... since the Middle Ages northern Europeans have assumed that was an apple. (Some scholars think it was a pomegranate.) (Pollan, 20). This seems to illustrate how important the apple became to European culture and society at the time. With an importance such as this it comes as no surprise that when Europeans began to travel away from their homes to the new ... all look and feel like what we know as apples. They have shiny skin (sometimes enhanced by wax), they are shaped perfectly, and they all have the familiar apple taste. Unlike these six the 2,000 of their brethren range in shape, siz...

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... immigrants and the hardships they faced in coming to America, finding work, and trying to find a way out overwhelming poverty and hardships. Out of This Furnace is a story about white, European immigrants, but draws some extraordinarily close similarities to the life of a freed slave after the Civil War, similarities regarding social standing, economic situation, and quality of life. The first story ... risked his job in order to testify in front of the government. Dobie was more American than both his father and grandfather, due to the course his life took. Dobie, unlike Kracha and Mik...

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