Peter the Great: Reformer or Revolutionary? Peter the Great‚ or Peter I‚ was a man who introduced sweeping changes in Russia during his reign‚ some that were great for his country‚ and others that lead to misfortune. Even though he changed many things‚ historians have argued over whether he was a reformer or revolutionary for many ages past his death. It is more accurate to call him a reformer than a revolutionary‚ as Peter did introduce changes‚ but most of them were copied or based off other
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Final for The Great Gatsby: The final for this book will be a written essay using evidence to prove your point. You will also be showing off your abilities to use academic English (vocabulary and sentence structures) and functional grammar. You will be required to use at least one example of parallelism and use both the semi-colon and colon. Choose from one of these prompts to write your essay: a. Is F. Scott Fitzgerald writing a love story that embraces American Ideals‚ or a satire that
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The Linguistic Style of F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby As The New Lexicon Webster ’s Dictionary of the English Language tells us‚ linguistics is the scientific study of language or languages whether from a historical and comparative (diachronic) or from a descriptive‚ structural (synchronic) point of view. Linguistics is concerned with the system of sounds of language; for example‚ sound change (phonology)‚ its inflections and word formation (morphology)‚ its sentence structure (syntax)
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Ancient Persia essay This essay is on Darius the great of Persia.i am going to tell you the great achievements of his life and what he has done since crowned king of Persia. Technological achievements Some of his technological achievements were creating 3 different languages; Persian‚ elemite and bisitum. He made Aramaic the official language of Persia in 500b.c.Also he finished off the canal leading from the river Nile to the red/Persian sea.he invented the postal system with couriers and had
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as partying and having fun‚ which can prevent them from learning about history’s great thinkers. Great thinkers have been around for thousands of years. They range from Confucius (551-471 BC) and Plato (428 to c. 348 BC) to more modern great thinkers of Bill Gates (1955-present) and Richard Rorty (1931-2007). According to "Do You Have The Traits Of Great Thinkers And Innovators Who Shaped The World" (2009)‚ most great thinkers tend to display a certain set of characteristics such as open mindedness
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Throughout American history‚ the West has been seen as a land of promise and possibility—the very emblem of American ideals. Tom and Daisy‚ like other members of the upper class‚ have betrayed America’s democratic ideals by perpetuating a rigid class structure that excludes newcomers from its upper reaches‚ much like the feudal aristocracy that America had left behind. Valley of ashes: gray industrial dumping ground between west egg and NYC Tom: aristocrat East Egg represents the old aristocracy
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Great by Choice Jim Collins Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty‚ even chaos‚ and others do not? Based on nine years of research‚ buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories‚ Collins and his colleague‚ Morten Hansen‚ enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable‚ tumultuous‚ and fast-moving times. Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins’s prior work by its focus not just on performance‚ but also on the type of unstable
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In The Great Gatsby‚ the narrator describes the scene at a large and lavish party he attends. The author uses vivid language to capture the atmosphere and feeling of the party. In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses varied sentence structure and descriptive word choice to convey the endless excitement of the party. Fitzgerald uses varied sentence structure by using polysyndeton and asyndeton. He also uses lengthier sentences with less punctuation throughout. Polysyndeton is used in the quote
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The Great Gatsby The novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story about life in 1920s America. “The Great Gatsby” was written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald and became one of the greatest literary documents of this period‚ in which the economy prospered. It is a story told through the eyes of a young man‚ Nick Carraway‚ as he befriends his mysterious neighbor‚ Jay Gatsby‚ and witnesses a summer of love‚ extramarital affairs‚ the downfall of the American dream‚ life of the upper
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‘The novel paints a world of desolation and despair.’ How far and in what ways do you agree with this view of The Great Gatsby? I completely agree with this view everyone is in despair at some stage in the novel and everyone is depressed even if they don’t show it. Myrtle and Wilson are an unhappily married couple‚ they live in a small rundown town. Myrtle is Wilson’s everything‚ he loves her so much and everything he does is to please her. Myrtle is having an affair with Tom Buchanan. Wilson
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