Often their clients are too poor to pay legal fees, but Schlichtmann's firm eats the legal costs itself, hoping for a rich slice of an eventual settlement. Essentially, he's gambling with the firm's money every time he accepts a case. That's why he turns down the delegation of parents who tell about the deaths of their children: He doesn't see enough money in it to justify the risk. (The movie has a hard-boiled discussion of how much various victims are "worth." A white male professional struck down in his prime gives the biggest payoff; a dead child is worth the least of all.)
Ponyboy and his friends represent the lower class people known as the “Greasers” and they are tortured and harassed by the “Socs” a group of rich kids who think beating up greasers is a fun way to spend their time. Wealthier and richer people are often considered to receive or have more power, due to the fact that people respect them more than people who are less wealthy. The Socs have always discriminated and harassed the Greasers since they are more popular and richer than the Greasers. Furthermore, the Greasers were consistently jumped and beat whenever they encountered the Socs either at a park, gas station, etc. This ties into the colonialism that occurred during the 1400s where Europeans colonized Africa, and the Americas and adopted the idea that they were much more superior then the races due to their skin colour and wealth.
Nobody wants war” makes the audience doubt his judgement as they know there will be a war, showing irony. I think Priestley used Mr. Birling’s behaviour to show the theme of capitalism and how it affected people’s thoughts and attitudes towards everyday life. This suggests to the audience that the higher class were not nice people and were just out for the money. He seems very selfish; he wants to protect himself and his family. He believes that socialist ideas that stress the importance of the community is "nonsense" and that "a man has to make his own way."
Carmen Dent Mrs. Roberts English Book: Beastly By: Alex Flinn 1. Discuss how the main character is like or unlike a person you know? (10 points) Kyle, the main character in the book Beastly, is rude and careless. He only cares for his self, and if someone looks ugly or nerdy to him he will be extremely disrespectful to them. There are a lot of people that I know who would do that to people just because they think they are better than most people.
I think the problems are that the norms of the 1950's were wrong and people got too involved in other people’s business. I feel that most people during the 1950’s who discriminated were ignorant as hell and didn’t understand what was really going on. I feel like people who were forced to act a way that was considered to be the right way or thing or grew up in a family that were brought up to hate people of color were the people who had the most problems and secrets that society wouldn’t even accept. During those times, people were so quick to judge someone only to distract people from their personal lives and problems. For example the scene where Frank and Cathy are arguing about her spending time with Raymond and Frank shows Cathy his strong
Apart from the fact that they have sent the country and the world into an economic depression, they are still arrogantly taking large bonuses and are incredulous at why the rest of us complain. While I have witnessed firsthand the bullying tactics and red tape of these organisations. My bank makes a mistake and somehow don’t pay my direct debit for my council tax. This error I was blissfully unaware of. And I carry on about my normal life, thinking that my bank and its employees are doing what they are supposed do.
Druggies are stereotype by their actions because they don’t obey authority, get in trouble, and don’t focus in school. The movie Pineapple Express shows this stereotype because their stupid and don’t obey the law. Druggies are stereotyped by their appearance because they smell, and don’t care how they look. In the movie Pineapple Express shows this because the main characters smell and dress how they want and don’t care. Another stereotype of druggies is their dialogue because they don’t speak proper English, laugh at everything and cuss all the time.
The Ewells were known for being rude and inconsiderate. Mayella’s father, Robert, didn’t care much for his children and was always drunk. Atticus suspected him of beating Mayella and for forcing her to frame Tom Robinson. Atticus suspected this of him because in the courtroom he asked Mr. Ewell to write out his name. His dominant hand is his left and Mayella was struck on the right side of her face, which makes perfect sense.
The Antiguans gained the quality of showering pity and cruelty onto the weak from the Europeans that dominated their society (Kincaid 47). Americans view Mestizas as weak because they assume that they migrated here because they had no other options in their home country so they need our help to earn a living and are therefore pitied by the majority society. This quality was transferred onto the Mestizas as they are ashamed to be Mexican and ashamed of the stigma that comes with working the typical manual labor jobs we reserve for them (Castillo 25). The shame Castillo feels to be recognized as a Mestiza opens our eyes to why the Antiguans may have so readily adopted European traditions and perspectives. While Mestizas retained pride for their Mexican heritage, although not how they are viewed as immigrants in America, the Antiguans wanted to eliminate any ties to their previous culture of slavery and poor quality of living that is associated with them.
Although not everyone can fully relate to the story, it makes people reflect on today’s society and see the prejudice toward the poor and how they are manipulated from the rich. It also shows how money can make people become selfish. Money can stimulates a person’s materialistic side and once one becomes rich, he also becomes ignorant and loses his human instincts such as love and helpfulness. As a result makes the less fortunate feel worthless. This is shown when the boss gives the governess eleven rubles for her two months worth of work.