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    trusted when it comes to determining if the lobster is of legal size‚ or if it has eggs. They’re honest and know what they’re talking about. 3. What are shorts? Lobsters that aren’t large and mature enough to be captured legally. 4. What are eggers? Eggers are female lobsters that carry a plethora of eggs on the underside of their belly. 5. How are females carrying eggs marked? Why do they do this? A small V-shaped cut is made into their tails. This is to alert other lobstermen that they were

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    fashionable East Egg glittered among the water”‚ on page ???‚ Nick suggest that East Egger’s values are different by saying “white palaces of fashionable” he later is proven true. The other location‚ just across the bay is the Western life‚ of a West Egger. A West Egger earns their wealth‚ referred to as “new money”‚ by hard work and determination. The region referred to as West Egg‚ described by Mr. Carraway‚ on page ???‚ as “…the less fashionable of the two‚ though this is a most superficial tag to express

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    the United States. However‚ once their children are enrolled and start to attend school‚ they realize it will not be that easy for them. Their children start to live in two different worlds‚ one at school and another completely different at home (Eggers-Piérola‚2005). In the case of the students that their primary language is not English‚ it is very difficult for them to follow their classmates’ pace of learning. On the other hand‚ the children who were born in the United States but have Hispanic

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    George’s suicide. Daisy is both directly and indirectly responsible for the death of Myrtle Wilson. Fitzgerald arranges Daisy to kill Myrtle in an auto accident‚ to typify the careless character Daisy portrays. Daisy grew up among "East Eggers"‚ where everything including money and wealth was handed to her on a "golden platter." Daisy innocently thinks that someone will

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    throwing lavish parties. Many of his partygoers seem to be mere spongers who drink his champagne and eat his delicacies but never bother themselves to express gratitude to Gatsby or to even to wait for his personal invitation. The idle life of the West Eggers shows the nature of people during the time of material excess. East Egg‚ a home to aristocrats or the people who generally inherited their fortune‚ is viewed as a place of aristocracy. Indeed‚ Buchanans’ tasteful house and the manners of their

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    trickster— honesty and confusion. If it’s not just me who sees it this way‚ then it can possibly prove that no one is a trickster‚ but we’re obsessively inclined to see it in that context. Damn games! This idea is similar to the liar’s paradox. DeLillo‚ Eggers‚ and Doctorow have produced narrators who are honest and confused‚ yet they’re viewed as unreliable. Unreliable narrators could easily be placed in this perspective‚ _especially_ if they’re humorous. These authors do it so skillfully. Another way

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    of Community Service As I walk to school‚ I see another wall with graffiti‚ trash on the streets‚ and a woman walking around with no sense about her. While Riverside County has some nice areas‚ there are also unkempt neighborhoods. I believe in Eggers points in Serve or Fail‚ about some of the possible positive effects of community service. Although he states many views about students stepping up and helping the community‚ I agree with three possible positive effects. One possible

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    The Great Gatsby: Character Flaws Enhanced and Hidden by Society The 1920s have long been remembered as the "Roaring Twenties‚" an important historical and unique era of time. As a soaring stock market minted millionaires by the thousands‚ young Americans in the nation ’s biggest cities rejected traditional social mores by embracing a modern urban culture of freedom‚ drinking illegally in speakeasies‚ dancing provocatively‚ and “Letting the Good Times Roll‚” a popular and fitting phrase for

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    Summer Reading Assignment 2013                                    MYP Year 5‚ Honors English 10 AREAS of INTERACTION: Human Ingenuity Health and Social Education Environments Community and Service Approaches to Learning  Essential Questions: How do humans endure traumatic situations in life? How do our values and beliefs shape who we are as

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    Chapter 1: The Buchanans and Jordon Baker All the important characters in each chapter for “The Great Gatsby” are somehow connected to each other‚ whatever relationship they have or don’t have. In the following I will describe how the characters are linked with one another and which qualities they possess. I think Nick Carraway is the most important character in Chapter 1. As Nick was both the narrator and participant in the story‚ Fitzgerald conveyed immediacy to the events of the past and

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