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    Great Gatsby "Does it sink like rotten meat or crust a sugar over like syrup sweet?" jay gatsby he want to be with daisy but he just dont realize that his dream was not complete and tom and daisy they was careless people they aint care about nobody else. Jay gatsby suffered "repetition compulsion" he wanted to repeat certain actions in particular the best one’s of his life with daisy. "Cant repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. Why of course you can" jay gatsby talked alot about the past jay

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    beauty; she had many chances to live the kind of life she dreamed of‚ but lost it all. Similarly‚ Henry James’ "Daisy Miller‚" is a rich‚ young‚ American girl from New York‚ traveling around Europe with her mother and younger brother. Daisy is a complex combination of traits. She is feisty‚ independent‚ and well intentioned‚ yet she is also petty‚ ignorant‚ and unsophisticated. Daisy is also an irritating flirt. She has no public elegance or informal gifts‚ such as appeal‚ humor‚ and a talent for

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    In the novella‚ Daisy Miller‚ written by Henry James‚ Winterbourne views Daisy Miller as a simple and beautiful American flirt‚ and he uses her beauty to increase his status‚ ultimately objectifying her to just something he is able to control and use for his own benefit. While in Switzerland‚ Winterbourne meets an American girl who is often seen as a flirt‚ which is extremely uncommon in Europe‚ and frowned upon by many. Winterbourne has been in Europe so long that he is not aware if this is the

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    One does not expect to leave their house and have a stranger barge into their home and rummage through their belongings. This is the situation that Petitioner David Fallsbauer found himself in with not a stranger‚ but a highly esteemed officer of the law‚ whom unreasonably dissected his possessions. Under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States‚ citizens are protected against the unbridled and unreasonable searches and seizures. One exception is through consent to the search

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    Daisy Buchanan is Nicks cousin and is introduced to the story when Nick goes to her house for a visit. The house is a huge Georgian Colonial mansion situated in East Egg‚ overlooking the bay. She lives there with her husband‚ Tom‚ and her 3 month old daughter. It is clear from everything about them that they extremly rich and well off‚ but their money has made them arrogant. They feel that they‚ espically Tom‚ are better and more suprior than eveyone else and look down on and condesend to anyone

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    [pic] Daisy Miller is a 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne‚ a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness‚ which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switzerland and Italy. Her lack of understanding of the social mores of the society she so desperately wishes to enter ultimately leads to tragedy. Daisy Miller in wonderland After read Daisy

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    Two men long for Daisy. Two men are in love with her. It would seem that these two men would be very similar in mannerisms to fall for a girl like Daisy‚ but actually‚ these two men fall on totally opposite ends of the behavioral spectrum. There is Tom Buchanan who is the more dominant male figure and arrogant wiseguy‚ and then there is Jay Gatsby who is the more reserved and morally refined man of newly gained wealth. While both characters share a deep rooted love for Daisy‚ their characters differ

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    Interpretation of Ambiguity in “My Papa’s Waltz” For most of time‚ people regard understanding a poem as a difficult process‚ and people wonder the reason the author of the literature leaves more questions than the ones he actually answers. Poets use ambiguity to add meaning and depth into their works so that their works can be interpreted in various ways. On one hand‚ the poem can be interpreted to have a positive view. On the other hand‚ the poem can be regard to be negative as well

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    century‚ a novel which truly captured the luxurious atmosphere of the “Jazz Age.” It is a moniker given to the 1920’s which is suitable‚ as the spread of wealth led to a decade of glamor and decadence. Among the variations of the novel’s themes‚ the one moral that is evident and shadows over the rest of the “American Dream‚” is the ideal that a person of any racial or financial background could start a new life in America and live in riches and wealth. The implementation of the “American Dream” in the novel

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    once he meets Daisy. He growing up with a more European lifestyle finds Daisy’s flirtatious and outgoing attitude very abnormal yet refreshing. Many of the older women in society‚ especially his mother‚ find her to be cheap and very unlady like due to her lack of classy behavior compared their idea of a proper high society woman should behave like. The book Daisy Miller‚ illustrates the American lifestyle‚ compared to the proper etiquette of European social standards. The novel Daisy Miller is the

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