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    The Great Dilemma The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is about a young man who has fallen in love with a young woman. But at the time they meet‚ they are unable to be together I think because of complications surrounding WW1. A few years later in the 20’s‚ they meet again‚ but Daisy married to a man named Tom‚ and has a child. Gatsby then tries everything to get her to fall for him and leave Tom. Gatsby gains money by unscrupulous means and buys a house

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    The Great Gatsby By: Ashley Williams Setting In the first quarter of this book the setting is evenly split between two different places‚ West Egg‚ NY and New York City. The author described his new town on page 10. “Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs‚ identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay‚ jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere‚ the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.” This gives readers a beautiful image of where

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    The Great Gatsby is a novel that is treasured as a renewable book in American literature collections. Read among a variety of age groups‚ it holds testament to its honorary title. The missive of the how the pursue of American dream can lead to consequences and decoration are not only evident in the star characters‚ but in the relevance of modernity‚ drama‚ and composition in F. Scott- Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is not a story about Jay Gatsby. It is a story about the green light

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    The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ elegantly captures the essence of the Jazz Age‚ the soaring prose reflecting a time defined by glittering dynamism and evolution while underscored with rampant excess and moral decay‚ as detailed in Nick Carraway’s account of his experience in New York City. Although the titular character’s motivations‚ the pursuit of the time he lost with Daisy‚ is the main force driving the plot of the novel‚ The Great Gatsby is undeniably a coming-of-age novel revolving

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    Moral Integrity “I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles‚ the character of an honest man.” ~George Washington. The Oxford dictionary states that moral integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. Our moral principles are the values that influence the decisions we make‚ the actions we carry out‚ and form our character. To have good character and be a good person someone must have moral integrity

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    Ifeanyi Onwuazo August 30‚ 2013 Mrs. Ballard P.6 Letter from Anne Bradstreet Dear mom I am contacting you to inform you about how I have had a misstep in the road. One summer night while I was sleeping I was wakened by a thunderous boom. I ran downstairs to check what was going on when all of a sudden I feel an immediate rise in temperature and light that almost blinded me. Before I could even turn on my house lights on I saw my living room on fire. I next saw the roof beginning to cave

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    novel The Great Gatsby the main character‚ Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a religious Saviour. The Saviour has to fall in a novel and Gatsby does. Gatsby is a model figure in the novel. He is considered royal. Jay Gatsby was born into a less wealthy family and had to make himself into something. In The Great Gatsby Judgement plays a big part. The novel shows the part of everyone that has spiritual emptiness. This novel portrays a lot of religious imagery. The savior in the story is Jay Gatsby‚ he is a

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    Betrayal in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. It is recognized as the “Great American Novel” as it shows great wealth‚ partying‚ jazz music and many other aspects of the “American Dream”. In his novel‚ he displays a lot of symbols‚ and themes including wealth‚ greed‚ and the most vivid‚ betrayal. Betrayal can upset many people and ruin many people. Betrayal was demonstrated throughout the entire novel with a lot of connections

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    Robert Adriano Period 3A AP Language An Inconvenient Truth In the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”‚ Al Gore effectively argues‚ through using ethos‚ pathos and logos. Al Gore wanted the people to know about global warming and how we each have

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    In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ we follow a “commoner” around in a very rich environment. We witness the absurd and strange events that occur in East and West Egg‚ Valley of Ashes‚ and New York. Fitzgerald’s use of reoccurring motifs shows readers the characteristics of public and private parties. This motif ties all the events together‚ leading readers to make subconscious assumptions. At times of a big party or small meals‚ readers can expect alternate personas or the revealing of carefully guarded

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