"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 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 Character Ezio Auditore da Firenze was a Florentine nobleman during the Renaissance well at least that what many thought he was but in reality he was a skilled assassin and Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins. This is probably one of my most favorite characters of all time not only because he was an assassin‚ which is cool‚ and all but it’s mostly the kind of honor and character that he had. Ill talk about his story first so you can have some understanding as to how he became
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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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HIST 202 09/20/2012 Sarah Vowell - Assassination Vacation When Lincoln was elected into office the country was divided into the North and South. However‚ the South became even more alienated when Lincoln was elected President because of his opposition to slavery and his pursuance of its abolishment. As a result of his win‚ several states succeeded from the Union to join forces and create the Confederacy which then only led the hostility to grow even more. The Confederates took the first shot
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How Celebrity Culture Affects Our Lives Posted in: Arts & Entertainment‚ December 2010 Diane Qi‚ Arts & Entertainment Journalist One of the strongest influences in the lives of many North American teenagers is celebrity culture. Tabloids such as people‚ and TV shows like e-talk and TMZ fuel our appetite for details about the personal lives of celebrities‚ while the style statements lauded by pop stars determine trends in fashion and beauty. But‚ the truth is that this carefully nurtured
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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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summer before eighth grade year. I got the chance to participate in a five day youth mission trip in Galveston Texas with my church that went by the name of Oakwood Baptist Church. During the mission trip there would be many different activities that our church group would get to be a part of‚ such as an outdoor dodge ball tournament‚ indoor carnivals‚ and our very own Vacation Bible School. I was able to take part in this amazing adventure‚ and I couldn’t wait for it to begin. The morning of the
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