Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby begins with an epigraph‚ this epigraph could be interpreted as a poetic device that foreshadows the plot of the novel. “Then wear the gold hat‚ if that will move her...Lover‚ gold-hatted‚ high-bouncing lover..." The poem is a piece of advice that urges the reader to attain wealth for him to gain his love interest’s affections‚ just like Gatsby attained wealth for him to win Daisy’s love. The concept of Gatsby donning a gold hat could be seen as Gatsby putting on his Oxford
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News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in newspapers. What factors do you think influence these decisions? Do we become used to bad news? Would it be better if more good news was reported? By far‚ news is very important to our world recently. Nowadays our world situation is full of violence and tragic happened every second. Indeed‚ Television and Newspapers are the medium for people to have a chance to acknowledge what currently happen all around the world. Both
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1) Write about the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter2. Chapter 2 of ‘The Great Gatsby’ sees Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan travel to ‘the valley of ashes’ to visit Tom’s mistress Myrtle. As the chapter continues the characters find themselves at a party at Myrtle’s sister’s apartment in New York. Chapter 2 follows a chronological structure‚ the events of that day in the summer of 1922 are recalled in the order that they occurred‚ creating the effect of a very realistic story being
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I read an article published by San Jose Mercury News regarding a crime committed by an illegal immigrant. Authorities in San Fransisco‚ California‚ which people consider as a “sanctuary city”‚ wouldn’t hand over a certain illegal immigrant to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Additionally‚ the illegal immigrant was very dangerous considering he had seven felonies and the U.S. deported him five times. While enjoying a sunny day with her beloved father‚ Kate Steinle was shot by this man
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Resolutions are promises you make to yourself to change‚ be better‚ and to improve yourself. The beginning of every new year seems like a time for change and a time to evolve as a person. “ New Year ‚ New Me” things people say because starting a new year feels like starting a new beginning of our lives. So we end up making resolutions as a promise to ourselves that we will committee to this and conquer this promise. Making resolutions has become a tradition over time and only 8% of those people stay
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New Hire Orientation: A New Approach It is the first day of your new job. After arriving‚ suddenly you flashback to the last time you were in this situation. A dreadful feeling comes over as you recall how boring and useless that first week was. Five days of your life you will never get back. It was so awful; the thought of turning around and leaving crosses your mind. Is this job really worth it? Little do you know that this time it will be different because you are working for Peabody Energy
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In this novel the Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald creates Gatsby as a character who becomes great. He begins life as just an ordinary‚ lower-class‚ citizen. But Gatsby has a dream of becoming wealthy. After meeting Daisy‚ he has a reason to strive to become prominent. Throughout his life‚ Gatsby gains the title of truly being great. Even before Gatsby is introduced‚ he is hinted at being out of the ordinary. The first evidence of this is when Nick says‚ "Gatsby turned out all right at the
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without consequence. F. Scott Fitzgerald breaks out of this mold to tell us the other sides of the story readers are so used to hearing. Like every classic American Dream‚ it is the tale about a person who wishes for all the good things in life and uses hard work and determination to make their dream a reality. But as Fitzgerald shows us in “Winter Dreams‚” it may seem like the perfect life but sometimes it is not what one expects it to be. In “Winter Dreams‚” F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his main character
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Do you believe in the American Dream? What is the American Dream‚ really? F. Scott Fitzgerald has a pretty good idea of what that dream might be. In his book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ all the characters are attempting to become happier with their lives. The characters in the novel are divided into two groups: the rich upper class and the poorer lower class (West Egg and East Egg). Though the main characters only try to make their lives better‚ the American Dream they are all trying to achieve is eventually
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Eric Sorenson Leaf Spray: Direct Chemical Analysis of Plant Material by Mass Spectrometry Jiangjiang Liu‚† He Wang‚† R. Graham Cooks‚*‚‡‚§ and Zheng Ouyang*‚†‚§ †Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering‚ ‡Department of Chemistry‚ and §Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development‚ Purdue University‚ West Lafayette‚ Indiana 47907‚ United States Analytical Chemistry ACS Publications Published September 14‚ 2011 This research article written by the researchers Jiangjiang Liu‚ He Wang‚ R.
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