the colour of his skin although we know he was actually born in California where the novel was set. In chapter two of ‘Of Mice and Men’ Crooks is mentioned for the first time. When Candy tells George about a night in which Crooks had a fight with ‘Smitty’‚ he admits ‘Jesus‚ we had fun’. Candy’s idea of ‘fun’ is shocking to the reader. It suggests that in the 1930’s it is fine to attack a man for entertainment and it is justified by the fact Crooks is black. Candy refers to Crooks as ‘the nigger’ this
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OF MICE AND MEN Chapter 1 Setting : It is a hot Thursday‚ late in the afternoon. The characters are four miles south of Soledad. They stop right by the Salinas River‚ a beautiful river in rural California surrounded by woods that have a warn path through them that runs to the river from the ranches and farms. There is a giant sycamore near them with a horizontal limb worn smooth by men who have sat on it‚ and under it is the ash pile of many fires. It is a very peaceful and heavenly setting.
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Matthew Eliason Nicholas Young LITR221 January 26‚ 2014 All Good Things Must Come to an End A Course Review of 2013-2014 Winter Semester of LITR 221 The amazing thing about literature is that it can be interrupted differently by each person who reads it. Which means that while one piece of writing is amazing‚ creative‚ and witty to one person to another person it could be the most boring‚ uninteresting‚ and redundant piece of literature they have ever read. In this semester of Literature
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Mac Neill Jhon B. Calamaan‚ BS Che II P.E. 23 1-3 T 11-12-12 History Of Billiards Condensed version of "A Brief History of the Noble Game of Billiards" By Mike Shamos. Curator of The Billiard Archive‚ a nonprofit organization set up to preserve the game’s history. With permission of the Billiard Congress of America. The History of billiards is long and very rich. The game has been played by kings and commoners‚ presidents‚ mental patients‚ ladies‚ gentlemen‚ and hustlers alike. It
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In Steinbeck’s life-changing epithet‚ Of Mice and Men‚ many themes are depicted which relate to the agonising and poignant lives of the people during the Great Depression. Also‚ during this era‚ many black people were persecuted and horrendously exploited through no reason whatsoever. For a purpose‚ Steinbeck has converted a society into a microcosm to epitomise the sympathy and grief of the black society. Significantly in Chapter 4‚ he emphasises on many themes; some of which are more emphasised
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Historiographic Metafiction Parody and the Intertextuality of History LINDA HUTCHEON Il y a plus affaire à interpreter les interpretations qu’a interpreter les choses‚ et plus de livres sur les livres que sur autre sujet: nous ne faisons que nous entregloser. -Montaigne The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title‚ the first lines‚ and the last full-stop‚ beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form‚ it is caught up in a system of references to other books‚ other
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IBM WebSphere Portal software family Your world. Your way. IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.X Performance Tuning Guide IBM WPLC Performance Team March 2009 Document version 2.1 Contents PERFORMANCE TUNING OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................... 2 Environment Considerations ................................................................................................................ 3 32-bit and 64-bit Considerations
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Adolf Hitler 1 Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Hitler in 1937 Führer of Germany In office 2 August 1934 – 30 April 1945 Deputy • • Rudolf Hess (1933–1941) Position vacant Preceded by Paul von Hindenburg (as President) Karl Dönitz (as President) Chancellor of Germany In office 30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945 Succeeded by President Deputy Paul von Hindenburg (until 1934) • • Franz von Papen (1933–1934) Position vacant Preceded by Succeeded by Kurt von Schleicher Joseph Goebbels
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