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    Who am i this time

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    ’who am I this time’‚ I believe the author is try to tell the story of how two wandering souls had found each other through the strangest of circumstances. The two main characters Harry Nash and Helene Shaw both have trouble communicating with other people. They have a hard time dealing with society and they can not handle personal relationships very well. These two main characters are both wanders in life that had never known love before they met each other. It wasn’t even obvious to each other when

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    Carraway inside of Nick Carraway Personality traits allow a writer to create vivid images of his characters. These traits are shown through actions because they are exhibited through behaviors. According to Physcology.about.com‚ “the trait theory suggest that individual personalities are composed of broad dispositions such as central and secondary traits” (Par. 5).Each character in a literacy work has a unique trait; however‚ multiple traits may occur more than just a single trait. Nick’s traits vary

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    I Wish I Knew

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    I WISH I KNEW WHY Broken families are often hard to live in. Especially divorced ones. It’s one thing for your parents to split-up when you’re a young child‚ but it’s another when you go through 15 years of your life thinking that you’ll always be a family like I did. I would have to say the most significant time in my life was when my parents were getting a divorce. Christmas had just passed and the New Year of 1998 was approaching fast. My parents had always bickered but this time their

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    The Great Gatsby Essay

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    The Great Gatsby Essay: Analyze Fitzgerald’s symbolic use of colour Colour‚ a means of differentiation‚ understanding‚ and a sense of perception. There are about 16.8 million colours known in the English language and when you see each everyone it usually always brings a thought to mind. Colours are very useful in everyday life it makes everything that much more real but specifically colour can be used as a way of showing the real story. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses colour symbolically

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    Can I Get You Some Manners With That Opinion. “I said I want more lettuce on my sandwich‚ I’m paying for it and paying for you to make it my way.” The lady yelled at my Subway co-worker and didn’t even look at her in the eyes. Maria‚ my co-worker didn’t reply but went back to the prep room. That was one of the cases that I witnessed at my current job located at Pembroke Lakes Mall. Therefore‚ when I read the article “Can I Get You Some

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    Materialism Great Gatsby

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    obtains‚ as the amount of happiness a person enjoys‚ and as the amount of power a person controls over others. Many start to live in an illusion‚ that their life is tranquilized and perfect to hide the reality of all their dirty secrets. In The Great Gatsby‚ by Scott F. Fitzgerald‚ he describes a unique story of character development to display the difference of between classes of the social system in the 1920’s in America. Throughout the novel‚ Fitzgerald demonstrates how money and materialism deceives

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    men‚ for they may act on their dreams with open eyes‚ to make them possible.” In The Great Gatsby‚ the central theme is realizing that creating your own dreams and living in your reality is extremely different. Myrtle dreamt of having money‚ yet knew Tom would never leave Daisy‚ Gatsby dreamt of being with the Daisy he created‚ but realized she had changed‚ and Daisy dreamt of being in love and being with Gatsby‚ but would NEVER leave Tom. Myrtle Wilson desires one thing in life‚ money. She lives

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    In "The Great Gatsby"‚ Fitzgerald carefully sets up his novel into distinct groups but‚ in the end‚ each group has its own problems to contend with‚ leaving a powerful reminder of what a precarious place the world really is. Jay Gatsby falls in love with a woman of privilege and cannot have her because of the way he was born. He was less wealthy than her. Despite his best efforts to overcome his affliction‚ it is customary for rich to marry other rich and he can’t break the cycle. America is full

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    THE GREAT GATSBY This quarter I read The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a fiction novel published in 1925. It takes place in New York‚ 1922 and follows the story of a great man named Gatsby. Although Gatsby is the main character‚ the book is in perspective and supposedly written by Nick Carraway‚ a friend of Gatsby. This novel has a very developing story line that hits all kinds of moods‚ happy‚ sad‚ and mysterious. The main character of this story is Jay Gatsby

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    The Great Gatsby Thesis

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    Generation. The Jazz Age‚ another name for the 1920’s‚ was the age when music became more popular through African American singers and instrument players. The Lost Generation was actually a group of writers who wrote about the disillusionment of the 1920’s these writers were the start of the new era. They wrote about the American Dream‚ but

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