Significance of Aunt Clara in Of Mice and Men Aunt Clara is a very important figure in Of Mice and Men‚ representing the idea of women as a motherly figure‚ a stereotype which was commonly viewed as acceptable by the Ranchworkers at the time. Although she isn’t present in the novel‚ she is one of the mentioned characters through both George and Lennie’s references to her as well as within Lennie’s daydreams‚ where she chastises him for the problems he imposes upon George. Aunt Clara is shown to be a
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Getting There: To get to Mission Santa Clara de Asis begin by heading North on Highway 99 for about 35 miles. After passing Madera merge onto Highway 152 West on the left toward Los Banos and Gilroy. Los Banos is a great place to stop and get snacks or take a bathroom break and Gilroy is a great place to shop at the outlets. Continue on 152 for about 85 miles until you get to Highway 101 North toward San Jose and Watsonville for 33 miles. Merge onto Interstate 880 South toward Los Gatos and
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The first half and last two words of Santa Clara University’s strategic vision are very much so appealing. The vision speaks about educating people of‚ “competence‚ conscience‚ and compassion”. These very three words to me encompass the entirety of a successful individual. First‚ one needs to have a level of competence‚ which in return builds good confidence‚ a vital trait for success. A good citizen must also have a conscience‚ to have the ability to distinguish the right from the wrong and to make
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The Widow by Fiona Barton One of the first things that I noticed about this novel is the structure‚ or way that each of the chapters are set up. Each chapter relates to the same mystery‚ but is narrated by a one of four characters in the book. The Widow‚ Jean Taylor‚ the detective Kate Waters‚ the officer…‚ and the victim Dawn Elliott. When I first started this novel‚ the structure was quite confusing because I wasn’t really familiar with the characters. I continued to mix up the victim
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Yet they did accept them in aiding the wounded. There were many women who helped but only a few who made many important changes in the medical field and in the movement for women to expand their opportunities. One of the important nurses was Clara Barton who was referred to as the “Angel of the Battlefield”. Although she did not start out as a nurse for her main career she did although began as
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Clara Schumann is one of the‚ if not the most famous female composer‚ especially during her lifetime in the romantic era. She was born on the 13th September 1819 in Leipzig as Clara Wieck. Her father‚ Friedrich Wieck‚ was a music pedagogue and famous piano teacher‚ and did everything to educate Clara as a pianist‚ but also as a composer‚ which was not usual by this time. She wrote „piano trio op.17“ when she was only 14 years old. Another famous piece of her was the „piano concerto op.7“. It did
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Santa Clara County’s Domestic Violence Council was established by the Board of Supervisors and the presiding judge of juvenile court in 1991 to evaluate the needs of the community on the topic of Domestic Violence. The Council is Santa Clara County’s first interdisciplinary Team whose goal is to not point fingers of blame at one another but rather seek out solutions on how to coordinate services better to address victims of domestic violence and their batterers. The Council has four objectives that
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Clara Chung-wai Shih was born in Hong Kong in 11th f January 1982. Shih and her family immigrated to the United States when she was 4 years old. Her father was a math professor in Hong Kong but in the US he became an electrical engineer. Her mother used to be an art teacher in Hong Kong and in the US she went back to school and became a special-education teacher. In Chicago an elementary school Clara Shih attended she was placed in special class for students with speech impediments because school
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LEADERSHIP STYLE A leadership style is a leader’s style of providing direction‚ implementing plans‚ and motivating people. There are many different leadership styles that can be exhibited by leaders in the political‚ business or other fields. The autocratic leaderThe authoritarian leadership style or autocratic leader keeps strict‚ close control over followers by keeping close regulation of policies and procedures given to followers. To keep main emphasis on the distinction of the authoritarian
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Mary Barton Chapter 3 close reading Elizabeth Gaskell ‚ in her first novel Mary Barton aims to show her opinion on the hardships of the working class in the 19th century through the protagonist Mary Barton. The opinions Mary states in chapter 3 about the working class allude to Gaskells reasons for writing the novel which is shown in the preface. In this passage Mary speaks from a working man ’s point of view and contrasts the life of workers to millowners who‚ to the workers‚ never seems
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