The person who was interview for this assignment was David Adair, my grandfather, and worked as a probation officer for the Santa Clara county. Since Mr. Adair retirement in 2001, he had over 30 years of experience working with adults and juveniles. During his years in the Santa Clara county, Mr. Adair worked side by side with police officers and judges to help better lives for paroles.It all started when he enrolled at San Jose City College in the late 1960s and had received his associate degree
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so much you can do for someone and at this point Lennie had killed an innocent person and was not stable. George then shot him in the back of the head to put him out of his misery and so he wouldn’t have to face torture, or even worse be locked in a cage with other mentally unstable people. Lennie was causing other people and animals harm, he had killed
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There are many “sinners” that believe their actions shouldn’t be frowned upon in the novel, The Scarlet Letter”, but many people do not recall which character had a greater outcome of sin making. Throughout the novel thoughts became obvious about who this character might be, but then the words jumped out at me as the thought of one character who was a greater sinner than most. It becomes obvious throughout the story that Chillingworth has committed the greater sin throughout his whole life. The Scarlet
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Salem and the chaos resulting from the hysteria. As the fire and the intensity of the heat rapidly escalates, more people are caught in this witch-hunt and even the innocent people are thrown into the vicious flames. In Act 2, Francis Nurse arrives at John Proctor’s house to inform him that his wife, Rebecca Nurse, has been charged of murdering Mrs. Putnam’s baby. Since Rebecca Nurse was one of the most venerated figures in Salem for her kindness and charity work, Reverend Hale was astonished and says
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Arthur Holmes is a geologist that found out that mechanical and thermal implications of mantle convection.Holmes was born in the year 1890. He died in the year 1965.He developed the idea of radioactive dating for minerals in his first attempt to quantitatively estimate the earth's age. radioactive dating is when someone uses radioactive material to find out how old a piece of rock is.He retired in 1965.He is known for his help with Alfred wegener's theory of continental drift and the idea of radioactive
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For my historical fiction book talk, I read Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. This book took place in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl. The book states “But the entire Oklahoma Panhandle is so dry, everything is going up in flames” (Hesse 156). This book takes place in the 1930’s. The novel explains “January 1934” (Hesse 7). There were dry wheat fields and apple trees. For example, the book says “I walk with Daddy around the farm and see that the pond is holding its own, it will keep Ma’s apple trees
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The book “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy is a post-apocalyptic fiction book. It’s a story about a man with a young boy walking south to find there way to the coast for a presumed better life through a nuclear winter. Although the book doesn’t state where it’s taking place, one can infer that it’s somewhere in the United States. The major characters of this book are the man and the young boy. The man is the opposite of an open book, personality wise. He has no one to talk to about his thoughts because
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In “May Lockean Doughnuts Have Holes?” Steiner addresses Nine's objection to a Lockean theory of state territorial rights. Nine borrows from Buchanan a list of three forms of territorial power: 1) jurisdictional authority to impose laws over a given territory, 2) meta-jurisdictional authority to establish a new jurisdiction or amend an existing one, and 3) rights held by individuals and groups in a jurisdiction to own property (Nine 150). If, on the Lockean view, property rights are natural rights
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George killing lennie was a Euthanasia. This is because it was a benefit to not only lennie but george too. Lennie would no longer have to suffer through his disability anymore. It would also not only save animals lives but peoples too. First lennie is has a desire to pet soft things and he gets really aggressive and keeps killing or harming animals and people. He would never understand what he was doing is wrong and lastly he will always be disabled and he can't help it. Ultimately george kills
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Picture writing a perfectly great essay on a computer/laptop, yet soon after it ran out of battery and it shuts off without it saving. The title is important because it hides a meaning in it in “Of Mice and Men.” This relates to the theme of the novel because of what went on. A specific quote supporting speaker’s role as a symbol in the novel. Of Mice and Men has its hidden meaning and similarities, but also supporting a speaker’s role in a quote. Of Mice and Men has it’s own title come from
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