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    The Great Gatsby

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    Assignment Nine: The Great Gatsby 1. Why do you suppose Daisy is always dressed in white? Is it symbolically important? There is a great deal of color symbolization within “The Great Gatsby‚” and Daisy’s clothes are just one example of symbolically important color. In the beginning of the novel‚ Daisy is always dressed in white‚ which is a representation of her innocence and purity. Through Gatsby’s eyes‚ Daisy is void of any imperfections‚ and much like an angel‚ she glows white in his eyes. Fitzgerald

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    Great Expectations

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    prison. Dickens displays how children were treated in the Victorian era one of his books: Great Expectations in which a gentleman Pip is retelling his life story growing up in a village near London. He had always wanted to grow up to become a gentleman and escape his “common status”. As a child Pip is not respected or loved by his sister and other adults and beaten regularly. What Dickens suggests in the novel Great Expectations is that people often grow to have emotional or physical problems due to their

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    The Great Debaters

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    Alicea Terry Speech 102 Professor Saunders The Great Debaters: Thesis Paper Due: July 22nd 2008 The Miss Education of the African –American: Past‚ Present‚ and Future From the beginning‚ Whites’ in America have exploited Negros’. “Upon landing in Africa‚ White Americans were welcomed and given a feast (James W. Loewen)”. Whites Americans played on the greed of tribal chiefs’ Africans traded their own people into slavery for goods. When the true nature of the White American was realized

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    ENG 4U ! Unit 3: Novel Study Novel Study: The Great Gatsby Tatiana Rios Assignment Questions 1. Who is morally responsible for Gatsby’s death? In The Great Gatsby‚ Daisy and Tom Buchanan are the two most responsible for Gatsby’s death. At the hotel in New York‚ Tom became hostile towards Gatsby and began to question him about his business practices as well as his past‚ calling him a fraud. Gatsby responds by urging Daisy to tell Tom that she does not love him. As the tension began

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    A Great Man

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    A Great Man My Grandpa By Mark DeVries For English 101 Teacher Pat Moran C. T. U. My Grandpas name was Frank Marion DeVries Jr... He was born and raised in the small town of Pueblo‚ Colorado. He worked at Colorado Fuel and Iron‚ the section where he worked in was called the open hearth. It was a hard job of shoveling coal into a furnace‚ and it made my Grandpa a very strong man. I never could figure out why he had a red tinge to his skin. I think it was due to the heat from the furnace

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    Great Expectations Lecture One Dr Mandy Treagus Lecture Plan • Realism and the rise of the novel • More on the Bildungsroman • Indicators of adult looking back at childhood • Narrator and narrative voice • What drives the narrative? Great Expectations and Realism • Realism a reading as well as a writing practice • Realism strongly connected with philosophy • The individual in relation to society • ‘Modern philosophical realism … begins from the position that Truth can be

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    Brittany Patterson Period 5 English 3 Influence Being influenced can sometimes be an accident. To where everything around you is one big drama problem. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Nick being the narrator‚ “accidently” gets influenced to join a love circle‚ but the thing is that nothing actually involves real love. Just for money and all the luxuries they each have. Nick still seems to see himself as a good Midwestern boy with high standards for everyone he meets‚ including

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    the great depression

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    The Great Depression The 1920’s had a wealthy‚ gilded veneer‚ and the general mood of the country corresponded to this belief that the country was in an economic upswing. The stock market was climbing‚ and it was expected to continue to do so. However‚ people were investing in part to make a quick buck‚ but also for the prestigious status that accompanied investing. Neither of these result in a stable economy. Furthermore‚ subtle economic clues were ignored‚ such as productivity and consumption

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    Ashoka the Great

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    Ashoka From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia "Asoka" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Ashoka (disambiguation). |Ashoka the Great | |Mauryan Samrat | |[pic] | |A Chakravatin (possibly Ashoka) first century BC/CE. Andhra Pradesh‚ | |Amaravati. Preserved at Musee Guimet

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    abstinence-only and abstinence-only-until-marriage programs still has a great deal of effect on such causes. In the following essay I will provide two articles that discussion the following topic: abstinence-base education. One article will debate that abstinence education increases pregnancies and sexually transmitted STD’s‚ while the article‚ will argue for the abstinence base education‚ which prevents STD’s and has a great deal of effect on low pregnancies. “Abstinence-only and comprehensive

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