Salinas Valley

John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California and lived through the Great Depression which heavily influenced his writing. The Great Depression was a tragedy that resulted in many Americans being out of work .Though the Great Depression was tragic to many as it ruin many people life .That wasn’t the case for John Steinbeck the Great Depression offered him a lot of things to write about like rural labor, economic problems, and social problems. Living during the Great Depression were…

John Steinbeck's short story "The Chrysanthemums" is about woman named Elisa Allen who feels discouraged with her current life. Her frustrations come from not having any children and from her husband's failure to see her in a romantic, passionate way. The only way she releases the frustration is by tending to her flower garden where she grows stunning chrysanthemums. Steinbeck uses chrysanthemums as symbols of Elisa’s children and her sexuality. The chrysanthemums symbolize Elisa's children. She…

When John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” was published in the 1930’s, it was a time of change for society. Women, who had always been seen as fragile and weak, were struggling for equality in a male dominated society. This story was Steinbeck bringing attention to women’s struggle for equality. Focusing on the story and the roles of female members of society, one will find that Elisa is quite masculine in the story and His story is centered on Elisa Allen. She is not happy and is frustrated…

Revolution is a movie about a New York trapper named Tom Dobb and his son Ned. Ned becomes involved in the revolution by signing up for the continental army. Tom realizes that his son has made a wrong choice, so he tries to get his son out of the army. But this makes the situation worse and Tom is forced to sign up for the continental army as well. Now both Tom and his son, Ned, are part of the continental army. This begins a long journey as they fight for freedom for the Colonies. The first…

When thinking of Antonioni I would never say his short documentaries are the first thing to come to mind. His visual flare and focus on the setting as well as the subjects are all prevalent in every title I have seen, 7 Reeds for a Dress perhaps the most reminiscent of his future works.What seems to be the element that links all the documentaries together has less to do with visual style and more with Antonioni’s background and infatuation with his home country. These films seem to be about the…

With steady improvements and with more of the tourist looking for a backwoods area with excellent fishing and hunting the Summer Resort started to flourish. On of the earliest guests of John 's Summer Resort was two families of Bampfield 's, James and his brother along with their wives on an 1895 fishing excursion. The Bampfields were one of the wealthiest families in Niagara Falls Ontario whose success emanated form various commercial development such as the Great Western Restaurant and a…

within the Owens Valley basin, flanked by the Sierra Nevada and Inyo/White mountain ranges to the west and east, respectively. The hills are of particular interest as they represent an unusual combination of lithologies, structures, and a geomorphology that is inconsistent for the basin. Using geophysical methods, I hope to infer the source of this outcrop. A long-runout landslide, or a structural flower system is currently proposed to explain the Poverty Hills; previous…

“The Chrysanthemums” “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck is a story about a woman named Elisa Allen, frustrated with her life of isolation. Allen enjoys working in her garden, but her gardening capabilities aren’t satisfying, as she would rather be traveling and meeting new people. “The Chrysanthemums” tone changes from hopeful to one of isolation, and that tone is created by a combination language elements including, contextual symbolism, figurative images using similes and metaphors, and…

A series of make shift dams and flumes are in place on the Blackstone River as it heads towards Blackstone Harbour from Crane used to control the log jams and to get the lumber up to Parry Sound. Also the river between Crane and Blackstone already had its first of several dams placed midway on its length. The Conger Lumber Co. operates throughout the area as the century headed towards its end. Other private interest companies such as Rankin Bros. subcontracting with Conger Lumber and later the…

The Aztecs and the Spanish, they came in contact with each other and started a war. A war that was never forgotten, the fall and defeat of the Aztec empire. It was unavoidable, this is because Cortes and his men had the determination, also the Spanish were more powerful than the Aztecs in combat. Another reason is if Cortes and his men didn’t defeat the Aztecs, the King’s army searching for him would come in contact with them and kill them off if they didn’t convert to Catholic. Also when Cortes…