lifeless yet handsome man‚ coloured gray by the ashes in the air. In contrast‚ Myrtle has a kind of desperate vitality; she strikes Nick as sensuous despite her stocky figure. Tom taunts Wilson and then orders Myrtle to follow him to the train. Tom takes Nick and Myrtle to New York City‚ to the Morningside Heights apartment he keeps for his affair. Here they have an impromptu party with Myrtle’s sister‚ Catherine‚ and a couple named McKee. Catherine has bright red hair‚ wears a great deal of makeup. The
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A&E’s The Great Gatsby film study guide (Answer on a separate sheet in complete sentences) Pre-Viewing 1. How was the 1920’s a reaction to WWI? 2. Some people think that having money leads to happiness. Do you agree? Why or why not? What are the advantages or disadvantages of being wealthy. 3. What is the "American Dream"? Where did it originate‚ and how has it changed over the centuries? 4. Describe a situation when you wanted to relive a moment from your past‚ to redo it? How
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The American Dream: dead or alive? In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the theme can be separated into two major aspects. First‚ love versus money- criticizing the corruption of the American dream‚ and second‚ “sight and insight”-the perception that there is no all seeing presence (higher accountability) in the modern world. The American Dream is not dead it is‚ however‚ very corrupted. First‚ the issue of love versus money‚ the criticizing of the corruption of the American dream‚ to show this
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Katie Coleman ALC Period 3 12/19/13 Fitzgerald’s Colorful Imagination The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an ever exciting story about a trouble-some wealthy man‚ Jay Gatsby. He spends his life creating a rich status for myself to allure people in. Among the people his wants to in his life‚ is his one true love‚ Daisy Buchanan. Color Symbolism plays a huge roll in describing characters and lending extra meaning to inanimate objects and descriptions of society. The use
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The novel‚ Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of Victorian fiction. It is through the use of characterization and imagery that Dickens is able to make his ideas most prominent in the minds of readers. Through his expert use of these authorial techniques‚ Dickens successfully criticizes the prison system‚ the morals of society‚ and the social injustice of his time. In the novel‚ Dickens takes an innocent young orphan boy through childhood
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------------------------------------------------- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia "Gandhi" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Gandhi (disambiguation). Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | | Born | 2 October 1869 Porbandar‚ Kathiawar Agency‚British Indian Empire[1] | Died | 30 January 1948 (aged 78) New Delhi‚ Dominion of India | Cause of death | Assassination by shooting | Resting place | Cremated at Rajghat‚ Delhi. 28.6415°N 77.2483°E | Nationality
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Many absolute rulers have been terrible throughout the history of Europe. Absolutism‚ a pattern of failure. Peter the Great and Catherine the Great had many improvements in Russia such as inviting the west. Absolutism is a government in which the ruler has total control over politics and the military. Peter and Catherine are examples of absolutism in Russia. Wars in Russia allowed people in Europe to get ports along the Black Sea‚ but the war was expensive. Absolutism has a wide history‚ but there
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The Great Depression The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States‚ the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929‚ which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years‚ consumer spending and investment dropped‚ causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies
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Sylvia Plath was a gifted writer‚ poet and verbal artist whose personal anguish and torment visibly manifested itself in her work. Much of her angst stems from her warped relationship with her father. Other factors that influenced her works were her strained views of human sexuality‚ her sado-masochistic tendencies‚ self-hatred and her traditional upbringing. She was labeled as a confessional poet and biographical and historical material is absolutely necessary to understand her work. Syliva Plath
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Title: Man and Woman Relationship in Girish Karnad’s play Naga-Mandala Introduction: This paper is entitled Man and Woman relationship in Girish Karnad’s Naga-Mandala.. Simone de Beauvoir in her essay “The Second Sex” states that “The whole of feminine history has been man-made. Just as in America there is no Negro problem‚ but rather a white problem; just as anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem‚ it is our problem; so the woman problem has always been a man problem.”
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