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    Love In The Great Gatsby

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    G. Love is defined as having passion‚ devotion‚ and tenderness in which these feelings are shared between two people. In the 1920’s the meaning of love greatly changed in the eyes of society. Divorce was more common‚ committing adultery was normal‚ and‚ small-town women went to the big city in search for rich husbands. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the reader is shown how adultery was normal when Tom has an open affair with Myrtle. Through Daisy’s horrible marriage with Tom

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    The Great Gatsby Theme

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    Calves In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the characters idolize one another’s images and social class; which in part is determined by one’s education. The main character Gatsby is critiqued by many different people throughout the novel for who he is‚ where he came from‚ what he owns‚ and how he managed to obtain it. The Golden Calves in the lives of the people in west pertain to an image one must uphold. Education is an idol worshipped by the characters in The Great Gatsby. The people

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    2013 film The Great Gatsby‚ directed by Baz Luhrmann and based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original iconic novel‚ made a splash amongst movie-goers. It earned itself a profit of over $90 million‚ with the expenses for the production of the movie coming to a grand total of $145 million Australian Dollars. The possibly profligate sum of money put into the movie undoubtedly reflected the extravagant visuals and the immensity of the sets‚ costumes and cast of the movie. Luhrmann had great expectations and

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    Great Gatsby Reality

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    In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald… During the 1920s‚ the American Dream was a provincial ideology that influenced the popular belief of achieving vast prosperity despite privilege through hard work. However‚ in The Great Gatsby‚ an obsession with the accumulation of a vast fortune and the pursuance towards his dream proves ultimately fatal. According to Marius Bewely‚ emerging from the pursuance of the American Dream is the rejection of limits and an attempt to hide the covert boundary between

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    The Great Gatsby Daisy

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    The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald is a critique of American prosperity‚ and the endless drive for wealth brought on by the economic growth against the background of Long Island‚ New York City. The Great Gatsby critiques materialism and the new American Dream‚ no longer defined by prosperity for equality‚ but by prosperity for the goal of excess wealth. Nick Carraway‚ the protagonist‚ views Jay Gatsby’s disillusionment about Daisy Buchanan‚ the object of his affection. The tale is not a story about

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    1. Individual vs. society Gatsby vs. the American society in 1920s From Nick’s perspective‚ Gatsby might have made vast fortune by illegal means and is capable of behaving like an aristocrat‚ he is still not respected as the ‘old money’ from East Egg; Gatsby’s mansion‚ his shimmering parties‚ fancy clothes and cars‚ cannot erase his past as a low-born farmer’s son after all. He dreams to be recognized as one of the upper-class people‚ but is frequently looked down by people like Tom Buchanan and

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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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    our imagination through childhood. Each of the infinite colors has it’s own value and personal definition to everyone. It engages the eyes with the mind into imagination and in some ways are deceptive. For example red‚ was feared in America during 1920’s because it was associated with communism and uncertainty. Red is usually associated in the cinema as the evil force. However‚ it is also a symbol for good luck in China and India. Colors have their own symbolic definition that are associated with

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    Great Gatsby

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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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    The Great Gatsby

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    RADHA KRISHNA FUSED   Hosts – NARAD MUNI – N             REPORTER – R   R – good evening‚ namashkaar. Satsriakaal‚ vannakumm  aur jinhe ye sab lage kumm unko mera pyaar bharaa sweet saa welcome   doston aaj hum aapko ek bahut hee aiti haasik flight per… ek historical love story sunanae waale hain – a story about a bhola bhala chori ‚and cute si anjani chori‚   jee haan aapne sahi suna – aaj hum aapko swarag lok ki sair karvaane waale hain… - and wahaan ki

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