Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. No one has ever died from an overdose‚ and it has a wide variety of therapeutic applications: Relief from nausea and increase of appetite; Reduction of eye pressure; Reduction of muscle spasms; Relief from mild to moderate chronic pain. Marijuana is frequently beneficial in the treatment of the following conditions: AIDS. Marijuana can reduce the nausea‚ vomiting‚ and loss of appetite caused by
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the country’s identity‚ and many prospective immigrants come here following that idea. As nice as the American Dream sounds‚ how it plays in real life can be a different story. This is why F. Scott Fitzgerald criticizes this idea in his novel The Great Gatsby. In it‚ the author criticizes how being self-made is not as simple as hard work and that equality isn’t something that is true for everyone. The first point that Fitzgerald criticizes is the idea of being self-made; that the rich start out
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A similar situation happens in Scott F. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby where-in one of the main characters gets shot and killed in his own pool. The whole situation was a huge misunderstanding so the person who started this misunderstanding could be the one to blame. Or he could have been doomed long before‚ his unconditional love could have been suicide. The main cause of everything is Gatsby’s love for Daisy‚ so Daisy seems like a good place to start. Could this be linked to Daisy? Daisy is a
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“Never forget you only have one opportunity to make a first impression” says Natalie Massenet. We get a first impression of characters personality in literature based on their first words in F Scott Fitzgerald’s book Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald chose specific first words for Tom and Daisy who are married‚ and live across the bay from our narrator Nick Carraway‚ to give us an insight of who they are throughout the book. F. Scott Fitzgerald composed first words for Tom Buchanan‚ Daisy’s very wealthy
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The great philosopher‚ Confucius‚ once said‚ “The expectations of life depend on diligence.” Expectations are everything in life. Where one will end up is completely up to that individual and their work ethic. Expectations can also lead judgement and distrust in individuals that you meet. In the literary classic‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F Scott Fitzgerald‚ there is an overarching theme of how expectations can control our lives. At the beginning of the novel‚ the reader meets Nick Carraway‚ a quiet
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To be able to locate and analyze themes of novels‚ such as Great Expectations‚ it is essential to understand the basic definition of a theme: It is a fundamental and often universal idea explored in a literary work. For instance‚ if we take a closer look at the story of Pip‚ we discover that the main idea behind the story is ambition and self improvement‚ which is correlated to the preceding minor themes‚ including social class‚ crime‚ guilt and innocence. The most important theme throughout the
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Our society has this unusual way of presenting multiple ideas of what perfection has to be‚ but each idea is a contradiction to itself. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the readers are introduced to a mysterious man that goes by the name Jay Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby is the perfect example of the torment individuals go through trying to obtain what they want but in the process having to fake who they are. Characters like Gatsby are arguably the most animated characters in the work; Gatsby’s
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Morgan Sullivan Fliegel English 11 Core May 9th 2012 Social Class in The Great Gatsby In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ there are many conflicts between the upper class‚ middle class and lower class. Throughout the book there are countless interactions between the different social class levels. F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays each class as having a different attitude and personalities: the upper class as snobby and cheaters‚ and lower class as desperate‚ the newly upper class
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preoccupation with class‚ and the hunger for riches”. Although many believe that they have achieved the true meaning of this statement‚ they have only ruined many other aspects of themselves while trying to reach their final goal. In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald extraordinarily portrays the character of Jay Gatsby as one who has truly been killed in the pursuit of the American dream. One of the most commonly found wrongs with the American dream has come to be that the goals set can only
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Word Count: 504 The world I am from is one of looking beyond the past and searching ahead. In the seventh grade‚ my seventh year of playing soccer‚ I had become adapted to the tougher‚ late-game situations‚ and being the second best goalie in the league (including the eighth graders)‚ I had pride in my ability to perform under pressure. But‚ in the last few minutes of a tied game with a penalty kick against me coming my way‚ I was terrified. The shot had fired‚ and sure enough‚ blocked like I was
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