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Review of Eckert (2018) Meaning and Linguistic Variation: The Third Wave in Sociolinguistics
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How Football Frenzy is helping improve wellbeing
Get PDFFootball Frenzy is a 5 aside football session and there are many skills that can develop from playing football as well as mental benefit
Racism in Harper Lee\u27s To Kill a Mockingbird
No full textRacism and prejudice in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird shows the different ways in which white and black people were treated in 1930s, Alabama. Lee addresses these issues specifically to Tom Robinson’s court case, where he was wrongly accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Using Wayne Flynt’s online Encyclopaedia of Alabama, Austin Sarat’s and Martha Umphrey’s ‘Temporal Horizons’ essay, I argue how the topic of race creates a peripheral voice in Maycomb’s society. I analyse closely Tom Robinson’s testimony, the children’s reaction to the court case and the differing opinions on racism of Atticus and Bob Ewell. 
Angela Pinkney’s The Red Pencil: The Child\u27s Voice in A Genocide
No full textThe topic of this article will focus on the child’s immigrant voice during the Darfur genocide which took place in west Sudan in 2003. The genocide happened as a result of government funded militia murdering Darfurians due to differences in race, leaving 480,00 civilians killed and 2.8 million displaced. Despite continuous political unrest, little mainstream media has brought attention to this issue among masses with a lack of acknowledgment to their trauma, leaving their voices unheard. To fit the theme of peripheral voices I feel this topic is appropriate and have chosen to focus my article on Andrea Davis Pinkney’s The Red Pencil[1]. Her novel uncovers young girl Amira’s experience of the genocide. Amira’s experience represents many of what the children of Sudan were confronted with and I will examine how Pinkney’s novel brings the hidden voice of the children to the forefront.
[1] Andrea Davis Pinkney, The Red Pencil ([n.p.]: Little, Brown Young Readers US, 2014)