What is college for? In the 21st century‚ many high school students don’t obtain higher education‚ because they question themselves on the benefits and time consuming of getting higher education. Important questions like: “Why should I go to college? Will be waste of my time and investment? Students are thinking in ways that discourage them from choosing to go to college leading them to ignore the importance of education. College allows students to explore different perspective such as to exploring
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1. What are portraits? Pictures of individuals in which their face and expression are the primary focus. 2. What are candid shots? What are posed shots? Compare and contrast some of the advantages and disadvantages to these two approaches. Candid shots are taken when the person is unaware that the photograph is being taken. Posed shots are ones when the person knows which way to look and which expression to do. Candid shots are good because they are taken at random moments and can capture true emotion
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The Author Steinbeck presents Crooks in Chapter 4. The character Crooks is a black person who work in a ranch in California. In 1930 in America there were segregation between white and black people‚ and this relates onto how Crooks is segregated from and by other workers in the ranch ‘they don’t let me play card‚ cause I’m black’ even they don’t let them play a game so this also shows how black people was treated. Moreover Crooks is also treated like an animal ‘had his bunk in the harness room’
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REPUBLIC II City of luxury‚ continued we will need a military to protect and satisfy the desires of those who have the drive for honor and inequality and would want this kind of city (eg‚ Glaucon) thus‚ the guardian class is introduced the guardian class needs the: love of‚ but not necessarily the possession‚ of wisdom thymos (spiritedness) the drive for recognition; for honor; to be free and not be mastered a drive to overcome and be free from material appetites Once you allow for the
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Chapter Four. African Slaves Build their Own Community in Coastal Georgia Slavery was originally prohibited in the original 1732 Georgia charter; the ban was lifted two decades later when Georgia became a Royal colony. By 1770‚ 15‚000 slaves made up 80% of the population. Rice was one of the most valuable commodities of mainland North America‚ surpassed only by tobacco and wheat. The Atlantic slave trade grew to match rice production. “Saltwater” slaves (slaves
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Steinbeck portray Crooks as a character? Steinbeck portrays Crooks as an intelligent man ‘’California Civil Code’’ Crooks strives to be literate on his own and he wants to be aware of the few right has as a black man. It also shows that he is intelligent because with the little schooling he has it looks like he wants to better himself. Crooks is being separated due to his skin colour. ‘’A little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn’’ we can infer that this is the location for Crooks and indicates
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nuts if he ain’t got nobody. But the most heart aching thing is that I have no family‚ I would do anything just to have one. I’ll never have the chance to live my American dream‚ to one day experience the happiness of my childhood. To have my own land‚ my own family and to not be discriminated against everyday cause of my colour. But all of my hopes have been shattered into a million pieces‚ and why? Because I’m black! I hope that one day everyone will be considered equal to each other. When everyone
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his inspiration to write “Of Mice and Men.” It is safe to say that the book is based on the theme of the empty promise of the American dream. Steinbeck shows the theme in his book by introducing a series of characters that each have a failed American dream. Although he is not the most important character in the plot‚ even Crooks‚ the stable buck‚ embodies this theme. Crooks is African-American and disabled. Because Crooks is African-American‚ he will never be treated fairly and will never raise
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Crooks Diary Entry Tonight Lennie an’ Candy came in to my room. I argued with Lennie first tellin’ him he aint got no right to come in to my room. But the stubborn guy didn’t understand and jus’ came in anyway. He was sayin’ he wanted to tend some pup of his. I let him stay and come in. Lennie started talkin’ to me bout rabbits and a place he‚ candy and George was gonna get. I told him he was nuts‚ jus’ nuts. But Lennie kept sayin’ an’ repeatin’ ‘it aint no lie’ and ‘were gonna do it’. I don’t
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order to pay off a debt that his father had owed to the Danes. This is a mark of true heroism‚ as Beowulf‚ a Geat‚ was risking his life to save people who were not even his own. Beowulf’s conflict with Grendel was nearly selfless‚ although he did enjoy the fame and reward that followed Grendel’s defeat. He risked his life for what he felt was the good the people‚
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