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    outdoors along many coast lines throughout the world providing a haven for swimmers and other beach goers. To enjoy a swim indoors at the pool‚ or outdoors at the beach‚ can be a tough choice since both can provide a variety of experiences. This essay aims to contrast those experiences by talking about some of the temperatures in the environment at the swimming pool and at the beach; the activities that can be done there‚ the cleanliness that can generally be found in the areas and some of the safety measures

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    Great Gatsby essay: to what extent are relationships doomed Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ is set in America of the 1920’s‚ a predominantly materialistic society revolving around wealth and status above all else. Fitzgerald depicts this obsession with money and luxury through complicated relationships full of trouble‚ infidelity and sorrow. The relationships Fitzgerald portrays all symbolize the materialism and hedonism of the age; each relationship is doomed to a certain extent

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    In the essays A Web of Brands and Live Free and Starve by Naomi Klein and Chitra Divakaruni‚ both authors express the different aspects and their opinions of globalization. Naomi Klein focuses on the effects of globalization. In A Web of Brands‚ Klein looks at how the changes of the garment industry in Toronto connect to the factories of Jakarta‚ Indonesia. Chitra Divakaruni argues that the United States attempts to stop the practices of indentures‚ would have terrible consequences even though the

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    The Great Gatsby Essay Topics (50 points) Choose one topic to write a 2-3 page essay. See the rubric below for how I am grading you. 1. Choose two characters that are foils (opposites) and discuss their purpose and roles in the novel. What purpose does it serve for the characters being so different? What does it add to the plot of the story? 2. How does Gatsby represent the American dream? What does the novel have to say about the condition of the American dream in the 1920s? In what ways do

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    Literature Per. 4 The Great Gatsby Essay Gatsby and His Non-American Dream Everybody wants to have that American Dream. Whatever or whoever it is‚ it is a dream. A dream to some people can mean like a goal or fantasy wise. A dream in general is a series of thoughts‚ images‚ and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. But an American Dream is the traditional social ideals of the United States‚ such as equality‚ democracy‚ and material prosperity. Jay Gatsby does not have an American

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    All three essays focus on the societal differences amongst individuals as well as their impact. However‚ they differ in the way society perceives each difference. In Black Men and Public Space‚ Brent Staples discusses the stereotypes normally associated with African Americans. His narration leads the reader to believe that the majority of white woman are‚ to some extent‚ afraid of young black males. In There is No Unmarked Woman‚ Deborah Tannen discusses the inferiority normally exhibited by women

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    Social status plays a big role in every society. Everybody wants to achieve some form of social status. In the movie The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby sole purpose in life was to achieve a very high social status and not live as his parents did. With Jay’s vision of himself‚ along with the love he poured into Daisy and his insistence on reliving the past his Gatsby’s ultimate down fall. Jay’s own vision of himself started out at an early age‚ he even denied his own parents since they were not of the

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    ENG 111- Composition I (3cr) Lehman College‚ CUNY Comparison & Contrast Essay Topic (some things to choose from) Two stages of a person’s life Two places you have visited Two perspectives on the same place: past and present Two perspectives on the same place: morning and night Two close friends Format & Requirements I. Format All essays must follow the same format. Points will be deducted if it does not follow the following format:  1 inch margins (NOT 1 ¼ inch margins‚ the default

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    The book I chose is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I chose this selection because it was a book that I actually read in high school‚ as it was something that actually interested me. Then the movie came out in 2013 and it really heightened my interest in the mystery of Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is about a great mysterious man named Jay Gatsby that has everything that anyone could ever want‚ but he was missing one thing‚ Daisy. His true love that he would spend years just to find. Our part

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    (prd 3) The Great Gatsby Essay Essay Topic #4 In The Great Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway said‚ “It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance that one may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant‚ and then concentrated on you‚ with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you so far as you would like to be understood‚ believed in you as far as you would like to believe in yourself.” (Fitzgerald

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