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    community‚ to investigate how culture changes one’s inner values‚ we have to define some common beliefs‚ just like clothing that has some features that help distinguish its cultural background. People having the same cultural background‚ in general‚ are likely to behave in a similar way‚ because their education and religion background have also cultural elements. It is true that personalities are different for everyone‚ but culture can affect people to a certain degree because it provides an environment from

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    Cameron Kennison Estep English III 9 March 2017 Is Nick Actually Reliable? An Analysis of the Narrator of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Nick Carraway is the narrator in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and many may agree that Nick is a reliable narrator‚ but there is evidence throughout the book that suggests the opposite. A closer examination of Nick’s words may strongly suggest that he is not the neutral narrator he proclaims himself to be. Not always narrating from

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    Is nick a reliable narrator? How does his point of view colour the reality of the novel‚ and what facts or occurrences would he have vested interest in obscuring? Nick’s basic contempt for mankind emerges in what he says and thinks as well as in descriptions of others. The novel begins by Nick insisting that he was “inclined to reserve all judgments‚” and then spends the remainder of the novel forming judgments of all the other characters. Tom is crude‚ Daisy is shallow‚ Jordan is dishonest‚

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    In the novel The Great Gatsby by ‚ it can be agreed that the character of Nick Carraway tells throughout the novel by how he see’s the Great Gatsby through his eyes and he explains how he facilitates the rekindling of Daisy and Jay Gatsby’s romance. Firstly he introduces that he is the narrator in chapter one. Secondly he tells us how he came to Long island and how things are after moving to West Egg and moving in next to the Great Gatsby. He progress’s from innocence to finally finding a moral

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    When an employee is hired at a company‚ oftentimes a background check is necessary in order for the hiring process to proceed. Companies check future job candidate’s criminal backgrounds‚ as well as prior job performance. They may also check an employee’s credit. Employers want to know who they are working with before they hire sometimes. In my opinion‚ criminal background checks are definitely necessary. For example‚ employers need to know if the person they are hiring robbed a convenient store

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    Student Body? “Background Checks for Students” Introduction: Background checks are conducted to obtain a variety of types of information -- criminal records‚ credit histories‚ previous residences‚ job credentials. Some feel that the extent to which the background check should be depends on the position. For example‚ it makes little sense‚ on the one hand‚ to investigate the credit history of an Anthropology professor. On the other hand‚ failing to investigate the background of a school psychologist

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    Include the person’s people group (gender‚ ethnic background‚ cultural background etc..). This date marks the birth of Josiah Henson in 1789. Content should include a brief background of the person? Josiah Henson was born into slavery on June 15‚ 1789 in Charles County‚ Maryland. As a young boy he witnessed slavery’s cruelties inflicted on his immediate family. Young Henson watched his father receive fifty lashes for standing up to a slave owner and then witnessed his father’s ear being severed

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    sense of the sources and helps the reader understand them in greater depth. |The Background Synthesis | The background synthesis requires that you bring  together background information on a topic and organize it by topic rather than by source.  Instructors often assign background syntheses at the early stages of the research process‚ before students have developed

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    Personal Cultural Background A person’s identity is unique and has a foundation of various sources. These sources may be different for every person‚ ranging from a person’s upbringing to a person’s religion. This paper will define cultural background and examine the multiple sources that make up my own personal cultural background that helped mold my individual identity. Furthermore‚ the paper will speculate on the extent to which my current identity has been molded by assimilation‚ acculturation

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    The Republican Party Background The Republican party was originally formed from the Whig Party Wisconsin on March 20‚ 1854. It was a party that was created to help free slaves in the western areas in 1834. The reason why the Whig Party was formed into the Republican party was because the Whigs were disintegrated from “an act that dissolved the terms of the Missouri Compromise and allowed slave or free status to be decided in the territories by popular sovereignty” http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/republican-party-founded

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