"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a literary representation of people dealing with all sorts of judgments and differences. Aptly, at one point Jem describes four kinds of people in Maycomb County: "Our kind of folks don't like the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams don't like the Ewells, and the Ewells hate and despise the colored folks." Is "otherness" rooted in people? How does our society deal with those differences today?

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Humans are complex beings. Every human has a different mind. When people are part of a society, they have to relate to each other but that doesn't mean they have to agree or like each other. And that has been a major problem. Why? Because people do not understand either respect differences. Seems like "if you do not think like me, you are against me." And that is incorrect.

People need to appreciate the diversity in life and other ways of thinking because diversity makes life fun and interesting. As noted in "To Kill a Mockingbird," the color of the skin, the name of your family, the territory you live in, or the belief system you process, have always rivaled with other people that have a different situation.

Today, our society deal with those differences by making their voice heard loud and clear. However, many people still acting as if they were living in the 1800s. Dividing instead of uniting. Selecting, instead of including. Segregating, instead of accepting.

~kinetic ~potential

explanation:

kinetic and potential energies would be types of mechanical energies.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)