My name is Angela Alvarez‚ I play softball and like to hangout with my friends. My two guardians are Lesley Medina (my mom) and James Reed (my grandfather). Their phone phone numbers and email addresses are- and My turn it in username is- and my turn it in password is- During all my years in school‚ the most successful I’ve felt was last year when I passed all my classes with pretty good grades. The proudest I’ve ever felt when it comes to learning is when i understand what’s going on in
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Marcus Scott October/12/2013 As I Walked Out One Evening: An Analysis of the Nature of Time within the Poem W.H. Auden’s‚ As I Walked Out One Evening‚ speaks to nature of time as it relates to the human condition. The poem consists of three separate speakers: the lovers‚ the clocks and the narrator. Each speaker represents a different measure and attitude towards time. The lover’s song paints time to be conquerable and ignorable and no more than a passing annoyance that they are outside of. The
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Nurakhunov Davran Id : 20122506 Date : 04.04.2013 Assignment : reflection The Great Gatsby After finishing The Great Gatsby we see a theme of what the past does to one man and his dream to obtain it. Anger is what made Gatsby‚ his wealth and power were his goals of happiness and love. Gatsby supports this when he says to Tom‚ "she only married you because I was too poor and she was tired of waiting for me." Gatsby has never forgotten that if he had had the money when he first met her‚ then
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a World War I veteran‚ and a resident of West Egg. He is Gatsby’s next-door neighbor and a bond salesman. Easygoing‚ sarcastic and optimistic‚ this latter quality fades as the novel progresses. • Jay Gatsby (originally James Gatz) — a young‚ mysterious millionaire with shady business connections (later revealed to be a bootlegger)‚ originally from North Dakota. He is obsessed with Daisy Buchanan‚ whom he had met when he was a young officer stationed in the south during World War I. The character
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Gatsby: The False prophet of the American Dream The American dream‚ or myth‚ is an ever recurring theme in American literature‚ dating back to some of the earliest colonial writings. Briefly defined it is the belief‚ that every man‚ whatever his origins‚ may pursue and attain his chosen goals‚ be they political‚ monetary‚ or social. It is the literary expression of the concept of America: the land of opportunity. F. Scott Fitzgerald has come to be associated with the concept of the American
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The movie‚ Get Out‚ is about a man named Chris who is young African American‚ going out to a secluded estate in the woods to meet with his white girlfriend Rose’s parents for a weekend. Chris is a bit uneasy about how Rose’s’ family will treat him‚ as they’re white and he’s black. However‚ her parents turn out to be comfortable with the idea of Rose dating an African American and everything appears to be going fine. Chris then starts to notice some odd behaviors from the African American staff at
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The “Great” Jay Gatsby The word great has many meanings – outstanding‚ eminent‚ grand‚ important‚ extraordinary‚ noble‚ etc. - and varies along with the intent of the speaker and on the interpretation of the hearer. Someone may perceive something as great‚ and yet someone else may see that same thing as horrendous. The greatness of a being is not determined by themselves‚ but by those around them who experience‚ and perceive‚ their greatness through actions and words. In the book‚ “The Great Gatsby”
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Gatsby lives an illusion that his wealth will lead to satisfaction and friendship. Gatsby has people all around him‚ going to his parties‚ yet no one truly knows him. Born a poor man and son of a farmer‚ James Gatz desires living the "American dream". Because of this dream‚ he creates a false Identity‚ Jay Gatsby‚ "So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent‚ and to this conception he was faithful to the end"(104). He wastes his life trying to
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The American Dream: dead or alive? In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the theme can be separated into two major aspects. First‚ love versus money- criticizing the corruption of the American dream‚ and second‚ “sight and insight”-the perception that there is no all seeing presence (higher accountability) in the modern world. The American Dream is not dead it is‚ however‚ very corrupted. First‚ the issue of love versus money‚ the criticizing of the corruption of the American dream‚ to show this
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of Jay Gatsby‚ who is urbane and world-weary. Gatsby is really nothing more than a man desperate for love. Overview: The Great Gatsby The novel’s events are filtered through the consciousness of its narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ a young Yale graduate‚ who is both a part of and separate from the world he describes. Upon moving to New York‚ he rents a house next door to the mansion of an eccentric millionaire (Jay Gatsby). Every Saturday‚ Gatsby throws a party at his mansion and all the great and the
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