the roaring 20’s smack dab in the Empire State. Told from the perspective of the Midwestern transplant Nick Carraway‚ the story centers around the mysterious and suspiciously rich Jay Gatsby--his next-door neighbor. In the first chapters of the novel‚ Nick is seen reuniting with his distant cousin‚ both in gene and mind‚ Daisy Buchanan. She and her ridiculously rich husband Tom introduce him to their dear friend‚ Jordan Baker‚ an excellent golfer‚ but a notorious cheater. Nick quietly observes the
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The Great Gatsby Summary Nick Carraway‚ the narrator‚ has recently moved to get his career started in New York. Nick moved to the West Egg also known as the “new money” island which is across the East Egg known as the “old money” island where his cousin Daisy Buchanan lives with his friend Tom Buchanan. Tom is cheating on Daisy with a lady named Myrtle Wilson and only Daisy and Mr. Wilson are unaware of this. Nick is a neighbor to a mysterious character named Gatsby‚ who throws fabulous parties
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Spiritual Leadership Principles of Excellence for Every Believer By J. Oswald Sanders Chapter Summaries 1. An Honorable Ambition To aspire to leadership is an honorable ambition. 1 Timothy 3:1 Should you then seek great things for yourself? Seek them not. Jeremiah 45:5 Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant‚ and whoever wants to be first must be a slave of all. Mark 10:42-44 Most Christians have reservations about aspiring to leadership. They are unsure
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his tent and tills the ground to mark that the area was claimed for him. He has a few altercations with the native Aboriginals that live around the area. Sal doesn’t really like living in the tent and can’t wait to get back to London. Later in the story‚ Thornhill goes down to Sydney to pick up some people that have been transported from England. All the best are taken by higher classes than him so he is left with the useless. He picks Ned and Dan. Dan Oldfield he knew back in England‚ they were friends
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INNER FISH CHAPTER 1 1. The author and his colleagues wanted to use 375 million old rock‚ because in the 385 million year old rocks they found what look like fish. In the 365 million year old rocks they found amphibians that did not look like fish‚ so to find the change the look at the 375 million year old rock to find transition between the two. In their paleontology work in 2004 they found sedimentary rocks in Pennsylvania and on the east coast of Greenland‚ but their most successful rock was
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The main idea behind this story is just an average little schoolboy getting into loads of trouble all the time and learning things through experience. He’s not the role model little boy at all‚ but he’s certainly not the one everyone would pick on and such. Tom Sawyer goes out on all sorts of adventurous adventures‚ some thought up through imagination and others as serious as a heart attack. Throughout this book you will notice how Tom Sawyer grow up into a more
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government recognizes only 13% of the total land mass of Brazil as being designated to its native tribes. Of this 13% total land mass‚ 98.5% lies in the Amazon Rainforest (http://survivalinternational.org/tribes/brazilian). In Chapter 5 of Mann’s 1491‚ Mann retells the story of the Gonzalo Pizarro exhibition. The first recorded and written description of the Amazon comes from Gaspar de Carvajal‚ the chaplain on the Pizarro voyage. Carvajal’s account was not recognized as being factual by most historians
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Summary Page for: CHAPTER 5 ART OF ANCIENT GREECE Context: Cultural Belief System (religion) / History / Social / Political / Economic / Geographical Greek art influenced Western civilization to present / city states=democracy first evolved-also abstract reasoning‚ inquiry‚ philosophy‚ drama‚ poetry‚ & history / rugged mountainous terrain / Greeks felt themselves superior & called all other people "barbarians"/ After Persian army was repulsed Athenians established a democratic government headed
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people will complain and never want to go to the office. However‚ there are jobs out there that are very rewarding that people want to do for their rest of their lives. He should have stated that there is a spectrum‚ and people are all over it. In chapter 14‚ Ferriss is talking about Mini-Retirements. He is convinced that going on mini-vacations every few months will benefit everyone. He is telling his readers how to afford traveling the world all the time. However‚ he makes a mistake by using a composition/
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1. In this chapter‚ the main character introduces himself living in a time period where racism and prejudice is very apparent. He begins the story by telling of his grandfather’s final minutes on earth. The main character’s name is never revealed but he refers to himself as an invisible man. His grandfather was known as a quiet and meek man but on his deathbed he tells his son‚ the invisible man’s father‚ that life is a fight and he expects him to keep up the fight after he is gone. The invisible
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