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    Viviana Arvizu November 29‚ 2011 Period 3. AP Senior Literature The Great Gatsby Literary Analysis The American Dream is an idea that has been present since American literature’s beginning. Typically‚ the dreamer aspires to rise from rags to riches‚ while accumulating such things as love‚ high status‚ wealth‚ and power on his way to the top. The dream has variations throughout different time periods‚ although it is generally based on ideas of freedom‚ self-reliance‚ and a desire for something

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    The Great Society What is the Great Society? Lyndon Johnson came up with the Great Society of the 1960s. It helps with education and people in poverty. Medicaid and Medicare are also two big parts of the Great Society during the 1960s. Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27‚ 1908. Johnson graduated from high school‚ at the age of 15‚ as a valedictorian‚ in 1924. When Johnson finally went to college‚ his tuition was only forty-five dollars per year. He went to South West Texas State Teachers

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    The Great Gatsby American society has a lot of corruptions that hold people back or slow them down. Money is a big problem is love a lot of flaws and triumph happen over people falling in love they either end up loosing the one they love or they are so caught up in their own emotions that someone takes that one and only away from you. Do Tom and daisy actually have a thing together or is it a big host? One example of a failed relationship in The Great Gatsby is the adulterous affair between

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    A Great Leader

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    "He was the new kind of political figure that people were looking for that year‚ dignified and gentlemanly and well-educated and intelligent‚ without the air of superior condescension." (2013‚ A+E Networks) In 1961‚ John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States of America. Yet with only a couple of years of being president‚ he had been assassinated while heading into Dallas‚ Texas. He was an amazing leader‚ father‚ and brother to all‚ and he represented equality and change. In

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    The Great Depression            The 1930’s was a huge decade of history filled with many important events that changed how we think. However‚ one crucial influence to the 1930’s was the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a major event in history and widely affected the 1930’s. The Great Depression was a world-wide economic downfall in which things such as industrialism and construction came to a near halt. There is no true date as to when the Great Depression started‚ but experts

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    would bring happiness. Through the desire to obtain wealth and “happiness” cars became significant. Cars were seen as a higher status and gave Americans a sense of freedom. Wealth‚ freedom‚ and power were the only things that the characters in The Great Gatsby cared about. Rolls Royce made more than half aircraft engines used by the Allies in World War I. The Phantom I was the replacement for the Silver Ghost‚ presented in 1925 as "New Phantom". Rolls-Royce had a factory in Springfield‚ USA where

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    When the Wall Street stock market crashed in October 1929‚ the world economy was plunged into the Great Depression. By the winter of 1932‚ America was in the depths of the greatest economic depression in its history. The number of unemployed people reached upwards of 13 million. Many people lived in primitive conditions close to famine. More than 1‚000 people lived in shacks made from scrap metal and boxes. There were many similar Hoovervilles all over America. Between 1 and 2 million people travelled

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    Cristian Lugo P.6 9/18/12 The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ has been celebrated as one of the greatest‚ if not the greatest American novel. Yet this is ironic for the society which has so hailed the book is precisely that which is criticized throughout it. Politically‚ the American dream was a foundation of ideals and hopes for any and every American individual. Specifically‚ one of the ideals was an American dream free of class distinction; that every person has the opportunity

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    The Great Gatsby Essay “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues‚ and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known" (Page 59). So writes Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”‚ characterizing himself in opposition to the great masses of humanity as a perfectly honest man. The honesty that Nick attributes to himself must be a nearly perfect one‚ by impression of both its infrequency and its "cardinal" nature; Nick stresses

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    The Great Gatsby ESSAY: The Fall of the American Dream The figurative as well as literal death of Jay Gatsby in the novel The Great Gatsby symbolizes a conclusion to the principal theme of the novel. With the end of the life of Jay Gatsby comes the end of what Fitzgerald views as the ultimate American ideal: self-made success. The intense devotion Gatsby has towards his rebirth is evident by the plans set forth in Gatsby’s teenage schedule‚ such as "Practice elocution‚ poise and how to attain

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