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    Crooks vs. Curley’s Wife John Steinbeck’s novel‚ Of mice and Men‚ shows the lives of a Negro skinner who is excluded from all things and the boss’s son’s wife. They appear different because they come from different backgrounds of life‚ but in actuality they are alike in many fashions. Crooks and Curley’s wife lived simple lives on the ranch and their parents placed restrictions on them when they were younger. Crooks was the only black man on the entire ranch and had a specialized job that he could

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    Ingrid Rosas Professor Pablo Villa Seminario de la especialidad I 30 August 2013 Expression as a way of emancipation: Black women finding their voice through writing and singing in The Color Purple In The Color Purple‚ black women struggle to have their own place in the community. They suffer from psychological and physical violence such as sexual abuse‚ beatings and insults. They are constantly diminished by white people and their black male peers as well. However‚ in the novel‚ Celie and Shug

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    the attitude? Ethics will have it as “love your neighbour as yourself” and “Do unto others if you want others do unto you”.  "Philosophy starts with Socrates in the streets of Athens taking his message to the people and speaking in their language - agricultural analogies and common mythology." Through the centuries‚ though‚ philosophers retreated into academia‚ creating a convoluted vocabulary that can appear inaccessible to the average first-year university student - those "deontological" ethics

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    through a lot of things. Crooks is the most sympathetic because he is lonely and discriminated against‚ and like stated in the book being lonely is the worst thing that could happen to a man because a man needs someone to talk to no matter who that person is. v Crooks is a very sympathetic character. At the beginning of chapter 4‚ the narrator describes Crook’s bunkhouse‚ and then the man himself. He cannot sit straight‚ because “his body was bent over to the left by his crooked spine” (67). Every

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    Crooks Character Analysis Lonely: Sad because one has no friends or company. Loneliness is the sadness that comes to everyone once in their life time. The sheer isolation driving people insane. Loneliness is the base of Crooks’s life. Every day‚ he’s separated from the rest of the workers and living in his own room‚ which almost no one had ever entered. This shows in John Steinbeck’s‚ Of Mice and Men‚ where the main characters Lennie and George travel away from Weed to a new work place. In this

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    Unconditional Love. We all have someone that we could love even if they were a complete stranger. In the poem “Even If You Weren’t My Father” by Camillo Sbarbaro‚ is about how a young girl states that she would love her father even if he was a complete stranger. This is a sonnet and the theme of this poem is unconditional love. The literary devices that are used are diction and imagery. When I first read the title of the poem I grasped a good understanding of the message and theme. This poem made

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    Show how Crooks is affected by loneliness Crooks is a character introduced to the reader in ‘Of Mice and Men’ by author John Steinbeck. Crooks is described to be the only black man on the ranch‚ he is said to have his own bunkroom‚ on first inspection the reader expects this to be a privilege however upon closer inspection we discover this is a way to isolate and degrade crooks because of his ethnic background. Crooks is affected and shows his loneliness in a number of ways; aggressiveness‚ sadness

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    Jim Hanas You Can Touch This is a very symbolic short story that depicts the meaning of judgment in society. This story presents a play center for children named You Can Touch This. Normally children are always told ‘Don’t touch this’ or ‘Don’t touch that’ or even “Once we get in the store please do not touch anything‚” but in this fun place‚ made only for kids‚ the children can be doctors‚ they can go shopping‚ they can do things they wouldn’t normally do in reality. After analyzing You Can Touch This

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    token of relationship immortality. As this relationship progresses‚ Susan grows unhappy and confronts Kane with “You never give me anything I really care about (…) you just tried to buy me into giving you something”. The low angle shot of Kane as he slaps Susan is symbolic of his power and control. This scene illustrates Kane transcending his abusive relationship with his father onto his wives‚ as this is what he grew up to perceive love as. Hence‚ Kane’s unsuccessful relationships allow the modern

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    to the emotion‚ thought‚ behavior patterns unique to the individual. Our personalities influence one’s tendencies such as a preference for introversion or extroversion. The True Colors assessment educated me about myself; I understand my personality in many different means. I now know what my personality lacks and I can work on those elements to be able to understand/read people better in my everyday life. In 1921‚ Carl Jung published the book “Psychological Types‚” which proposed a concept of

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