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    Direct-Cameron Paul Good afternoon. Please state out your name and spell it out for the record. My name is Cameron Paul. P-A-U-L. What do you do for a living? I am a crime scene analyst with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Laboratory Service Division‚ also known as the State Laboratory. Currently‚ I conduct all ballistics and firearms analysis‚ in addition to my duties as a chief CSA. What is your relationship with this case? On May 22nd‚ I received a call from an

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    Harry Nguyen 2-20-13 Anthem Essay Prometheus‚ of Greek mythology‚ was a Titan‚ the forerunners of the Greek gods‚ who stole fire from Zeus and gave the fire to mortals. Prometheus was horribly punished for this crime against Zeus and against order. He was also the god of forethought and the molder of humankind from clay. It was his desire to better the existence of humans that led to his conflicts with Zeus. And Prometheus was a man punished in the underworld by being shackled to a rock and

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    Money in the Great Gatsby

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    Money and The Great Gatsby Though the Great Gatsby is only nine chapters long‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald was able to convey many messages in this short book. The most recurring and powerful message was one dealing with money. In the roaring 1920’s when The Great Gatsby took place‚ how you obtained your money was very important and determined who you acquainted yourself with. It basically came down to the fact that there were two classes of people‚ those who were born with money and those who had to

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    The Great Gatsby In the novel “ The Great Gatsby”‚ by F.Scott Fitzgerald‚ the author speaks of a time when morals were corrupted‚ religion was absent‚ facades were mistaken for character‚ and hope was a double-edged sword; people call it “The Jazz Age”. Fitzgerald‚ one of the best-known writers of “The Jazz Age”‚ aims to clarify the fallacy of idealism in America as he opposes the idealist views of the time with a realistic perception of society. At the time‚ people viewed America as a symbol of

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    comes from deep inside a person. Every individual has been through something in life that they have had trouble accepting. I have been taught how to accept a situation for what it is by A Raisin in the Sun‚ The Great Gatsby‚ and The Red Badge of Courage. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ The Great Gatsby‚ and The Red Badge of Courage‚ I have learned that acceptance is the key to life. A Raisin in the Sun is a story about a non-wealthy family that comes into money. The mother of the family lost her husband and

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    journey to reunite with his past love Daisy is one of great tragedy and romance. Fitzgerald’s use of past‚ present‚ and future paints the picture of truly how tragic this five-year journey was for Gatsby. Gatsby loses the ability to live in the present because of his intense fixation on the past and his dreams of the future. Because of this inability‚ it becomes clear rather quickly that a relationship with Daisy is an unreachable goal. Gatsby values his past relationship with Daisy more than anything

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    For Jay Gatsby to turn out all right at the end as the narrator promises‚ he must first be erased of his obscenity and indeterminacy. Barbara Will‚ the author of The Great Gatsby and The Obscene Word‚ argues in her criticism that only then can Gatsby come to stand as the vision of Americanism and‚ inevitably‚ America itself. The sociological criticism discusses the novel as the product of its time period‚ focusing on the American isolationist movement of the early 1920s and how‚ through the characters

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    Thesis: The pursuit of the American Dream is a dominant theme throughout The Great Gatsby‚ which is carried out in various ways by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ how the author represents this theme through his characters and their actions is one small aspect of it. Fitzgerald’s dominant theme in The Great Gatsby focuses on the corruption of the American Dream. By analyzing high society during the1920s through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway‚ the author reveals that the American Dream has transformed

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    In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ author F. Scott Fitzgerald conveys the overall theme using many techniques. The depiction of one of the protagonist‚ Jay Gatsby‚ establishes the cost of lust and ambition. Jay is a millionaire who throws lavish parties in his mansion. This is all a ploy to win over Daisy Buchanan‚ a former romantic interest when Gatsby was in the military. In order to win over Daisy‚ who married into wealth‚ he had to invent “just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy

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    The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald is a critique of American prosperity‚ and the endless drive for wealth brought on by the economic growth against the background of Long Island‚ New York City. The Great Gatsby critiques materialism and the new American Dream‚ no longer defined by prosperity for equality‚ but by prosperity for the goal of excess wealth. Nick Carraway‚ the protagonist‚ views Jay Gatsby’s disillusionment about Daisy Buchanan‚ the object of his affection. The tale is not a story about

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