31 Jan

Q1) The setting of the story is at the stairwell in the evening.The setting of the second story is in Watson's house in the morning. The third story's setting is in the neighborhood of a town.
Q2)The first story was set in the modern day. The second story was set in 1883, early April in the morning. The third story was set in the early 19th century England.
Q3) The setting of the first story tells us that the story was to be moody and sad. The setting of the second story tells us that the story was going to be suspicious and mysterious. The setting of the third story gives us a very amiable feeling and and gives us warm and loving effect.

Q4)In to KILL A MOCKING BIRD, the setting is in Maycomb county, the town where the Finchs’ live. Maycomb, some twenty miles east of Finch’s Landing, was the county seat of Maycomb County。 The story tells that Mr. Finch works in the area. Maycomb is repeated many times in the story and there is a vivid description of it “Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day”. Maycomb is also a white town as there are description of the Finch’s neighbours. “It was customary for every circle hostess to invite her neighbors in for refreshments, be they Baptists or Presbyterians, which accounted for the presence of Miss Rachel (sober as a judge), Miss Maudie and Miss Stephanie Crawford.” It describes the fine ladies in town and how they live their lives in Maycomb County.

LA lesson 26 Jan

The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights movement began on December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks (1913– ), a black seamstress, refused to cooperate with a segregation law. As she boarded a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, she took a seat in the designated "black" rows in the back. When the bus filled up she was asked to move so that a white man could have her spot. She refused to give the man her seat and was then arrested. This event sparked what would become a national movement of resistance to racial segregation (separation of black people from white people) and discrimination. Local black leaders organized around Parks with Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) as their leader. They decided to start a citywide boycott of the Montgomery bus system on December 5, 1955. The boycott lasted 382 days and ended only when the case had reached the Supreme Court, which ruled...


Civil rights movement, mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. This movement had its roots in the centuries-long efforts of African slaves and their descendants to resist racial oppression and abolish the institution of slavery. Although American slaves were emancipated as a result of the Civil War and were then granted basic civil rights through the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, struggles to secure federal protection of these rights continued during the next century. Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s broke the pattern of public facilities’ being segregated by “race” in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstruction period (1865–77). Although the passage in 1964 and 1965 of major civil rights legislation was victorious for the movement, by then militant black activists had begun to see their struggle as a freedom or liberation movement not just seeking civil rights reforms but instead confronting the enduring economic, political, and cultural consequences of past racial oppression.


The main events that took place during the civil rights movement from 1954-1979 were the "sit-in movement", and the "Bus Boycotts".


President John F. Kennedy


As a result to the civil rights movement african-americans are now as equal as whites.






Montgomery Bus Boycott and Scottsboro trials

ere are many parallels between the trial of Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird and one of the most notorious series of trials in the nation's history ?the Scottsboro Trials. On March 25, 1931, a freight train was stopped in Paint Rock, a tiny community in Northern Alabama, and nine young African American men who had been riding the rails were arrested. As two white women - one underage - descended from the freight cars, they accused the men of raping them on the train. Within a month the first man was found guilty and sentenced to death. There followed a series of sensational trials condemning the other men solely on the testimony of the older woman, a known prostitute, who was attempting to avoid prosecution under the Mann Act, prohibiting taking a minor across state lines for immoral purposes, like prostitution.
Although none of the accused were executed, a number remained on death row for many years. The case was not settled until 1976 with the pardon of the last of the Scottsboro defendants.

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.


African American citizens in many cities had for years complained bitterly about treatment on segregated city buses. Earlier in 1955, Sarah Mae Flemming had sued the city of Columbia, S.C., over its segregated bus seating, and in July 1955 the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the case that segregated seating was unconstitutional. In July 1955, James M. Ritter had refused a driver's order to move to the rear of a Richmond, Va., bus and was fined $10. In Montgomery, bus-related disputes were common. On March 2, 1955, teenager Claudette Colvin was arrested for violating the same segregation law that Mrs. Parks ran afoul of on December 1, 1955. Colvin was the first person to plead not guilty to such a charge. Her attorney, Fred Gray, raised constitutional issues in her defense but she was convicted. The Women's Political Council (WPC), headed by JoAnn Robinson and Mary Fair Burks, had written letters to city officials protesting the lack of black bus drivers, rudeness on the part of white drivers, and the seating policies in general. But the arrest of Parks, the secretary of the local NAACP, galvanized local black leaders, including E. D. Nixon, who bailed her out of jail, and the members of the WPC, who on December 2 wrote and disseminated a flyer calling for a boycott for December 5, the day Parks was to be tried in municipal court.


As the news spread, other leaders joined in and a meeting was held to plan a one-day boycott. Ministers announced the boycott on Sunday, December 4, and on the morning of December 5, the boycott was almost completely observed by Montgomery's black citizens. When Mrs. Parks was convicted and fined $10, the leaders met that afternoon to form the Montgomery Improvement Association, elected King, then 26, as president, and held a meeting that evening at the Holt Street Baptist Church attended by more than 5,000 people who proclaimed their willingness to stay off the buses as long as necessary. The initial demands of the boycott leaders did not include changing the segregation law itself, but sought courtesy, hiring of at least some black drivers, and a first-come, first-seated policy with whites filling the buses from the front and blacks from the rear. Bus company officials, facing mounting losses, were eager to compromise, but intransigence on the part of city officials and rising violence against black citizens--included bombings, beatings, and petty harassment--led attorney Gray, then 25, to attack the segregation ordinance itself. This strategy ultimately succeeded. Meanwhile, the nation was focused on the philosophy and strategy of non-violence being articulated through King's powerful oratory, and the quiet perseverance of the black citizens of the city which a hundred years earlier had been the birthplace of the Confederacy. The significance of these 2 trials is that they treat the blacks unfairly.


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Trials of a true Southern Belle and Southern Gentleman

a) 1. Understand that while you may not originally come from the South, you can still acquire the mannerisms of a Southern gentleman. They are not inherited, they are learned.

2. First, you must know how to dress the part. A Southern gentleman takes time to dress up for a lady. He would never wear the same thing he wears while hunting with his buddies around a lady. Therefore, invest in some high quality clothing. A few good suits (Brooks Brothers and J. Press are very class) and some nice shoes, always polished, are a must for your wardrobe.

3. Learn how to speak while with a lady. A true Southern gentleman does not curse or tell off-colored jokes around a member of the opposite sex. He is all refinement and respect. The way he talks around his buddies does not carry over into how he talks to ladies. They understand that men and women are fundamentally different and they respect and cherish that difference




4. Southern gentleman are voracious flirts. They flirt with most women they meet--be it their wife/girlfriend, the lady serving them coffee, the little old lady who lives next door--everybody. But by flirtation I don't mean in a vulgar or sexual way. They simply know how to make women feel good about themselves. They are not shy. They will tell a woman how beautiful her eyes are or how pretty she looks in the dress she's wearing. They will look them up and down with an admiring glance. Oh, and another thing. Don't say "very" as in: "You look very beautiful today ma'am." Say "awfully" as in: "You look awfully beautiful today ma'am." No one says "very" south of the Mason-Dixon line.

5. Learn the basic gestures of old school chivalry--this isn't intended to be comprehensive but this will have the basics of chivalrous actions: Hold doors open for ladies (don't walk in front of them and hold the door open, let them go first), pull out her chair for her while dining, help a lady with her coat, offer your coat to her when it's cold outside, bring flowers whenever you are on a date (to the lady and her mother), bring a nice little gift whenever you are visiting a lady's house, walk on the outside of the street when walking with a lady, remove your hat when in the presence of a lady, give up your seat to a lady if on a train or subway, always stand when a lady enters the room, offer to light a lady's cigarette for her, open the car door for your date (and any other woman for that matter), and always insist on paying for a lady's meal.

6. Say "ma'am" and "sir" when talking to people who are older than you and/or in a position of authority. Remember, all ladies are "ma'am", it doesn't matter what age she is. Be effusive with gratitude too: You can never say "please" or "thank you" too many times.

7. Always defend a lady's honor. If a man is giving her a hard time at a bar or someone is telling a nasty joke to her, step in. Always offer to walk a lady home if she is alone late at night. Remember, a woman will always admire a man who can offer her his masculine protection.

8. Finally, a Southern gentleman is a man of his word. He is faithful to his wife, faithful to his church (is he is religiously inclined), unfailingly honest, and lives by a code of nobility. He is a genuine man in a world full of posers.






Harper Lee

a. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Harper Lee grew up in the small southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who also served on the state legislature (1926-38). As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and she enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote, who provided the basis of the character of Dill in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

b. --- Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville Alabama.

--- Lee was the youngest of four children born to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee.

--- She attended Huntingdon College 1944-45, studied law at the University of Alabama 1945-49, and studied one year at Oxford University.

--- In the 1950s she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines and BOAC in New York City.

--- In 1957 Lee submitted the manuscript of her novel to the J. B. Lippincott Company.

--- After being instructed to rewrite it, Lee worked on it for two and a half more years

--- In 1960 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Lee's only book, was published.

--- In 1961 she had two articles published: "Love --- In Other Words" in Vogue, and "Christmas To Me" in McCalls.

--- In June of 1966, Harper Lee was one of two persons named by President Johnson to the National Council of Arts.

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"To Kill a Mockingbird." (1960)
"Christmas to Me". (December 1961)
"When Children Discover America". (August 1965). "Cold Blood" (1966) Capote and lee collaborated "The Long Goodbye" (mid-1980s)

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. To Kill a Mockingbird was written and published amidst the most significant and conflict-ridden social change in the South since the Civil War and Reconstruction. Inevitably, despite its mid-1930s setting, the story told from the perspective of the 1950s voices the conflicts, tensions, and fears induced by this transition.

(Pei Song and I!!)21st January Historical background(slavery,the civil war,jim crow's laws)

Slavery

a. Slavery, a form of forced labor, has existed since before written records, even playing a large role in Biblical times, and was mentioned heavily in the Old Testament. Contrary to common belief in the USA, slavery did not start in the Americas, nor was it restricted to black African people; it has existed in almost all cultures and continents, and even exists to this day, in one form or another, in some places.
In fact, in Africa slavery was common: the tribes would fight each other, and whichever tribe won would either vote to kill the other tribe, or have the tribe be their slaves. If the tribe that won the battle opted to have the other tribe be their slaves, each member would be sent to serve a house. Prisoners from other tribes or outlaws were also kept as slaves, but forced service was often negotiable, meaning they could be freed at some time or another.

b. Slavery was prominent presumably elsewhere in Africa long before the beginnings of the transatlantic slave trade. The maritime town of Lagos, Portugal, was the first slave market created in Portugal for the sale of imported African slaves – the Mercado de Escravos, opened in 1444 In 1441, the first slaves were brought to Portugal from northern Mauritania. By 1552 black African slaves made up 10 percent of the population of Lisbon. In the second half of the 16th century, the Crown gave up the monopoly on slave trade and the focus of European trade in African slaves shifted from import to Europe to slave transports directly to tropical colonies in the Americas – in the case of Portugal, especially Brazil. In the 15th century one third of the slaves were resold to the African market in exchange of gold.

c. Most slaves were black and were held by whites, although some Native Americans and free blacks also held slaves; there were a small number of white slaves as well. Europeans also held some Native Americans as slaves, and African-Native Americans. Slavery spread to the areas where there was good-quality soil for large plantations of high-value cash crops, such as tobacco, cotton, sugar, and coffee. By the early decades of the 19th century, the majority of slaveholders and slaves were in the southern United States, where most slaves were engaged in a work-gang system of agriculture on large plantations, especially devoted to cotton and sugar cane. Such large groups of slaves were thought to work more efficiently if directed by a managerial class called overseers, usually white men.

d. 1) Slaves address all Free Men and Women as Master or Mistress. If their gender cannot be determined by the nick, use Master until corrected, beg mercy for your error, and then make note. All slave nicks begin with a lowercase letter. Master or Mistress nicks begin with an uppercase letter. In the Gor series, slaves are only allowed to address a Free Man by his given name with permission (i.e., Master John instead of just Master). Although it is a common practice in the medium of IRC, some men will demand that girls receive permission first. Simply beg forgiveness for your error and make a note.

2) While Free Men may not always be right, they are by definition, never wrong.Therefore slaves do not argue with Free Men (especially in an open channel). Remember, you have the last two words in any disagreement...those being, "Yes, Master."

3) Slaves have no rights, you own nothing. Even your name is not your own, it can be changed at any time (in fact, for an unowned girl it may be changed several times at a Free Man's whim, so be prepared). Any items your Owner gives you can just as easily be taken away. His will supersedes your own, and his tiniest whim is your absolute law.

4) Jealousy and possessiveness of one's Owner are not becoming in a slave. It's you who are owned, not he. While any human may FEEL these emotions, a slave girl does not act upon them. It may be how you handle these feelings when you experience them that speak for your maturity and growth in your slavery.

5) Slaves shouldn't privately message (MSG, whisper, PM) any man in channel without first seeking permission in the open channel.

6) Slaves who entice should be prepared to act upon such actions. "Slave heat" is a term girls use to describe their sex. However, in the Gor series, the author uses the term to describe the deep desire and sexual need of a slave girl, not her actual anatomical genitalia. In any event, "slave heat" should not be used unless the slave is allowed and ready to sexually please the man. If you show it, be prepared to use it. Slaves new to Gor or to a particular channel should lot use slave heat in their serves. Learn channel rules regarding its usage by observation or MSGing other slaves first.

7) Slaves should not enter into the conversations of Free Men and Women. If you wish to converse with other girls, do so in MSG's. Please, do not discuss personal, everyday issues in an open channel.

8) Slaves do not touch any form of weaponry. Also, slaves are not allowed to touch coins without express authorization from their Master. If a man tries to give you a coin, either let it fall to the furs or accept it in your mouth and carry it to the appropriate Free Man.

9) Slaves are to be pleasing at all times; there is no room for PMS or bad moods. Perfection of service and submission is the goal, mere excellence will be tolerated.

10) Slaves speak in third person speech. Therefore you shouldn't use the words "I," "me," or "mine." Instead, say "this one," "this slave," or "this girl." The exception is in speaking of a girl's particular Owner. If permitted, she may be allowed to say, "my Master." Although there are instances of slaves using the standard greeting of "Tal" in the books, most channels on IRC restrict its use to the Free.

11) It is a good idea to ask for permission to enter a channel, if you are unsure of the channel's policy. Always ask permission before leaving a channel or going away from your keyboard.

12) If you don't know how to serve, you should not try unless a man commands it. Then it is wise to tell the man that you are untrained before you begin. He will decide whether he wishes you to serve or not. If he insists upon your service, take a deep breath, MSG another slave for help with that item, and try your best to be pleasing. :)

13) Never correct another slave in the open channel, send a MSG instead. If you are unsure of something, it's always a good idea to MSG a more experienced slave for advice.

14) A slave girl is supposed to serve all Free Men and be pleasing. However, if you are told to do something that goes against a direct order from your Owner, relate to the Master your Owner's wishes regarding the matter. If he still insists, ask for help from the Channel Ops. If you receive no help from them, some girls are instructed close the window and turn off their computer. If a girl is owned, she may have explicit instructions and you should beg your Master to know about yours. If a girl is unowned, and the request does not go against any Owner's command, but you are terrified, you may MSG a Channel Op for help, but remember a slave girl's primary purpose is to serve men and be pleasing. The Ops may not take it too kindly if you are constantly running to them for protection.

15) Gor is not a fair or just place. There is both incredible beauty and savagery in the books. Out of respect for those who take the philosophies outlined in the writing of John Norman seriously, please try to be polite, pleasing and follow the rules of whatever channel you may find yourself in. When in Gor, do as the Goreans do. Besides, it is incredibly rude to enter a man's house, and disrespect his home.

e. Slavery was the cost of racism of White against Black as slaves were from African and they were Blacks. They were mostly owned by the Whites which result in the Whites looking down on the Blacks. The novel is about a Black who was found guilty by the White judge of something he did not do and there was clearly enough evidence to acquit him. The study of slavery definitely help me understand the novel better as it is very related to slavery. It tells me how discrimination of Blacks started.

The civil war

a. The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, Down South, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States. Because of the region's unique cultural and historic heritage, including Native Americans, early European settlements of English, French, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, and German heritage, importation of hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans, growth of a large proportion of African Americans in the population, reliance on slave labor, and the aftermath of the Confederacy after the Civil War, the South developed its own customs, literature, musical styles, and varied cuisines that have profoundly shaped traditional American culture.

b. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)

c. To end slavery

d. The American Civil War (1861–1865), also known as the War Between the States

e. Near the end of the war, abolitionists were concerned that while the Proclamation had freed most slaves as a war measure, it had not made slavery illegal. Several former slave states had already passed legislation prohibiting slavery; however, in a few states, slavery continued to be legal, and to exist, until December 18, 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment was enacted.

f. f) It all started because of the Southerners were afraid that the Northerners would overpower them and this can related to the novel as it shows the relationship of the two parts of America whereby they were very cautious of each other just like in the novel where White and Black are socially different.

Jim Crow’s Laws

a. The name Jim Crow is often used to describe the segregation laws, rules, and customs which arose after Reconstruction ended in 1877 and continued until the mid-1960s.

b. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages.

c. The Black Codes of the 1860s are not the same as the Jim Crow laws. The Black Codes were in reaction to the abolition of slavery and the South's defeat in the Civil War. Southern legislatures enacted them in the 1860s. The Jim Crow era began later, nearer to the end of the 19th century after Reconstruction.

d. Yes. Blacks and Whites go to different churches.

fyi I discussed with peisong

LA COMIC STRIP

Dear All,

The LA home learning comic strip can be found on the left of the blog or here:

Part 1: http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/2725190

Part 2: http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/2725504

My theme for the comic is about integrity and learning from ones mistake.

Why did you choose the different pictures or background(s)?

A: This is to make the story continuous starting in the classroom and ending there too so that the viewer will not be confused.

How do they contribute to the elements (plot, setting, characterization) of your narrative?

A: They contribute to make the story interesting and engaging so that the reader will understand and enjoy the comic more.

How did you make use of the different elements to contribute to the theme you have chosen?

A: The elements give the story a lesson learnt which is to have integrity and learn from your mistakes and never repeat it again.

Blog topic: After You, My Dear Alphonse By Shirley Jackson

Would you have treated Boyd or someone who is not of the same race as you indifferently? Why or why not?

I will definitely not have treated someone who is not of the same race as me indifferently. This is because I find that it is not right to treat anyone indifferently just because of his or her race. This is also known as discrimination. After all, we both are humans and ought to be treated with respect and also treated equally. Therefore, I will not want to treat anyone differently as this may hurt the person as well as not showing any respect for him or her.

Discrimination---XingZhu, Yi Shun , Pei Song and me!!! :)

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1)Background

|•Gender

|•Genetic Information

|•Age

|•Religion

|•Nationality

|•Race

|•Citizenship

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2)Characteristics

|•Pregnancy

|•Physical Features

|•Career Status

|•Marital status

|•Disability

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3)Jobs

|•Personal Association

|•Sports

|•Industrial Activities

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4)Government

|•Policy

|•Compensation

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5)People's Actions

|•Sexual Harrassment

|•Breastfeeding

|•Retaliation

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Literature and Life (Shel Silverstein)

Out of the three poems in the worksheet by Shel Silverstein, I have chosen the 'Messy Room' to write on.

Here is the poem:

Messy Room by Shel Silverstein

Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or--
Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!

There is irony in this poem and it can be seen as the poet is quick to point fingers at others but not at himself who is no better.

This poem is humorous because the poet even named a lizard under his bed Ed and for most people they would have been terrified by it.

His smelly old sock could even stick on the wall which shows that it was dirty enough to be able to stick on the wall by itself.

There are two aspect of human character that has been highlighted in the poem is that people are quick to blame others but do not hold themselves responsible instead and that people do not take care of their own things.

This poem has enlightened me and not to always blame others and to be responsible.

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