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    Curley is mistreated because of his size which causes him to lash out at his wife and the ranch workers to feel like he is in control. Curley treats George and Lennie poorly when he first meets them. When George questions Candy for the reason he acts that way, Candy says, “Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys” (26). We see in the quote how Curley is described as a “little guy”. Like anyone who would be treated that way, he responds negatively

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    the men ignored caused Mrs. Wright to kill her husband. In the early 20th century, the men controlled everything, and the women were all housewives who didn’t have the opportunity to work. Mrs. Wright woke up every morning to the stillness of her farmhouse, she would then have to make breakfast for herself and eat alone. She spends her days tending to different chores and tasks around the house, only having herself to talk to. Mrs. Wright would have to do tasks such as cooking, cleaning, tending to

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    He gives many scenarios where we have separted ourselves from naturue. Louv draws an image in our mind of what looking out the car window looks like. The author draws this image by stating, "the variety of architecture, here and there; a farmhouse at the edge of the subdivision; the variety of architecture, here and there; the woods and fields and water beyond the seamy edges". The imagery Louv creates allows the audience to realize how much they have missed out on due to technology. Louv

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    The passage, from the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is an example of one of Squealer's convincing announcements, in which he persuades the animals to believe something that isn't necessarily true. In this speech, he convinces the other animals that the Fourth Commandment had always said, “no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,” (67), when really he had just added "with sheets" onto it. By setting up Squealer as someone who always has the answer, and who can convince the animals of anything

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    What does the word time mean? The definition of time is the continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and the future. People cannot see time but the effects happen to everyone and everything like humans, animals, and nature. In E.B. White’s essay “Once More to the Lake”, time has affected his beloved vacation spot from his childhood the lake, roads, and camp grounds have changed since 1904. Therefore, I disagree with White in “Once More to the Lake” that everything was

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    Life In A Cubicle

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    It was the year 2030 in the city of . The city is filled with skyscrapers offices with cubicles and in one of those cubical was a man named Robert that is me. I was caught up to the modern life had a job working in a cubicle but he was not happy. Everyday I went back home to an empty apartment ordered out and ate alone. I was feeling the pressure of the real life stressed from the modern life he thought being in the cubicle is pointless. I thought back to a simpler life he remember his grandpa before

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    The Winchester Mystery House was initially a small two-story farmhouse in San Jose. Today, this famed 160-room mansion is open to the public and the subject of the recently released movie, Winchester. The Mansion was built by Sarah Winchester, the widow and heiress of firearm magnate William Winchester. Although Winchester Repeating Arms Company provided the Winchesters with considerable wealth, Mrs. Winchester reportedly believed, due in part to her husband and child’s untimely deaths, that the

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    In her play, “Trifles,” Glaspell writes about a murder committed in a farmhouse on a cold winter day. This mystery includes two women from different backgrounds that work together to solve the mystery of Mr. Wrights death. The obstacles they face along the way teach many valuable lessons. The relationship between Mrs. Peter and Mrs. Hale helps explain the overall theme of the gender divide occurring in 1916. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale come from different backgrounds. Mrs. Peters is “married to the

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    death for treason. He was one of Queen Elizabeth’s favorites. He did good things and bad things. He had something to be proud of though. He wasn’t a bad person and he did good things. Sir Walter Raleigh was born in 1552-1554, he grew up in a farmhouse in East Budleigh, Devon. He studied at Oxford and fought with the French Huguenots at age 17. He was one of Queen Elizabeth’s favorites, and was knighted in 1585. He was captain of the Queen’s guard, and served in her army before hand. He named a

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    Jones. He controls the animals actions and what they receive. Snowball is very helpful to the animals, while they fight against the humans. Orwell writes,”Snowball, who had studied an old book by Julius Caesar's campaigns which he had found in the farmhouse, was in charge of defensive operations”(40). This shows that snowball was one of the smarter and trusted animals at the farm.

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