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    Demoniac Servant? Is there a specific reasoning for this? Compare and contrast Tom and Gatsby. Who do you think is a better man? If neither‚ explain why. Literary Device: Climax The climax of this novel is when the secret relationships are publicly revealed and addressed. Mr. Wilson finds out

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    Theme Of The Great Gatsby

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    are several setting within the novel “The Great Gatsby.” Each of the setting within the story contributes to the growth of the story‚ the Midwest‚ East and West Egg of Long Island and Manhattan and an industrial area of Queens the novel calls the Valley of Ashes. The main setting of “the Great Gatsby” is the time period during prohibition. In a time period where alcohol was illegal we find all of the charters enjoying social drinking at every event. Gatsby throws elaborate parties where free food

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    Great Gatsby - Loneliness

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    Loneliness Essay In the book The Great Gatsby‚ almost all the characters deal with loneliness in their lives at some point or another. Jay Gatsby started his life lonely‚ lived his life lonely and died lonely. "He had never really accepted…his parents." (pg.99). At a young age he began his journey to make something out of himself. He never got along with his parents so he left the house and started to make money so he could win Daisy back. He lived by himself and was involved in illegal activities

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    men‚ for they may act on their dreams with open eyes‚ to make them possible.” In The Great Gatsby‚ the central theme is realizing that creating your own dreams and living in your reality is extremely different. Myrtle dreamt of having money‚ yet knew Tom would never leave Daisy‚ Gatsby dreamt of being with the Daisy he created‚ but realized she had changed‚ and Daisy dreamt of being in love and being with Gatsby‚ but would NEVER leave Tom. Myrtle Wilson desires one thing in life‚ money. She lives

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    Great Gatsby Biography

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    father. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his novels and short stories in a similar fashion. The protagonist of his works and himself‚ typically‚ share similar economic status and taste for rich women. “The Great Gatsby‚” looked not only at Fitzgerald’s life‚ but an historic case of his time. “The Great Gatsby.” could be considered both autobiographical and historical fiction. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24‚ 1896 in Saint Paul‚ Minnesota. Namesake‚ also second cousin three times removed

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    Dreams In The Great Gatsby

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    Dreams are often sought after with such great desire for the possibility of it coming to existence‚ that all rational ideas are pushed aside and reality is warped. The essence of this is perfectly captured in Jay Gatsby’s character of Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby and can be likened to Laura Wingfield of Tennessee William’s‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ and the narrator of Hunger in New York City by Simon J. Ortiz. The celebrity everyone longs to be is Gatsby‚ a wealthy luminary that is known by all

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    The Symbol I have chosen for the cover of The Great Gatsby is the green light that Daisy Buchanan has on her pier. The green light symbolizes the hopes of Jay Gatsby getting Daisy back after 5 years of being in the military. He hopes for their relationship to be the same as it did when they first got together‚ but that’s not possible since she’s married to Tom Buchanan and has a daughter. Gatsby has moved to west egg and has bought an enormous mansion right across the bay and throws huge parties

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    In The Great Gatsby‚ the author‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald has the main character‚ Jay Gatsby‚ throw parties often during the summers to reveal the attitudes of the other characters as self-absorbed and this ultimately leads to the downfall of Gatsby himself. Throughout the book‚ Gatsby throws parties and does not turn anyone away. The use of these parties suggests he wants to fit in with the crowd and attract a certain group of people‚ hoping to eventually to meet his true love. Even at his parties‚

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    Tom‚ Daisy‚ Gatsby‚ Nick from The Great Gatsby‚ and even the 1920’s society itself move both forwards and backwards simultaneously as they navigate the waters of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald addresses this aphorism throughout the novel‚ and the final lines summarize it very thoroughly: “So we beat on‚ boats against the current‚ borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald‚ 189). As described in the final lines of the novel‚ the main characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and the society

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    Optic Fibers

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    military/aerospace platform operational environment challenges the creativity of fiber optic module packaging engineers as they endeavor to develop and mature new active and passive single-mode fiber optic and photonic components for next generation avionics networking applications. Low sales and manufacturing volumes inherent to avionics combined with lack of standard interface specifications for current and next generation fiber optic local area network architectures and sub-systems makes it difficult for avionics

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