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    vvThe book Of Mice & Men written by John Steinbeck was published a couple of years after the end of The Great Depression. During The Great Depression Era social responsibility was important because people were losing their jobs, houses, and healthcare. Social responsibility means helping individuals and obligation to act for the benefit of society at large. In the book there are two main characters named George and Lennie. George knew Lennie through Lennie’s Aunt Clara and when she past away he…

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    Internship in the Marketing or Advertising department. 2. My deadline for this goal is: January 2017 3. My obstacles are: I do not know if I will have the money to stay in the United States. Also, my lack of experience in the Entertainment Industry 4. The people or groups that I need to reach this goal are: I need the financial support of my parents. 5. The skills and knowledge required to reach this goal are: I will need my knowledge in marketing, advertising, promotion, and communication.…

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    2) The author purpose of using this term is to describe the way the male awoke to show how heavily he was drinking the night before. 3) This quote reflects the theme of the novel because it show how it was his own mistake for drinking and not fate. 4) If I were Henchard, at this point I would be sad and angry for the stupidity that had occur the night before. 1) This term is used in a way to show how the author is comparing Elizabeth to a culprit. 2) The author's purpose for using this term is…

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    alone with a dog. One morning, her dead husband return home. In a horrific deceased body condition. Amber refuses to open the door. She peeps through a screen to see him. He spoke with her, telling her, he promised to return home and that he has always kept his promises (MacNabb, 2012, para. 4). Amber’s reply was “I am not coming with you”. She added, “Death has done us part. You keep on walking out of here” (MacNabb, 2012, para. 5). She was with a gun. Her dead husband knew she means what she…

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    Trevor returned with my chai tea and handed it to me smiling. We had been dating 4 years, since we were 20. We had so many great memories, but I still thought it was odd that I was going to meet his family for the first time this weekend for his 25th birthday. He had never talked much about them, I would ask and he would tell me as little as possible then change the subject. He seemed to hate, not the hate like I want them to die or anything just like he resented them for making him do something…

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    Maya could tell Ellie was getting sick of finding dead people in the rubble, so she asked one of the guys helping them to hide so Ellie could find someone alive. This did brighten Ellie's spirits, so after Ellie found some dead people the guy would hide again. One of the rubbled down building however, did have someone alive, and dead. Ellie first found the dead person and then wanted to find the alive one but Maya thought she was going to find the dead one again. So once again Maya had the man…

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    “The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, at last realizing, as the house realized, that only silence was here.” This quote from the literary article “There Will Come Soft Rains” provides the reader with an understanding of the author, Ray Bradbury’s, negative opinion of technology by comparing how the dog and the house differentiate; the animal is able to detect that the silence resonating throughout the home is due to a lack of occupants. Throughout the course of the text, an…

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    On New Years in florida 1923, a woman named Fannie Taylor frantically left her home claiming a black man had entered her house and assaulted her. She fell unconscious for multiple hours before talking to the police. Robert walker the sheriff of the town got about 8 guys to help look for the intruder Fannie had described, A little while later more and more white men were furious over the event that they decided to join the search party for Fannies Violator. After searching for a while the…

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    Hadley’s family living in the modern house with all the high technical machines piecemeal makes them forget the value of the family love. Not only because of that reason, but also because the parents are too busy with their work and oblivious about their kids: “It seemed that, at a distance, for the past month, he had heard lions roaring, and smelled their strong odor seeping as far away as his study door. But, being busy, he had paid it no attention.” (Bradbury, 4). George and Lydia might think…

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    watch. After 4 hours, we decided drive back home. We were all listening to dad's old songs, enjoying our trip home, suddenly Lucas said something, like when a baby says his first words. He wanted dad to drop him at his house because he felt depressed and sick, yet, dad wanted the whole family to sleep over. Dad listened to him to avoid argument and dropped jack over to his house. Dad said to me "Jane what is going on with your brother, as his older sister you…

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