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    Greed in the Form of Inherited Racial Qualities in McTeague In Mcteague‚ Frank Norris depicts the lives of working class‚ mostly non Anglo Saxon‚ residents living in a San Francisco apartment complex. Norris characterizes most of these residents by their uncontrollable avarice though strays from presenting them as the stereotypical gilded age Americans‚ a common literary theme at this point in the late 18th century‚ obsessed with the glamour provided by wealth. Instead‚ Norris presents their need

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    Wall Street Greed

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    "Greed is good; greed is right; greed works." Although the validity or correctness of the statement is questionable on multiple grounds‚ when Gordon Gekko uttered these infamous words he accurately explained the rationale behind many financial‚ or more specifically‚ Wall Street decisions. Greed ensures that the course of action is only determined by the resulting monetary wealth‚ not by other factors such as societal and legal effects. Wall Street follows the quick rise of a young low level account

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    The Monkey's Paw Greed

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    In the short story‚ The Monkey’s Paw by W.W Jacobs represents desire and greed. The story starts off with sergeant major coming back from India and tells the story of the monkey’s paw that can grant 3 wishes. Mr. white becomes fascinated with the paw and offers to buy it‚ sergeant major rejects his offer because the monkey’s paw is cursed and throws it into the fire. Before it was destroyed Mr. White grabs it and makes his first wish. This goes to show that Mr. White’s impulse of wanting to make

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    Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” -Erich Fromm. Greed is an underlying theme that repeatedly takes form throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels‚ it eats up and consumes his characters to the point of their deterioration. They all yearn for an outcome that they will never get‚ however they feel that the world owes whatever it is that they seek to them. Fitzgerald uses his characters to criticize the upper

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    People once they get a taste of it‚ they greed for more of it‚ what is it? Power is the answer‚ too. The force of power dwells in one’s mind and addicts them to it like a drug. Throughout the story of Macbeth‚ readers can see how power corrupts Macbeth and his wife and leads them to exploit it‚ becoming heartless‚ and leading them to become a tyrant who greeds for more. In the first stage of power‚ it starts corrupting the way people think and leading them to a dark ending. There are many examples

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    The Pearl Greed Theme

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    wife‚ Juana‚ find the pearl of the world‚ and they hope it will give them the money needed to cure their son. However‚ this event leads to a tragic journey in which Kino and his family must overcome many obstacles. The main theme of The Pearl is that greed has the ability to destroy a person’s morals. Kino‚ the doctor‚ and the pearl buyers all emphasize this theme. Kino‚ the protagonist‚ is a determined‚ hard-working fishermen who supports his family in many ways. In the beginning of the story Kino

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    Essay On Surgical Count

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    The surgical count is one the most important things that has to be performed when doing a surgical procedure. This policy was put in place to protect the patients from foreign objects being left in their bodies due to carelessness and lack of responsibility. The surgical count is done three times during an operation. It is counted concurrently with the circulator making sure both see the item being counted and ay the numbers out loud. The initial count should be done before the patient enters the

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    The Burial of Count Orgaz

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    “The Burial of Count Orgaz” analysis The Burial of Count Orgaz is a painting by famous renaissance artist El Greco. The painting is sixteen by eleven feet and was drawn with oil on canvas. The painting depicts a burial scene of Count Orgaz and a heaven scene with Christ above them. This painting is the most intriguing for El Greco’s use of two focal points. In El Greco’s career The Burial of Count Orgaz is widely accepted as his greatest work. In describing the painting itself it is divided into

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    Count Dracula Analysis

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    While Count Dracula is prominently reckoned as an opposition within a methodical society‚ he can somehow exemplify a potential alteration for oppressed women against the Victorian’s standardized expectations. In the primary introduction of Mina and Lucy’s appearance‚ the two female characters express a vast ideology of obedient and pure Victorian women. Both of them desire to wholly love and marry whomever they want without feeling oppressed by the expectations that society imposes on them. After

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    How to count bacteria

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    Many types of projects are possible when you are able to count bacteria. For example‚ you could count the bacteria in drinking water‚ fresh milk‚ old milk that is slightly sour‚ buttermilk‚ yogurt‚ mud puddle‚ lemonade‚ and many other things. Or you may want to know how fast Chlorox kills bacteria. If you add some Chlorox to a culture and count the surviving bacteria at suitable intervals you can plot killing the killing curve and determine whether the killing is single hit or higher order. It will

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