Modern day society is made up of people who have many different living circumstances and make a wide range of money during their lives. These individuals are divided into groups in a hierarchy in the society which greatly determines a person’s power with the society. The types of power that a person could possess based on where they fall in society are economic‚ social‚ and cultural. Economic power is reliant on the amount of money and items of economic value that you own. Social power is gained
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For my Independent Reading Requirement‚ I read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald which is a story about a man chasing the woman he loves. The character Daisy Buchanan‚ one of the main characters in the book‚ really shows the IB Learner Profile ‘communicators’ throughout the story. Another character named Tom Buchanan shows the exact opposite of the profile “caring.” Starting off‚ Daisy shows communicators because she speaks with a lot of the characters throughout the story. Being a communicator
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People are not always as they seem. What some people believe is love‚ is actually desire in disguise. The Great Gatsby is an American Classic which is known for having strong symbolism from the the East and West Eggs‚ colors‚ class systems and even the meaning of money. The East and West Eggs Hold much more than homes and people‚ they hold secrets and truths. In Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the East and West Eggs are not as they appear; the root of all character conflict goes back to these
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“The poor are poor because the rich are rich” -Anonymous. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens‚ he exploits a hard time in the 1700s where the rich are rich because they exploit the poor. This raises a question to the audience‚ What action can be taken place to create an equal society? Dickens answers this question by placing this story in the middle of the French Revolution where people are are arrested because of their social class‚ presumed guilty without trial‚ then killed
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whEN I wAS FoUr YEArS oLd‚ I fell in love. It was not a transient love-one that stayed by my side during the good times and vanished during the bad-but rather a love so deep that few would understand. It was not the love for a person‚ but the love for a language. It was the love for Spanish. Having been born and raised behind the Iron Curtain‚ in a country where Western influence was limited and the official and only language was romanian‚ I was on my own. Everyone around me‚ especially my family
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It’s not uncommon to hear the term “a self-made man”. In what possible ways might this term be explained? How does Gatsby fit the definition? In what ways does he take it too literally? The term "self-made man" describes a person who was born poor or otherwise disadvantaged‚ but who achieved great economic success‚ a man who has risen from poverty or obscurity thanks to their own talents or energies and hard work rather than to any inherited fortune‚ high social position‚ family connections or other
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Writers of fiction often create characters who behave in contradictory ways. Discuss how writers present contradictory characters in two or three works you have studied. A contradictory character is a combination of statements‚ ideas‚ thoughts etc. of the particular character that oppose each other. Contradiction in a character arises‚ mainly‚ as a result of internal conflict within the character. It could also arise from other influences such as external conflicts or a moment of shock etc. or
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Great Gatsby: Chapter two feb‚18th‚2013 PLOT -Tom Buchanan takes Nick to George Wilson’s garage‚ which lies at the edge of the valley of ashes. - He then meets women named Myrtle‚ who Tom is having an affair. - Nick‚ then is forced to travel with Tom and Myrtle to the city. There‚ Tom and Myrtle decide to have a vulgar party with Myrtle’s sister‚ Catherine‚ and a couple named McKee. - The group gossip about Jay Gatsby. There rumors start to stir up when Catherine begins to tell the
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Political Theory and Gatsby In his article "’A New World‚ Material Without Being Real’: Fitzgerald’s Critique of Capitalism in The Great Gatsby‚" Ross Posnock establishes Fitzgerald’s interest in Marxism by placing him as a Nietzschean Marxist and contemporizing him with Georg Lukacs’s History and Class Consciousness‚ printed in 1923‚ and with Marx’s theories by extension‚ attempting to "demonstrate how deeply Marx’s critique is assimilated into the novel’s imaginative life‚" although he is careful
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THE GREAT GATSBY In his most fully realized artistic achievement‚ Fitzgerald creates a rich pattern of evocative language and some equally provocative symbols to carry the weight and meaning of his ideas. In this presentation I will be showing how three of these symbols are used to represent what Fitzgerald views as the most pressing problem of his society; the dangerous reality of pursuing dreams obsessively. I will be looking primarily at the valley of ashes‚ T K Eckleburg and the green light
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