Around the time of its publication‚ Fitzgerald referred to This Side of Paradise as a "quest novel." It’s a’coming of age’ novel where the protagonist Amory Blaine attempts to make peace with himself and his place in the world. The three primary elements that influence Amory on his road to self-realization are convention‚ women‚ and money. As each of the three fails him‚ he comes closer to achieving his goal. Several times in the novel‚ Amory reflects on what has influenced his development most
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Sweet Murder We all have been there; staring at the mouthwatering desserts piled high on an end table too stuffed to even think about food‚ but the cookies just look too good to pass. After some hesitation we give ourselves about a thousand good reasons to eat them and indulge in the sugary goodness. Othello’s mind is no different. After assuming Desdemona had an affair with his lieutenant‚ Othello feels he must kill her. When Othello has the chance to his wife‚ he acts as we would with the desserts
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15 March 2013 The Side Effects of an Abortion In 1973 the death risk from abortion was 3.4 deaths per 100‚000 women. Before 1973 there were even more deaths as it was an illegal procedure‚ many unqualified people who didn’t know what they are doing‚ undertook the procedure and often used hangers and other sharp objects. By 1985 the death risk had dropped to .4 deaths per 100‚000 women‚ and today it is a very rare occasion for a woman to die
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The Black Dahlia Murder case remains to be one of Hollywood’s longest-running mysteries and one of the most dreadful of the 1940s. On the morning of January 15‚ 1947‚ the body of a pretty young woman‚ Elizabeth Short‚ was found severed in half in an empty lot on the west side of South Norton Avenue in Leimert Park‚ Los Angeles. The body was discovered at 10:00 am by local resident Betty Bersinger‚ as she was walking with her three-year-old daughter. At first‚ Besinger thought that the body parts
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The Blind Side The blind side is a semi-biographical drama written by Michael Lewis‚ it is an inspirational real life story about a black 17 year old boy Michael born in the ghetto of Memphis in America. At the age of three‚ he was sent to various foster homes because he dint know who is father was and his mother was an alcoholic and a sex worker who did not have sufficient money to take care of her sixteen children. Michael ran away from his foster home because his foster mother wanted him out
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My Moral Autobiography Junior year of high school I was diagnosed as having an eating disorder; I was anorexic which can be defined as "a serious‚ potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight-loss" (http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org). This definition does not mention that the effects of this can range anywhere from death to the inability to have children. This medical definition is broad and does not really encompass any of the mental
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The Side of Sanity Throughout the story of “Macbeth” and his wife start to slowly lose their sanity. This made them more cruel‚ vicious‚ and short tempered with their decisions with little or not thought being put into them. The reason Macbeth and his wife are losing their sanity is because of the fact of what’s being weighed down on them through the whole story. The contributing factors will be their guilt‚ power‚ and constant death occurring around them. The first factor of their dwindling
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Christie‚ Agatha - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie - The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd [First published in Great Britain‚ 1926] CHAPTER 1 Dr Sheppard at the Breakfast Table Mrs Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September - a Thursday. I was sent for at eight o’clock on the morning of Friday the 17th. There was nothing to be done. She had been dead some hours. It was just a few minutes after nine when I reached home once more. I opened the front door with my latchkey‚ and purposely
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surprise party to honking at a car that cuts you off‚ virtually every one of our voluntary actions must first undergo some sort of moral processing that tells us whether it is okay or not to do. As expected‚ this moral processing varies from culture to culture and is the basis of many of the culturally specific traditions and laws that we see today. However‚ this moral disagreement across cultures is so distinct that many intellectuals‚ especially in this current generation‚ have elected to believe
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The Moral Decay It is easy to for oneself to lose contact with morality when faced with enormous amounts of money. Not to say all of the socially inclined are morally deficient‚ but an image of moral decay is clearly painted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby showing the corruption driven by an omni-present green light that is money. Both Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan‚ men of influence-men of money are mirrored opposites of each other; possessing general similarities in which certain differences
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