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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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    infrastructure companies in South Korea will hopefully benefit from joining China-backed bank (Kim and Yoo, 2015). This focus on infrastructure is extremely good for the distribution of Pop Tarts. Since the product will already be produced in South Korea, this means that distribution just requires a truck to drive the Pop Tarts to grocery stores across the country.

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    In the text Candy makes a statement about her and says "“Well, I think Curley’s married . . . . a tart.”(14)." A tart is defined as a woman who dresses tasteless and is sexually provocative. Through the novel, she wanders around the men seeking answers where her husband is at while eyeballing other men. For example, when she was in the barn looking for Curley

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    German-Canadian Eckhart Tolle once said, “Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.” Such a statement is hardly profound, but perhaps it is the key to understanding the narrator’s motivation behind killing his loved one in Carol Ann Duffy’s “Human Interest.” In the poem, an unnamed narrator speaks to the reader from his prison cell, where he is carrying a fifteen-year minimum sentence at for killing his cheating girlfriend. Throughout the short four-stanza poem, he takes us the reader

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    result, It’s Suggesting that curley's wife is as someone who is sceptical and harmful. Candy consideres curley’s wife as “a tart” because she flirts with the men on the ranch, On the other hand she is married. Candy tells george what he seen and thinks of curley’s wife. “ I seen her give slim the eye...know what i think? George did not answer. Well I think curley’s married a tart.” This connects to my thesis because she is trying to get attention from the men on the ranch. Slim isn’t the only person

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    Great Gatsby with the main character, Jay Gatsby. Everyone in New York believes Gatsby is a myth and believes all these crazy rumors about him. For example, he killed a man. In Of Mice and Men, everyone on the ranch believes that Curley’s wife is a tart when in reality she is just very lonely. Fitzgerald and Steinbeck use the characters Gatsby from The Great Gatsby and Curley’s wife from Of Mice and Men to show that rumors aren’t always reality. Throughout the book Fitzgerald is constantly reiterating

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    Curley's wife is an essential character for the development of John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, even though mysterious and nameless, she portrays the women of the 1930s, as well as emphasises their objectification and undermining. Curley's wife is also of great importance for developing the themes of dreaming as well as their downfall, the desire to be free and independent or essentially the American Dream. Finally, she also develops the theme of loneliness in the novel, as well as the theme

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