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    Tyson says‚ “Fitzgerald was ‘not averse’ to implying that Hemingway was gay‚” (Tyson‚ 353) which means Hemingway might have purposely written Jake as a queer coded character. Jake is a little more obvious than Gatsby and Nick though. Jake’s relationship with his best friend‚ Bill‚ for one is very homoerotic and doesn’t follow the homosocial norms. Bill and Jake have quite literally gone on dates and act like a married couple. They sometimes bicker‚ but usually they get along and are very close. They

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    Comparing Family Types

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    son named Jake‚ who goes back and forth between his father and mothers house. When he is with his mother he has strict rules and a structure setting. When he is living with his father and uncle‚ Charlie Harper‚ and maid‚ his life is complete and udder chaos. Jake does not have a normal life‚ and is introduced to many inappropriate things that a young child like him should not be seeing at his age. For example‚ in this particular episode‚ Charlie gets his license suspended‚ and young Jake ends up having

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    Clap‚ to tell them that his father wants Moon Shadow to go to America‚ and Moon Shadow goes. On the ship to America‚ Moon Shadow meets Uncle Bright Star‚ White Deer‚ a few others‚ and his father for the first time in his life. When they get to Chinatown‚ Moon Shadow realizes that it’s dangerous there.When Black Dog‚ Uncle Bright Star’s son who’s addicted to opium‚ goes missing‚ Windrider goes looking for him. And Moon Shadow secretly following. Once they find Black Dog beat up‚ they take him back

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    The Blues Brothers

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    26 November 2013 The Blues Brothers The Blues Brothers is an American comedy directed by John Landis and was released in 1980. The film follows convict Jake and his brother Elwood Blues‚ who go on “a mission from God” to save the Catholic orphanage they grew up in from shutting down. By doing so‚ they reunite their band and organize a performance to earn $5‚000 to pay off the owed tax while being chased by a deranged ex‚ Illinoisan Nazis’‚ the Good Ole Boys’‚ a western/country band‚ and the police

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    Living Dead Girl

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    use to have as a child that she no longer has‚ so she decides to speed the process up by asking a family member of a young girl she has her eyes on. Jake is the older brother of the new Alice named Annabel. Jake is Alice’s first grip on reality‚ after she gets to know him‚ he soon tells her that he is going to save her. A few days after meeting Jake‚ Alice meets a police woman who figures out there is something wrong with Alice. The officer lends her candy‚ and a business card with her information

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    Laura's Monologue

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    1. KITCHEN — MORNING In the kitchen of a normal family home Laura and her mother are having a deep discussion. The mother is doing the dishes while Laura lays slumped on a couch ‚ scraping the end of the wooden table with the edges of a metal fork. LAURA People weren’t as nice as they were then. You were younger and you’re they probably didn’t like you. They think differently now! MOM Well I’m sure that could happen. I’m doing this for your best interest. Sweetie I

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    Supervisor Interview Assignment Brian Interview #1: Alissa is an assistant manager in the Speaker-Bureau department at a marketing agency in New York City. She plans marketing events and meetings all over the country to help pharmaceutical companies promote their new drugs to doctors with the goal of ultimately having those doctors prescribe the drug to their patients. Alissa has been with this company for three years and in her current position for six months. She directly supervises four

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    Peer Mentoring The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches‚ but to reveal to him his own‚ observed the British politician Mr. Benjamin Disraeli. Most modern management thinkers would agree that mentoring is one such way to achieve this greatest good. Originating from a Greek word‚ mentoring has been one of the oldest forms of influence. Homer‚ the Greek storyteller‚ narrates how Odysseus trusts the care of his son with his friend‚ Mentor. The Oxford dictionary defines

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    Greed in Macbeth

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    possess more‚ and it is also one of the biggest creators of tragedy. This is so vividly shown in both the novel The Sun Also Rises and in the play Macbeth. In The Sun Also Rises‚ this greed is directed toward a person‚ Lady Brett Ashley. Five men; Mike‚ Jake‚ Pedro‚ Bill‚ and the Count‚ are fighting to be with her throughout the book. In Macbeth‚ this greed is directed toward power as Macbeth wanted to become King‚ and what he does to become it. However‚ this greed led to the collapse of each character

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    The sun also rises is a book about people that live in France that visit Spain. Most people of the groups have been affected by world war II whether it is physically or mentally. The main characters were named Robert Cohn‚ Jake Barnes‚ and brett. Two of the three have been affected by the war. Robert Cohn was the control group of the book because he was the only one of the group that didn’t go to war. Robert Cohn went to college instead of the war “Oh‚ cut out the prep-school stuff.”(HEMINGWAY‚ 47)

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