In to kill a mockingbird, chapter 26 question 1) in her lesson on hitler, miss gates says that “we( american people) don’t believe in persecuting anyone”.what seems odd to the reader about this claim?

I would say her claim is odd because in the whole book the towns pople are showing hostility and anger towards people of color and to atticus when he defends the colored person. So they are being racist and yet miss gates says that they are not showing any signs of persecution when the definition for it is hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.

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the penalty for defying creon's decree is death, as can be seen in the tragedy. if you do obey him however, all is forgiven

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.