… before the time of the Renaissance. He studied the cities of ancient Rome trying to get a feel for what they would have looked like before Germanic tribes changed the lifestyle of the Romans. Michelangelo did not appreciate the artwork of the Gothic…

… relationship with his personal experience. John Steinbeck was rich and had wealthy family but wanted to learn how poor people lived in the Great Depression. <Tab/>John was born February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. He graduated from…

… influenced human thought all around the world more than Charles Darwin when he published his The Origin of Species. Even though there were many views of evolution that were proposed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example Lamarck…

… published in 1939, it caused an uproar in this nation. The inside cover of the novel states, "It electrified an America still convalescing ideas that many people were, at the least, uncomfortable with this electlicity caused the Kern County Board of…

… America as if just visiting the present, he would have been surprised with many of the changes, but smug about the values and traditions kept, and his own accurate predictions. The last two centuries have changed rapidly in technology, fashion, attitudes…

… story, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, however, it isn't going unnoticed. Portrayed perfectly as the victim of low intelligence, Lennie is the target for many attacks. It's as if an invisible barrier has been put up, in which he can't be viewed…

… from their debut in the early 1900's and continued to grow more popular over the years. The film making business hit a growth period in the 1920's. In Hollywood, the assembly line "studio" system of producing a movie was changed and refined,…

… tries to use Strangers on a Train to tell us that everyone has a murderer within them. He shows us characters with different levels of the desire to kill. There is Bruno, Guy, and other characters, who represent society, and its desire to kill someone.…

… and friendship are present. The structure of the novel is based around these sorts of relationships, which are seen all through the book and form the basis of it. Friendships in the novel are far and few between. On the surface it may seem…

… society. Whether it be discrimination against certain types of people, or just personal matters involving family and friends, you will always find a type of injustice being conducted somewhere in the world. There are many cases of injustice present…