Jordan Vickery Mr. Watson Honors English 11 7 May 2012 A Broken Dream Deep inside the heart of every human being lives a dream so all consuming that the person would go to almost any length to achieve it. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Jay Gatsby has an ambition that completely consumes every inch of his being. It drives him to such extremes that he becomes a slave to his lust for success. The story begins with Nick Carraway‚ a Midwesterner now living on Long Island
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Her hands had been shaking as she hugged both Walter and I. Even Father had had tearing eyes‚ his firm shell cracking to his children leaving possibly for forever. How had our family become so broken within days? When we arrived to London‚ I hadn’t thought I’d seen such a dark place in my life. Dark black smoke billed out from buildings and garbage covered the streets. The wells full of water even looked unsanitary‚ clogged with the pollution
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The Effect of Drug Abuse on Students and Others Prakash Chandra Roy 1 Abstract Bangladesh with the most populous and poorest countries in the world faces many challenges including drug that has become an issue due to its geographical location‚ poverty and illiteracy. Although there is no precise figure of the drug dependant people‚ but is estimated around 4.0 million people mostly youths are dependant to some form of drugs‚ and increased trend among all kinds of people is alarming. The present
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The effects of slavery on the African American family were tremendous. From slave mother’s and father’s having their children taken away and sold‚ to brother’s and sister’s being split apart‚ to having the actual slave-owner being the one to father children with slaves‚ to even say that African American families even existed might sound ridiculous. But they did exist; it just depends on what you might define as a "family". Slavery did not weaken or dissolve the African American family. Instead‚ it
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Family helps mold every person into who they eventually will become. The family is a guide for the success of a child’s future. The stability of family creates a building block for how the child will progress throughout life. When parents divorce‚ the children are left with no stability causing them to lose basic concepts of childhood that may carry with them throughout life. Children of divorced parents have less success and happiness creating less productive citizens in our nation. Watching parents
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Online gaming is one of the widely used leisure activities by many people. Teenagers who are playing these online games said that they are playing these games just for fun‚ to keep away from the heat of the sun‚ without knowing that there are a lot of effects of playing these games that are more than what they think. Playing online games‚ according to some research is beneficial. It enables the mind of the players to be more active‚ especially those puzzle-based games. It helps the player to come up with
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Negative Effects of TV The television has many effects on family life and the individual‚ causing family bonds to unravel and the individual to become naïve of their surroundings. The TV keeps one hooked for hours on end‚ causing family relationships to diminish and personal relationships to weaken. Not only does the TV seem to be a good alternative to conversations and interactions amongst one another‚ but it also helps to create a gap between the fictional world of TV and reality. Since the
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opportunity to choose the right from wrong is given to everyone‚ but at the same time choices and consequences walk parallel to each other. The choices in life predestine the future of who makes the choice in their own life; those decisions are good or bad and so are the consequences. Therefore‚ each individual is responsible for their own acts that are going to build their own destiny for instance everybody has what they deserve. Like William Shakespeare said‚ “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny
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Effects of Justice System on Children & Families Kathryn Naggie American Intercontinental University March 27‚ 2011 English Composition 107 The Effects of the Justice System on Children and Families can be very damaging. It is dealt with everyday in my household. A parent being in prison is one of the hardest things that a child
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reviewed by the researcher. Scholars‚ academia and works of other researchers were also reviewed in order to gain knowledge useful for the study and to avoid duplication of already done work on the study. The researcher reviewed a literature on the Effect of Stress on Student’s Academic Performance on Kogi State University Undergraduates”. The researcher also presents a theoretical approach relevant to the study and its implication. There are several theoretical positions devised for examining and
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