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    The Great Gatsby

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    Macbeth that no man born from woman can harm him and Macbeth thinks that he is safe and that no one can overthrow him. The third and final apparition is a Child crowned‚ with a tree in his hand that said "Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until / Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill / Shall come against

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    The Great Gatsby Motifs

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    In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ we follow a “commoner” around in a very rich environment. We witness the absurd and strange events that occur in East and West Egg‚ Valley of Ashes‚ and New York. Fitzgerald’s use of reoccurring motifs shows readers the characteristics of public and private parties. This motif ties all the events together‚ leading readers to make subconscious assumptions. At times of a big party or small meals‚ readers can expect alternate personas or the revealing of carefully guarded

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    similar ’witch hunts’ occurred targeting citizens as communists rather than disciples of Satan. The genesis of the American apprehension of communism is attributed to historical events. The transition from World War II to the Cold War was a time of great tension. The United States had grudgingly agreed to collaborate with Communist Russia for the sake of winning the 2nd World War.

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    Great Gatsby Thesis

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    Thesis: The pursuit of the American Dream is a dominant theme throughout The Great Gatsby‚ which is carried out in various ways by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ how the author represents this theme through his characters and their actions is one small aspect of it. Fitzgerald’s dominant theme in The Great Gatsby focuses on the corruption of the American Dream. By analyzing high society during the1920s through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway‚ the author reveals that the American Dream has transformed

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    The Great Gatsby and Today ’s Society In American society‚ the way people act is quite an interesting‚ yet confusing subject to look at. If you were to look closely at the behavior and the thinking of the average American man in the modern day‚ you would see that he is not too different from a man that lived one hundred years ago in America. Obviously many things have changed in society that make a man different nowadays compared to one hundred years ago‚ but the point is that‚ in general‚

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    FOR IB ENGLISH IOP #1: ………………………………………………………………………….... ISAIAH: So‚ this is our IOP. We chose to study the topic of setting in the Great Gatsby. More specifically we chose to compare where we live‚ so our setting of the Salt Lake City‚ to the setting of the Great Gatsby. Along this we also chose to analyze and study the significance of the setting in the Great Gatsby. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: XAVI: We have written down these quotes so that you won’t have to look them up and written the key things we

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    Jabali Barrett

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    Jabali Barrett November 3‚ 2014 SPCH 1300/1:00-1-50 Gardner The Stages of Relationships Relationships are essential to life. Everybody needs somebody to be there for them when they’re in hard times‚ or just in general for the moment. There are many stages and things that happen in the development of a relationship. Mark Knapp‚ a Distinguished Teaching Emeritus at University of Texas at Austin‚ made a suggestion that relationships consist of five main stages; initiating‚ experimenting

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    The Great Gatsby

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    Ch.19 Quotes ‘The Year of Self Reliance - Reach to the Star’ (P.209) Why only one star? I wondered‚ and compared transcripts with Henri Bouchard‚ who was sweating beside me in the crowd under the morning sun. Yes‚ it was only one star. Sukarno (P.210) Confrontation of the outside world had come to a stalemate: now there was only one struggle left to kindle his aged blood‚ to answer his boy’s need for tumultuous events: Confrontation within the nation. (P.210) A time had come‚ he said to ‘swing

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    Flaws In The Great Gatsby

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    Just like someone said: Your character is your destiny. It decided one’s sense of worth and the ways of thinking and attitude. So‚ what are the great flaws in the character of main characters and how this lead Gatsby walk into the depths of despair? Let’s start from Gatsby. Gatsby is a typical representative who tries all his life to pursue “the American dream”. First of all‚ what he followed is not “reality principle” but “pleasure principle”. That means ephemeral and harmful pleasant sensation

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    beings have enacted on one other throughout history. Such atrocities are often considered exceptions to the rule of human nature‚ carried out by a few sadistic and evil individuals that don’t represent mankind’s normal behavior. However‚ Christopher Browning and Stanley Milgram offer a less comforting explanation; they

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