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    Curley’s wife does not have any girl friends in the ranch so she is stuck alone everyday. Also, Curley does not allow his wife top talk to any other men in the ranch. With this restriction she gets isolated from everyone and can not stand it. When George and Lennie just come to the ranch, they meet Curley’s wife for the first time. She comes into the bunkhouse to look for Curley, and “ both men glanced up, for a rectangle…

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    Esquivel, is about a young girl named Tita De La Garza, who deals with lots of struggles getting through her life in general. This novel takes place during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through 1917. Tita, the main character/narrator, grew up on a ranch somewhere distant in Mexico. She lives with her mother known as Mama Elena, and two sisters, Gertrudis and Rosaura. Tita is the youngest of Mama Elena 's daughters while Gertrudis is the eldest. Being an eighteen year old girl, Titas loves…

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    the baby. When Jane grows up she meets a man named Joe Pittman on Coronel Dyes Plantation, who becomes her husband. Once they had been living together for a while, they decide to move to a horse ranch. When they let…

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    and Men Loneliness is defined as “sadness due to being apart from other people”. Throughout John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men loneliness is portrayed by a multitude characters. However, Curley's wife and Candy are the loneliest people on the ranch. Although Curley's wife has Curly as a companion she’s extremely lonely and is constantly yearning for someone to show her attention. Her sexuality plays a large role in her isolation from the other characters. As the only female she is…

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    She is the only woman on the ranch and is viewed as a possession of Curley, hence never being given a name. Curley’s wife does not want to be lonely, but she has been isolated and rejected by the men on the ranch. She is married to Curley and it is quite an unhappy marriage, it is mentioned that Curley is often rude and abusive towards her, but the time period and social normality prevented her from leaving him. Curley 's wife tries to befriend the other men of the ranch but is immediately…

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    doing reckless illegal task. Some of these task include: child molestation and holding 9 month old son Prince Michael II over a of the Adlon Hotel in Berlin. In the late 1980’s, Michael Jackson bought a ranch in California that he referred to as “Neverland”, and made it his fantasy home. The ranch had amusement rides that he sometimes opened for children’s events, and it had many exotic pets. Michael Jackson was also accused of several accounts of child sexual abuse. The first accusation was of…

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    farm, all the while struggling to be accepted by the ranch workers and at what price they must pay for it. In deeper analysis, readers will find that this problem is even present within the ranch workers themselves, and more specifically from the disempowered character that is Crooks. Of Mice and Men is set during the 1930’s, a time where racial prejudice is still considered to be justifiable, leaving Crooks, the only Negro stable-buck on the ranch, to be immensely isolated from the other…

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    story. Both his compassion for the world and people around him and the way in which he controls himself change rapidly as he progresses in this short period of time. From dealing with Lennie’s disability, to simply holding himself together on the ranch, George greatly demonstrates how people can change and mature quickly. The way that George chooses to control his anger, or longing for something that is desired by many, such as the American Dream, is evident by the way that he handled himself…

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    a guy at the ranch was talking to George, and said that a ranch isn’t a place for a girl especially since it 's filled with guys. “‘Ranch with a bunch of guys on it ain 't no place for a girl ‘specially like her’” (Steinbeck 20). This quote also proves that discrimination affects Curley’s wife because she is a girl and the guys don’t think she should be there and this leads for people not to talk to her. This quote means that all the guys think that a girl doesn’t belong at the ranch and…

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    several owners. The last and the most important all the owners of the Ranch was the Bixby family. In the year 1881 John and Susan Bixby bought the Ranch. The area was called the Bixby hill after the Bixby Family. The Bixby are responsible for a lot of the major changes that took place in the ranch. The Bixby family were the main contributors to let the electricity get into the ranch. Finally the Bixby Family donated the ranch to Long Beach…

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