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Upon first impression, Curley’s wife, Crooks , and even the innocent Lennie are viewed as rather mean or insensitive characters in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Whether it be Curley’s wife belittling various ranch hands, Crooks scaring Lennie into believing his best friend, George, has died, or Lennie killing countless animals and even another person, it is understandable to develop a conclusion that these figures in the novel are simply rude people. However, analyzing the text and motives…

Through Literature: Know Your Place Slavery will forever be engrained in the minds of the world’s population. Regardless if you are college educated or never been to school in your life, you are aware of the times of slavery and the mistreatment of African Americans. Slavery was an epidemic of sorts in a figurative sense, the only difference was a disease was not taking the lives of African-Americans, whites were. Slavery and racism was wide-spread geographically and in terms of time, yet their…

Brandi Smith Dr. Alisa Clapp-Itnyre English L392 November 19, 2015 The Use of Mythology in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling is filled with hints toward Greek, medieval, and Biblical literature, as well as other folklore. Through her conscious use of past archetypes, Rowling displays an expansive intellect that readers many not notice during their first read-through of the series. Rowling uses her knowledge of these classics in the naming of the…

As crime rates continue to grow, there is one crime many parents fear. Their child being kidnapped and never found. Kidnaped is someone taking you away by force. The chances of you being kidnapped is higher in a populated urban area than in a countryside. For example, in today’s culture, movies and television series displays many kidnaping. The most famous kidnaping movie is titled “Taken”. In Taken, the daughter of Bryan Mills was abducted from a hotel in later found in London. Bryan Mills had…

Textbooks do not have to rely on Wi-Fi to be able to function properly. This is a positive factor to having textbooks in classrooms. Classwork can be completed without having to depend on the Wi-Fi to operate correctly. There are downfalls to relying on Wi-Fi to finish documents, research, and homework assignments for classes such as students may not have Wi-Fi connections at home, “one-third of Americans do not have internet access at their households” (ProCon 3). According to Kajeet, 30% of…

I visited the Riverside Country Superior court in Murrieta, California. Where I sat in on two parts of legal environments in a course. Before finding out which court room I would go in to observe a case. I sat in the master calendar room. In this room each case is pushed into a different court room. The master calendar room seemed to be controlled by the lawyers in the room. Of course each lawyer would check in with the policeman in the front so he knew who was in the room, but it was a time…

Who Knew While sitting at work one day, Emma was anxiously waiting to go home to her family and look at her mail. Today was the day she would receive a letter in the mail to find out whether or not she would have cancer. She was not nervous because she knew that she would not have cancer. How could she? It does not run in her family, but that is all she thought of. She never even considered her health or her work place. She did not want to. Who could blame her? At work she sits and takes calls…

Questionable shootings by officers across the nation have led to many doubts. Some incidents include a police officer in Connecticut shot a motorist he believed was reaching for a gun, which turned out to be a cell phone. Four Riverside, California, officers and a sergeant have been fired after fatally shooting a young African American woman dozing in her locked car with a gun on her lap. Two Los Angeles officers are under investigation for shooting a 105-pound homeless woman to…

After attending a community college and transferring to University of California Riverside my goals are steadily appearing closer within grasp. However, the steps I need to take in order to get into medical school have, to this point, escaped me. Until now I was only aware I needed to take Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) along with some volunteer work to go to medical school. This paper will provide a better understanding of what it is like to work in a health related field along with…

On October 24th I attended the Autumn Festival at The New York Buddhist Church with my fellow classmate, Bianca Rodriguez, located at 331-332 Riverside Drive, New York, New York. The New York Buddhist Church practices the Pure Land and Zen perspective of Buddhism. This church is also supported by specifically the Japanese culture, opposed to the many other Asian cultures who share this perspective. We were at the festival from beginning to end, 12pm-4pm. The outside of the church was very simple…