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Loneliness of mice and men Not all People have the same opportunities like others. Some people are born with wealth . While others are force to work their way up 10 times as hard especially in the 1930 ,when the americans are suffering from the great depression. In the novel of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck witch is set in california during this time witch the story is set on a ranch ,where the characters and the hardships away from home. Through the characters Crook, Candy, and…

According to Gene Smiley, an economics professor at Marquette University, during the Great Depression, the unemployment rate in 1933 was at an all-time high of 25%. In the book, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the main characters, George and Lennie, face tough times during the Great Depression as they try to find work. It’s even more difficult for them to find work because Lennie always creates trouble for himself, which causes them to repeatedly lose their jobs. Throughout the book,…

The 1930s was a time of important yet tragic events in the history of the United States. The Dust Bowl had eroded and destroyed much of the land in southern plains. The land was so arid that many people couldn't make a living from farming in the area anymore. This forced people in the area to migrate to find work to feed their families. Many of these migrant workers moved to the state of California, having hope that one day they could rebuild their old lives. John Steinbeck, the author of “Of…

Stephen Crane utilizes detailed examples and depicts a strong bias in his poem, “The Impact of a Dollar Upon the Heart”. This poem dramatizes the conflict within the wealthy. In this poem, he depicts the emotions and experiences between the contrasting lives between those with just one dollar compared to one million dollars. Crane’s overall focus is not to demean the wealthy but to prove that their public facade masks their private despair. Through the use of powerful symbols, metaphors, and…

The film The Cradle Will Rock takes place in the late 1930s, a time where the severe downturn in the economy left millions out of work and without any steady means of income. The Depression left people hopeless and desperate for any sort of work that would allow them to be able to afford food for their family, regardless of how dangerous or grueling the work was. Thanks to the rapid industrialization that began with the advent of the industrial revolution in the late eighteenth and early…

Introduction The great depression was the worst time for American people of all the time. There were many factors that the great depression at that time, but one of biggest caused was the stock market crash in 1929, because everyone forced to sold their stocks at once and there was no enough money to pay to those people, so the stock market crashed. Millions of people lost their job, home, and most were unemployed. All of the pressure was on the two presidents to handle the problem. While the…

Building was supposed to stay at Thirty-fourth Street and Fifth Avenue. Now these are the most popular streets in New York, however at the time when the building was built it was a poor location, which placed far from public transportation, as Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station. [http:/www.pbc.com] “Raskob wanted 36 million cubic feet of space on a lot 200 feet (Fifth Avenue) by 425 feet (Thirty-fourth streets) for a construction budget of approximately $60 million. The building…

Success mean’s accomplishing your goals. A successful person is the one who achieves his/her desired aims or attains prosperity. A successful person does not have to be wealthy. You can be successful if you achieved your goal that you had set for yourself. Outliers, is a book about twentieth century it offers a fascinating look at how people became successful. Malcom Gladwell is the author of Outliers. Gladwell’s main goal in Outliers is to help people understand how success happens. Gladwell…

“It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it...”(Brown 40). People went through emotional turmoil throughout the Great Depression. The book The Boys in the Boat is by Daniel James Brown, and it is about a guy by the name of Joe Rantz. Joe Rantz had gone to college during the Great Depression, and he joined the rowing team in order to keep his scholarship. The book talks about how he survived the…

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression, when discrimination against African Americans was active, the stock market crashed, and asylums for the mentally ill were not sufficient. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the narrator named Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus, have multiple encounters with three characters dealing with common issues found in the 1930s. Tom Robinson is an African American man who was wrongly accused of…