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    Lemon Grove Case Study

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    The Lemon Grove Incident In 1930 school segregation would disturb the peace between the interracial Mexican and Anglo Community of Lemon Grove‚ California. On July 23‚ 1930 the Lemon Grove School Board began to discuss a PTA request. The Parent Teachers Association had requested the segregation of Mexican American grammar students from Anglo students on account of overcrowding‚ educational differences‚ and a deterioration of sanitation and morals. The School board appealed to build a separate school

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    The Lemon Grove Incident (Christopher‚ 1985)‚ is a movie that depicts the first successful legal challenge to school segregation in the United States. The incident took place in the early 1930’s in California. The town’s population was largely made up of Mexican immigrants who worked in the citrus groves. The school officials in the town felt that the Mexican children were hindering the learning of the Anglo students. Eventually‚ the school board tried to force the Mexican students to attend a separate

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    Segregation has always been a problem. Attitudes regarding racial separation probably arrived in Texas during the 1820s and obviously accompanied views toward the "peculiar institution‚” slavery. Anglo-Americans begin extending segregation to Mexican Americans after the Texas Revaluation as a social custom. Tejanos formed a suspect class during and after the revolution‚ and that fact led to a general aversion of them. After the Civil War‚ segregation went hand-in-hand with the violence often employed

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    In a Grove

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    Zabala Litera2 10335625 07/11/05 In A Grove It is a story that provides the ultimate explanation of how two different people who are witnesses to a crime give completely different psychological recollections of the same event. The author reminds us that truth depends on the telling. Someone must step forward and tell that truth. I believe that no matter how many times you read "In A Grove‚" there’s not enough information in the story to figure out the truth about

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    R.J. Renzi In A Grove and "Rashomon" Comparison In Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short stories In A Grove and Rashomon‚ an epic conflict of appearance vs. reality is reinforced by the world-renowned movie "Rashomon". Although the stories and the movies use different symbolism and have many distinct differences‚ they both support this theme. In the book Rashomon and Other Stories‚ Akutagawa creates the stories In A Grove and "Rashomon" where they are combined to form a story within a story‚ which makes

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    In a Grove

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    In a Grove Akutagawa‚ Ryūnosuke (Translator: Takashi Kojima) Published: 1922 Categorie(s): Fiction‚ Mystery & Detective‚ Psychological‚ Short Stories Source: http://www.scribd.com/doc/3682435/In-a-Grove-byRyunosuke-Akutagawa 1 About Akutagawa: 芥川 龍之介(あくたがわ りゅうのすけ、1892年3月1日 - 1927年7月24 日)は、日本の小?家。号は澄江堂主人、俳号は我鬼を用いた。 その作 品の多くは短編で、「芋粥」「藪の中」「地獄?」「?車」など、『今昔 物語集』『宇治拾遺物語』などの古典から題材をとったものが多い。 「蜘蛛の糸」「杜子春」など、童話も書いた。 1927年7月24日未明、友 人にあてた遺書に「唯ぼんやりした不安」との理由を残し、服毒自殺。 35?という年?であった。後に、芥川の業績を記念して菊池

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    In a Grove

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    Bondoc‚ Cris Vincent A. 11-20-08 HUM15-A4 Prof. Bantay In a Grove One cannot get a conclusion from the story because every character says one thing that is refuted by another. For instance‚ Masago said that Takehiro was repulsed by her after the rape. In Takehiro’s version‚ Takehiro was furious at his wife because of what happened‚ while Tajomaru said that the samurai still loved her wife as he was ready to fight to the death for her. Another was the strange character who took

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    In a Grove

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    In A Grove There are different types of points of view in fiction. In the story‚ “In A Grove” by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa‚ a high police commissioner investigates a recent murder. The police commissioner gathers different testimonies from six different people. Each one of those testimonies has inconsistencies about the details of the murder. Different points of view were shown in the story. A woodcutter was first to be questioned. His testimony states that he found the dead body in the woods‚ about

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    In a grove

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    The story opens with the account of a woodcutter who has found a man’s body in the woods. The woodcutter reports that man died of a single sword stroke to the chest‚ and that the trampled leaves around the body showed there had been a violent struggle‚ but otherwise lacked any significant evidence as to what actually happened. There were no weapons nearby‚ and no horses—only a single piece of rope‚ a comb and a lot of blood. The next account is delivered by a traveling Buddhist priest. He says

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    Lemon Tree

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    The Lemon Tree provides viewers with an excellent portrayal of life’s struggles as a Palestinian woman being oppressed due to an ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The main character‚ Salma Zidane struggles from tough economic hardships ever since she has become widowed for ten years and her two daughters are married and her son moved to the United States. While she is alone Salma earns her only small form of salary from a lemon grove that her family has occupied for fifty years. However‚ one

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