even turbulence seemed to be having a day off. But about twenty minutes later‚ the plane sharply jolted back and forth. It was sharp enough to grab everybody’s attention. A cold shiver ran down my spine and I quietly scolded myself for visualizing all those movies about plane crashes in just a fraction of a second. I hadn’t even calmed my nerves down when suddenly extreme turbulence started occurring‚ making the plane lurch sideways and bags started falling from the upper luggage compartments. I could
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The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s takes place sometime around 1922. The story is told by one of the main characters‚ Nick Carraway‚ a midwest native who moves to New York in search of the American dream. Nick‚ who is a writer‚ moves right next door to millionaire Jay Gatsby and across the bay lives his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom‚ who happens to also be rich. Throughout the story Nick is introduced into the‚ captivating world of the wealthy and is a first hand witness of the
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unable to help my mom with anything for I was disabled‚ all I could do was open the windows of the kitchen so that the smoke would go away. The smoke that came out of the oven filled the kitchen and it smelled horrible‚ we had to wait for half an hour until some of the smoke had gone away. I tried helping my mom with some of the cooking but I really couldn’t do much. As I stood in the kitchen watching my mom preparing dinner‚ I got flashbacks of the dream that I had. I tried not thinking about it
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One of the traditional types of simple machines is an inclined plane. Like the pulley and lever‚ the inclined plane provides a means of raising a heavy load easily. It is mainly useful for loading barrels since they can be rolled up the incline plane. The inclined plane was one of the machines available in ancient times. For example- the early Egyptians used inclined planes in the construction of the pyramids. Today many inclined planes are used in sports and recreation like water skiing and slides
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even turbulence seemed to be having a day off. But about twenty minutes later‚ the plane sharply jolted back and forth. It was sharp enough to grab everybody’s attention. A cold shiver ran down my spine and I quietly scolded myself for visualizing all those movies about plane crashes in just a fraction of a second. I hadn’t even calmed my nerves down when suddenly extreme turbulence started occurring‚ making the plane lurch sideways and bags started falling from the upper luggage compartments. I could
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Do you believe in the American Dream? What is the American Dream‚ really? F. Scott Fitzgerald has a pretty good idea of what that dream might be. In his book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ all the characters are attempting to become happier with their lives. The characters in the novel are divided into two groups: the rich upper class and the poorer lower class (West Egg and East Egg). Though the main characters only try to make their lives better‚ the American Dream they are all trying to achieve is eventually
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In The Great Gatsby‚ there are a variety of themes. Of all the themes the book has to offer‚ the film captures best‚ the lack of morals and the corruption of the American Dream. Towards the beginning of the film when Nick first meets Myrtle she is immediately showing her lack of morals by the way she interacts with Tom‚ giving Nick a sense of their secret affair. In addition‚ the party she hosts at the apartment is over the top inappropriate compared to the one in the novel as Nick is exposed to
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Plane Trusses 1. A pin-jointed truss is loaded as shown in Figure 1. Without obtaining the reactions at the supports‚ determine the magnitude of the forces in members AB and BC and state whether they are in tension or compression. (Ans: Fbc = - 4.81 kN‚ Fab = 2.67 kN) [pic] 2. The truss frame hinged at A and supported by roller at G‚ is subjected to a force of 150 kN at D‚ and 60 kN at F as shown in Figure 2. a) Draw the free-body
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without consequence. F. Scott Fitzgerald breaks out of this mold to tell us the other sides of the story readers are so used to hearing. Like every classic American Dream‚ it is the tale about a person who wishes for all the good things in life and uses hard work and determination to make their dream a reality. But as Fitzgerald shows us in “Winter Dreams‚” it may seem like the perfect life but sometimes it is not what one expects it to be. In “Winter Dreams‚” F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his main character
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Marullo English I 17 January 2011 The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the social rejection of the Prohibition in the 1920s. Prohibition‚ the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol‚ made millionaires out of bootleggers like Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald was driven to write many novels because of his love for Zelda. Great Gatsby‚ a novel written by Fitzgerald‚ portrayed the lavish lifestyle of the rich in the 1920s and their ignorance
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