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Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson, in his nonfiction book, The Diversity Of Life, narrates Wilson’s life while elaborating on the topic of biodiversity. Scientists, Flockhart et al., in their scientific journal article, “Unravelling the annual cycle in a migratory animal: breeding-season habitat loss drives population declines of monarch butterflies,” hypothesize the causes of butterfly population loss. While Wilson’s purpose is to discuss science in a narrative manner to provide reading for…

include the following: Abandoned Mine Land law, Open Cut Land Reclamation Act, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (Reese and Loughlin, 62) Then the oil boom hit Oklahoma. The first oil find was an accident searching for salt near Salina in 1859 and it would take three more decades before drilling for oil was done purposely (Reese and Loughlin, 62). Bartlesville – Dewey oil field discovery, 1896, launched Oklahoma into the first oil boom; By 1920, Oklahoma was the largest oil…

friends should be. George and Lennie had a close friendship and their friendships extended to be with Candy, Slim and partially with Curleys wife. George and Lennie are moving farm workers, looking for employment near where John Steinbeck grew up in Salinas, California. Lennie is huge, strong and also mentally challenged. George is the brains of the two. Usually someone wouldn’t…

forces us to take a closer look from her perspective, which nobody in the story has done. Elisa wanted her husband to motivate her to do better. She wanted to be seen as an audacious woman rather than a typical housewife. She lived in a “closed off Salinas Valley” (Steinbeck 581) where she was isolated. She had a devotion for…

The Impossibility of the American Dream Michael Bloomberg, an American Politician, states, “This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.” John Steinbeck, author of Of Mice and Men, believes the American Dream to be otherwise. Steinbeck writes the novel during The Great Depression, just when American Citizens and Immigrants begin to loose hope in the American Dream. He writes of two…

National CLAS-Standards for Cultural Competence in Healthcare Service Delivery Health care disparities and inequities among ethnic and racial minorities have been persistent in the U.S. healthcare system. Health disparities occur when one group of individuals face poor access to care, disproportionate rates of disease or death, and lack of quality in healthcare delivery (Longest, 2016). With the efforts of healthcare reform and the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable are Act of…

him as utterly lacking a sense of humor, but tending to be studious and focused” After high school Dennis Rader got a job at a local supermarket until he had left Witchita and started college. In 1965 Rader began school at Kansas Wesleyan College in Salina, though he only attended for two semesters before joining the airforce, stationed in Texas, Alabama, and Okinawa until 1968. In 1968 Rader was moved to Japan. Dennis Rader was in the air force for four years and even earned the rank of a…

about being selfless while making connections with people and my surroundings. By sacrificing some of my leisure time, I can utilize it to assist the community. In the first semester of my senior year, studying at a school in a middle of a rural area Salinas provides me chances to actively serve my community. In four months straight, instead of watching pointless TV shows and sitting idly in front of my computer screen, I completed 120 hours doing community service. I took on all the available…

Of Mice and Men a novella by John Steinbeck, tells the story of two migrant workers, George and his mentally handicapped partner Lennie. The story is set on a ranch in Salinas Valley where they meet various characters among whom are Candy, an elderly swamper and Crooks, a black stable buck with a crooked back. Candy, Crooks, and George have the hope of owning their own property and having a place to belong that they could call their own. In Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck shows how they have…

Many authors use personal experiences in their writing as a foreground in their story. Some authors, like Mark Twain, write, sometimes satirically, about issues that they are disturbed by in order to educate the public about the issue. Others, like John Steinbeck, write about their life experiences and tell their life story in a very indirect way. Other authors, like Earnest Hemingway, write a story that is completely or mostly autobiographical with fictional characters to take their place.…