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    Moreover‚ Steinbeck uses a descriptive form of language to show that the ranch workers have an unpleasant‚ narrow future. he demonstrates this when he says ’’the bunkhouse was a long‚ rectangular building’’ this gives the reader the impression of the bunkhouse being long and thin in shape‚ almost like a corridor‚ representing the men’s narrow pathways in life. This also shows that the ranch workers are restricted from fulfilling their dreams because they have an unpleasant future‚ as they aren’t

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    Of Mice and Men Thomas Hobbes in his Leviathan states that‚ "in the state of nature mans life is nasty‚ brutish and short". In depression era America‚ no greater truth could be said. There were millions unemployed‚ largely unskilled and living on the margins of society. The lowest of the low were the migrant labourers travelling from place to place trying to scratch a living. They often had to travel illegally by freight car with all its consequent dangers. Their life expectancy was low‚ crime

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    George kills Lennie after a party is put together to lynch Lennie. The story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a tale of a small man wanting just to work and a giant of a man that just wanted his dream to come true. Lennie and George are very different people both mentally as well as philologically. First Lennie Philologically is much larger then George. Physically George is not that big. The best way to describe George would be he is a small quick man “The first man was small and quick‚ Dark

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    Hobos on the trains during the Great Depression There is a man who is tired‚ hungry‚ jobless‚ penniless‚ homeless and has been “riding the rails” for what seems to be an eternity. The box car is full with many other men‚ teenage boys and some women riding with him. All of them are there for the same reasons that he is‚ they are looking for work and a new place to call home. The smell of body odor from being closed in the box car for such a long time with all of these people is overwhelming

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    The great depression was a very hard time for women in Australia. Without work and a steady income many people lost their houses and were forced to live in makeshift dwellings with poo heating and sanitation. During this period of time‚ work around the house was still considered an important role for women. Even if the women had been working all day to bring home some money‚ she still had to come home and cook‚ clean and keeps the home in order for her unemployed husband and children. Women primarily

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    Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men deals with the plight of migrant labourers in California during the Great Depression‚ with the focus on two random migrant workers‚ George and Lennie. The first chapter sharply establishes the relationship between the two primary characters. George is a realist who must care for the simple child-like Lennie. George consistently reprimands and gets angry with Lennie for his actions‚ while Lennie strives to please George. We see this in the scene by the pool where Lennie

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    loss of large amounts of money for the investors. During the boom period‚ everyone had invested in stocks leaving out little money for lending and circulating in the market thus resulting in a stock market crash. This collapse was known as the Wall Street Crash and marked the outbreak of the Great Depression in the USA that soon had a spillover effect in many other countries as a result of the US terminating its loans to them. The Great Depression was a global economic event characterized by inflation

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    The Great Depression‚ starting in the early 1930’s‚ was a devastating event putting millions out of work and destroying the economy of the time with frozen credit and deflation. The Great Depression left people of the United States hungry and scrambling to find jobs where there were none. Starting with the stock market crash‚ banks failing‚ and farmers left in shambles after World War I‚ it caused people to lose jobs leaving them on the streets unable to find new places of work because many companies

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    how they lost their jobs. A time where America faced it worse economic stance‚ people were losing their jobs and money‚ most were put in poverty.The Great Depression started in 1929 and end 1939. Will be talking about what happen in the Great Depression and how it had an affect on people and farmers‚ about the U.S economy and other nations. The action taken by the president dealing with this situation‚ How the Great Depression was resolved. The Great Depression started in 1929 and affect virtually

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    ‘Of Mice and Men’ is written by John Steinbeck. The novel is set in the 1930s during the great depression in California. The two protagonist characters‚ George and Lennie are farm workers who have a dream of one-day owning their own ranch. They find work in a ranch near Soledad‚ after escaping from Weed because of George’s incident. They are met by different characters on the farm that all have a dream. To be lonely means to lack friends or companionship and to feel isolated. Most of the characters

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