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    see when you pick up this book is the Title "The Great Gatsby" So already you expect Gatsby to great before you have even opened the book. As the first chapter unravels The Narrator and Gatsby’s Neighbor Nick Carraway‚ tells us plainly that he loathes Gatsby‚ however by the end of the paragraph he describes Gatsby’s character as "gorgeous". He also says "No Gatsby turned out alright in the end." From now we begin to wonder about how great Gatsby really is? On one hand he is "vile" because Carraway

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    Did Erasmus lay the egg that Martin Luther hatched?‚ this is such a complex question. One would have to take into consideration that Luther and Erasmus did not think to keenly of each other‚ and disagreed on many factors. Especially with one being of the catholic faith and the other reforming against Catholicism and protesting against the pope himself. Even though they both had their differences‚ they did both conclude that there was something wrong with the catholic church and therefore Desiderius

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    Mathew Rios‚ Alberto Rosado 9/10/12 Jessica Cohen’s “The Market for a Yale Women’s Eggs” first appeared in the New Journal in 2001. In this essay Jessica talks about her experience trying to be an egg donor. With narration of her experience and the research she did on the topic‚ Jessica writes an interesting informal essay. As a child Jessica used to read “Where did I come from?” but now it’s out of date replaced by “Mommy Did I Grow in Your Tummy?: Where Some Babies Come From” This shows the

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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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    Fitzgerald’s use of flashback in The Great Gatsby proves to be an effective tool in order to reveal information from the characters’ past. These flashbacks are effective because they allow the reader to know and understand the character better before a situation in the novel arises. Three examples of flashbacks that Fitzgerald uses are when Jordan explains to Nick how and when she first met Gatsby on page 79‚ when Nick explains to the reader how Gatsby got his name and what his childhood was

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    Synthesis Essay: Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby After reading Arthur Miller’s Deah of a Salesman and watching the movie of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s well known novel The Great Gatsby‚ the two works clearly demonstrate the lengths that people go to in order to achieve the American Dream‚ the stereotypical life of a rich‚ successful and happy American. Both Jay Gatsby and Willy Loman are blinded by the pursuit of their unrealistic dreams which eventually lead to their downfalls. In Death

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    Compare and contrast the presentation on the destructive nature of love and desire in The Tempest‚ The Great Gatsby and Rapture. (Word count 3081) The complexities of love and desire are repeatedly illustrated in all three texts. Shakespeare‚ Fitzgerald and Duffy depict the destructive nature of love and desire through the themes of greed‚ selfishness and obsession. These are conveyed through metaphors‚ similes and personification. The most prominent technique used by all the writers to demonstrate

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    The Great Gatsby Gatsby’s obsessive attachment for his dream to come true is his downfall and ultimately leads to his death. The Great Gatsby is book that explores a man who wants to make his unrealistic dream a reality. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses drama and imagination to draw the readers in. Gatsby’s dream is very unrealistic because it depends on other peoples actions‚ daisy’s love for tom‚ and because his dream would only work in a perfect world.             Gatsby’s dream is unrealistic because

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    Are The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby Similar? The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel based on adultery and hypocrisy of society. In summary‚ the novel explains the story of Hester Prynne‚ a woman who is going through a long and rough period in her life because she is facing major conflicts with her society because of the adultery she has committed. Throughout the story line‚ Hester deals with conflicts with herself and her society when she is trying to keep the secret

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    ” How important is the setting of a particular time and/or place to the development of the characters? The setting of a particular time and place is integral to the development of the characters. This can be seen through the book‚ “ The Great Gatsby”. The book was written in the 1920s America. It was the post World War 1 period and the time of extreme wealth and promise. It was also a Jazz Age‚ where women enjoyed a much less restricted lifestyle with newfound freedom. There was a legal ban

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