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Gloria Onwugamba
English 2
5/1/2009
OF Mice and men
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1. Why does George tell Lennie not to drink too much water?

A)He might pee on him self
B)He might poop on him self
C)He might play with his self
D)He might get to happy

2. What did George told Lennie about the rabbits?
A)That he could kill them
B)That he could eat them
C)That he could tend them
D)That he could dance with them

3. Why does Lennie have a dead mouse in his pocket?
A)He likes to pet soft things
B)He thinks that it will bring him and George good luck
C)He might attract rabbits with it
D)It signifies the title of the book

4. Why does George order Lennie not to talk when they get to the ranch?
A)So he doesn’t say the wrong thing
B)His teeth are pretty bad
C)His breath might smell like the water they splashed in their faces
D)He might curse

5. What happened to all of the mice that Lennie have had?
A)They ran away
B)They died
C)They lived happily ever after
D)They were with men





6. Why did George and Lennie run away from Weed?
A)They had to stir away from trouble
B)They had to go near trouble
C)They had to find new jobs
D)They were actually confused and need directions.

7. Where was the place that George told Lennie to go to if there was something wrong?
A)The place where they had slept
B)Some place in Philly
C)At Johns house
D)At Steinbeck’s house.

8. Who gave Lennie the dead mouse?
A)His Aunt Clara
B)His Uncle John
C)Him mom
D)George mom

9. Why cant Lennie have his working tickets?
A)He might lose it
B)He might eat it
C)He might kill them
D)George is mentally retarded

10. Is Lennie allowed to eat what he wants with his beans?
A)Yes
B)No
C)Another time
D)Maybe

11. Who keeps Lennie working tickets?
A)George
B)Slim
C)Curly wife
D)Lennie

12. How did Candy’s dog die?
A)He was shot
B)Hit by a car
C)Slammed in the door
D)He died of old age

13. What race was Crocks??
A)Black
B)White
C)Chinese
D)Purta rican

14. What does the Crooks' room look like?
A)Its old and has a lot of textbooks
B)Its very nice
C)Pretty expensive
D)Its ok

15. What happened in chapter 1?
A)Lennie and George went to a ranch to seek for a jobB)George killed someone
C)Lennie had to steal the gun
D)George had to run away

16. What was going on with Lennie in chapter 4?
A)George did something bad
B)Slim did something bad
C)Curly did something bad
D)Cookie did something bad

17. What card game does George play in "Of Mice and Men"? [SOLITARE]
A)Poker
B)Checkers
C)Solitare
D)Spider Solitaire

English essay

Gloria Onwugamba

The rainy afternoon and the squeaks of the boots, with the bloom of the flowers the next morning. The spring in life is fun, very youthful. The sweat on your forehead, the coldest of your toes going into the pool. Summers heat brings maturity and creativity level. The nice brisk wind and the colors of orange, green, and red. Falls maturity and calmness. The cold, dull winter last. We can use these seasons to figure out where you are at in life. I can see now looking in the mirror im in summer and the young girl Lizabeth the narrator in the Marigold by Eugene.



In the story Marigolds by Eugene Collier the young girl Lizabeth witnessed her father crying in the sadness about the great depression. Relating to my life much younger then Lizabeth I witnesses my mother laugh like nothing is wrong when we both knew that her crutch on life was broken and left her destitute to learn how to walk on her own two feet. Even I gave up on her but I watched her learn how to slowly walk and with faith I had faith in her. These experiences and much more things that you couldn’t possibly imagine is what made me trade in the jeans and chucks for the shorts and flip flops.

Many things can happen in a couple of months you can get taller, get bigger, get smaller, get smarter, even dark. The classic saying is you’ve matured over the summer. Linking back to the story Marigolds she matured that summer when she realized that stomping her neighbors flowers was immature. I cam over that realization playing outside in fact it starts in spring for many people. It should start at the age 7 when you know right from wrong. Or should it begin in the sandbox days when boys had coodies and everyone strived to color in the lines. Either way maturity happens through out your life the level of my maturity equals the maturity of a hot summer day, that still has blooming flowers.


I strive for independence extremely, to make my own money, buy my own clothes. To me the opposite of independence is to be dependent. In my eyes all children are dependent on their parents or guardian. I don’t want to be considered a child, a child stays in a child’s place. I don’t, I not to be young but Im forced by the world, the world forces me to be dependent on my parents. Now I will strive to be independent don’t forget the last name or the pretty smile when im on the 42nd floor of a building behind a desk in a expensive suit typing on a expensive keyboards, being independent.


Being in spring for too long makes the path towards summer very mentally and emotionally stressful. Lizabeth’s encounter with summer sun was in a strange ways. My encounter with summer was one that took a while and sometimes I continue to jump back to youthful days of spring. For now I will continue to be mature, strive for independence and keep my bubbly personality all the way to fall.

I make?

I make people jump for joy
when I'm good at mock trial, get A
or raise my hand with nothing to say


I make people smile from ear to ear
even seconds after the fall of a tear
...maybe from a best friend who trust me with EVERYTHING
such as the secrets from with in

I make people who are arrogant look down,
but i make my siblings look up to me
even if they grew past me

GET OFF THE COMPUTER
HANG UP THE PHONE
STAND IN THE CORNER
ALL alone....

I love my family even though
I make them aggravated.
But most of all I make them better!

English Essay

"Love withheld, restrained." They say we should never cry over a boy or girl but if there be sorrow let it be. The poem that fit my likings is "If there be Sorrow" by Mari Evans. It advises the reader that its okay to cry, but to cry about things you've never actually done. Emphasizing love withheld, and restrained so cry if you need to feel sorrow for being unloved, unrealized, undreamed. Mari Evans poem has voice and at the same time the voice sets a sad tone.Keeping it classic, poetic tradition the poem uses unique repetition. With that this poems meaning is very nice and will draw any reader as it did me.


From the moment the title crossed my eyes I was instantly taken. The title "If there be sorrow" is very captivating. When I saw the title I didn't understand the meaning, but the vocabulary gives the reader a sad feeling. It can leave one in though. Why?, because even the title sets the tone for the poem. The message after reading the poem is confusing. In the poem is confusing. In the poem they advise the reader to let sorrow be which is sad. Depending on how the reader reads it one can set your tone of voice to where it reads off as a relaxing poem. The tone explains sorrow and targets Love. So if "love withheld, restrained" let yourself feel sorrow. Also, the way it was introduces and the structure of it was a unique repetition. They made every word at one point begin with the prefix UN. Which means to no so when they say undreamed,unrealized, and unattained the poem meant cry for all the things one never accomplished. That's why i chose this poem because the message it had connected to me and my likings.

As a young girl, young man, or older we should live our life's to the fullest extent. If we regret everything or regret doing nothing your inviting sorrow. The poem emphasizing on the prefix UN, which means to not. If you never dreamed, or never loved have sorrow with yourself. Don't leave from this essay saying "so what?" walk away and understand. Life is short don't cry for the small stuff cry for things restrained. So ill leave one in thoughts just as i was.

NHD Reflection

This year I did a documentary and i felt as though it was a good choice because i am good at computers so i have alot of expirernce. I did my whole project at home which was a good idea this year because i know last year it was very complicated working at school. I did very well as a grade a 89 i could have gotten a 90 but im pretty sure its because of my time. I had only 5 minutes and 20 seconds and next year i will probably do a NHD project cause i was dissapointed that i didnt get in the CITIES competetion but im fine with it, I will do it next year and pick a topic that im intrested in just like i did this year but i will be better

31st annotation

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933, as published in Samuel Rosenman, ed., The Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volume Two: The Year of Crisis, 1933 (New York: Random House, 1938), 11–16.



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"In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone."

MY COMMENT

Saying this really told me about how the economy was and where the country stood. Which was very, very bad on opinion to what Franklin D Roosevelt.

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15 annotation

Students at the Notre Dame School, "The Great Depression." 26 Nov 2008 .


Reading another portion of the article i learned further more that the stock market crash of October 1929 brought the economic prosperity of the 1920s to a symbolic end. For the next ten years, the United States was mired in a deep economic depression. By 1933, unemployment had soared to 25 percent, up from 3.2 percent in 1929. Industrial production declined by 50 percent, international trade plunged 30 percent, and investment fell 98 percent.

14th Annotation

Students at the Notre Dame School, "The Great Depression." 26 Nov 2008 .



I learned that It strengthened the federal presence in American life, spawning such innovations as national old-age pensions, unemployment compensation, aid to dependent children, public housing, federally-subsidized school lunches, insured bank depositions, the minimum wage, and stock market regulations.

13th annotation

This was a sign during the Great Depression, because families were very much into stay at home moms so when the great depression happened men couldnt care for there own, or there household. So many filed for bankruptcy and many were forced to another kind of lifestyle.

12th annotation

This family is poor evidently they are victims of the great depression they lived in the South. You would think it would stop the buisness flow in the NORTH. But many families in the south had there farms and ranches low on stock because the nation was low on MONEY. The great deppresion was a serious situation. THANK GOD FOR F.D.R

11th anotations

This picture shows the great depression was a very serious sitatution and it left families and young children to look like this women and this child. In this picture shows that the little girl is very poor looking and the women looks stressed and looks crazy/mad/.

MR. Akerman

i didnt know i had to write two paragraphs on what i learned from the annotation. the next ones i will make sure that i explain what information i got from the annotation, book or secondary source

10th annotation

David A. , Shannon. The Great Depression . 1. Prentice-Hall, 1960

9th annotation

Golden, Fetters. Golden Fetters . 1. Oxford University Press, 1992.

8th annotation

Gottfried , Haberler. The World Economy, Money, and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 . 1. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1976.

7th annotation

Murray Newton, Rothbard. America's Great Depression. 1.. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2000.

6th annotation

Bernanke, Ben . Essays on the Great Depression . 1. Princeton University Press, 1929.

NHD

Gloria Onwugamba
Mr. Ackerman
NHD/American Studies
11/12/2008
Franklin Roosevelt and the great depression
The main idea is that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had ran the white house excellent and stopped the continuous clown turn of America.

The way I will interpret the significance of the subject at matter Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, proving if we can truly give him the glory for ending the tragic, and his support given to the people of the United States of America. You will except to see the things that F.D.R proposed and followed through in his presidency. The Great Depression was a tragic thing that happen in America it left families bankrupt and unemployed, can we point the finger at the president during this time, Hoover and after the Great Depression is over who do we point the finger to on saving, the current president. Well the current president we speak of is Franklin Roosevelt. He was elected in 1939 and contributed numerous ideas such as the NEW DEAL, that help America gain back its reputation so we can definitely say that he won the populations support right? You will expect to see the things that F.D.R proposed and followed through in his presidency and precisely judged weather or not he had much to do with the end of the Great Depression.

The great Depression was a tragic thing that happen in America and it affected the world. It left the families bankrupt and unemployed, can we point the finger at the president during this time, Hoover and after the Great Depression is over who do we point the finger to an saving, the current president. Well the current president we speak of is Franklin Roosevelt. He was elected in 1939 and contributed numerous ideas such as the New Deal that helped America going back its reputation so we can definitely say that he won the population vote in everyone’s mind.

During the 1930’ what epidemic occurred that affected the country and it affected the nation world-wide. The Great Depression, it was an downturn in the economy, and the recover of this impact wasn’t until the president F.D.R was elected. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was Americas 32nd president and he came to the white house, and he had his work cut out for him. Prior to Franklin Delano Roosevelt election the president was Herbert Hoover under his first year came the great depression, is he liable?

The Great Depression had dropped ratings 24.9 were unemployed which impact on the world economic slump in Germany preferably because American loans to rebound the economy had stopped. Australia was the hardest hit countries in Western world falling export demand and commodity prices placed massive downward pressures on wages.

We cant completely give credit to the president. The real causes of the great depression is debate table. If studied thoroughly a deflation is asset and commodity prices, dramatic drops in demand and credit and distribution of trade making widespread poverty. Some people just blame the president for yet barely a year before the Depression began, but he could have slowed it down in his 4 years in office.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is contributed many ideas to stop the Depression from going downhill. Not all of his ideas were widely in favor of. When Roosevelt was elected in March 1933, the country was suffering the worst depression in its history. Since the country needed an immediate relief its first 100 days he passed an bill to propose programs. Relief measures included the original plans of Hoover, but it took a new name Federal Emergency Relief Administration, so obviously Franklin Delano Roosevelt took in his hands to put America in the right path finically. He did this by organizing different and new organizations and plans for America. CCC which stands for civilian conservation cops was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s favorite, congress also gave the FTC. CCC was to hire 250,000 unemployed young men to work for rural local projects. Roosevelt advanced the reconstruction Finance the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and more. The Second Deal began from 1935-1936, after the election in 1934 Roosevelt had been a favorite in bot democratic parties. The first deal the new had been widely based around agriculture. Conservative Democrats, led by Al Smith fought back and attacked him having him equated with Marx and Lenin.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had many other contributions disregarding the great depression. He had new laws and regulations for him immigrates he was successful president.

In conclusion Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Untied States of Americas 32nd president came to the white house with an depression. To be more frank the great depression which was the worst period of economy nation-wide. In his 2 terms of presidency he turned everything around. The unemployed level, the agricultural values and the business community had increased in profit and he made 18.31 million jobs with his ideas and bills passed. So in the end when the curtains fall we know who to tribute respect to, Franklin Delano Roosevelt who completely was a inspiring leader and president.