in most English classrooms around the world‚ and many students have read it during their high school years. It is seen as one of the great American classics. But why is this particular novel so special? Does it deserve its place amongst the famous books in English literature? Here is why the Great Gatsby is still a great novel. First‚ let us take a look at the historical context. The story is set in the 1920s‚ a time of great extravagance‚ economic prosperity and loss of morals. The Great War had
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German University in Cairo Faculty of EMS Department: Mechatronics Prof. Dr. Imam Morgan Mechanics II (ENME 402) Assignment (2) Name ID Group Grade Signature Dead Line: Thursday 11/4/2013 -1- Problem (1) A tractor-trailer is traveling at 90 km/h when the driver applies his brakes. Knowing that the braking forces of the tractor and the trailer are 16 kN and 60 kN‚ respectively‚ determine: (a) the distance traveled by the tractor-trailer before it comes to a stop‚ (b) the horizontal component
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Complete the case studies for this week. Review the case studies below in the textbook. Prepare a one-page report for each of the following case studies: * Case Study: Martha Stewart’s Lost Reputation‚ pg. 34 * Case Study: Texaco: The Ecuador Issue‚ pg. 41 * Case Study: Where Were the Accountants?‚ pg. 44 Ethics Case: Martha Stewart’s Lost Reputation In June 2002‚ Martha Stewart began to wrestle with allegations that she had improperly used inside information to sell a stock investment
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A teenager with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby’s cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles)‚ but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death‚ Harold freaks out his blind dates‚ modifies his new sports car to look like a mini-hearse‚ and attends funerals‚ where he meets the spirited Maude (Ruth Gordon). An eccentric
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Compare and Contrast Book to movie adaptations are very common to find now of days. Some examples are: Hunger Games‚ Divergent‚ Paper Town‚ ect. All book to movie adaptations have many differences‚ but also many similarities. One of the popular book to movie adaptation is Divergent by Veronica Roth. As Divergent started to climb to the best sellers list‚ the possibility for a movie was almost undeniable. Soon enough a movie was announced‚ and sold out box offices all over the world. There were many
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amazing book that I would read again but I would like to address one thing. The cover. No the cover is not a representation of what is inside of the book but let’s be honest‚ a lot of people do judge a book by its cover. The cover‚ to be frank‚ is TERRIBLE. Whoever made the cover for your book is terrible at their job. The cover is blurry and plain. Even if you just kept the design and got rid of the blur it would be MUCH MUCH better. The cover is a turnoff. If someone told me to choose the book that
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Many people feel that book to movie adaptations give the readers a chance to connect with the characters and visualize what happens in the book. While many others believe that many important things that happen in the book may be left out or altered‚ changing the plot of the book entirely. One of these book to movie adaptations being Stardust by Neil Gaiman. After reading Stardust by Neil Gaiman and watching the movie “Stardust” 3 differences that impact the plot directly would be the role the lightning
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setting‚ characters‚ and imagery that the author had envisioned and put into the book. There were multiple differences between what was read and what was watched. Multiple changes and additions were made to the storyline in the movie. The creators of the movie made the changes with the idea that the story line would be similar to the text that was created in the 8th century. While the actual story itself was similar to the book‚ many additions were made in the movie. Also‚ characters were given a different
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Now a days Hip hop singers are writing books about their memoir‚ but most of them have only one story to tell‚ and they are all repetitive. Memoir is a historical account written from personal knowledge or special sources. Each chapter in the book Mo’meta blues starts with a question that QuestLove asks himself‚ so he creates his book to be both memoir‚ and anti memoir in addition those questions makes his book to be unique. Mo’meta blues book is a memoir because most of the questions that
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The book called The Old Curiosity Shop was written by Charles Dickens. The piece printed as a book in 1941.The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather‚ who both reside in The Old Curiosity Shop in London. A fact about the book I found interesting is apparently Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841 and was said to have called it “very interesting and cleverly written.” That was probably the moment when Charles realized his book was amazing‚ when the queen reads it! The events in the
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