ENCOUNTER WITH THE WEST 10. THE TRAIDING ROUTE • In the last two centuries of the Middle Ages‚ the Europeans‚ while regaining the Holy Land from the Muslims‚ were able to establish commerce with the Orient through trade routes. The goods the Europeans wanted were gold‚ jewels‚ silk‚ perfumes‚ especially spices like: *pepper *onions *ginger *nutmeg *garlic is the most important items of trade from East. • Owning to the desire of the Europeans to enhance the taste of food and to preserve
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Chapter 2 Summary Halfway between West Egg and New York City sprawls a desolate plain‚ a gray valley where New York’s ashes are dumped. The men who live here work at shovelling up the ashes. The commuter train that runs between West Egg and New York passes through the valley‚ making several stops along the way. One day‚ as Nick and Tom are riding the train into the city‚ Tom forces Nick to follow him out of the train at one of these stops. Tom leads Nick to George Wilson’s garage‚ which sits on
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Is Gatsby great or not? Section 1: Gatsby is generous to the people at his parties. He throws banquets and spends a lot of money on food‚ preparations and entertainment. Gatsby is a generous host. “most people were brought” “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” “At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS QUESTIONS 1. Who was Frederick’s father? Who was his mother and did he really have a relationship with her? Pages 16-17 Frederick’s father was a white man. Interestingly‚ Frederick’s father was also his slave master. His father did not acknowledge him as his son. His mother was named Harriet Bailey. Harriet was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey‚ who were both colored. Frederick never really saw his mother. The only time he did see her was at night and only for a short period
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A Study of the Use of Symbolism in The Great Gatsby Abstract The Great Gatsby was written by a famous American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Firstly published in 1925‚ it was one of the greatest novels in the history of American literature [waste of space to restate common sense knowledge]‚ for it truly reflects the life of different classes in America and the decline of American dream during the Jazz Age. In order to display these moral degeneration and corruption lying deep under the surface
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interpretations. The American Dream Gatsby is chasing consist of; wealth‚ social acceptance‚ and the love of a desirable woman. Fitzgerald‚ in his novel The Great Gatsby‚ crafts a unique style of exploring the connection between Jay Gatsby and the American Dream. Tom Buchanan is man that had already gained the social status that Gatsby wanted to acquire in the novel. Mr. Gatsby desperately tries to befriend Tom Buchanan in order to gain social status and live the American Dream. Gatsby being a socially awkward
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Kierkegaard’s conception of faith was not congruent with the mainstream view held by most religious people. Kierkegaard has been known as the "Christian Socrates" because of the way he challenged traditional beliefs like Socrates did. Kierkegaard’s faith is one of an individualistic re-choosing of faith in the impossible. Kierkegaard thought that many Christians held an inauthentic faith that relied on doctrine and obedience. He wanted to get away from that and maintained that the movement of faith
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We need rules to keep us safe. Also‚ rules will make it fair and equal for everyone and help us to survive and be rescued. It is really important for us to follow these rules. We need rules on this island to keep us safe until we are rescued. We nearly set the whole island on fire and now the boy with the birthmark is missing! To stop this happening again we will have only one fire only‚ up on the mountain‚ for cooking and as a signal. That way no-one will be harmed. Also‚ don’t wander into the
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"’Her voice is full of money‚’ [Gatsby] said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it‚ the jingle of it‚ the cymbals’ song of it...High in a white palace the king’s daughter‚ the golden girl" (127). This jarring reference to the intoxicating allure Daisy Buchanan holds over Jay Gatsby is the essence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Gatsby‚ throughout the novel‚ is utterly infatuated with Daisy in
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The Great Gatsby: The Corruption of the American Dream through Materialism The American dream is an ideal that has been present since American literature’s onset. 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 had variations throughout different time periods‚ although it is generally based on ideas of freedom‚ self-reliance‚ and a desire for something greater. The early settlers’
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