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    it’s higher than ever before skyscrapers that match the generation’s high hopes and dreams for a better future. No one had higher hopes than the character Nick from The Great Gatsby. Nick moved to the West Egg in hopes of making it as a bondsman buying tons of books on the topic‚ but then finding himself get caught up in the world of a man named Gatsby. Gatsby lived and died from the darkest of the 1920s‚ and is Fitzgerald’s own struggles that make Nick disgusted with the world that society pushed as

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    Symbolism in the Great Gatsby Oxford dictionary defines symbolism as the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s novel The Great Gatsby is about a man out of place trying to fit in with a crowed that he does not belong in and failing. Jay Gatsby is a mysterious ‘New money’ millionaire living in West egg and is trying to get back his love of his life; his neighbor Nick who is old money narrates the story. Nick is the intermediary of these many different stories and knows

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    meaning or character. Fitzgerald uses symbolism throughout The Great Gatsby to show many ideas of the 1920’s life and who Jay Gatsby and the other characters really are. The symbols that are most present are colors‚ the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg‚ and Gatsby’s books. Fitzgerald uses the symbols; colors‚ The billboard‚ and Gatsby’s book to show America its idea of money and people. Colors such as green‚ yellow‚ gold‚ and white play a big role in showing the reader the real sides of characters such as Gatsby

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    Following the accident a man Known as Jay Gatsby has been found shot dead at a pool side. It is to be said that the women ran over in the car accident and the man involved in the shooting have links. The police have been told by local residents that George Wilson Husband of Myrtle Wilson who died in the car accident has been looking for Jay Gatsby as he is rumoured to be the driver of the car that hit Myrtle Wilson. Soon after the shooting of Gatsby‚ Wilson was found dead himself‚ after a team

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    THE GREAT GATSBY This quarter I read The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a fiction novel published in 1925. It takes place in New York‚ 1922 and follows the story of a great man named Gatsby. Although Gatsby is the main character‚ the book is in perspective and supposedly written by Nick Carraway‚ a friend of Gatsby. This novel has a very developing story line that hits all kinds of moods‚ happy‚ sad‚ and mysterious. The main character of this story is Jay Gatsby

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    of the most renowned literature known to the United States. One of the famous books written in this time was The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Included in the Modernism Era were the focus on trends and the extreme effect materialism makes on the society of the 1920’s. With the materials that one might own‚ it became their new way of life. In The Great Gatsby there are many signs of materialism and love for manufactured goods. Gatsby’s brilliant and luscious house was built

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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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    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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    Ifeanyi Onwuazo August 30‚ 2013 Mrs. Ballard P.6 Letter from Anne Bradstreet Dear mom I am contacting you to inform you about how I have had a misstep in the road. One summer night while I was sleeping I was wakened by a thunderous boom. I ran downstairs to check what was going on when all of a sudden I feel an immediate rise in temperature and light that almost blinded me. Before I could even turn on my house lights on I saw my living room on fire. I next saw the roof beginning to cave

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    In the book‚ “The Great Gatsby” the readers are able to see how F. Scott Fitzgerald uses multiple characters to create his story. These characters were important because they not only entertain the people‚ but they also contributed to the overall theme. One of the themes Fitzgerald was trying to convey was how the American Dream is not attainable or achievable. Each character’s actions in this book contributed towards the theme whether their part was big or small. The character’s actions and how

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