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    with tears in his eyes. In that moment‚ we formed a connection through music. I experience a similar connection when conversing with patients. It has become clear to me that music and medicine have many parallels‚ and music has led me to realize my dream of becoming a physician. As a physician‚ you have the privilege to earn your patient’s trust and be a part of their journey. Throughout my shadowing experiences in several specialties‚ I realized that physicians can have a very similar effect

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    of the American Dream. By analyzing the upper class during the 1920s through the eyes of Nick Carraway‚ Fitzgerald shows that the American Dream has transformed from noble thoughts to more materialistic and money based ideas. In support of this message‚ Fitzgerald highlights the original aspects as well as the new aspects of the American Dream in his tragic story to illustrate that a once impervious dream is now lost forever to the American people. The foundational qualities of the American Dream

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    The character Tom Buchanan has different role from all the other in the novel The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tom is apprehensive about Daisy’s actions and his background with being handed everything makes him unaware of how to react or treat the situation. The ability to control people has always been given to Tom and eventually becomes all he cares about. His recklessness has always been a part of him until it leads him to have one of his puppets cut the strings. The deceitful manner

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    For decades people have had American Dreams they dedicate their lives‚ giving it their all for the goals that they have set up for themselves. However‚ while seeming to be a good motivating factor for Americans‚ most of the time these dreams are unsuccessful or unattainable for the people that work so hard toward them. Since there is more often failure in achieving an American Dream‚ many people have negative opinions toward the concept itself. The best description of this ideology is reflected by

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    Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald depicts two main female characters‚ Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson‚ who share a common feeling of unhappiness with their marriages. Daisy and Myrtle‚ although both Tom Buchanan’s women‚ are portrayed differently through their distinctive character traits. Despite their physical traits and social status‚ Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson have much in common. Daisy‚ much like Myrtle‚ married a man whom she does not love. Fitzgerald initially illustrates

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    Scott Fitzgerald makes it quite clear how he feels about American society‚ especially the American dream. He criticizes the American dream’s credo that anyone‚ if they work hard enough‚ can become who they want to be. More importantly‚ he attacks the idea that American society can be free of a class system. The reality is much more grim. Through the characters of Myrtle‚ Gatsby‚ Tom‚ and Daisy‚ Fitzgerald exposes how the American dream is a polluted and corrupted idea‚ a fabrication created by

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    does it really mean to be an American? Living in America means that people can live with the luxuries of being an American and also living with what is known as the American dream. The American dream is what help to build America today and also it helped to shape to what it means to be an American. Being an American means living among people that come from all over the world‚ having the freedom and the title of freemen‚ and also a beginning of a new life. Being an American means living among people

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    Many people dream to have enough money to support a family‚ have a house‚ a car‚ and true friends that will bring you eternal happiness. Tom and Daisy are two characters in The Great Gatsby that represent the deterioration of the American Dream. Rather than being devoted to a healthy lifestyle‚ Daisy and Tom sought out to become rich beyond their wildest dreams with a social status fit to suit their standards. To them‚ the main goal in life is to reach the absolute top of the social pyramid‚ slowly

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    An American Tragedy is an intriguing‚ frighteningly realistic journey into the mind of a murderer. It is a biography of its era. And‚ it is also historical fiction. But what makes this novel a classic? While society has changed dramatically since 1925‚ Dreiser’s novel‚ which shows the futility of "The American Dream" and the tragedies that trying to live it can cause‚ accurately summarizes social mores of this and any time period. <br> <br>Before Theodore Dreiser was born‚ his father‚ a devout German

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    Hamada. A Hamada Writing Lab Mr. Michael 25/11/13 The American Dream The American Dream limns an apotheosis of optimism and faith that glisters a beam of light onward to the contentment of human aspirations and desires. The “American Dream” was quantified by James Truslow Adams and that these needs were vented in Thomas Jefferson ’s Declaration of Independence in 1776‚ where it was avowed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their

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