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    Is Gatsby great or not? Section 1: Gatsby is generous to the people at his parties. He throws banquets and spends a lot of money on food‚ preparations and entertainment. Gatsby is a generous host. “most people were brought” “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” “At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet

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    11/4/12 The Great Gatsby Essay Lavishness‚ extravagance and indulgence; these words represent the lifestyles of many families living in the 1920’s. They used their status and money to raise their position in society. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ different socials statuses are explored through three main families/characters; the Buchanan family‚ Nick Carraway‚ and Jay Gatsby. The first house we will explore is the Buchanan household. There are three people in this household; Tom Buchanan‚

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    By reading literature from the different eras of American History‚ one can begin to understand how different American Society’s beliefs and attitudes are when contrasted against another era. The novels The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ and In Dubious Battle‚ written by John Steinbeck‚ are two novels written about “Roaring Twenties”‚ when Americans were known to flaunt their wealth‚ and The Great Depression‚ where the entire country was in a deep recession and the average workers had no rights

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    early gangs had an easy time of it because of the government corruption. They plundered stores and private homes without being charged by the police. Gangs formed around similar ethnic backgrounds. After The Civil War there were Jewish‚ African American‚ Italian and Irish gangs in New York. Chinese gangs appeared in California in the mid 1800s. Philadelphia reported gangs as early as 1840. Between then and 1870 Philadelphia became home to over 100 street gangs. This is also the time when gangs started

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    great gatsby Character |Behavior |Consequences | | |Jay Gatsby | He had a overzealous need for| He lost daisy because of his eagerness for money | | |money and would sacrifice | | | |anything to get it | | |Daisy Buchanan | Never attached her self to

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    When considering candidates for all time greatest gangster movies‚ one wouldn’t forget to mention such classics as Goodfellas‚ the Godfather‚ Reservoir Dogs‚ and Pulp Fiction. Some may even consider Tony Montana of Scarface to be the hardest‚ roughest gangster to ever appear on the movie screen. But what characteristics make this so? Is it because he was able to take over a drug cartel by violence to become the single most made man in Miami? Was it his ruthless business tactics‚ which ultimately

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    The American Dream is the sole idealization that is found in the Great Gatsby. Obtaining wealth in America comes from the idea that hard work would lead to prosperity and the simple pursuit of happiness. F. Scott Fitzgerald has revealed through the Great Gatsby that the American Dream is a popularized misconception when comparing old wealth and new wealth. The song “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)” by Fergie‚ GoonRock‚ & Q-Top discloses the realization of the American Dream and how

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    Throughout American history‚ the West has been seen as a land of promise and possibility—the very emblem of American ideals. Tom and Daisy‚ like other members of the upper class‚ have betrayed America’s democratic ideals by perpetuating a rigid class structure that excludes newcomers from its upper reaches‚ much like the feudal aristocracy that America had left behind. Valley of ashes: gray industrial dumping ground between west egg and NYC Tom: aristocrat East Egg represents the old aristocracy

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    Original cover art The cover of The Great Gatsby is among the most celebrated pieces of art in American literature.[9] It depicts disembodied eyes and a mouth over a blue skyline‚ with the image of a naked woman reflected in the irises. A little-known artist named Francis Cugat was commissioned to illustrate the book while Fitzgerald was in the midst of writing it. The cover was completed before the novel‚ with Fitzgerald so enamored of it that he told his publisher he had "written it into" the

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    The Great Gatsby From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article is about the novel. For the film‚ TV and opera adaptations‚ see The Great Gatsby (disambiguation). The Great Gatsby Cover of the first edition‚ 1925. Author(s) F. Scott Fitzgerald Cover artist Francis Cugat Country United States Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher Charles Scribner ’s Sons Publication date April 10‚ 1925 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 218 pages

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