My Dramatic Monologue – Crooks – Life is really hard at the moment. I was ‘aving the time of me life on Saturday night wiv that big bindlestick whats his name? ( scratch back‚ stroke chin‚ sigh) Ahhhh Lennie thats it. Well anyway we was just sittin’ and talkin’ and talkin’ and sittin’ ‘bout this amazing place that George and Lennie was going to hav’. It gave me hope it did to get out this bloody place‚ start a fresh life and maybe just maybe be treated like a real guy for a change. (imagine it
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Men‚ Steinbeck introduces Crooks as an unhappy person who deprived of friendships and happiness‚ Crooks is also a character that Steinbeck uses to show discrimination of the blacks back in those days. Crooks actions are the results of his emotions. Crooks is unhappy because he holds frustration‚ humiliation and loneliness. Firstly‚ Crooks feels frustrated since he is not able to fight the racism that he faces in the ranch. For example‚ Crooks is made to be isolated from the white men due to
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My name (or the name given to me by the whites I worked with) is Crooks. I lived a fortunate life as a child when my father owned the ranch but as an adult I lived a tough life‚ a life of hardship‚ work and oppression. When I was a child I was different‚ not just because of the colour of my skin compared to the children I played with but also because my father was a landowner‚ this was very rare for the time. We had about ten acres in Oklahoma‚ a chicken ranch to be exact. It seemed like just about
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characters Crooks and Curley’s wife to show that loneliness and isolation can poor effects on people. In this book the effects that are shown by these characters are‚ pushing others away and desperately seek out any interaction. Crooks pushes others away while Curley’s wife will talk to anybody to not be lonely. Crooks is being isolated from the rest of the rest of the workers because he is black. The isolation that Crooks has been subjected to has caused him to instinctively push others away. Crook shows
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try to depict how Steinbeck gives an insight of the character of Crooks through his room‚ and his paramount interactions with the other ‘proletariats’ on the ranch. Personally‚ I have a lot of sympathy for Crooks‚ because he chooses to be isolated so becomes a hopeless miser. In my opinion‚ this is the only personality of Crooks that I have become heavily judgemental on. However‚ I will explore how Steinbeck has tried to mirror Crooks’ many different aspects he pertains as an individual.` the effect
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CARE OF ISOLATED PATIENT In health care‚ isolation refers to various measures taken to prevent contagious diseases from being spread from a patient to other patients‚ health care workers‚ and visitors‚ or from others to a particular patient. Various forms of isolation exist‚ some of which contact procedures are modified‚ and others in which the patient is kept away from all others. Special equipment is used in the treatment of patients on the various forms of isolation. These most commonly include
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BASE ISOLATED BUILDINGS What is base isolation? When a building is built away (isolated) from the ground‚ resting on flexible bearings or pads known as base isolators. It is of the most popular means of protecting a structure against earthquake forces. HISTORY The first evidence of architects using the principle of base isolation for earthquake protection was discovered in Pasargadae. One of the world’s first base-isolated structures – the William Clayton building Base Isolation
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Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men‚ in which takes place during the Great Depression‚ Crooks is a very sad and lonely person. Through his conversations with Lennie‚ Candy‚ and Curley’s wife‚ it is obvious that Crooks is sorrowful‚ which have evolved through isolation. Crooks is so unhappy because of: his unhappy past‚ unpopularity at the ranch‚ and his pain for a better life. First off‚ Crooks doesn’t have a happy background. After Crooks feels comfortable with Lennie‚ he begins to describe and reflect his life
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A) Steinbeck presents Crooks as practical and intelligent. This is shown in chapter in the passage "rubber boots" "alarm clock" and the "California Civil Code" book. The books show he reads and cares about his Rights. It also shows that he is practical and active with his alarm clock. It can alternatively mean that he has to be intelligent to protect himself from getting beaten by the boss if he is late to which he needs to be protecting himself from horse manure. Also with the Californian civil
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with Crooks. After hearing Candy’s speech about the dream they now all share this hope of a better life together. This dream includes Crooks‚ who before was irritated by the other men’s company‚ is now realising how lonely he had been before and this almost reachable dream could become a reality for him‚ an escape from the isolation he has to endure everyday on the ranch. Steinbeck writes‚ ‘She looked from one face to another‚ and they were all closed against her.’ This relationship Crooks has
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