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    Great Gatsby Setting

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    "The Great Gatsby" Setting The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a popular novel that has remained one of the best-known literary works to this day. Set in the 1920s‚ the story is narrated by Nick Caraway‚ an easy-going bond salesman who lives next door to Jay Gatsby whom the story revolves around. Jay Gatsby is a man with a mysterious past‚ who lives in New York and is famous for his extravagant parties and fabulous wealth. The story is set during the summer in which Tom Buchannan‚ his wife

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    the world made the decision to make the move. The time period of The Great Gatsby‚ the 1920s‚ was a big movement period in America. Unlike other countries‚ there was freedom in America‚ which was sought as the golden ticket for immigrants. The American Dream proves to be a proves a positive goal for people to strive for because of the employment opportunities‚ homes and places to live‚ and education. Money‚ salary and social class were what people entitled you by and how people thought of you

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    Coupland and Fitzgerald‚ in their novels “jPod” and “The Great Gatsby”‚ explore this theme of identity through; creation of a persona for personal gain‚ the impacts to that persona and internal turmoil that can be caused by external influences‚ and the potential harsh realization of reality that stems from filling a persona. The characters in both novels‚ much like many people in real life‚ strive to accomplish many goals‚ mainly stemming from social and romantic origins‚ and in order to achieve these

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    Great Gatsby Moral

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    The Great Gatsby is a modern classic of the early twentieth century‚ a novel which truly captured the luxurious atmosphere of the “Jazz Age.” It is a moniker given to the 1920’s which is suitable‚ as the spread of wealth led to a decade of glamor and decadence. Among the variations of the novel’s themes‚ the one moral that is evident and shadows over the rest of the “American Dream‚” is the ideal that a person of any racial or financial background could start a new life in America and live in riches

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    COMPREHENSIVE DELIVERANCE MANUAL The manual is not intended to: 1. Turn your whole ministry into solely a deliverance ministry. We live in a day when many ministers claim that God has called them to preach only a specific part of the gospel. We have been called to preach the WHOLE COUNSEL of God [Acts 20:27]‚ be it Salvation or Sanctification or Baptism of the Holy Ghost‚ Prosperity‚ Faith‚ and Deliverance etc. etc. We must be balanced and be careful of not to overemphasize or

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    The Great Gatsby

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    Ch.19 Quotes ‘The Year of Self Reliance - Reach to the Star’ (P.209) Why only one star? I wondered‚ and compared transcripts with Henri Bouchard‚ who was sweating beside me in the crowd under the morning sun. Yes‚ it was only one star. Sukarno (P.210) Confrontation of the outside world had come to a stalemate: now there was only one struggle left to kindle his aged blood‚ to answer his boy’s need for tumultuous events: Confrontation within the nation. (P.210) A time had come‚ he said to ‘swing

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    Dreams in the Great Gatsby

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    name for the 1920s is the roaring twenties. This was a decade full of social transformation and industrialization. Through this shift‚ a degradation in social moral occurred. A victim of this shift is the character J. Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Gatsby is “corrupted by values and attitudes that he holds in common with a society that destroys him”(44). Through this mutual and obscured social moral‚ Gatsby seems to obtain a destructive view of his “American Dream”. Where the American

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    of mental processes with literature and historical context. Jay Gatsby‚ a prominent figure throughout the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ portrays psychological forces of shame‚ grief‚ and fear of close familiarity‚ which shares correspondence with resulting behaviors. Throughout such novel‚ the character of Gatsby is depicted to derive shame‚ primarily due to an undesired past. According

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    to greed‚ similar to the characters in the Great Gatsby. Essentially the idea of an American Dream seems to promise that through hard work‚ anyone can succeed and live a happy life; however this dream can mean different things to different people. In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ shows that not all American Dreams are ideal and can lead to corruption in one’s life. Through the characters of George Wilson‚ Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald symbolizes that chasing hollow

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    1. Sensation: the process by which sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment 2. Perception: the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information‚ enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events 3. Bottom-up Processing: analysis that begins with the sense receptors and works up to the brain’s integration of sensory information 4. Top- Down Processing: information processing guided by higher-level mental processes

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