The American Dream has no exact definition, but most learn it to mean to be able to live off the fat of the land from Of Mice and Men. ... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Jefferson). ...
The men are generally dominant over the females and act accordingly as heads of the households if they even stay with their families. ... The first example of the power men have in this book is when Esperanza comments, "The Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong (p10)." ... On page 32 it says that Alicia only fears mice and fathers illustrating this theme of dominance that begins at home and escalates through Latino women's lives. In accepting this however, they create dependence later down the road for men even if they are overly aggressive. ... Ethnicity goes...
Prejudice is obvious in Of Mice and Men with the treatment of Lennie, due to his lack of mental abilities, Crooks, due to his race, and Curley's wife because she is a woman. ... "I have a dream that this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" (King 4-5). ...
There might even be mice in that filthy thing. ... In the factory, they don't check the men as carefully as they do the girls. The women have to open their purses for inspection before they are allowed to go out of the building while the men are able to walk right out without anyone stopping them. Furthermore, the men are not suspected at all and are still paid more than the women. ... Several men ran out to help me, but I scrambled to my feet and pulled away their hands. ...
So many things happen throughout the Holocaust that many believe that it's not true or just don't even know what had happened. So many contradicting issues arose after the Holocaust concerning certain events that happened but were not documented, certain writers had different ideas to present, and ...
