In chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby‚ Gatsby holds a small reunion with Daisy that becomes awkward. Later‚ he insists that Klipspringer play a song on the piano for Daisy‚ Nick‚ and him called “Ain’t We Got Fun?”. The song lyrics pose the idea of social differences based on wealth in a satirical way through conflicting statements. Furthermore‚ the song compares opposing ideas in close proximity to each other by substantiating the escalating economic gap between prosperous and deprived. The philosophy
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Period 1 10 December 2012 The Great Gatsby The novel the Great Gatsby is a very well written book by F. Scott Fitzgerald and is probably the most known out of his novels. In the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald shows us that in the 20’s money was a huge part of how you are viewed by everyone. Money determined how you were viewed and how people perceived you.People felt like they could alter how people viewed them by having a lot of possessions. In the novel Jay Gatsby has to resort to Daisy’s materialistic
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR The Life and Literature of F. Scott Fitzgerald By Jillian Thompson May 16‚ 2012. English newspaper‚ The Guardian‚ once asked Jonathan Franzen‚ the Pulitzer Prize nominated author of The Corrections‚ to contribute what he believed were the greatest rules to abide by for aspiring fiction writers. His response was “Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money” (Franzen). The novels of Francis
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Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is narrated by Nick Carraway‚ a modest middle class man living amongst some of the richest people in the country‚ including his neighbor J. Gatsby. Nick became intertwined with Gatsby’s extravagant life and love affairs. It presented him with many interesting situations that built his character and brought him closer to Gatsby‚ and in the end Nick realized that he had become one of Gatsby’s only true friends. Nick learned many lessons from observing Gatsby and his
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It is said a friend in need is a friend indeed. An ideal friend possesses all the qualities of head and heart. It is easy to befriend many but difficult to choose good friends. God gives us relatives by virtue of being born in a family‚ but friends we can choose. Rahul is my best friend. He is from U P.‚ a young lad of 18 with a thin body. But he has scholarly looks. He has a personality and manners that never fail to make an impression on others. His presence in a company always makes it lively
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An Ideal Husband In the story An Ideal husband by Oscar Wilde‚ there many themes. Some of the themes that are represented by the movie are‚ rich versus poor. Another is theme is how the rich have much more influence over the poor. The third theme is how the powerful tends to make the life of the weak miserable. Lies often bring unnecessary problems whilst the truth does indeed make everything much simpler‚ another theme of the movie. However the most intriguing theme‚ in my personal opinion is the
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The Ideal Person Valerie Hackett REL/133 May 14‚ 2014 Firpo Carr The Ideal Person An ideal person through the eyes of Confucius would follow the rules of Heaven and obey Heavens will. Thus by adhering to the rules of Heaven that person would be morally attuned. Confucius believed that ‘aristocracy of merit’ was more valuable than ‘aristocracy of money’‚ and thus he believed that only the most qualified candidates should get a job‚ especially in civil service. This is one of the
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to love who you want‚ how you want‚ when you want and where you want... Idle student: An ideal student is someone who is thirsty for knowledge. Such a student will not be distracted in class. After all that is what every teacher desires.This thirst for knowledge will ensure that she is attentive and is committed to learn all that she can about a particular subject so that she can understand it fully. An ideal student will also have certain other distinguishing qualities. She will have well – defined
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Tuğçe Arıkan Essay Question: Explain Plato’s ideal state by referring to the Republic‚ book IV and VII. To what extent do you agree with Plato’s idea that the kings should be philosophers? Why? Why not? Concept of create an ideal state really need to long effort and time. This concept and long standing debate that how should be an ideal state is explains in Plato’s Republic book IV and VII. In Republic‚ Plato explains the features of an ideal state and he claims that the kings should be philosophers
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