Diamond dust

The underlying central theme of Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men is that often what we want is different from what we end up doing, which Steinbeck develops through the misfortunes of the novella’s characters. George and Lennie, the main characters of the book, fit perfectly in the theme, because from the very beginning the pair have wanted to own a farm yet deep down George knows it’s impossible and ends up never succeeding in buying/owning land for them. George tells Candy, “...I think I…

Archaeologists are people who search and discover remains of ancient civilizations. Some archeologists have found things like toys, clay pots, old grain, old scrolls, inscriptions in clay, and even cave drawings. Ancient kings and queens have have dropped many different things like old broken dishes, rags, and even spoiled food. Many historians have found scrolls, drawings, and clay inscriptions. Some historians have found cave drawings and Self portraits. With those cave drawings and portraits…

There wasn’t a proper size venue in town, so the festival was held at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York. Artie Kornfeld’s cousin, Lenore, was neighbors with the nephew of Max Yasgur. Kornfeld asked Lenore to give Max Yasgur’s nephew his number to get in contact about holding the festival at his farm. Max Yasgur agreed to their proposal, and his dairy farm became the most important location in music history. John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield, and Michael Lang wanted…

World War II, a disastrous period in time that had left millions dead and just as many suffering the losses but amidst all the chaos and anguish, on January 22nd of 1945, an article was released in Alberta with the caption, “Grinning and Happy.” Finding said article almost forty years later the main character, portrayed from Kogawa’s point of view, is reminded of the hardship that had occurred in the fields of the beet farm she was forced to work at. No one had documented of what happened behind…

It has been decades of non-stop war throughout Othazer with the Manhu in the middle of these conflicts. The Manhu however were not originally organized to maintain constant warfare. This problem was solved when they found the Dwarves. The dwarves are a very industrialized people who make their livings mostly by manufacturing weapons and good in large quantities through industrialism. In order to start properly supplying their armies with good equipment, the Manhu forged an alliance with the…

Going back further- Moore explains a series of European continental population explosions and contractions that put forth an ecological crisis that put pressure on the current feudal system to change. He begins his account of the origins of capitalism in the 11th and 14th century population boom in medieval Europe during the golden age of European feudalism- nearly 500 years before Appleby or Wood begin their explanations due to a rejection of the commercialization model. Moore describes a…

Women were given better education than ever before when Stalin came into power. Women were not only more educated but were also given higher positions than ever before. However, women were given these great advances because so many were dying or had already died. Many had died from the man created famine that Stalin had enacted to gain control of the agricultural land he believed belonged to the government. Stalin did not want private agriculture like before he wanted the state to be making…

Causes of the Great Depression Imagine you have a job, a nice house, a car, and anything a person would need and then some and the very next day you lose it all. This happened to many people it was called the Great Depression. In 1933 There were many things that got the US into the Great Depression like Companies overproducing, the Stock Market Crash To begin, overproduction was a major cause of the Great Depression. Farmers had been overproducing crops since WW1. The farmers had to grow more…

Due to the fact that To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during the The Great Depression, all families within the text suffer financially developing a normality for there to be a financial classification between the families. As a result of the novel being based within the time frame of the Great Depression, families all over Maycomb struggle financially: "The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest." (Lee, 27). Atticus explains that the depression heavily affected…

This article is deeply and carefully analyzed one of the masterpieces of Homer, called “ The Veteran in a New Field ” and was painted in 1865. After General Robert E. Lee's submission in April 1865 and the Union and Confederate peacefully dismissed. The soldiers were able to return home from a brutal war and return to the pre-war job. The Veteran in a New Field describes a soldier who returned home from the front of the battlefield and harvested the cereal in the field at noon. The grain in this…