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of the boss. Curley and everyone who works there knows that if you upset or challenge this man, your job will become terminated. This makes him have a very cocky and disrespectful demeanor. His whole character is summed up perfectly by Candy “ He'd slough me. He just don't give a damn. Won't ever get canned 'because his old man's the boss."(27). Curley’s wife is just a pretentious, using her ‘beauty’ to try and get anything out of the workers, and if they do not comply she reminds them of her…

the audience with an opportunity to reflect upon the power of the wind and the other elements that have such a significant impact on the soldiers. SImilarly, the poem ‘Mental Cases’ explores the grim circumstances of the WWI in the quote “wading sloughs of flesh.” The use of visual imagery reinforces the notion of the distraught scene of which the soldiers worked in, ensuring the audience grasps an understanding of the amount of death within the surroundings due to their mention of flesh. The…

This book called The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson by Lois Simmie is based on true story that was gathered by Simmie. She heard this story throughout her life and wanted to see what exactly happened to this man. Once was a enough information was gained, she decided to make this into a book to tell this man story and to provide history background of Canada. This will tell you if her time spent doing this was worth it, the purpose of it, and does she accomplish this purpose. The purpose…

Eboo Patel tells the story of his journey of finding his identity as an American Muslim and Indian in his book Acts of Faith. However, describing Patel’s conclusive identity necessitates elaborating on the many intimate, pluralistic encounters he immersed himself in throughout his life. Beginning with a base of a somewhat elusive Muslim identity, Patel then discovered Mormonism, Judaism, Catholicism, and social activism, eventually landing back into his familial heritage. Patel’s multiple major…

In 1967 Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki, a Japanese Pediatrician was the first to describe a serious illness characterized by inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body that primarily affects children under the age of five and infants. The Kawasaki Disease, named after Tomisaku, is also known as Kawasaki syndrome and Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome, because it affects lymph nodes, skin and the mucous membranes inside of the mouth, nose and throat. Kawasaki Disease is slightly more common in…

You would think deer species are pretty spectacular from the way they have adapted to the environment. Have you noticed their hind legs? They’re built for running and jumping. It allows the deer to make sharp turns, speed up between 37-50 miles per hour and not to mention, jump over 12 feet! They camouflage to the environment from season to season by shedding their fur coat. Deer can sense a predator from a great distance with their prominent cup-like ears, and eyes that are located on the sides…

railroad has some negative aspects to it such as force removal of people of their lands. A. Farmers and other groups of people came to a dispute since they were supposed to move out of their lands. 1. “federal marshal…rode through California’s Mussel Slough country enforcing court orders evicting farmers from illegally occupied lands that men had purchased from railroad company” (Conlogue, 1999). Even though some the tracks that were built over farms are not used anymore it was not given back…

Nature and nurture interact and play a critical role in every individual’s life, but ultimately one overpowers the other. Psychosocial rehabilitation specialist and author of Everything Psychology Book, Kendra Cherry, refers to nature as “all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are” and refers to nurture as “all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding…

Tracing nature as a Romantic feature in Frankenstein Nature works as a restorative factor for both Frankenstein and the monster. We see throughout the novel how nature allows them to have a free uncontrolled emotional experience. Nature was their source of inspiration. They had reverence for nature. It made them feel that their souls are elevated. It gave them the opportunity to be renewed spiritually whenever they wanted to escape from the hardships of life. Nature helped those…

I do, however, commend this protagonist’s focus: despite the inconveniences, troubles, and horrors Candide experiences and sees, he continues to slough onward toward his goal, his love, the lady Cunégonde. This goal of reuniting with his love motivates him to endure the injustices and difficulties dealt to him, in addition to his moronic confidence in Doctor Pangloss’s belief that theirs is the…