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    a great teacher

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    A Great Teacher Teachers provide foundation of each individual’s education. In addition to teachers in school‚ other people act as teachers also‚ for example‚ someone teaching another how to draw‚ write‚ read‚ or even how to ride a bike. The act of teaching is a simple process that just happens from trying to explain one’s knowledge to another. A teacher needs patience‚ knowledge‚ a certain discipline‚ bits of sociology‚ and a certain personality to captivate the students. Most importantly

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    The Great Gatsby

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    illusion" and "Isolation of man" are two main themes for the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some readers might agree that isolation of man is the dominant theme but i support that reality versus illusion is more a dominant theme in the book because the situation of Gatsby being isolated is due to his own illusion. One reason that readers might agree that isolation of man is the dominant theme in the book The Great Gatsby is because Gatsby always find himself alone after his party

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    The Great Depression

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    Shaun Johnson ECO The Great Depression During the Great Depression‚ farm prices were low although farm costs were high. This led to many farmers throwing away tons of product to try and drive the price up. In 1928 Herbert Hoover was the president‚ and many people blamed mostly everything on him. The economy crashed and in the beginning many tried to hide their poverty. In order to qualify for welfare‚ you could not have a car‚ radio‚ or a telephone. Also in some states you couldn’t even vote

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    Akbar The Great

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    Akbar the Great (in white) visits a shrine In 1582‚ King Philip II of Spain received a letter from the Mughal Emperor Akbar of India. Akbar wrote: "As most men are fettered by bonds of tradition‚ and by imitating ways followed by their fathers... everyone continues‚ without investigating their arguments and reasons‚ to follow the religion in which he was born and educated‚ thus excluding himself from the possibility of ascertaining the truth‚ which is the noblest aim of the human intellect. Therefore

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    Great Gatsby & Atonement Explore how Fitzgerald presents doomed love in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ How does ‘Atonement’ illuminate this key aspect of Fitzgerald’s novel? In your response consider the authorial use of form‚ structure and language‚ context and some critical views. Give primary focus to the core text. 1920’s America was very much a materialistic society revolving around money‚ love being a simple emotion‚ unimportant and always coming second to luxury. This obsession with wealth

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    The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a romantic tragedy about a man named Nick Carraway who gets involved with the life of Jay Gatsby and his not-so secretive love for Daisy Buchanan. A critic named Lionel Trilling once said‚ “Jay Gatsby is to be thought of as standing for America itself.” This is proven to be true because Gatsby moves up in life and pursues his dream. He is an example for the American way because he fails at certain things and succeeds at others. Like

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    The American Dream: dead or alive? In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the theme can be separated into two major aspects. First‚ love versus money- criticizing the corruption of the American dream‚ and second‚ “sight and insight”-the perception that there is no all seeing presence (higher accountability) in the modern world. The American Dream is not dead it is‚ however‚ very corrupted. First‚ the issue of love versus money‚ the criticizing of the corruption of the American dream‚ to show this

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    Katie Coleman ALC Period 3 12/19/13 Fitzgerald’s Colorful Imagination The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an ever exciting story about a trouble-some wealthy man‚ Jay Gatsby. He spends his life creating a rich status for myself to allure people in. Among the people his wants to in his life‚ is his one true love‚ Daisy Buchanan. Color Symbolism plays a huge roll in describing characters and lending extra meaning to inanimate objects and descriptions of society. The use

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    great deprssion

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    Advanced Academic English I  11 November 2014  The Great Depression What caused the Great Depression‚ which was considered the worst economic depression in US history? It wasn’t just one cause‚ but instead a combination of worldwide crashes. The Great Depression was the most severe economic collapse in North America‚ Europe‚ and other industrialized areas that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. There were many factors that play a role in the Great Depression. One cause was the stock market

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    The Great Gatsby: Did Money Kill the Great? Many people claim that The Great Gatsby is the quintessential American novel. This is due to the reoccurring theme of the book of the rise and fall of the American dream. The book is very significant because of its relation to the time period in which it was written and the actual events that were taking place in the world in and around the 1920’s. This period was called the "Roaring 20’s" because of the economy at the time was through

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