everything that they could to get good jobs and make money. In the beginning of the novel the main characters‚ George and Lennie are sitting on a hill by a pond discussing what their dreams are in life. George mentions how one day they will get a little shack on about ten acres and have cows and pigs. Before he can finish his sentence Lenny interrupts him saying‚ “An’ live off the fatta the lan’. An’ have rabbits.. In the the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove‚ and how thick the cream
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Jerusalen Quintero Mrs. Metzker Engilsh 8B 11 April 2016 IEP: 3 Paragraph Accommodation The Great Depression The Great Depression started from 1929 to 1941. The Great Depression was caused by Black Tuesday. On Tuesday‚ October 29‚ 1929 the stock market crashed. The people lost more than $40 billion dollars and the stock market began to regain some of its losses‚ but it didn’t go back up like
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Extraction The first stage of processing is the extraction of the cane juice. In many factories the cane is crushed in a series of large roller mills: similar to a mangle [wringer] which was used to squeeze the water out of clean washing a century ago. The sweet juice comes gushing out and the cane fiber is carried away for use in the boilers. In other factories a diffuser is used as is described for beet sugar manufacture. Either way the juice is pretty dirty: the soil from the fields‚ some small
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she walked past a seemingly run-down building with the molding‚ cracked door wide open‚ Ava grew curious‚ so she looked into the cracked window pane of the old wooden shack. She only saw a dark hallway with some old chairs against the walls‚ so she went in to look around. All of a sudden‚ she heard a loud “What are you doing in my shack‚” that seemed to shake the entire building. Ava was paralyzed in fear‚ so she said nothing and just stared‚ as an old woman with multiple scars on her face appeared
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When Goodman is walking through the forest on his journey‚ he meets a man‚ this man is dressed normally and looks quite normal. This man greets him‚ and offers him a walking stick‚ or cane. This cane doesn’t look like any other ordinary cane. the can has a lifelike serpent slithering across the handle and body. This cane is a symbol for evil‚ and its ability to pull people into its ways. Goodman Brown was originally a very decent man‚ who had good views and beliefs‚ but once he met this man‚ who later
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Cannery Row John Steinbeck’s story Cannery Row’ is basically a story that actually has no mystery yet has a story that has a mixture of humor and sadness. The story takes a glimpse into the lives of the residents of Cannery Row‚ which is situated in Monterey‚ California. Cannery Row is a place that depends on canning sardines. John Steinbeck describes Cannery Row as "a poem‚ a stink‚ a grating noise‚ a quality of life‚ a tone‚ a habit‚ a nostagia‚ a dream [p. 1]." Steinbeck has focused
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Sandalwood is the name of a class of fragrant woods from trees in the genus Santalum. The woods are heavy‚ yellow‚ and fine-grained‚ and unlike many other aromatic woods they retain their fragrance for decades. As well as using the harvested and cut wood‚ essential oils are also extracted from the woods for use. Both the wood and the oil produce a distinctive fragrance that has been highly valued for centuries. Consequently‚ the slow-growing trees have been overharvested in many areasThe sandal tree
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working on the sugar cane plantation to life free of the plantation and the experiences good and bad faced by the people who worked and lived in that era. The poem describes the experience of the slaves that allows the readers to be thrown back into the past‚ the first two lines of the poem reflect the feelings of joy when the carts passes with the freshly cut sugar cane “rushed out when the carts passed with succulent stalks” expresses the happiness felt when seeing the cane stalks. That feeling
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After the discovery of the Americas‚ cane sugar was introduced to the West Indies and became a prominent plantation cash crop. From that time sugar trade remained part of the global economy. In the era of 1492 to 1750 key factors such as favorable climate‚ demand for sugar‚ and profit from the slave trade‚ drove the sugar trade to flourish. In 1493 Columbus introduced sugar cane to the West Indies and the crop thrived. Originally native to New Guinea‚ sugar cane had eventually moved to India and the
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the road of death. Furthermore Pepé’s appearance also helps foreshadow the ending. Steinbeck describes him as having a black hat that covers his black thatched hair. Pepé is also described as being dark‚ lean and tall. Another example is Pepé’s shack. The shack is described as weathered and very old. It casts a rather large shadow to the North east. The darkness of the shadow symbolizes death in the home. As we can readily see‚ the authors use of black symbolism in the story tells us that the main character
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