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    The Great Gatsby

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    Gatsby’s American Dream by ANONYMOUS In the novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald discusses what the American dream really is and the lengths that people go to pursue it. Before World War I‚ the American Dream was comfortable living‚ a decent job‚ and a content family. After the war though‚ the nation changed along with the perception of the ideal life in America. The American Dream suddenly became an illusion‚ and people no longer strived for middle class‚ but for everything they

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    This PDF is brought to you in association with . . . The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald ©2007‚ 2002 by SparkNotes All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted‚ in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise‚ without prior written permission from the publisher. sparknotes is a registered trademark of SparkNotes llc SparkNotes A Division of Barnes & Noble 76 Ninth Avenue New York

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    The Great Debaters

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    Casey Green 1 09/13/11 SPC 100 Section 14 The Great Debaters This film focuses on being a confident and decisive person in life‚ through passionate and informed topics. Public speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured‚ deliberate manner intended to inform‚ influence‚ or entertain the listeners.¹ After watching this film it does strike a cord of wanting to be able to reach out to others and share my own opinions in a strong‚ confident

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    The Great Debaters”‚ a movie drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson a professor at Wiley College located in Marshall Texas‚ in 1935 he inspired the student body to form the schools 1stdebate team‚ which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. The movie has an academy award-winning cast‚ consisting of Denzel Washington playing the lead role of Melvin B. Tolson; Forrest Whittaker‚ who plays the stern father in the character of Dr. James Farmer Sr.; his son‚ a debate team

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    Great Depression

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    https://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-285193 African Americans African American life during the Great Depression and the New Deal Workers‚ many of them migrants‚ grading beans at a canning plant in Florida in 1937. The economic … Library of Congress‚ Washington‚ D.C.‚ Arthur Rothstein (neg. no. LC-USF34-005788-D) The Great Depression of the 1930s worsened the already bleak economic situation of African Americans. They were the first to be laid off from their jobs‚ and they suffered from

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    place.” How important is the setting of a particular time and/or place to the development of the characters? The setting of a particular time and place is integral to the development of the characters. This can be seen through the book‚ “ The Great Gatsby”. The book was written in the 1920s America. It was the post World War 1 period and the time of extreme wealth and promise. It was also a Jazz Age‚ where women enjoyed a much less restricted lifestyle with newfound freedom. There was a legal

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    The Great Awakening

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    The Great Awakening Religion had begun to decline in the New World colonies. This was especially evident in the pioneers‚ who had no ministers to teach sermons or perform religious ceremonies. Many felt they were descending into a “primal” or “sinful” life much like that of the Native Americans. These feelings are what led to the beginning of the Great Awakening. There were a few key “players” in the Great Awakening. Jonathan Edwards‚ a minister in Massachusetts‚ was one of these men. He took it

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    In the novel “Great Expectations” written by Charles Dickens the story is about moral redemption and self discovery. Pip‚ the protagonist‚ struggles to find out who he is in his life‚ he struggles to find his great expectations‚ but at the same time wanting to be morally redeemed for all the bad things he thinks he does throughout his story. Through out the story‚ Pip is always trying to have a clean conscious‚ so when he helps an escaped convict the guilt almost swallows him up. The convict terrifies

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of flashback in The Great Gatsby proves to be an effective tool in order to reveal information from the characters’ past. These flashbacks are effective because they allow the reader to know and understand the character better before a situation in the novel arises. Three examples of flashbacks that Fitzgerald uses are when Jordan explains to Nick how and when she first met Gatsby on page 79‚ when Nick explains to the reader how Gatsby got his name and what his childhood

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    Fox 06/07/2005 Period. 1 The Great Gatsby Essay In all human life relationships are very important‚ and this is shown in many different aspects of human life . Relationships are so significant that Authors often use them as the revolving point of their stories. Such as in The Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the different relationships as the revolving point in his story. Fitzgerald shows how the relationships between the couples in The Great Gatsby are similar in many different

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