follow; my hope is to take all the necessary steps to be able to enter the college of my choice. Sometimes I get jealous of those students that have more money than my family and I do. Not that this means that I live in a bad situation‚ but it does mean I will have to work harder during high school to get as much grant and scholarship money as I can for my college education. Much of my time in the next year will be spend preparing for college. That includes applications‚ campus visits‚ financial
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Power is Money; Money is Power Power is money and money is power. There are many more examples of this now than anytime in the past. One of the most obvious examples is politics. Ross Perot was an unkown multimillionaire and his money is the only reason that he made it into the presidential election. If a man who earned a standard salary wanted to run for president‚ he would have almost no chance at all unless he was backed by people with money. Every four years when the U.S. Presidential
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Explore the theme of Appearance VS Reality in the novel “The Great Gatsby” Throughout the novel of The Great Gatsby topics of appearance VS reality is often depicted by Fitzgerald‚ the use of appearance in the novel of The Great Gatsby is used effectively to portray the nature of people in the 1920’s. In the novel “The Great Gatsby”‚ Gatsby is presented as a well-educated Oxford man‚ however as we advance into the book Gatsby starts to reveal his real identity and personality‚ we find out that Gatsby’s
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Throughout the last four chapters of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Gatsby continues to wear a mask in order to enhance his social status‚ and he is unable to attain the American dream. Essentially‚ these two themes relate to each other because Gatsby’s luxurious lifestyle is used as a medium to attain his American dream. He acquires millions of dollars‚ purchases a mansion on West Egg‚ and hosts lavish weekend parties in order to associate with a higher social class. Gatsby’s reputation
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Spend money or save money? Some people say that it is better to enjoy your money as soon as you earn it‚ while others prefer to save money for their further life. It is really a difficult choice faced by lots of people‚ because of the different attitudes they hold towards money. As far as I am concerned‚ I vote for the former choice‚ which is that it is better for one to enjoy his or her money as soon as it is earned‚ because of these following reasons. First‚ since no one knows what will happen
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Social class - great expectations Social class is explored through the characters and settings of ‘great expectations’. Different views are shown‚ for how Pip sees and perceives social classes‚ how criminals fit into the social class and how each class is presented by Charles dickens. Dickens presents social class in great expectations as quite rigid but still changing at the same time. It seems that where you are born is where you really belong‚ even if you do have all the gentlemanly qualities
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The Relationship Between Money and Happiness In The Great Gatsby Many humans believe money can bring them happiness. They believe this because money can provide material goods‚ which can feed greed and maliciously wanting to be better than others‚ and/or stability. In his novel The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the unhappiness portrayed by different characters of different classes to highlight the disconnected relationship between wealth and happiness. Both before and during the novel
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The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald presents several commentaries on then-contemporary society of prosperous America; along with post war economic growth‚ cinematograph‚ and increasing optimism the inevitable weakening of humanly values spreads like a plague among the upper class of the East Coast. The fictionalized geographic locations‚ which Fitzgerald ties with his characters‚ serve to convey the theme of moral degradation. The novel starts out in the West Egg; a place inhabited by the wealthy
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When I was 8 years old my family and I went to knotts berry farm. Being a small kid the time‚ I barely reached the height minimum to board. When I got on‚ I had to share a seat and lap bar with my dad and we didn’t put the seat belt on correctly. When the ride started‚ I could feel me slide around and my body lift off the seat. The whole ride I ended up hugging the lap bar‚ that wasn’t even pushing on my legs‚ in hopes that I would not fly off the seat. With this experience my mood transformed
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