plotting questions: 1. I believe that death rates of those before 1950 will be higher just because of the lack of technological advances that can help one survive specific sicknesses and illnesses that would previously be fatal if not treated. 2. I expect the mortality of infants to be significantly lower before the 1950’s. Times were harder in the earlier part of the last decade‚ and the health care that we have come to have wasn’t as prominent as the latter half. 3. I predict women would
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10th October 2013 York notes "crooks is an illustration of the way in which loneliness can corrupt and destroy and man" crooks: no one gets into heaven and no one gets their dreams takes a very sinister view on life and likes to worry people about the negatives doesn’t believe that dreams can come true crooks and loneliness page 77- five quotes about crooks past‚ five on isolation and five on being a twisted human being past "I was born right here in California" "my old man
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Explore the ways Crooks (a minor character) is presented in Of Mice And Men John Steinbeck created the character of Crooks in order for him (Crooks) to embody the marginalisation of the black community during the 1930s. Crooks is a minor character‚ but this does not stop Steinbeck using him to bring attention to the racism of the time and the reality of ‘the American Dream’. When we first see Crooks it is apparent that he is very lonely “had his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned
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The Black Crook is a musical theatre which had been conform into modern ‘book musical.’ It was said that in summer of 1866‚ in the lower Broadway of New York City had been the busiest for them. With the congested traffic‚ temperature slowly rising and with the typical citizens walking around with such a busy road. Post-Civil War business had also boomed in this time period‚ in order terms there was in an increase with the city’s working and middle class population. With masses of people‚ they
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Crooks‚ Candy‚ Curley’s wife‚ and Lennie are all stereotypically displayed as what they come off as at first‚ the colored man‚ the migrant worker‚ the woman‚ and the one with cognitive disabilities. All of them are clearly underprivileged in some way‚ either by their sex‚ gender‚ brains‚ or where they come from. Crooks is constantly referred to as a negro throughout the book. He is treated as someone want to or should be around. He even has his own shack because other workers refuse to sleep in
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What connections did you find between issues in the work and your own culture(s) and experience? Family and Extended Family Greek Culture: - Dominant figure - The Father – Very important - Open family – Always big dinners‚ people come around unannounced - Feeling secure/safe in the culture - Very open‚ leave your doors open at night - Traditions – Very important (Christmas‚ easter etc.)‚ Family always has to be together - Same Household/ area – Same house through the generations‚ passed
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The USPHS did another survey and found about 399 men who had syphilis and ever never treated. This arose curiosity and began the study of the nature of syphilis. Soon after there was a group of controls added who did not have syphilis‚ about 200 men ‚ and a small group that had been treated with small amounts of arsphenamine. The later subjects were dropped from the study due to lack of funding for treatment. It is no doubt that this was racially motivated and that the physicians did not see the
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William Crookes was an English chemistry who was born on June 17‚ 1834 in London He was the oldest of 16 children of a wealthy tailor and real estate investor. His father Joseph Crookes was a tailor of north-country origin‚ living with his second wife‚ Mary Scott Lewis Rutherford Johnson. At age 16 he entered the Royal College of Chemistry. He wanted to study organic chemistry and while there‚ he became the assistant to August Wilhelm von Hofmann‚ a position which allowed him to attend meetings
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For their own survival Can you make people love you more by forming them‚ the way you want them to be? This is the essential question in For their own survival (2002) the short story by Ursula Hegi. The story is about the two persons Liz and Sam. They are on holiday by the coast in Mexico. After eleven years of marriage‚ Liz decides to leave Sam. This is very ironic‚ because she is the one who promised him‚ that he would always be with her. They are both active persons‚ and do everything together
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John Steinbeck discrimination is a huge part of several characters’ lives. Crooks is the stable buck that happens to be‚ a black man; he is told he can’t be around the other men because of the colour of his skin. Crooks states “They play cards in there‚ but I can’t play because I’m black” (Steinbeck 68). The men that live in the bunkhouse don’t let him play cards with them claiming that he is horrible at playing. Crooks is mostly avoided by the others do to the colour of his skin. When Lennie came
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