complete. Income inequality is a real and major issue in the real world today. We see in Gatsby when Nick accompanies Tom through the “Valley of Ashes” how run down the area is. The Valley of Ashes is a true representation about Income Inequality‚ while reading we go from the beautiful and sunny side of West Egg to the run down dark and disgusting Valley of Ashes. Clearly East and West Egg are where people that have the money and the Valley is where people are deprived. Income Inequality is portrayed
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Linda D. Addison is an American artist and author of horror‚ fantasies‚ and science fiction. Addison is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award‚ which she won twice for her accumulation of poems‚ ‘Consumed‚ Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes’
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Egg were more of the newly rich people who were starting to acquire money. Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway were unsophisticated and innocent. Gatsby lived in an extravagant mansion‚ while Nick lived in a small cottage. Those that lived in the Valley of Ashes were people who were hopeless and impoverished. George and Myrtle Wilson lived above the automobile repair shop‚ which was Mr. Wilson’s profession. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald could be interpreted as being all based around money. I realized
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us were in reality the first chemists discovering metals and mixing them etc. Here’s a poem about something that happen during the Renaissance: Ring around the rosies‚ A pocket full of posies‚ Ashes‚ ashes! We all fall down. For hundreds of years children sang this song not knowing the horrible meaning behind it. Song was written about the Bubonic Plague. Horrible living conditions in the cities and town helped the "Black Plague"
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its sides and only reaches to the flank or summit of volcano and sometimes reaches the surface causing an eruption.” That is why a volcano erupts when pressure on the magma chamber causes the magma to rise and come out together with gas‚ rocks and ashes. Violence of an eruption depends on how much pressure the volcano is under before it erupts. (How do volcano erupt) “In a volcanic eruption‚ hot lava spews out from beneath the Earth’s crust up to the Earth’s surface.” The hot lava spewed out is
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demanded a rope of ashes. The aged mother thought of an idea so that they would make a rope of ashes. And the idea successfully goes well. The young farmer told that story to the ruler and the degree was removed. Reader’s Conclusion: A degree was given by a wicked ruler to put to death all old people. A poor farmer took his aged mother up a mountain to obey the degree‚ but could not. He brought his mother down the mountain and hid her. The wicked ruler demanded a rope of ashes be made. It was the
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The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows the story of a group of the most affluent socialites of the East Coast‚ written from the perspective of the newly moved Nick Carraway. As Nick has just moved away from his upper class family in the Midwest to make his own fortune in the New York stock market‚ he finds himself to be the neighbor of the richest‚ most luxurious man on the island of West Egg: Jay S. Gatsby‚ who‚ at his incredible mansion‚ is credited with throwing the most extravagant
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to as "the valley of ashes." Fitzgerald uses her to portray the social wasteland‚ particulaly the growing materialism and superficiality of modern society. He makes a huge statement about the repression of the impoverished by the upper-class in the modern wasteland through Myrtle. She not only lives in the geographical wasteland‚ but she also embodies the moral and social wasteland that Fitzgerald is condemning. Myrtle is the only vivacious creature in "the valley of ashes‚" Fitzgerald’s geographical
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Fitzgerald shows how Myrtle always wants a better lifestyle and wants to get out of “The Valley of Ashes” to become wealthier‚ but that causes her death. Fitzgerald shows this when Nick meets Tom’s mistress Myrtle and they go to New York‚ Nick describes that Myrtle started buying many things and how she was acting rich‚ “bought a copy of Town Tattle
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ depicts the roaring1920’s and how society functions under the influence of the American Dream. American society during this period was determined to improve the quality of life in the country and the individual. In “The Great Gatsby”‚ the American Dream is hidden behind a mirage of things including corruption‚ beauty‚ greed‚ and‚ most of all‚ lies. All these factors gave many people a sense of false entitlement in an era when economic and social status were
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