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    Mountain Dew

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    Analysis Mountain Dew Background : Mountain Dew was invented by the Hartman Beverage Company in Knoxville‚ Tennessee in the late 1940s. The drink became a favorite on the Eastern seaboard‚ through Kentucky‚ Tennessee‚ and eventually spread up through the Great Lakes states (skirting the big cities) and into the Northern Plains of Minnesota and the Dakotas. PepsiCo originally assigned Mountain Dew to the Ogilvy & Mather ad agency. In 1973 PepsiCo assigned the brand to BBDO‚ its agency of record

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    ill-assorted pair come across work in a small ranch near a place called ‘Soledad’. This is where they meet the other characters in the story. One of the main points Steinbeck makes us aware of is the damaging effects of loneliness on people’s lives. The setting also helps to create a clear picture of the loneliness as do the characters they meet. The book is set in the 1930s in Soledad. Workers are given a bunkhouse to stay in while working on the remote ranch. The description Steinbeck gives of the

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    guy who knows a ton about horses‚ the guy who completely understands horses‚ Billy Buck is that kind of person. The novel‚ The Red Pony‚ written by John Steinbeck portrays this character. In the novel‚ a family‚ the Tiflins‚ own a ranch. Billy Buck is their ranch hand. Billy is built small‚ strong‚ and friendly. Billy Buck is very smart when it comes to horses‚ in fact‚ he seems to know every little thing about them. Firstly‚ in the beginning of the novel it states Billy Buck’s appearance‚

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    create sympathy for Candy and his position on the ranch? Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck‚ set in America in the Great Depression of the 1930s. The main characters in the book are the clever‚ quick George‚ and his slow‚ child-like companion Lennie. They are itinerant workers who find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley. There are many characters on the ranch‚ including Curley‚ Slim‚ and Crooks. However‚ the first ranch worker George and Lennie meet is the general cleaner/handyman

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    Of Mice and Men Analisis

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    1937 "Of Mice and Men" by the myth of the American dream. The place where the action takes place is the same place where the work‚ so it is a real space. Lennie’s story represents a real man. Do not kill a woman in the book‚ but the foreman of the ranch where the author worked. But not die but he got into a madhouse. He stuck a pitchfork in the stomach because he angered to learn that the boss had fired his companion. So the work is real‚ in a space too real. The book wants to tell what was

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    How does Steinbeck present loneliness and isolation in the novel Of Mice and Men? Of Mice and Men is a short novel written by John Steinbeck and was published in 1937. The protagonist characters in the novel are George and Lennie and they were ranch workers who had a dream to own their own farm‚ they came from a place called Soledad which means ‘loneliness in Spanish.’ Steinbeck links the ideas of loneliness and isolation within the novel as the major themes relating to when he grew up in 1930’s

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    which he treats George and Lennie‚ and the ranch workers in general on the ranch. Curley is the boss’ son. Therefore he acts like he is the boss himself. He orders the others around‚ and‚ although it is true that he does hold some power on the ranch‚ he does not hold any respect from the workers. He is nasty towards them‚ treating as though they are them below him‚ and often trying to pick fights. Curley is disliked by pretty much everyone on the ranch‚ and with good reason. George immediately

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    The Author Steinbeck presents Crooks in Chapter 4. The character Crooks is a black person who work in a ranch in California. In 1930 in America there were segregation between white and black people‚ and this relates onto how Crooks is segregated from and by other workers in the ranch ‘they don’t let me play card‚ cause I’m black’ even they don’t let them play a game so this also shows how black people was treated. Moreover Crooks is also treated like an animal ‘had his bunk in the harness room’

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    is the only african american on the farm he is the only one suffers from segregation. He is forced to live separately and is prohibited from speaking with the other ranch hands. Candy just like all the other migrant workers on the ranch or on others‚ suffers from loneliness because there is no way of meeting a female out on the ranch and a female who is not already taken. In the book he also loses his only companion and friend his dog who he has had for the longest time. This dog was the only thing

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    this idea of the ‘American Dream’ is questioned and scrutinised. Is it really the land of opportunity and freedom for everyone‚ or is this all a lie or dream that will never happen? George and Lennie’s American Dream: Unlike others on the ranch‚ George and Lennie dream of escape and a different future. Lennie enjoys George telling him about ‘how it will be’‚ even though he has heard it many times before. George does this both in the opening chapter and the final chapter‚ which shows how important

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