Former president John F. Kennedy once said that “change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” This statement is very true because some people that never move on from something sad tend to be depressed. There are also other people that do not believe that the past is gone‚ and think that things never changed. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Jay Gatsby resembles the second kind of person as Gatsby fails his dream of being with
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A woman once said‚ “There is no life without color.” This is just the case with the main character of “The Life of Pi”‚ Pi Patel. Pi is a cast away on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger‚ an orangutan‚ a hyena and a zebra. There is one color that was mentioned multiple times throughout the story‚ the color orange. In the novel “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel‚ this color is used as a symbol for hope and survival. To hope means to wish for something with expectations of its
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Barack Obama once said; “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America.” In this statement he spoke to the national pride of every American. Nationalism is an ideology which asserts that an individual’s allegiance to the nation state surpasses other segregational differences such as race‚ religion‚ gender or sexuality. It provides a collective identity for people whose single greatest commonality is their belief in the strength
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The Polish Jew‚ Joseph Rotblat‚ was the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project on moral grounds‚ but his attitude and position towards his involvement in the creation of the atomic bomb wasn’t always so decisive. Joseph Rotblat entered the Manhattan Project in 1944‚ convinced that building the bomb was the correct choice‚ but by analyzing his actions later on‚ it is evident that his thoughts in relation to working on the atomic bomb had changed. Early on‚ Joseph Rotblat was taught to be aware
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In The Great Gatsby‚ every character is consumed by materialism. Everyone’s main concern is attending the biggest party‚ having the sharpest clothes and the buying fastest cars. The cars are a very important symbol used by Fitzgerald in the novel. Gatsby’s car specifically‚ is bright yellow which is meant to represent his wealth. “ It was a rich cream colour‚ bright with nickel...and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns.” (Fitzgerald 63) Just like him‚ his car is extravagant
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In the beginning of World War one‚ Canadians were not yet acknowledged to be an individual group of people. They were still considered to be a part of England‚ and for a period in the war Canadians were under British command. However‚ as the war progressed Canadians were able to break the bonds that held them to the British‚ giving them the opportunity to show who they were. These soldiers that fought as Canadians were the ones who began to develop Canada’s identity as a country separate from Britain
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The Significance of Marriage and Friendship in Our Town Companionship is arguably one of the most important things in the world. Without companionship‚ it has been scientifically proven that a person becomes depressed‚ lonely‚ and in extreme circumstances‚ insane. Two forms of companionship are marriage and friendship. Most people spend their entire lives seeking new friends‚ waiting until they find someone special enough to be their spouse. People need companionship and it is considered
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Gray‚ Jane. (1993) “Rural Industry and uneven development: The significance of gender in the Irish Linen Industry.” Journal of Peasant Studies; Jul1993‚ Vol. 20 Issue 4‚ p590-611‚ 22p. In this article‚ Dr. Jane Gray takes a gives sociologist’s look those trying to catalog Irelands economical history into the rural industrialization of Ireland’s linen industry during the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Dr. Gray describes how the spinning‚ knitting‚ and weaving of flax and yarn were
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What is the short term significance of Agricola in Roman Britain? The understanding of the short term significance of Agricola in Roman Britain is heavily dependent on historical texts and what they tell us. According to these historical texts there is no denying that Agricola was of short term significance in military and cultural terms‚ but the degree of his significance comes into question according to each individual historian opinion. Most of the knowledge we have on Agricola comes from his
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The novel Animal Farm‚ by George Orwell‚ is an allegory portraying the dangers of a totalitarian government. It seeks to show how a society where all live completely equal has not been‚ and cannot be achieved. Orwell‚ through the use of the character Squealer‚ shows how propaganda can affect members of a communist society in a negative way. By drawing parallels to events in communist Russia‚ Orwell’s Animal Farm illustrates how propaganda was used to control the Soviet people by deceiving them‚ threatening
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