Caroline Meeber 18 years old‚ takes a train to Chicago‚ where her sister Minnie‚ and Minnie’s husband‚ agrees to let her move in. On the train‚ Carrie meets Charles Drouet‚ a traveling salesman and they decided to meet up the next week. Carrie soon looks for work to pay rent to her sister and her husband‚ and she finds a job running a machine in a shoe factory. One day‚ after she got sick she lost her job‚ she meets Drouet on a the street. He persuades her to leave her sister and move in with him
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The Great Gatsby: Nick - A Good and Neutral Narrator In today society‚ many people like to follow the current. They want to catch the wave. Which mean‚ it does not matter if things were good or bad‚ right or wrong‚ they just follow and do them without any thinking. Therefore‚ there are not too many people would like to be a normal‚ thoughtful nor neutral person. However‚ in the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by Scott Fitzgerald‚ one of the character name is Nick Carroway‚ he was the good
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A Modernist Examination of The Good Anna and The Great Gatsby Modernism is a movement characterized by the re-examination of literary styles‚ structures‚ content‚ and even human existence thought to be standard prior to 1900. The movement was all about looking at things in a new light‚ and trying to break the mold so long held by society as the norm. This movement took place in art‚ music‚ architecture‚ and as I will further discuss in this paper‚ literature. In this paper‚ I will discuss the modernist
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In 15 years of fighting‚ Alexander the Great never lost a battle. Although he did some evil things because his personality and arrogance got the best of him‚ he made some good decisions for the sake of his empire. Alexander the Great was truly a great leader. He ruled his empire under some pretty good tactics and a great government. So‚ was he truly a great ruler? As the background information states‚ his parents were royalty‚ giving him special privileges. His parents made the decision to have
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Victor Ferreira The New Jim Crow Chapter 2 Incarceration rates in the United States have exploded due to the convictions for drug offenses. Today there are half a million in prison or jail due to a drug offense‚ while in 1980 there were only 41‚100. They have tripled since 1980. The war on drugs has contributed the most to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color‚ most of them African-Americans. The drug war is aimed to catch the big-time dealers‚ but the majority of the people
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about the great things that were achieved and what was accomplished‚ its also about who did it and why.?.. Throughout history several wars were fought‚ one well known leader who fought these wars was Alexander The “Great” Even though Alexander had achieved a lot in his life as a leader did he deserve the “Great” at the end of his name.? To be great as a person and as a leader it means to be Honorable‚ Brave‚ Ambitious and Virtuous. Did he have those qualities of being great.? Was he a good enough
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1.SETTING The novel‚ Catching Fire written by Suzanne Collins takes place in a futuristic North America called Panem.The setting is dreary and depressing since 11 of the 12 districts live in poverty supplying the flashy capital with their luxury products. Each district is responsible for manufacturing specific raw materials or products that are used in the capital. The beginning of the story takes place in District 12. Katniss had just came home from the games and she now lives in a big set of
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Throughout all of his adventures Jim shows compassion as his most prominent trait. He makes the reader aware of his many superstitions and Jim exhibits gullibility in the sense that he Jim always assumes the other characters in the book will not take advantage of him. One incident proving that Jim acts naive occurs halfway through the novel‚ when the Duke first comes into the scene “By right I am a duke! Jim’s eyes bugged out when he heard that...” In the novel‚ Huck Finn‚ one
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Hi my names Mae and I am a black that wants freedom. It was back in the 19th century the Jim Crow Era the worst time ever for me at least. We the blacks had no rights well not a lot at least and I didn’t know why. When we walked the streets white people would give us looks. Like mean looks this didn’t bother me much not as much as the fact that they would beat us if we were bad or even if they didn’t like what we did. But sometimes they would hang our kind. Let me tell you something that was not
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In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ the good friend of Elizabeth Bennet‚ Charlotte Lucas‚ marries the Bennet’s cousin‚ Mr. Collins. Mr. Collins is a very interesting character in that he acts like a clown‚ and Austen satirizes throughout the novel by giving him puerile characteristics. He has a lack of knowledge of dancing and an amusing way of speaking (using malapropism). In marrying Mr. Collins‚ Charlotte makes the right decision because of her personal nature‚ her lack of attractiveness‚ and
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