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    Workforce changed in a lot of sectors‚ since the women participated in economic activities. Subsequently‚ this participation increase from year to year. In a general view‚ women’s underrepresentation in the high tech industry shows a continuous decline in the United States and Canada from 19% graduating in 1999-2000 to 12% in 2006-2007‚ while in Asian countries such as China‚ India and Bangladesh increasing (Simard‚ 2007). Bangladesh is a good example that women are increasing in high-tech fields

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    Gatsby: The Decline of the American Dream Following the much adored novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ came the phenomenal screenplay of The Great Gatsby‚ released in May‚ 2013. 1920’s America boomed with unprecedented prosperity and material excess as stock markets skyrocketed and spirits rang high. The film‚ however‚ focuses on a much larger underlying theme that is a highly symbolic rumination of the entirety of America in the 1920’s: the disintegration of the American dream. This decline came about

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    Although F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays various themes throughout The Great Gatsby the most prevalent theme is the decline of the American dream in the 1920’s‚ or as he calls it the “jazz age.” The American Dream is the idea that any person despite however adverse their background may be can become successful through hard work. During this time period that the movie is set in World War 1 has recently ended which caused the stock market to flourish and the ban on alcohol to lead to a booming underground

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    about the decline of the ‘American Dream’ and how it is not what everyone would like to thinks it is. This story is a huge drama all about love‚ loss and heartbreak that brings readers through a story that is fascinating and amazing. Fitzgerald shows readers how greed‚ false love‚ and jealousy ruined the idyllic American Dream. Money is what makes the world then and now revolve. In The Great Gatsby money is what makes a person who they are. Money shapes them. The concept of the American Dream is

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    Gatsby is the corruption and decline 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

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    Gatsby is the corruption and decline of the ‘American Dream’. By analyzing the upper class during the 1920s through the eyes of the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ Fitzgerald shows that the American Dream has transformed from noble thoughts to more materialistic and money based ideas. Fitzgerald also highlights the original aspects as well as the new aspects of the American Dream in his tragic novel to illustrate that a once impervious dream is now lost forever to the American people. The product of

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    American education began as a way to prepare students for roles in plantation life. An education was only provided for white students and was privately taught. Throughout American history public education has changed‚ but the education they are getting is not the best.The problems with the American education system are getting to a point where one wonders if there should even be a system in America. Education from the past to present has gone from bad to worse in the last 250 years‚ and the solutions

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    Education policy is a touchy subject in America‚ especially with the decline in test scores among American public schools. Many people blame teachers for not helping students. Others use the age-old argument that the younger generations “just don’t care anymore.” However‚ the problem is more nuanced than that. One problem is that becoming a teacher is not a viable option for many. Due to the under-funding of education‚ many teachers have to settle for much lower wages than those in other countries

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    Argumentative essay In society African Americans have always been able to do a lot‚ even when subjugated. Even with this‚ however‚ there has become a gradual and continual social decline for them. It is visible‚ not only when put in the spotlight‚ but also in day to day life. People have become lackadaisical and mentally helpless in terms of how they operate in society‚ as a whole. The reasons behind this social decline of African Americans is because of a lowering of self standards‚ an unfulfilled

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    Purpose of American Education Synthesis Essay According to U.S. manufacturers‚ forty percent of all seventeen-year-olds don’t have the math skills and sixty percent lack reading skills to hold a production job at a manufacturing factory. This fact should be an indicator that American educational system is not producing the young adults that are capable of surviving in our society today. Education is failing at achieving its purpose of preparing students to succeed in American society through experiences

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