In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald seemingly establishes an honest and reliable narrator named Nick Carraway at the beginning of the novel. In the opening chapter‚ Nick is presented as a loyal man with high morals. Fitzgerald wants us to see Nick as a reliable person whose moral judgment the readers can trust. If we can trust the narrator‚ then we believe in the story. Nick Carraway wants the reader to think his upbringing gave him the moral character to observe others and not pass judgment
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American Dream was an extravagance of money. The American Dream was originally thought of as the happiness one can achieve from working hard. In its later years‚ however‚ people equated the American Dream to obtaining material wealth and status. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ takes place in New York during the beginning of the American Dream Era. The novel revolves around Jay Gatsby‚ a mysterious‚ young millionaire who tries to rekindle his past love with Daisy‚ who is the cousin
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In society are often interested in men who are not good for them. Scott Fitzgerald shows how falling in love cannot be based on someone’s appearance alone. Julia Ross was immedialtey attracted to Dick Ragland and didn’t care about anything else except his looks alone. Julia suddenly wanted to know more about Dick as soon as she laid eyes on him‚ “Handsome! He’s an archangel‚ he’s a mountain lion‚ he’s something to eat. Just why didn’t you introduce him?” (421). This shows how she immediately focused
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The picture that best describes my writing is the image with three men with an incline arrow and a decline arrow. I see myself as this image (one man on top full of confidence and great ideas who has a big vision and a complete game plan in mind and sees himself going places‚ meeting goals and deadlines and then to men on the bottom pulling my ideas and confidence down faster than I can get on paper). I have always felt like my mind is going a million miles a minute with ideas and at the time
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promiscuously. When the men came back from war‚ they had the same mindset about women as they did when they left‚ but were taken by surprise when they saw the drastic changes. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel set in the 1920s that exposes the dark layers of the twenties’ glamour. Throughout The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald depicts the known and hidden lives and roles of women in the 1920s. Men always expected women to be under their control‚ doing only what they were told to do. “… [Women]
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| Letter Writing Techniques | COM 135 | Val Flores 8/5/2009 | The following will describe for the reader different strategies and techniques that are used in writing a good-news and bad-news letter. Throughout there is also an example of bad news that could be delivered in a letter as well as an explanation as to which bad news technique was chosen for the letter. Letter Writing Techniques When a situation of good-news or bad-news needs to be delivered in a letter‚ there are
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achievement." The American Dream‚ although different for every American‚ is a personal paradise‚ to which all aspire. It promises prosperity and self-fulfillment as well as rewards for hard work and self-reliance. In "Winter Dreams‚" a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the protagonist Dexter Green strives to obtain his dream in gaining the status of what he considers to be "elite." This story demonstrates how personal ambition and networking presents an opportunity for success and the achievement of the American
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Category” as a liberating principle. Duke was a pianist. Collaborating with other Ellington originated over 1000s compositions and his oeuvre is the largest recored personal Jazz legacy‚ which of many have became standard among jazz music. A pro at writing
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great writer’s foundation and is likely capable of digging deeper into the writing process than she currently has the opportunity to do in her classroom. Her Garfield survey‚ showing her in the 84% percentile for writing attitude paired with her personal interview‚ where she vocalized that she loves writing should indicate that if her love of writing were being attended to that she would have at least one or two finished writing pieces from the year that she could speak of. In addition the detailed assessments
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her writing style and incorporates themes such as violence‚ action‚ humor‚ and more. The story was written based on O’Connor’s own experiences living on the farm‚ living her faith‚ and her own experiences with life and death. There are many parallels in O’Connor’s stories to her faith. In the story‚ A Good Man Is Hard To Find‚ O’Connor shows a twisted view of grace in ordinary people’s lives. (Plot
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