In the United States‚ social media sites are currently being used by two out of three people‚ and search engines are used daily. Social media is helping America to stay informed‚ to stay organized‚ and to react rapidly. Not only can users on social media sites communicate with their friends‚ but they can also communicate with other users whom they connected with through shared use of political groups and pages. During the 2006 and 2008 election seasons‚ new technologies emerged that enabled individuals
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Social Security and the Great Depression The Great Depression was a period during American history which featured the largest economic crisis the nation has seen to date. A combination of a massive stock-market crash and failure of the people to invest in government programs left many working ‘paycheck to paycheck’ so to speak‚ and even more completely unemployed. Banks began to fail‚ as more and more workers became unemployed‚ leading the country to a traumatic time of poverty. The Social Security
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Comparing Death of a Salesman to The Great Gatsby In the search for the American dream many things can be lost‚ this is reflected in the novel The Great Gatsby and the movie Death of a Salesman. Both of these works demonstrate the lengths that some people will go to in order to achieve the stereotypical life of a rich‚ successful and powerful American‚ which is often referred to as the American dream. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller illustrates how the character Willy will stop at nothing to
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“What part does social class play in the events of the novel?” In the Great Gatsby‚ social class plays an important role in determining the course of events. Geographical factors and occupation primarily decide the divisions in the community and the social class of the characters can bring people together‚ but also tear them apart. The social classes in the novel appear evident to readers‚ as they are commonly decided by their occupation and home region. They are divided into new rich‚ old
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Social class and status plays a significant part in The Great Gatsby in which the characters are distinguished by their wealth‚ work‚ and living. The American dream plays a big role in the social class as people have to make their own decisions to get where they want to be in their life. In the novel‚ there are two cities‚ East egg and the West egg‚ which are separated by the valley of ashes. Between the two cities of which you live in‚ shows if you are from a wealthy family (East egg) or if you
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The book we are reading is The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald. The topic that we researched is social class. Social class is groups of people in a certain social and economic ranking. Tom and Gatsby were wealthy so they would be in a higher social class than Nick. Nick was raised around wealthy people all his life most of the people went to Yale and are in the bond business. That’s why I think Nick is so used to being around rich people. Nick‚ Gatsby‚ and Tom are all in their own level of wealth
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"Black Power"‚ the word alone raises an abundance of controversial issues. Black power was a civil rights movement led by the black panthers which addressed several issues including segregation and racism. Black power had a different meaning to every member of the Mc Bride family‚ Ruth and James both looked at black power from a different angle. In "The Color of Water"‚ The author James Mc Bride admired the black panthers at first‚ but slowly he grew afraid of them after fearing the consequences
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preoccupation with class‚ and the hunger for riches”. Although many believe that they have achieved the true meaning of this statement‚ they have only ruined many other aspects of themselves while trying to reach their final goal. In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald extraordinarily portrays the character of Jay Gatsby as one who has truly been killed in the pursuit of the American dream. One of the most commonly found wrongs with the American dream has come to be that the goals set can only
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War B. World War II C. Economy III. Post- Berlin Wall effects A. Economic examples B. Political examples Conclusion In the last fifty years the German Democratic Republic has been a nonstop changing country. In Germany‚ the terms "East" and "West" do not just represent geographically regions. It runs much deeper than that‚ and there is still a large gap in the way of life‚ and political and social conditions of the whole country. While most German’s were sleeping
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Scandals in Baseball and Its Effect on America Baseball has always been considered as American as apple pie. If that is true than cheating should be just as American. Ever since the creation of America’s favorite pastime‚ baseball‚ cheating has been a major part of the game. Each era of baseball has showed more complex ways of cheating the game. Although‚ cheating in baseball has been around since the introduction of the game‚ only few scandals have really made history. Some of the most famous
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