In John Donne's epigraph, "No Man is an Island": "No Man is an island; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of main." ... In the chapter "Living Together VS Going It Alone," Richard Nisbett finds the Asians tend to have similar opinions as John Donne. ... While Richard Nisbett explains behavioral difference of East and West, John Steinbeck introduces a character in his novel Of Mice and Men, who behaves both opposite behaviors: individualism and collectivism. ... In John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, the behaviors of individualism and collectivism magnifies on George, ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Of these qualities, chivalry is essential and shown often throughout "Sir Galahad", The Canterbury Tales, and Sir Torre's short quest in John Steinbeck's "The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights.... In response to a woman who sought the removal of the knight's head defeated by Sir Torre, he says "By God's grace, I will accept what comes my lady," and was later characterized by Merlin to be a "gentle and courteous and truthful" knight (Steinbeck 97, 99). ... After defeating the knights who protected the white hound under the service o...

• Word Count: 1399
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this time of pain and suffering the Joad family in John Steinbeck's classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, represent the families of thousands as they deal with the hardships of the depression face to face in their own adventure to California. ... Steinbeck makes it a point to show how the Joads are only one of many families enduring these hardships as it was apparent that friends and other families were taking the same journey. ... This display of love and caring for others was also shown by fellow immigrants as was apparent the time a small child died and everyone tried to spare a fe...

• Word Count: 1628
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Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. ... The narrator describes the way Lennie walks as "the way a bear drags his paws"" (Steinbeck, 19). ... The last line, "What the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys"" (Steinbeck, 149), is spoken by Carlson, a character one would not draw attention to in such a situation, in a nonchalant, impersonal manner and the reader is reminded of the narrator's job as a third person obse...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The New Deal was a political and social plan that was the presidential campaign platform of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Although Roosevelt was very vague about what it was and actual measures to be taken while running for president, the New Deal was the shinning hope for many Americans who had lost t...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate