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    Investigating Question: Does the concentration of salt in the water‚ affects the germination of the seed? Purpose: To see if the salinity of the water affects the germination of the seed‚ before its put into the soil. Back Ground Information: Seed germination is the sprouting or growth of a seed into the start of a plant. When environmental factors such as moisture‚ temperature‚ oxygen‚ and sometimes light are appropriate‚ a viable seed will begin to germinate. Salinity (salt-affected)

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    Journal Entry 3 Carlson killing Candy’s dog leaves Candy wishing he’d done it himself‚ whereas when George killed Lennie‚ he isn’t left with guilt. “Look Candy…This ol’ dog jus’ suffers himself all the time. If you was to take him out and shoot him right in the back of the head – right there – why’d he’d never know what hit him.”() Carlson made it obvious that he wanted to kill Candy’s dog but that the dog wouldn’t suffer. Wanting the best for his dog‚ Candy allows Carlson to kill him. Later regretting

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    In the novel‚ of mice and men‚ theer was symbolizm throughout the story. In the beginning of the novel the stting was perfect‚ like "The Garden of Eden". LIke in "The Garden of Eden" there was a snake‚ and in this novel it slipped across the water sggestin possible evil to come. The rabbits on the other hand symoloized Lenny’s joy and goodness‚ and formed the bases of his dreams. In the beginning Of Mice and Men‚ the story began looking like a perfect world. The author describes the setting as a

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    Of Mice And Men Themes

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    Imagine being discriminated for the color of you’re skin‚ having you’re dreams shattered right before you’re eyes‚ stuck in a place all alone‚ or losing the closest friend that you have. John Steinbeck does a wonderful job of portraying all of these themes in his book Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck sets his book up during the great depression‚ there he illustrates the themes of broken dreams‚ friendship‚ racism‚ and loneliness. The main characters are George and Lennie‚ two migrant workers that

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    somebody’d shoot me. But they won’t have no place to go‚ an’ I can’t get no more jobs’’(Steinbeck 60). In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men‚ Lennie and George are very close friends and George looks out for the mentally handicapped Lennie. Lennie is fascinated with soft things‚ but tends to hurt them on accident. George and Lennie share a dream of living off the land. That dream suddenly goes away when Lennie kills Curley’s wife. Through changes of the character‚ Candy‚ Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to

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    them and make friends. Additionally‚ Candy looks desperate when the outlook of being part of Lennie and George’s dream of the small farm comes up‚ he says‚ "And they give me two hundred and fifty dollars ’cause I lost my hand. An’ I got fifty more saved up right in the bank right now. That’s three hundred..." This shows he’s willing to give every cent to join up with them and their dream and loneliness has made him desperate. Candy also had a close relationship with his dog. After his dog was shot

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    Is The American Dream Just A Dream? I think that the American Dream is a social ideal based on equality in social‚ political and economic rights and privileges. The constitution of this country suggests that every person who lives on American soil is free. In the United States’ Declaration of Independence our founding fathers:"…held certain truths to be self-evident‚ that all Men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights‚ that among these are life

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    Where the Dream becomes Reality Have you ever wondered if your entire life has been a living dream? In the short story‚ “Where are you going‚ Where have you been?” Joyce Carol Oates uses the motif of the music and the dream-like imagery in order to convey that Connie is having a nightmare that was created by her conscience and Arnold Friend is a collection of all the bad things she has done. Connie’s conscience is tainted by the things she does and thinks as a teenager. While fighting with

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    8. Loneliness is a very important theme in Of Mice and Men. Which characters are lonely and why? Of Mice and Men illustrates the loneliness of ranch life during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. Steinbeck creates a lonely and a blue atmosphere at many times in the novel. He uses words ‘Soledad’ which is referred to solitude‚ which means loneliness; and the card game ‘Solitare’ which means by one’s self. Not all the characters are lonely; Steinbeck makes it clear that only Crooks‚ Curley’s wife

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    situations that everyone is in can lead to different outcomes and can lead to people developing different personalities and different situations in life. This longing for companionship is a theme that is widely explored in the book in the book Of Mice and Men. In this book‚ John Steinbeck uses the characters Crooks‚ Curley’s wife and Candy to show that loneliness is sadly a part of life that everyone has to fight against. By the use of characters Steinbeck shows how people are lonely. Crooks is a

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