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    bring others down if it will help them be successful. Although a person who cheats and steals their way through life may seem successful‚ the good people that follow concrete moral principles are usually the people that achieve true success and happiness. One of the moral codes I live by is the golden rule which is to treat others the way you would like to be treated. I try to always treat others with respect and kindness until they give me a reason not to. I avoid making bad decisions and think

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    The Great Gatsby and Money Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" (1925) also shows what Dreiser calls the "impotence" of money. But it shows money’s other side as well. It is perhaps the most effervescent‚ champagne-fizzy vision of wealth ever realized in literature. It is the delicacy and fatality with which both visions are balanced that makes "The Great Gatsby" unique‚ and makes it literature’s most haunting study of money. Literature after "Gatsby‚" in what Harold Bloom calls the "Chaotic Age‚"

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    not one is inherently superior. Such is the foundation of the American Dream. As a result of the rights of Life‚ Liberty and pursuit of Happiness bestowed upon all Americans‚ every person has the opportunity to fulfill their dreams and passions‚ or at least in theory. Depicting the reality of this ideal‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrays the life of Jay Gatsby‚ and his interactions with different people from various socioeconomic

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    Period 5  Money can’t buy happiness   Money  is  just  an  amount  that  you  have‚  you  can  buy  materialistic  thing  which  might  make  you  happy‚  but  it  won’t  be   forever;  neither  money  nor  the  happiness.  Money  symbolize  certain  statuses  in  the  world.  In  the  novel  “The  Great  Gatsby”  by  F.  Scott  Fitzgerald  portrays  these  views  of  money  among  the  characters  in  the  novel.  Personally‚  I  think  that  money  doesn’t   buy  you  happiness.  It  may  make  you 

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby‚ portrays society as a desolate wasteland‚ immune to morality‚ punished by the decadence of the main characters. Throughout the novel‚ Gatsby pursues a life with Daisy‚ a married woman‚ who left him earlier as a result of his lack of wealth; thus‚ Gatsby sought to reap the benefits of affluence through illicit‚ unscrupulous means. Once Gatsby completes his quest for opulence‚ he hunts for his former lover‚ Daisy‚ who is married to Tom Buchanan: an aristocrat

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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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    This is impersonated in Buchanan’s failure to adhere to the institution of marriage‚ as seen in his affair with Myrtle Wilson. Conversely‚ Gatsby appears to embody the supposition of the traditional American

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    Whether it’s the lavish parties or immoral behavior of the upper class‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”‚ in the beginning of the story seems to be going for the shock value. The books repeats and focuses on how much the rich don’t care for societal norms‚ and shows the reader just what happens when a normal person tries to become like them. Fitzgerald shows Gatsby as an attractive personality that doesn’t bother following the rules if it means achieving his dream. However‚ that isn’t all

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    American Dream In The Great Gatsby all of the characters are working towards their own happiness. Fitzgerald uses the characters to represent the different groups of people and their dreams‚ they are different in wealth and social status. Fitzgerald uses the characters in the upper class to show that the American Dream is not just about money‚ as it seemed to be in 1920’s. He felt that the people of the 1920’s had forgotten what the American Dream was about‚ so he portrayed those people

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    The movie “Pursuit of happiness” is trying to show us about American lifestyle. The story leads by Chris Gardner‚ the salesman who is very low social status‚ rise from his poverty to be rich man. It looks like the pursuit of happyness in Chris Gardner term means that chasing the wealthy life. At the beginning‚ his life is very suffering from his job. Gardner has invested in a device known as a "Bone Density scanner". He expects that he would sell all of his devices and it would make his family better

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