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The significance of Candy in of Mice and Men Candy is a significant character in the novella ‘Of Mice and Men’, written by John Steinbeck in many different ways. Candy is "a tall, stoop-shouldered old man... . He was dressed in blue jeans and carried a big push-broom in his left hand." He is a good example of many themes that are expressed throughout the book such as loneliness, friendship and powerlessness; he also gives us an insight from a different perspective. The main relationship that…

When I hiked up Bishop Peak in San Luis Obispo, I enjoyed it so much I wrote it up for California Explorer (May/June 2014). Since then I’ve wondered about the other ancient volcanic plugs that make up the nine sisters, a group that starts with Morro Rock and ends at Islay Hill in the southeast corner of San Luis Obispo. I decided to trek down to the area with the idea of exploring the other morros, or at least the ones open to exploration. Morro Rock is environmentally sensitive and closed to…

“You see us as you want to see us… brain, athlete, basket-case, princess, and a criminal.” This is one of the first and last sentences of the movie The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes, and it is the most powerful sentence of the entire movie. This is not a sentence about one of the students, it is a sentence about the principal. These words, written by a student during detention speaks volume about the entire dynamic of the school. The principal of Shermer High School is Mr. Richard…

sitting in the towering oak trees in their autumn color beauty of yellows, oranges, and reds scattered throughout the cemetery. Along with its vibrant fall shower leaves sheltering the deep green grass and the stones of someone’s beloved one. Edie stoops down and with her hands, she grazes away the leaves that sheltered her parent’s stone, touches their engraved names, and places the two red roses on top. “I miss you both so much.” She whispers, recalling…

who initially points out the delay, and it continues to be a major part of the play throughout. The question remains, however, as to why it takes him so long to kill Claudius. Perhaps he is procrastinating, perhaps he has morals and does not wish to stoop so low as to murder someone, perhaps it is a flaw in his character, or perhaps outside obstacles hinder him. Since Hamlet mentions his own delay in killing Claudius, one can infer that the delay is not caused by external factors, but rather by…

“Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It 's because they know what it 's like to be treated like an animal.”- Palahniuk. This quote only hints at the horrors the Jews experienced in Germany during World War II. The basic definition of what the Holocaust; A revolting time period in which the Nazis ruled and dictated their belief that the German race was superior to all other religions, races, and beliefs. Hitler was a dictator that terrorized over Germany because he was the…

up; and had a character to lose; and folks at home that had characters; and he was bright and not leatherheaded; and knowing, and not ignorant; and not mean, but kind; and yet here he was, without any more pride, or rightness, or feeling, than to stoop to this business, and make himself a shame and his family a shame, before everybody. I couldn’t understand it… "(292-293). Huck isn 't able to make sense of how Tom, a boy he views as "respectable" and "well brung up" is able to steal a…

In both “An Animal’s Place” by Michael Pollan and “The Omnivore’s Delusion; Against the Agri-Intellectuals” by Blake Hurst, the highly debated issue over modern American farming is addressed. Due to the importance of food to people’s lives, this issue is salient to the average individual because it concerns how his or her food is processed and where it originates from. Pollan’s proposal is that organic farming is a better method due to better quality of food and better quality of life for…

In the novel, House on Mango Street, the distinction of sexuality defines the traditional feminine roles women play. We percieve the meaning of how men recongize women; through “prettiness”. Many women in the novel are physically and sexually abused by men because they feel like they need to be “accepted” in order to succeed in their society. In my opinion, women’s actions reflect on the way they want men to treat them. They are not obligated to do anything, but they still bow down to them.…

After reading this book I thought to myself that I have never really experienced anything as traumatic as Sittser, or really anything traumatic compared to his story and the stories of those he had shared. Then, after that thought I then remembered that toward the beginning of the book he explicitly stated that everyone’s pain is different and cannot be compared. In addition, through out the book he consistently spoke about the difference between a fracture and an amputation. He explained that a…