opportunity to end the dishonesty. Despite

Do What Is Right, Not What Is Easy In the 1957 MGM film Twelve Angry Men, juror’s number 8 and 9 were the two most effective leaders. Juror number 8 stands out the most out of the 12 jurors; he is a leader and a hard worker because he refuses to give up until the other jurors face the truth. Juror number 9 is the second-in-command when it comes to justice and sympathy. Juror number 9 says “Gentlemen, that’s a very sad thing – to mean nothing. A man like this needs to be quote, to be listen to” (Juror

“’remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’” (119) These famous words Atticus Finch said in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, portrays that because the mockingbird doesn’t hurt anyone, and because it only helps people, it is a sin to kill it. To be a mockingbird, you can’t hurt people, you can’t infringe on other people’s property, and you can’t be a bad person. People who are like mockingbirds only help others in their endeavors. This is why I believe that Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and

Over the course of the 1960’s James Arthur Baldwin emerged as one of the great influencers of writing regarding problems of society. James was born August 2nd, 1924 in Harlem, New York City to his single mother Emma Jones (F). James’ first novel composed was “Go tell it on the mountain” published in 1953, with multiple short stories speaking out about racial segregation and political influences on minorities of today’s world (P). James Baldwin was a late twentieth century author who presented racism

Harper Lee, an author, wrote her book “How to Kill a Mockingbird” in a black segregated time. She wrote the book because she wanted to show people how life was life for everyone during that era of her life and others. In her book, three of the literary elements she used was the conflict of others’ needs above our own, the motif of not judging a person by what it seems and sound like, and the symbol of blacks and whites being able to exist together. First, Jem is now going to school, and there

treated differently because society can’t put them in a box “‘ They don 't belong anywhere. Colored folks won’t have 'em because they’re half white; white folks won’t have ‘em ‘cause they’re colored, so they’re in-betweens, don 't belong anywhere.’”(Lee 161) The prejudice in Maycomb is so strong that a clear line has been

Dependence On Individuality: Animal Imagery in Charles Baxter’s “Gryphon” People should be free to express their individuality. A person, whose existence is dependent on the community and the boundaries set by the community, will never have the ability to move above the common existence. In the story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, Tommy, an elementary school student in the rural community of Five Oaks believes that his life is boring, but he is convinced by the uniqueness of substitute

On August 28th 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy was brutally murdered by two white men because he allegedly flirted with a white woman. The accused were acquitted, and walked away free from a second trail due to a legal practice preventing someone to be recharged with a crime that has already been pressed against them- double jeopardy. Double jeopardy should be subject to revocation if a subject in question for a crime admits they are guilty or information providing evidence against an indicted

“St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves” is a short story written by Karen Russell. This story is about a pack of children going to St. Lucy’s home, where they need to adapt and get past the lycanthropic culture shock to become a citizen of the human society. In the story Claudette, the main character, has been fully conformed to the human ways of life. This is true because in the text there are many implications of her being fully conformed to the human world. While Claudette does conform

In the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is Tom’s companion in virtually all of his adventures. Huckleberry Finn is described as “lawless and vulgar and bad” by the adults of the village. Contrary to what the adults believe, Huckleberry Finn is loyal, fair, and unable to control his circumstances. Firstly, “bad” should not be synonym to Huckleberry Finn’s name because Huck is loyal to those who are kind to him. Huck has displayed loyalty several times throughout the novel. He

1. Though there is an incredible amount of important characters in the novel, to me, the most significant character in Part 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird is Atticus Finch. His actions and treatment towards everyone and everything caused me think the most in comparison to the other characters. For instance, Atticus makes an important decision to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, in trial during Chapter 9, thus leading to harassment towards his family not only from school, but even from their own neighbor

The novel To Kill a MockingBird is about what is happened in the life of Jean Louise Finch aka Scout the Main Character. Throughout the novel To Kill a MockingBird, the author Harper Lee gives the reader insight into haw discrimination about racial, gender, socioeconomic affects the community. To Kill a MockingBird takes place in Maycomb,Alabama. This story takes place in the 1930s.Some main characters in the novel are Atticus Scout and Jem’s father, Scout, Jem, Calpurnia is a black women who takes

In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus believes Maycomb is unjust because the town is inconsiderate of other people’s view, which is shown when Atticus gets targeted for defending a black man, worries that his kids will become bitter and catch Maycomb’s disease, and Aunt Alexandra advising Atticus that he is raising his kids wrong. To begin with, Mrs Dubose addresses to Scout and her family about how Atticus is disgracing his race and his color by defending Tom Robinson on the alleged rape