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    Daisy Buchanan - Nick’s cousin‚ and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war‚ Daisy was courted by a number of officers‚ including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However‚ Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved‚ and when a wealthy‚ powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him‚ Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite‚ Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg

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    chooses to do wrong which leads him to darkness. Since Claudius knows what he is doing when it is wrong‚ he has no problem being the villain. He is driven by the fear of losing power and this resulting in his selfish acts. These choices are greatly influenced with his desire to do whatever he can to keep himself on top even if it is bringing him into the darkness. Claudius’s motives as king are selfish and are controlled by the fact that he will not lose his royalty.

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    In the classic novel Daisy Miller‚ author Henry James utilizes the motif of old versus new in order to present how awful humanity reacts to cultural differences in relation to their own customs‚ resulting in locals looking down on tourists‚ making fun of their behaviors‚ and proclaiming their disdain towards those who differ from them. Europe is a country full of sophisticated and dignified citizens‚ but they lose all of their manners once they encounter the Miller family‚ who is on a vacation from

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    by his self-destructive relating this to Gatsby who is also rich and mainly wanting love.(an american sublime) Throughout the novel Daisy appears to be very flighty and nervous ‚ but she is very cunning. She also is a noticeable negligent mother. Her daughter is mentioned only twice in the novel and then it is when Daisy is “showing her off”. The only time that Daisy shows her daughter is when she tells Nick about when she discovered the

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    corruption instead I wil discuss the reason behind corruptioon that is greed. Greed is a strong and selfish desire for possession wealth or power. The politiicians bifurcated corruption into two parts –need based and greed based . but it has been found by the latest research that 70%of the corruption is greed based and 30% is need base. So it is confirmed that people folllow corrupt activiteis for their selfish intrest and not for their need. Now a days corruption is a evil and is stuck with people just

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    Survival Is Not Selfish What would you do if you had no food‚ no water‚ no communication‚ and no resources? Would you just sit there waiting until it was your time to die? I sure wouldn’t‚ I would look for anything to help me survive. We all have the instinct of survival our ancestors probably had to survive on whatever they had. They didn’t have what we have today‚ our modern technology has made us dependent on it‚ so we don’t have to worry about survival. Survival is something natural‚ just like

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    Book Report: Driving Miss Daisy By The movie "Driving Miss Daisy" gives the viewer a glimpse of the Southern mentality during the pre-civil rights movement. It’s about a relationship between an elderly Jewish Southern woman and her African American chauffeur. This movie ties in with human services because of the southern culture‚ racism‚ social norms‚ and traditions as it relates to African Americans and Southern Whites in the pre-civil rights movements. I felt the movie was very interesting

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    admiration of others through Tom and Daisy‚ Gatsby‚ and Myrtle. In the story Gatsby loves Daisy because of her beauty and wealth‚ and Tom despises Gatsby for this. However‚ ironically‚ Tom is having an affair with Myrtle who is married to George. In the novel‚ Tom seeks the affection of Myrtle because she admires him‚ unlike Daisy who feels she is his equal. One example of Tom

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    Daisy Bates Daisy Bates was born in Huttig‚ Arkansas on November 11‚ 1914. She had a very hard life growing up. When she was just a little girl she lost both of her parents. It is that her mother was raped and murdered by three white men. Her father left her once he heard the news of her mother. She was left with friends of her parents. She has had tragedies in her life‚ but she did not let them stop her from being very successful throughout her life. Her education path went as follows: Huttig

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    Research Paper The Sun Also Rises and the Great Gatsby are both very interesting books written in the 1920’s. The characters of Lady Brett Ashley and Daisy Buchanan also influenced many women in that time period on how they acted‚ dressed‚ and the choices they made in their everyday life’s. Lady Brett Ashley is a very tart character. She goes after men and has sex with them and then they provide everything for her. She is probably the most unsympathic character in the whole story. She uses men then discards

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