a)Southern Belle
-Proper Etiquette
-Penmanship
-Ballroom Dancing
Southern Gentleman
-Humility
-Respect

b)Sewing
House chores such as sweeping mopping ironing washing and others.

c)


d)Atticus- Gentlemanly, impartial, polite.
Bob Ewell- Ruthless, violent, exercises discrimination.

a)The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56 is widely regarded as the event which began the modern civil rights movement. That may overstate the case, but the 381-day boycott was the first sustained mass protest against Jim Crow segregation, it did launch the civil rights careers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and Fred D. Gray, and it made a worldwide hero of a small, quiet woman named Rosa Parks.
b)In the Scottsboro trials, the prostitutes accused the blacks of rape because she wanted to escape prosecution for immoral acts. Similarly, in TKAM, Mayala also accused Tom to protect her father but Tom was not the rapist.
c)These trials took place in Alabama. And these trials include accusation against Afican-Americans. The lawyer or the judge will defend the accused and but at last the final decision will still be to their disadvantage.

a)Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Despite being Lee's only published book, it led to Lee being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007. Lee has also been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, but has always declined to make a speech.

b)Writer.
Born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama.
Lee Harper is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)—her one and only novel.
The youngest of four children, she grew up as a tomboy in a small town.
Her father was a lawyer, a member of the Alabama state legislature, and also owned part of the local newspaper.
For most of Lee’s life, her mother suffered from mental illness, rarely leaving the house.
It is believed that she may have had bipolar disorder.

c)Her one and only novel, To Kill a Mokingbird.

d)Pulitzer Prize (1961)
Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (1961)
Alabama Library Association Award (1961)
Bestsellers Paperback of the Year Award (1962)
Member, National Council on the Arts (1966)
Best Novel of the Century, Library Journal (1999)
Alabama Humanities Award (2002)
ATTY Award, Spector Gadon & Rosen Foundation (2005)
Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award (2005)
Honorary degree, University of Notre Dame (2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007)

e)Its her one and only novel.

a)1st December 1955
b) The new aim that the United States outlawed to against racial discrimination on African American blacks.
c)Montgomery bus boycott during 1955-1957. Rosa Parks ignites 381-day bus boycott organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom riders oppose segregation during 1961. Blacks and whites take buses to the South to protest bus station segregation. Many were greeted with riots and beatings.
d)President Lyndon B.
e)African-Americans are equal with Whites now.
f)This is about racial discrimination and the blacks are being discriminated by White people. Similarly, in the novel, Whites discriminate Blacks but at last some improvement were made which is similar to the outcome of the Civil Rights Movement.

a)Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-Black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-Black racism. Jim Crow is not actually a person, but the subject of a song performed by Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice. Rice was a white man who performed in blackface. Like most blackface performers, Rice denigrated Blacks through his music, his stereotypical behavior, and his rude jokes.
b)Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated.
c)This segregation led to civil rights events, for instance Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat on a segregated bus, also several bus boycotts.
d)Yes because Blacks and Whites have different churches.

a)South Carolina,Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas Louisiana, irginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
b) Abraham Lincoln was the US president who proclaimed war against the South.
c) American who fought the Civil War thought that they were fighting about slavery.
d) The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865.
e) It abolished slavery as a legal institution in the United States. The one irreconcilable difference between the North and the South during a time when our country was expanding was the introduction of slavery into new territories. It took two additional amendments to the U.S. Constitution and an additional hundred years of civil rights struggle to completely erase the stain of slavery, but the Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation began the process.
f)The slaves were discriminated as well as the blacks in the novel. There were people who fought for the slaves such as Abraham Lincoln. Similarly, there were people in the novel who stood firm by the blacks.

a) Slavery in the Southern State began around 1600. There were many large plantations in that area that grew cotton and other crops which needed a huge manpower. As result, a great number of slaves were required to run the cotton and other crops’ plantations.
b) Most of the slaves were blacks who came from Africa.
c) White people traditionally bought and owned the slaves.
d) Slaves could not gather in-groups of 4 or more because their owners thought they would plan an escape. If the slaves got caught trying to get away, their owners would beat them or cut body parts off so they could not escape again. They cannot leave their owners property without a written pass because the slave owners wanted control over the slaves. They could not own weapons because the slaves might shoot their owner. Slaves were not allowed to learn how to read or write because the slaves may start to think about freedom and try to escape.
e) I now understand and sympathize the slaves and felt the pain they feel when they were discriminated. They were human too and deserved to be treated as a human being instead of slaves and animals.

This is a comic of the finals during the World Cup. I selected the background of a field, because obviously football must be played on the field. As you can see, those people in the comic are dressed appropriately for football. The penalty taker from Argentina, the goalkeeper from Brazil.

As Brazil has won the World Cup numerous times, and Argentina has only won twice, it is normal for the Brazilian keeper to underestimate the Argentina striker. As result, the Brazilian keeper became arrogant. On the other hand, the Argentina striker was very determined to score for his country, his coach, and his people. So, with great determination and focus, he scored!

My theme this time is determination. As you can see, if the player had not enough determination, he will think that his team is not as strong as the Brazilians and will eventually lose focus and confidence then leading up to missing the penalty.

Sexual orientation /
Age/
Family background/
Disability/
Marital status/
Language/
Religion/
Breast-feeding/
Skin-colour/
Nationality/
Economic status/
Political preference/
Race/
Parental status/
Sex/
Gender/
Intelligence/
Pregnancy/
Discrimination against discrimination
Appearance/
Medical Status/
SEX
Sexual orientation
-Being verbally abusive to a person because of their gender or sexual orientation
Sex
-Paying men more money than women for the same work
Pregnancy
-Decline to hire pregnant women even though they are qualified .
Breast-feeding
-Disallow females to breastfeed in public.
Gender
-Make fun of sensitive issues about the opposite sex.
FAMILY
Family background
-Discriminates against others’ ancestors because of some particular issues.
Marital status
-Negative comments about one’s marital status like divorce or unsuccessful marriage.
Parental status
-Despise others because of their parents occupations or status mostly in schools where comparisons take place the most.
Economic status
-Bad remarks on other’s wealth status especially on people who live in poverty.
PERSONAL
Race
-Someone makes jokes or comments negatively on racial issues.
Intelligence
-Insulting other people’s intelligence in different aspect and views especially in educations or workplace.
Disability
-Refusal to help disability people when they are in need or give unnecessary comments on them.
Religion
-A person makes derogatory comments on other people’s religion.
Nationality
-Insulting others nationality like ignoring them or making rude remarks on them.
Appearance
-Bad remarks on people’s physical appearances.
Age
-Jokes about a person’s "old-fashioned" taste in clothes, music or films, etc.
Language
-Imitate their foreign language in a rude manner.
Skin colour
-Decline other’s existence because of their skin colour and making fun of them.
Medical status
-Laugh at their medical condition and refuse to get in contact with them.
OTHERS
Political preference
-Despite a fans of a political party
Discrimination against discrimination
-Has issues with discrimination matters.

The poem that I chose to comment on and make an analysis on is Cloony the Clown. I chose this poem not because of its absurd title, but the fact that this poem particularly struck me and gave me much room for reflection.

Cloony the Clown by Shel Silverstein is a light simple poem that any child could
read with an ironic twist that any adult would appreciate. As the title of the poem oh so subtly suggests, the poem is about the Cloony the Clown as told by the narrator to the reader. The persona is most probably a disinterested townsman who just happens to know the story of Cloony the Clown. I assumed the narrator to be male because of the apparent lack of sympathy towards Cloony and his sad conditions, negating what the stereotypically emotional female is made out to be.

Cloony is a clown who just wasn’t, just wasn’t funny at all. He worked hard and
went to great lengths, trying to make people laugh. But it was in vain; he just wasn’t funny at all. It could be that the way he looked wasn’t jovial enough for the townsfolk. It could be that he was a little too loud. It could be that he was a little to ugly. It could be that his tricks were a little too sick and twisted. It could be that his jokes were a little too improper. It could be that he just tried too hard.

But everyone has a breaking point. Financial crisis and excessive dejection is what pushed Cloony to his. I can’t blame Cloony for his breakdown; everyone has needs – food, stability, acceptance, a sense of accomplishment – and Cloony was barely meeting his, if he was reaching any at all. When he reached his breaking point, he decided to tell them all about his problems and his demons. He wanted to tell them how he felt – how they made him feel. So he told them of every pain he’s felt, every hardship he’s ever been dealt, every demon that climbed out from the darkness in his soul that he’s ever faced.

At the end of it all, one would expect sympathy and words of comfort to be
offered to the suffering clown. Not even a single sympathetic glance was directed his way; instead, the whole world rang loud and shook hard with laughter. Cold and callous was their glee. Cloony was left there to drown in his despair, not even given a second thought.

The irony of the ending’s just sad. When Cloony didn’t mean to make the people
laugh, that’s when they laughed. The people laughed at something they weren’t meant to laugh at. It is sickening to see that on top of not being a successful clown, Cloony was the object of mirthless laughter when he shared his unfortunate plight. It’s a sad truth though that society finds humour and a sort of comfort in the pain and suffering of others. Sick as it may sound, it’s true.

Why did they laugh anyway? A clown, the very epitome of joy and laughter,
broke down and showed the world that even his big bright grin is tainted by a darkness in his soul. They weren’t alone in their misery; even the happiest person in the world is miserable. It made them feel less bad about themselves, knowing that their misery is “normal”. I guess misery does love company, and together they all wallow in the darkness.

When I was young, I did not understand many things, like how was I born and where did I come from, and stuff like that. So when I was 4 years old, I got the chance to ask my parents. "Daddy and Mommy," I went, "Where did I come from??" They exchanged glances and decided that I was not old enough to understand the truth so they told me:" You fell down from the sky like a shooting star and landed on the bed." I was amazed by the words "shooting star" and thought that I was a very powerful kid. I believed that I fell down from the sky and bragged to all my friends that I was a genius. I was 8 years old when I overheard my mother talking to one of her friends. She was asking my mother which hospital was it when she gave birth to me. After that, I confronted her about the issue and she just laughed:"Of course you did not fall out of the sky like a shooting star, you were born in SJMC." Tears rolled down my cheeks, I hated my parents for lying to me. I even did not speak to them for two whole days. But when I got older, I understood that it was just a tall tale because I could not understand the truth when I was four.

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