Comparing Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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My writing assignments that I have chosen to represent my growth were the Into the Wild essay as well as the Of Mice Men Essay. I chose many others but I wanted to talk about these two specifically because I feel they show evidence of everything I have wanted to achieve since the first semester. Both of them exemplify my wide vocabulary as well as my current sentence structure. The following quote shows evidence of my new use of vocabulary and sentence structure “ First of all, to justify the killing of Lennie, a modern day example of euthanasia and mercy killings that most people are familiar with, are the acts of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Recognized as Dr. Death, Kevorkian was guilty of one hundred and thirty counts of physician assisted suicide.”

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