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1
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What year was the Declaration of Independence

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1776

2
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Quote from Declaration of Independence

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All men are created equal

3
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Jesus’ last words

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Father forgive them, for they do not know what their doing

4
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Marxism

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Revolutionary mindset and conflict between proletariat and aristocracy

5
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Feudalism

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Class divide

6
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The jungian hero

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Jim Casey

7
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The rebel

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Jim/ Tom

8
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Woodie gunthrie’s song

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If you don’t got the do re mi folks

9
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Steinbeck’s main intention

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To give a voice to labourers, not forgetting they are real people

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Steinbeck’s theory of Phalanx

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The roles of individuals within groups can be likened to cells in an organism, working together to further the opportunity of the body as a whole rather than playing a more self interested role

11
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Which writers present women in a similar way to ma

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Willa Cathers frontier heroines and Faulkner’s black matriarchs , alluding to the fact there was a tradition of powerful women in 20th century American Literature

12
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What did the Wall Street crash force Americans to do?

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Re evaluate their arbitrary capitalist system

13
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What did Steinbeck undermine

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Fitzgerald’s quintessential rags to riches story

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What is Steinbeck’s view on human beings and their behaviour

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Focus on their external behaviour and their speech, rather than their inwardness. The relationships people create and ongoing activity on the outside

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Steinbeck quote about sadness

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’there is a sorrow here that weeping cannot sybolise’

16
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1926 western silent film, ‘The winning of Barbra Worth’ Harold Bell

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Preacher who attacks churches saying that hard work and integrity help others more than church rituals

17
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What myth was Steinbeck interested in?

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The myth of social mobility