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    Being a teacher

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    Why Consider Becoming a Teacher? Teaching is a challenging job with many unique frustrations‚ but the rewards of teaching are numerable. Some of the many benefits include the following. Experience the Joy of Making a Difference Teachers get incredible joy in seeing the difference they make as students gain new insights‚ become more interested in a subject and learn about themselves. Every day‚ teachers mold the future through impacting their students’ views and understandings. Teachers foster

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    “Sometimes you gotta pretend everything is okay”. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinback. Two men travel to find work on a ranch in California. The characters Crook‚ Candy‚ and Curly’s wife all exemplify loneliness and isolation. Crook shows loneliness in the book. Crooks is the only black guy on the ranch. Crooks says‚ “S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunk house and play rummy cause you was black”(80). What Crooks is saying is he wants a friend . This is important because it shows how Crooks is

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    How does Steinbeck present the theme of loneliness in ‘Of Mice and Men’?   ‘Of Mice and Men’ is written by John Steinbeck‚ published in 1937. 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

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    many people travel together during the Great Depression thus creating many examples of isolation and loneliness. John Steinbeck demonstrates loneliness and the need for companionship through the characters Crooks‚ Candy‚ and Curly’s wife in his novel Of Mice and Men.  In this novel‚ Steinbeck uses his character Crooks to show loneliness. Character dialogue was one way Steinbeck showed loneliness in his novel. Crooks says to Lennie‚ “You know he’s goin’ to come back. S’pose you didn’t have nobody

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    Alienation and loneliness are two things not to get confused because of the circumstances that revolve around arriving to that state of being. Alienation refers to the feeling of being isolated from society‚ while loneliness refers to the state of being alone and completely void of human interaction. In Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein‚ determined seafarer Robert Walton and headstrong protagonist Victor Frankenstein both face moments of complete solitude where they have reached their lowest

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    During a time our country faced immense inequality‚ violence and a social uprising‚ Dorothy Day was able to pursue these radical causes with her objective to transform society through her spirit and faith in God. In her autobiography‚ The Long Loneliness‚ she explains her life endeavors through three different timeframes; her time of “Searching‚” her time of “Natural Happiness‚” and a time where she believed that “Love is the Measure.” In the first section of the reading‚ we discover how Dorothy

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    ARE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BEING FAMOUS? If you are a famous person all the people believe you have a wonderful life with no worries or problems. But‚ to my mind being famous have both advantages and disadvantages. The greatest advantage is that celebrities are usually very rich and they have easier lifes than other people. They live in beautiful enormous houses mantained by housekeepers‚ gardeners‚ cooks and many servants. Secondly‚ being a celebrity bring them such privileges

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    come across work in a small ranch near a place called ‘Soledad’. This is where they meet the other characters in the story. One of the main points Steinbeck makes us aware of is the damaging effects of loneliness on people’s lives. The setting also helps to create a clear picture of the loneliness as do the characters they meet. The book is set in the 1930s in Soledad. Workers are given a bunkhouse to stay in while working on the remote ranch. The description Steinbeck gives of the bunkhouse emphasises

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    who became well known after his first published story in 1935. In his story The Chrysanthemums Steinbeck‚ uses the theme of loneliness and confinement. The main character Elisa Allen is mainly focused on her garden of chrysanthemums will her husband is unaware of the changes she is going through while he sits next to her. He used imagery to reinforce his theme of loneliness and confinement by giving a detailed look on the valley and the characters. First Steinbeck uses the valley to descried Elias

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    Mice and Men is an American novel of loneliness‚ love‚ and need of homeless men who have nothing but each other. This novel was written by John Steinbeck‚ and was published in 1937. John was actually writing of his past experiences of working on farms and enduring loneliness when he was younger. Of Mice and Men tells a story of the nature of humans beings and their desire for friendship. Almost all of the characters admit to having a strong sense of loneliness at one point during the novel. Each

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