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    so the readers can put their own view across on how they think she is and what they think she is like and how she behaves and the way she comes across as being ‘a tart’ gives the readers a negative impression of her. The first impressions we got of her were negative as Steinbeck used language to describe her and put her across as ‘a tart and flirty’. Earlier Candy was talking about Curley’s wife when

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    The men on the farm refer to her as a “tramp,” a “tart,” and a “looloo.” Dressed in fancy, feathered red shoes, she represents the temptation of female sexuality in a male-dominated world. Steinbeck depicts Curley’s wife not as a villain, but rather as a victim. Like the ranch-hands, she is desperately

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    judged her based on what they think they have seen. One can infer from reading the story that she is not looking for attention from another man, she is simply looking for someone to talk to. George also contributes to accusing Curley’s wife of being a “tart”, by stating, In this quotation, George is warning Lennie to stay away from her. One can clearly see where sexism comes into play here; he not only called her a brutal name that has deceived her, but assumes that she will get them into trouble because

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    John Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife at the start of the story as an irrelevant character because she has no relation with George and Lennie. At the start, Curley is one of the most important characters (besides George and Lennie) because he has the power to crush George and Lennie’s dream of having a farm of your own. But as the story goes on, to end, we see the importance of her character and that everything that has happened on the ranch is caused by her presence; even though she is not in the

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    students that it may also be permitted. However, using phrases or words such as this could terribly hurt someone or cause serious consequences. Moreover, Curley’s wife is constantly referred to as a “tart”, meaning she dresses teasingly and provocatively. Portraying the only female character as a “tart” is another way to lessen women. Many female readers may slowly degrade their self-confidence as strong women and could easily be negatively influenced by these phrases. Lastly, Lennie being confused

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    Dining With Queen Elizabeth Part 1: I chose the topic of cooking and food during the Renaissance because that is what I like to do. Part 2: I found lots of interesting facts on the internet that I did not know about before. One website, however, had a long list of foods eaten. A portion of it was foods that people in England did not eat at that time. I had to be careful that I did not include these with the other foods. Instead, I had to make a separate column consisting of food that the people

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    In Of Mice & Men, the character Curley’s Wife is depicted as flirtatious, promiscuous, and insensitive. However, her husband Curley sees her as only a possession. Most of the workers at the ranch see her as a tart, whereas Slim, the peaceful and god-like figure out of all the men, see her as lonely. This answer will tell us to which extent, is Curley’s wife a victim, whether towards her flirtatious behaviour, or to everyone’s representation of her. The character of Curley’s Wife is very hard

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    fact that once she has died, she received the attention of every man on the ranch. All the negative aspects of Curley’s wife disappear. Steinbeck describes her as being ‘sweet’ even though at the beginning of the novel, she was associated as being a ‘tart’. The reference to lack of sound and movement emphasises death and creates a sense of expectancy because Curley’s wife was the voice of the ranch, she was the only one who really spoke out loud and made her voice heard. Once all the sound had gone

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    Food ads targeted to children food ads that target children and the promotion of unhealthy products vs. healthy products. As well as how companies can convince parents and kids to buy these things. When I look at advertisements for food products that are targeted towards kids there is usually a lot of color involved, I believe companies do this because it will attract the eye of a young child. As well as adding fictional characters or cartoons, a product that uses this would be sugary cereals

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    Inglorious Food” is written by the one and only poet, Andrea Dietrich. Some of Andrea’s poems are focused on one figurative language. When eating unhealthy foods you want to eat fruits and vegetables, but fruits will attack with enjoyment unhealthy such as tart, pies, or pastries. Fast food and fat food is very bad for us. KFC deep fried food knows our weakness for fat, which gives pleasure and saturates fast foods high cholesterol dishes. Too much of a good thing is pizza (so cunning, so meaty, so cheesy)

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