Salinas

“...You go on get outta my room. I ain’t wanted in the bunk house, and you ain’t wanted in my room.” “Why ain’t you wanted?” Lennie asked.” “Cause I’m black..” (Steinbeck 68) Of Mice and Men , written by John Steinbeck, takes place in Salinas, California on a ranch. Many of the characters in this novel have impairments, such as Lennie Small, Crooks, Candy and Curley’s wife. For example, Lennie is mentally challenged, Crooks is black, Candy is old and Curley 's wife is lonely. One of the many…

Roberto Alomar grew up around the sport of baseball, mainly because of his father Sandy Sr.’s success in Major League Baseball. Roberto Alomar was born on February 5th, 1968 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. However, he was raised in Salinas, Puerto Rico by his mother, Maria Alomar because his father played for fifteen different major league teams during his career. The only times Roberto would see his father was when he visited Sany Sr. in the summer. During the summer, Roberto would get to watch his…

What would you do if you had the choice of either having to witness your loved one be tortured and killed through cruelty or the simplicity of you having to take their life through a mercy killing? Sometimes saving a life by taking one is the ideal action to take when it comes to someone you love, this is called Enthusiasm, a choice that a character had to face in the 1937 novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close…

in the Bay Area of California in a mixed-race family. My mother is Caucasian and my father is Mexican. One of dad’s side, my great-grandmother and great-grandfather immigrated to the United States from Durango, Mexico in the 1930s, settling in the Salinas Valley of California. Both great-grandparents worked as migrant farmers to support their family. As an immigrant family, hard work and resiliency were incorporated with values derived from their Mexican culture, including loyalty, gratitude,…

the act. Today the value of ‘saving one’s self for marriage’ is dated and carried out by few, but in ‘The Chrysanthemums’ by John Steinbeck, this ideal is presented to an extreme. Steinbeck begins the story by painting a descriptive picture of the Salinas Valley and describes it as “a time of quiet and waiting”. The story then introduces us to two of the main characters, Elisa and her husband, whose first interaction can best be described as awkward and curt . When her husband leaves, a tinker…

fatherhood figure as Adam recovers from his incident with Cathy. Although Lee is not their biological father, he becomes a great father to them and is the reason why Aron and Cal grow up to be who they are. When the Trask Family decides to move to Salinas, Lee decides it's time for him to move to San Francisco and pursue his dream of opening his own bookstore. Consequently, Adam becomes sad to hear the news but decides to let Lee go and strive for other things in life. However, almost a month…

Newspaper were the original form of literature within California and California first newspaper, “Californian” was a weekly newspaper that appeared in Monterey on August 15th, 1846. Walter Colten and Robert Semple formed a partnership to publish the newspaper and a found an old printing press and Agustin V. Zamorano imported the printing press to Monterey from Boston. “Californian” weekly newspaper was written in English and Spanish and continued to be published in The Monterey until May 1847.…

Introduction Globalization has come to change the rules and procedures of international trade and markets, increasingly interconnecting more and more countries through the creation of regional treaties. In January 1994, Mexico, the United States and Canada signed the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the intention of establishing an intraregional trade-flow, creating social, political and economic opportunities for signatory countries (NAFTA). However, over the years NAFTAs…

or ideal world, is never reached. Curley’s wife is careless around Lennie and the giant kills her, derailing George’s dream of owning a ranch where they could be in control of themselves. In East of Eden Adam’s Eden is owning a plot of land in the Salinas Valley with Cathy and their sons. In a way he reaches his dream, yet he loses Cathy. The loss of Cathy decimates the rest…

Chance Bradley Leister was the kind of person every single member in our family wanted to be. He was every one of my cousins idol as children and even to this day. He was always there for anyone that ever needed someone and he always kept his word. Not a single person could stay mad at Chance. He was just an uplifting person that could make your whole day in a heartbeat. He has memories with so many people it’s unbelievable. Chance and I would stay up night after night just playing with legos…