Notes from the movie • Old-school black-and-white in the beginning of the film with upbeat, then dreamy music. • Foreshadowing with scrolling, stormy thunderstorm clouds during opening credits. • Having seen most of the film numerous times before but never the ending(as I recall), it was easy to tell that Hunk must be the Scarecrow, Uncle Henry is the Lion, and Elmyra Gulch is the wicked witch of the east. Aunt Em must be the good witch of the North. • Dorothy seems rejected by her family in the beginning of the film, like they don’t have time or don’t want to talk to her.
Scout could not do anything without Aunt Alexandra and Mrs. Dubose criticizing what Scout was wearing, doing, and behaving. 4. To Kill A Mockingbird sets out to challenge several stereotypes. Describe the use of stereotypes in the novel using quotes from the text to support your
The novel The Catcher in the Rye has been censored many times before. “Between 1961 and 982, The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States,” (Suite101.com: Online Magazine and Writers' Network) and that is exactly thanks to its use of “profane language, blasphemy, undermining of family values and moral codes” (The Banning of the Catcher in the Rye) . Parents believed that this novel was not good to be taught in school and wanted it to be extinguished from school curriculum. “A parent once declared the book “Communist” (Attempted Censorship: “The Catcher in the Rye”). That’s how bad parents viewed this novel.
Moore heard a talk show person talk about how people do not even know basic literature and when Moore calls up the talk show person the person did not even know what the books were. This shows how people talk about how bad teachers are but the teachers are not the problem. He talks about how humans live in a democracy when they live in America, but students learn in a totalitarian government when they are in schools. This shows how schools cannot do anything to protect themselves due to the pressure that the government is putting on them. Moore also describes a situation where a school that is sponsoring Coco-Cola has a picture and the kids can only wear Coca-Cola apparel and one kid wears another T-Shit to school.
She asks Tituba if she knows what the girls have been up to and all she says is that the girls have been doing devil worshiping. Susanna asks to know more information but Tituba says she cannot speak of such things with a strong puritan girl. Wanting to know more about how witch craft works she asks Tituba about her brother William. Susanna asks if her brother will return home from his voyages safely. Tituba turns Susanna’s palm order to tell her fortune and she shares the good news
So I would like to give a workshop for my young missionary colleagues as I have learned in the seminary course I took on “popular religions” where readings and lectures discussed witch accusations. Definition of witch Dr. Priest noted the word “witch” means different things in different settings. Sometimes witch means female practitioner of Wicca/Neopaganism. However, we discuss witch here as a male or female who is believed to harm others through
The Language Police: CH 4 In chapter 4 of Diane Ravitch’s, The Language Police, she explains how political pressure groups have imposed censorship on textbook publishers. Publishing companies do not only exclude questions that are believed to be biased, but exclude questions that exemplify any form of controversy. The book states, “It is better to be bland than to be controversial” (Ravitch). Workers of publishing companies go on to say that anything that might make a student uncomfortable should be left out of the question. History is going to make people uncomfortable no matter what.
Censorship The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has recently been revised to remove the word ‘nigger’ which appears over two hundred times. The censorship of this piece of classical literature is devaluing the novel and the ideas portrayed in it. The “harmful epithets”, which also include the word ‘injun’, serve as an integral part of this novel and sanitizing this book for the goal of political correctness is also stripping a historical document of information that acknowledges America’s blatantly racist past and makes our youth aware, through education, the toxicity of prejudice. Twain’s work is dependent on his conveyance of the actual state of things and relation of ideas popular to his era. The content in the work is imperative to the messages it communicates.
Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird was written in 1960. The book was first banned in schools and libraries due to profane language and graphic descriptions. However it was later accepted as an analytical and educational piece. Harper Lee shows that within the novel, prejudice truly revolves around
Specifically, “Focus on the Family” (FOF) and the “American Family Association” (AFA) would like you to think that part of the gay agenda, in addition to marriage equality is instituting anti-bullying policies in schools. And they are outraged because they “think” that LGBT advocacy groups are now the schoolyard bully. FOF and AFA exist to inject their particular breed of religious intolerance and hate into Americans. FOF’s latest effort, a website called “True Tolerance,” claims to offer “New Resources on Bullying Issues,” yet right up front asks, “Concerned about homosexual advocacy in your child’s school?” Clearly, “New Resources on Bullying Issues” means, “Here’s how to help your kids bully other kids and get away with it.” Now, I don’t know any parent who woke up today and said, “Gosh, I wonder if the reason Johnny can’t read is because of homosexual advocacy?” Do you? When did “homosexual advocacy” become a problem in our schools?