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    The book I chose is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I chose this selection because it was a book that I actually read in high school‚ as it was something that actually interested me. Then the movie came out in 2013 and it really heightened my interest in the mystery of Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is about a great mysterious man named Jay Gatsby that has everything that anyone could ever want‚ but he was missing one thing‚ Daisy. His true love that he would spend years just to find. Our part

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    on the effects of video gaming in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder” are also mentioned in the article. Again our games can really allow people to release stress even more effective than video games by incorporating physical activity. A personas I thought of could involve very stressed out teen to university students around the age where stress tends to easily build up‚ and what is there better to release them other than playing some interesting and innovative games. http://www.psychologytoday

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    will find people who all lack the magical thing called common sense. There are the adrenaline-junkies‚ the thrill seekers‚ and the daredevils; everywhere in society these people exist in today’s society. When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Great Gatsby; he reveals the recurring motifs of rumors and lying which underscores his message to the reader that people are careless. Fitzgerald uses the character whose name is Jay Gatsby‚ a rich-shady man who throws a lot of parties‚ to support that

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    Every racial group has an awakening. This new awakening brought music‚ dance‚ and art to New York. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening‚ of African Americans in the United States during the 1920’s. At the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance‚ there was the great migration. The great migration was a migration of African Americans from southern states to Harlem. It all began “In the early 1900s‚ a few middle-class black families from another neighborhood known as Black Bohemia moved to

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    produce 13 new drugs from 1995 to 2001‚ of which included the painkiller Vioxx. The drug was supposed to beat out Pfizer’s‚ Celebrex‚ and Bextra because it was gentler on the stomach. (www.cbsnews.com) But was that the only thing different Vioxx could do? Vioxx was introduced in 1999. Almost immediately reports started pouring in about patients having complications while taking the drug‚ such as heart attacks‚ strokes‚ and congestive heart failure. (www.vioxxnews.com) As the complaints were coming

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    Arthur Dimmesdale‚ Hester Prynne’s minister‚ suffers the greatest burden in the novel. Little does the congregation know that he had an affair with Hester. Instead of admitting his sinful act‚ he keeps it secret. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ this secretive sin brings Arthur Dimmesdale physical‚ emotional‚ and spiritual burdens. Arthur Dimmesdale inflicts a physical burden upon himself with self-loathing and torture. He takes Puritan fasting to an extreme by starving himself “

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    "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place on Long Island in the early 1920s. Gatz is from a lower class Midwestern farming family who falls in love with the wealthy well bread Daisy. The two are unable to marry and live happily ever after as they are from vastly different backgrounds and social status. Gatz enlists in the military and upon the end of his service is befriended by a wealthy benefactor who employs him "in a vague personal capacity". Gatz’s employment provides him the opportunity

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    while literally translating the material risks becoming forgettable and ridden with flaws in pace and affection; literary descriptions can be either incredibly more subtle or pronounced than what their length or position would at first suggest.

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    Period The movie‚ “The Great Gatsby”‚ begins with Nick Carraway (main character) working with a doctor to recover from his health after troubles with alcohol. Nick also confesses the events leading up to Jay Gatsby’s death. Also‚ Jordan Baker’s entire storyline is sped up and her unlikely romance with Nick is cut out throughout the movie. In the book‚ the two have a casual affection for each other‚ especially as Jordan is shown to be dishonest. Furthermore‚ While Fitzgerald’s book always feels very much

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    000 pounds of sponge per year. Without the turtles‚ sponges can overgrow corals and suffocate reefs. With a narrow head and jaws shaped like a beak‚ the hawksbill can get food from crevices in coral reefs. Sponges‚ anemones‚ squid and shrimp are all what they mainly feed on as part of their diet. Sponges make up a major part of the diet of hawksbill turtles‚ although they also feed on seagrasses‚ algae‚ soft corals and shellfish.

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