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    The Great Gatsby

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    This PDF is brought to you in association with . . . The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald ©2007‚ 2002 by SparkNotes All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted‚ in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise‚ without prior written permission from the publisher. sparknotes is a registered trademark of SparkNotes llc SparkNotes A Division of Barnes & Noble 76 Ninth Avenue New York

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    How Is Jay Gatsby Selfish

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    Great Gatsby‚ Nick Carroway stumbles his way into a situation beyond repair between three lovers and past memories in the high class society of East and West Egg near the coast of New York. Longing to be accepted into the East egg society‚ the WWI veteran Jay Gatsby‚ formerly known as James Gatz‚ moved to a house near Nick’s in an effort to reinvent himself‚ which Fitzgerald used to eventually orchestrate Gatsby’s role as the overarching mystery of the story. Since the beginning‚ Gatsby was placed

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    WHY IS GATSBY SO MEMORABLE TO THE READER? The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925 and was one of Fitzgerald’s most well-known novels. Many aspects of this book caused this mass popularity‚ however the main reasons are his use of romantic modernism and most importantly‚ his portrayal of the different character. The different portrayals of the characters across Long island manipulate the reader’s opinion. One of the most famous examples for this is Gatsby. Gatsby is a very memorable character

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    Jay Gatsby‚ born James "Jimmy" Gatz‚ is the fictional title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best known work‚ The Great Gatsby (1925). The character has become an archetype of self-made American men seeking to join high society‚ and in the U.S.‚ the name has become synonymous with those successful businessmen who have had shady pasts.Seventeen-year-old James Gatz hails from rural North Dakota where he was born to a poor German American farming family in 1890. He despises the limitations of poverty

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    The purpose of this experiment was to isolate and purify cholesterol from egg yolks. Two hard boiled egg yolks were twice extracted with diethyl ether and methanol‚ with the filtrate collected via vacuum filtration. Potassium hydroxide pellets were added to the filtrate‚ the ether was distilled off‚ and the mixture was saponified by reflux. The crude cholesterol was isolated through a series of ether extractions and aqueous washes; then the ether was dried with MgSO4 and removed by rotary evaporation

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    The Sperm and the Egg

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    The Sperm and the Egg PSY/265 January 20‚ 2013 The Sperm and the Egg To answer the questions of how babies are made and where do babies come from you first need an understanding to what makes up the female sex organs and how they work as well as knowing what makes up the male sex organs and how they work. A male has external and internal sex organs. The external sex organs for the male consist of the penis and the scrotum (also known as the ball sack). The internal sex organs of a man consist

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    attitudes. James was a confident and extravagant king and Charles was ill at ease and lacked confidence. During Charles early years he suffered from a combination of poor health and lack of parental affection. When he moved to England after James’s take over in 1603 he grew up very much in the shadow of his physically strong‚ outgoing elder brother Prince Henry who was in next in line. It was not until Henry’s death in 1612 that people began to take notice of him. As a result of his ill treatment‚

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    Monologue From Hi Peeps

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    Hi Peeps‚ Today’s Quote "Whatever you struggle with‚ don’t be surprised if it’s your test to get to the next level" ~Taryn Barnes I haven’t been on this Earth very long‚ but I can say without a doubt that God has a very funny sense of humor. Yesterday‚ I talked about forgiveness and that it was something I was working on. Sure enough‚ only hours later‚ I was placed in a situation where my forgiveness levels were put to the test. God put me smack dab in the room with the person I was struggling

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    There are only five platonic solids and the name of each shape comes from the number of faces it has.The five platonic solids are tetrahedron‚ octahedron‚ cube‚ icosahedron‚ and dodecahedron. Each solid is made of regular polygons and the polygons of each solid are congruent. The topics that will be discussed in this paper are what are the five platonic solids‚ who classified the five shapes‚ their key features‚ the shapes similarities and differences‚ and examples in real life. The first

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    Conceptions of Age

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    The topics I chose to discuss are introduced in Chapter 1‚ the conceptions of age. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” –Satchel Paige‚ a quotation from the book immediately caught my attention to the reading. I love this quote because I have always thought about that. I am 20 years YOUNG but when asked‚ I always mention that I am 40 years old in my mind. I have always wondered if the way we measure age was different in different cultures. I am sure there are many cultures that

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