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    Daisy’s struggle to choose between Gatsby and Tom represents traditional upper class society’s struggle to adapt to the nouveau riche of the Jazz Age. After realizing Gatsby expects her to leave Tom and the life she has always been accustomed to‚ Daisy cries‚ “What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that‚ and the next thirty years‚” (118). In asking what will happen‚ Daisy seeks to understand the percussions of leaving Tom for Gatsby. Daisy’s stress of the words ‘day after

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    In chapter one of The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces the story using detailed imagery to create a mood for the book. The narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ just moved to West Egg‚ Long Island‚ a neighborhood of up and coming young‚ wealthy people. While Nick himself isn’t over the top wealthy‚ he can afford a modest house next door to Gatsby’s mansion. Since he is in New York now‚ Carraway goes to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan at their posh home across the bay in East Egg

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    The Great Gatsby Paper The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is told from the perspective of one of the main characters‚ Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby‚ who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his life story. To everyone else‚ he is a mystery. Everyone seems obsessed with Jay Gatsby. For this reason

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    Synopsis: In this article Catherine Mackinnon is speaking from her point of view on Pornography. In her article she uses political aspects to further her argument on pornography. She believes pornography is widely obscene‚ which illustrates women having less power than men. Mackinnon speaks about pornography being a more political matter rather a moral issue. Critical-Thinking: In her article she states that "Pornography is not imagery‚ it is some relation to a reality elsewhere constructed. It

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    Understanding what contributes toward business success is essential for a new business owner. Learning from your mistakes or the mistakes of others is essential to a successful business. Please review the following case study and answer the two questions that follow: Case study: Eric is a young man with a vision. He sees himself as heading up a large corporation someday‚ a company that he has started and helped to grow. He has basically supported himself since he was fifteen‚ and has

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    In the Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald presents all three women in a vilifying manner; Daisy is weak and careless‚ Jordan is dishonest and haughty‚ and Myrtle is unfaithful. Nick describes Jordan as “incurably dishonest”. This introduces the ideology of distrust of women in the novel. In 1922‚ American women did not have the same rights as men and were often trapped in oppressive marriages and seen as the inferior sex. This inferiority is reflected through the way in which women have a secondary role in

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    “A father tell his son about the Statue of Liberty” In the whole world‚ people are searching for Liberty and no discrimination of who they are. Everyone have different cultures colors and religions. America is known for having many different races and cultures in their country. In the 60’ties racism and discrimination was a big problem‚ not to mention the time where white people had black people as slaves. Because of all this ignorance the KKK got created. KKK was a group of people‚ who hated

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    Love is considered ordinate when two individuals have deep affections and respect for one another. In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë‚ Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw have deep and sincere love for each other. They spent most of their childhood with one another. The love that Heathcliff and Catherine experience is pure and true. They both contributed different yet special things towards their distinctive relationship. The trust and affection between them would have made the greatest love one

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    Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant — Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant is a poem by Emily Dickenson written in 1263. The poem describes how telling the truth is the best. The main theme of this poem is the truth; the whole poem basically goes on and on about the amazement and dazzling awesomeness of telling the truth. In this poem the author means by the truth‚ is the truth about life‚ and living in a true and honest way and the truth of god. She means the truth by who we are and what are we

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    1. In my initial reading of The Great Gatsby I thought that Gatsby’s never-dying love of Daisy was sweet‚ just as how he stayed in love with her all the time they were apart. Yet‚ in my second reading‚ I was irritated with it; for all he knew‚ Daisy could have changed into an entirely separate person. Yet‚ he projected past-Daisy onto current Daisy‚ trying to force her to be that person. I felt that his urgency for Daisy to renounce her love for Tom to be extremely vexing because he would not stop

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