National Steinbeck Center

Work Based Action Plan In order to prepare an action plan achievable goals need to be set to ensure the placement will be beneficial and worthwhile. Additional to this a number of objectives are set to help achieve the set goals. The objectives need to be SMART which means each one needs to be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time bound. This means that the objectives will be achievable and the set goals will be accomplished. I have set myself two goals to achieve by the end of…

While heading to Grammy Museum I was able to arrive before it open, I waited for about 15 minutes outside. While waiting I was able to walk around and see the Grammy Awards that have been won throughout the years. They were displayed on the sidewalk heading towards the Museum. I was able to identity some bands and artists that I knew such as; Ray Charles, Norah Jones as well as Green Day. I was truly surprised to have seen these names displayed. Outside of the museum I was able to hear a variety…

The emergency room is where all of the injuries come to in order to be revamped. Many people work together in the emergency department, such as nurses, paramedics, and support personnel to care for people who have emergencies; although, the person with the most responsibility is the emergency department physician. The emergency room (ER) doctor or physician’s job has many parts to it, yet the first part is one of the most critical: stabilize, assess, and determine whether to admit or transport…

shoot Candy's dog, even though the dog is obviously the only thing that means anything in his life. At the end, after George has shot Lennie and is walking away with Slim, it is Carlson who asks Curley what he thought was "eatin' them two guys?" (Steinbeck 107). These two are bestial in their inability to empathize with anyone else, striving for nothing more than self-gratification and motivated by a sort of meanness and…

got you! You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. Jus’ keep me shovin’ all over the country all the time. An’ that ain’t the worst. You get in trouble. You do bad things and I got to get you out.” (Of Mice and Men George-Chapter 1, Steinbeck) He seems to act in a naïve manner towards Lennie some times. But the rest of the time he respects Lennie and understands him, guiding him in the way a father would guide a…

All the ranch hands had dreams, but they realized that there was no real hope and the possibilities for success were little to none. Violence was a common theme at the ranch physically, emotionally, and psychologically. This is brought out through the depiction of women as well as the physical violence that occurred. Women in this story can only be seen as as prostitutes or as Curley's wife. Throughout the story she is shown as a cause of trouble. She also was not even given a name, but instead…

October 9, 2014 Of Mice and Men Character Analysis Things in life often don’t go as planned. Especially when times are hard and people start to lose hope for their future. Hope is a feeling that Curley’s Wife in the novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, never loses sight of. Set back during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl George and Lennie, two migrant workers who travel together, travel to a ranch in Soledad. On this ranch they learn about many dreams of the other people who live and…

by their dreams and start to work harder. Steinbeck shows in his novel how dreams often play a huge role in your survival when you are living in a lonely world. Crooks, the black stable-hand, saw men on the ranch come and go, “the same damn thing in their heads” (Steinbeck 73). Crooks soon becomes lonely and miserable, losing his own hopes and dreams. Curley’s wife believes that she “coulda made somethin’ of myself” and says, “Maybe I will yet” (Steinbeck 87). This shows that she dreams to…

“By 1940, 2.5 million had moved out of the plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California”(Boundless). The Dust bowl had a huge impact on America that it even prompted John Steinbeck to write a book about it; The Grapes of Wrath. The book was written to reflect the time period and the struggles they went through. Much like The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby was also written to reflect a certain time period. “The 1920’s were…

The time period I chose was The Great Depression from 1829- 1839. This was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. The Great Depression caused massive levels of poverty, hunger, unemployment and political unrest. Also during this time was the Dust Bowl, which was when severe dust storms came through the United States causing droughts, which prevented farming. I chose four books for this project that I thought showed what it was like…