"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place on Long Island in the early 1920s. Gatz is from a lower class Midwestern farming family who falls in love with the wealthy well bread Daisy. The two are unable to marry and live happily ever after as they are from vastly different backgrounds and social status. Gatz enlists in the military and upon the end of his service is befriended by a wealthy benefactor who employs him "in a vague personal capacity". Gatz’s employment provides him the opportunity
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My Great Grandma‚ Marcella Wallace who was born in the 40’s and lived in Michigan in the 60’s. She was raised Roman Catholic and taught to “Look for the good in people” (Wallace) and to “work hard‚ so you have a better outlook on life” (Wallace). This is her story of the beginning to the end of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. It was July 13th‚ 1960 when news went out that John F. Kennedy was running for President. He was a Roman Catholic and believed in finding good in people‚ and planed to take part
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A woman’s place is in the house The place of woman was considered to be in the house almost since the beginning of time. Back then‚ women used to be the only ones responsible for the household and for the bringing up of their children. They lacked of sufficient education‚ as most of them never finished school and only a minority went to the university. And even if they did acquire a higher education‚ they scarcely had the same opportunities as men because they were considered inferior. Therefore
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Music as art. My favorite music style. Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence that are organized in time in a special way. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony)‚ rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo‚ meter‚ and articulation)‚ dynamics‚ and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. In the historical context the development of music is inseparable from the active development of person’s sensory abilities. Course of the auditory development of the
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What would you do if you found out you were dying of cancer? Would you able to make jokes and laugh it off as though it were nothing? Would your humor be a way of denying the truth? People use humor in different ways. In "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor"‚ Sherman Alexie tells how one man tries to use humor to deny the reality of his terminal disease. He shows how humor can be taken too far. This story demonstrates how humor can destroy one part of your life as it helps you cope with another
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Some people believe that children’s leisure activities must be educational‚ otherwise they are a complete waste of time. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your experience. Nowadays children spend so much time at school and attend various additional classes and this makes some educational specialists feel pity for them. They suggest giving kids more spare time to play and have fun. Meanwhile‚ there is an opinion that youngsters should
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My favorite entrepreneur: Ms. Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey was born into poverty by a teenage single mother in 1954 in Kosciusko‚ Mississippi. For the earliest years of her life she was raised by her maternal grandmother‚ and under her kind-hearted discipline was taught to read by the age of two and speak exceptionally by the age of three. When Winfrey was six years old‚ she was sent to live with her mother in Wisconsin. She was submerged into inner-city Milwaukee‚ and faced the hardships of growing
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* My favorite bear is the Chicago Bears mascot. This is the team Brian Urlacher plays for now. He has played for the Bears his entire professional career. During his time with the Bears he has gone to the Super Bowl and several Pro Bowls. His rookie year‚ Brian won the Defensive Player of the Year Award for most outstanding Linebacker in the NFL. Growing up as a child‚ he had a rough life but it didn’t stop him from playing great football through from the time he was young to the time he
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My Favorite Mistake Madeleine Albright on the time she stuck it to Putin. Jul 25‚ 2011 1:00 AM EDT Madeleine Albright.‚ Cindy Marler / Hollandse Hoogte-Redux When I was America’s biggest diplomat‚ I made a really bad mistake. This is how it happened. In 1999‚ President Clinton‚ Defense Secretary William Cohen‚ and I were in a room together‚ celebrating the 50th anniversary of NATO. It was a completely accidental thing; we were just sitting and joking around‚ and we pretended to be the “See
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My son birthday special place Always on my son’s birthday we are doing something special. This year we surprise him with trip to Legoland. Although he had been there before‚ he still loves it. Also on this day‚ for first time‚ they hosted a firework extravaganza. It was school time that I had plenty of time to organize the visit. I invited his best friends: Katie‚ who is a year older than him‚ and Daniel - eleven-year-old boy‚ living next door. I bought some threats for all of us. In the morning
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