Agonizingly beautiful: words and music of Jay Chou’s “千里之外” Longing. Longing for someone. Longing for the ones we love. That feeling we get when we lose or separate from our loved ones. It is a lingering and a wearing process‚ an emotion that causes heartache. It is a feeling that we know so well‚ but don’t know quite how to describe. We tell people that we miss our loved ones so much or even that life without our loved ones is pointless. But are these simplistic expressions enough for them to
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About the Music Video Both Jay-Z’s third single album “99 Problems” and its corresponding music video were released in 2004. Although Jay-Z is known today as a famous rapper and a producer of Roc-A-Fella record label‚ he did not start off with the most fortunate setting. The music video portrays the ghetto of Brooklyn‚ New York in the 1990s and illustrates the struggles that Jay-Z had to go through during his career in order to reach the top of the music industry. This hip-hop music video won
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intriguing exchange between Nick and Gatsby takes place near the end of Chapter Six: “I wouldn’t ask too much of her‚” Nick says “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” Gatsby cries out. “Why of course you can!” (p. 110). How does the past impinge upon the present in the lives of both Nick and Gatsby? Should we see Gatsby as eccentric in his view that one cannot merely repeat‚ but change‚ the past by starting over? Past and Hope in The Great Gatsby Mason Scisco “So we beat on‚ boats
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(prd 3) The Great Gatsby Essay Essay Topic #4 In The Great Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway said‚ “It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance that one may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant‚ and then concentrated on you‚ with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you so far as you would like to be understood‚ believed in you as far as you would like to believe in yourself.” (Fitzgerald
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progresses. • Jay Gatsby (originally James Gatz) — a young‚ mysterious millionaire with shady business connections (later revealed to be a bootlegger)‚ originally from North Dakota. He is obsessed with Daisy Buchanan‚ whom he had met when he was a young officer stationed in the south during World War I. The character is based on the bootlegger and former World War I officer Max Gerlach‚ according to Some Sort of Epic Grandeur‚ Matthew J Bruccoli’s biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gatsby is said to
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Conclusions On the basis of the findings of the study‚ the following conclusions were drawn: 1. A great majority of the respondents are male‚ graduates of public high schools‚ and pursuing the degree program Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE). 2. When the respondents are grouped according to the variable gender‚ their overall level of proficiency in the four English grammar skills is Poorly Proficient. When they are grouped according to the variable type of high school
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Seminar Essay The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald While reading the classic novel The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the reader can clearly see how this story can be viewed through the Marxist Lens. Through tales of trial and desperation‚ the story reveals what can happen when money and social class come into play. The author clearly portrays how the American dream can cause people to lose sight of the important things in life‚ and how people always want to make it to the top‚ no
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The great Gatsby Color Symbolism essay Francis Scott Fitzgerald used color symbolism at multiple occasions throughout the book the Great Gatsby; he especially focused color symbolism around one character‚ Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is one of the main characters of the story and is the character Fitzgerald uses to pass on his message behind the story. The green light is one of the most reoccurring symbols throughout the book. It represents Gatsby´s obsession of being with Daisy. Fitzgerald uses the green
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demonstrated in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gatsby‚ the main character‚ achieved success and wealth‚ the American Dream‚ by planning and working hard. He came from nothing and gained extraordinary wealth. The driving force behind his dedication was his love interest‚ Daisy. He wanted Daisy to leave her husband ‚Tom‚ and marry him. Unfortunately‚ Gatsby’s wealth and promise did not bring what he desired. Instead‚ American Idealism brought corruption and moral decay to his life and his
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Conclusion 1: In this first lab we attempted to discover which of the materials given to us were hydrates by heating them and then dissolving them in water. Our results showed that all of our substances were hydrates besides the sucrose‚ sucrose if the only one which did not both bring condensation when heated and dissolve in water‚ which agreed with our hypothesis because we also thought that sucrose was going to be the only one that wasn’t a hydrate. The only error that we may have encountered
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