Plain Truth Essay

Katie, the main character of the story, is a twenty-two year old Amish woman who lives near Lancaster County, in Hickory Hollow. Her love, Dan Fisher died four years ago. Katie is engaged to widowed Bishop John with four kids: Nancy, Hickory John, Levi, and Jacob. She feels like she is not good enough to marry such a man of authority when something inside pulls for worldly things.

Nate then entered the scene to pick up Sonny and take him to work. When Sonny gets to work he sees Madea in a cell. She tells Sonny about the incident and asks him to bring bail money from home. Madea then meets Chico, a woman with three boys, Katie who has been in jail for nine years for stabbing her ex-husband, a pimp that tried to kill his and Katie's daughter Toni, but now that she's in jail, her daughter has been continuously jumping from foster home to foster home. Katie's daughter, comes to visit and is shown to have a nasty attitude and when she gets one with Madea, she stabs her with her cigarette. Later Katie’s ex-husband Pete visits her to insult her and her daughter. Once Madea’s bail was posted Katie asked her to take care of her daughter

Through her vulnerability and loneliness she blamed an innocent man of rape. Mayella’s vulnerability and naiveness was demonstrated by, being abused by her father, wanting to be with Tom, and thinking Atticus was mocking her on the witness stand. During Atticus’s closing arguments he told the jury how Tom wasn’t guilty of hurting Mayella, it was actually her father. Tom was explaining to the judge what Bob had

Essie’s father buys her a new blue gown for the occasion. Needing a copy of her birth certificate, they realize that the original was burned up in the house fire, so they go and get a new one, and they realize that Essie’s name has been changed to Anne. Liking the name better, Essie decides to be called Annie from now on. During the next summer, Raymond travels to California in the hopes of finding a job, only to discover that there are no jobs available. Anne’s mother becomes

In other words, she implies that everyone deserves a chance, and for Tom Robinson, it is a chance to declare his innocence. She lets the kids comprehend that their father knows he will lose the case, however, because his

The first nine minutes of this film develops the tone of the rest of the film and how these two very opposite characters meet. Ellie escapes her father by jumping off the boat and swimming to shore. She is followed by body

Everyone is shocked, including her housekeeper, Terry. But Molly isn’t surprised, Vivian knows that there is a whole other world out there using the internet. Which of course leads Molly to searching for Vivian’s birth child. A few clicks here and there guides Molly to a website where Vivian can put in all of her information with hopes of Vivian finding her child. “If I decide that I’m ready, will you help me?” (Kline 266). Vivian decides to go through with the website and later receives a phone call from the adoption registry and tells her that they found a match for her daughter, Sarah Dunnell. Terry was totally surprised when the adoption registry calls and that is how Terry finds out about her daughter. Molly later convinces Vivian to reach out to her child, she ends up talking to her over a Facebook message, and leads to her child being at her front door foot steps months later to finally meet again. “Vivian puts her foot on the first step and stumbles slightly, and each person moves toward her, as if in slow motion” (Kline

The churches in the Byzantine Empire were extremely close to the government. Enough for Christianity in the government to be called caesaropapist. Caesaropapism is a polotical theory that believes the head of state should also be head of the church. The role of Christianity impacted the political views of people and the government directly. The Christian church was seen as a department of the state by the Emperors and government officials. In the patriarchs, bishops, and priest's sermons, they encouraged their followers to obey the government. In the Islamic culture, religion and government moved almost as one. The caliphate of Islam was the head leader of the government as well. Islam created a stable running bureaucracy and then began to

Hamlet isn't insane, he just acts insane and plays another character to fool people. The way Hamlet talks in verse or sane shows that he can act insane or act normal when he pleases. Hamlet also cracks jokes and says ignorant things whenever Hamlet watches the play with Ophelia. Beautiful Hamlet makes these brilliant schemes to find evidence on who killed his stunning father, like the play inside a play, an insane person could not do that.

Dave realizes that the incident in the past is not his fault. Now Dave is no longer lost and is in full control of himself.” He knew who he was and he knows he'd done that. And killing someone” (Lehane 316). Although he is able to see a glimpse of what letting go of the past can do, he has realized too late. Jimmy is fully convinced that it is Dave that have killed his daughter. “‘I didn’t have anything to do with Katie's death.’ They're going to kill me Dave realized” (Lehane 372). Sadly, even though Dave had nothing to do with Katie, he gets killed by his old best friend. Unlike Dave, Caroline was able to realize how to let go the past. Before losing the relationship with her family. Caroline is very delusional in her journey, she thinks that one of the stranger she meets is Ellie. “She lifted her hand and I gasped, it was Ellie” (Ward 197) Nevertheless, when she realizes that the stranger is not Ellie, Caroline realizes she has another sister who is in desperate need from her. “But something had changed in me... I'm coming home, I said” (Ward 247) she is not the only one struggling about the past. As soon as she acknowledges this she goes back to her only family, Maddie. Both characters realizes their mistake of carrying the burden by themselves. Although one is able to realize sooner, the other realize too late and let the burden drag him down to the pit of

In chapter 18, the trial was in route and the truth was finally unrolling. The Ewell family had really nothing to live for, but the gossip that caused their problems. Bob had become a rapist, alcoholic, and a potential murderer. Mayella became a sad lonely girl who was beaten and raped by this toxic man. They were seen more justified than the Robinson family just because they were white. They had power because of their skin and abused it. The community supported them even though there were many secrets to be revealed. Bob had grown up always poor, he never really had a chance to overcome the pity that has followed him through his life. He started to drink to get rid of the feeling of pity, but it had always advanced to make him feel sorry for himself. He took his pain out on anyone, especially his family. He had children that had grown up without love and affection, but with pain and fear. It causes his daughter, Mayella, to be afraid of anyone including herself. She had never had anyone that actually took interest in her, but when Tom started helping her, she had decided to ruin another life. The novel was surrounded by pity and the pain that others give us, so they decide to return it to who once gave it to

Writing has many tools and devices that can be used to influence the purpose and meaning of the a piece of work. In the two pieces of work, "Private License Plate Scanners Amassing Vast Databases Open to Highest Bidders-which is written in a way that it is anti-license plate tracking- and "Who Has the Right to Track You?'-which is written to be for license plate tracking- many different tools and devices are used by the authors. These pieces of work describe the benefits and drawbacks of collecting data and tracking fellow citizens, but use different forms of pathos, ethos, and logos to portray what they are trying to say. Also, both articles state how many are opposed to this tracking, arguing that it is against the First Amendment,

This passage presents a discussion about arguments concerning morality of the death penalty. This is an important debate to both proponents and opponents of the death penalty because of the serious implications of the punishment. The two positions argue whether or not the death penalty should be prohibited. Both viewpoints have valid claims warranting consideration. For example, evidence indicates that death sentence is both cruel and immoral. In contrast, opposing evidence suggests that is a moral punishment for certain offenders. While both sides of the issue have valid points, the claim that the death penalty should not be prohibited is the stronger position, the position supported by the preponderance of the evidence cited in the passage. The most convincing and forceful reasons in support of the position that capital punishment should still be used are that it is the only moral punishment for brutal and heinous crimes, that it is more humane than a life long prison sentence, and that it was found to be constitutional by the Supreme Court. Accordingly, these reasons and opposing viewpoint will be discussed next.

Atticus continues to remain calm and collected as the town continues to harass him for defending Tom Robinson. Once Tom returns to town for his trial Atticus decides to stand guard at his house knowing that trouble will arise. Low and behold, a crowd of angry racist men show up with rifles to kill Tom. Scout, Jem, and Dill arrive just as the trouble does. Atticus tries to send the children away but they refuse to leave. Scout recognizes Mr. Cunningham and goes up to him. Mr. Cunningham then calls off the mob. The next morning after the incident, marks the first day of the trial. The kids attend the trial. As the trial unfolds Mayella provides a very inconsistent recount of what happened the day she was allegedly raped. Atticus wittingly proves she is lying based on the fact that Tom cannot use his left hand due to a cotton gin incident, but coincidently her father is left handed. Tom recounts that he did help Mayella with her chifferobe, but that he helped her many times because he felt bad for her and always refused payment. Until one day she grabbed him and tried to get him to kiss her which Bob saw and threatened to kill her for it. The prosecutor questions him about how he could possibly feel bad for a white woman and gets him to admit that he is indeed strong enough to cause great harm. As the lawyers give closing remarks, Atticus shares that there is a gross lack of evidence to prove that Tom committed this crime. He does

The question of right and wrong has been battled over for centuries. Many conservatives still believe that truth is absolute, while others disagree, saying that truth is relative. I believe that truth is an individual’s perception of beliefs and decisions.