BJTU’s Course Thesis for History and Anthology of American Literature The Great Gatsby and the Lost Generation | Institute: | School of Languages | | | Major: | English | | | Student: | Chen Haoxiang | | | Reg. No. | 10321004 | | | Tutor: | Dr. Zhang Junxue | | June 08‚ 2012 The Great Gatsby and the Lost Generation By Chen Haoxiang Abstract: The Great Gatsby is regarded as the most widely taught and widely read American literary classic. A classic is a work that
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many have very strong feeling for it‚money. Money can affect issues such as well-being‚ safety‚ self-esteem‚ and even something as personal as a career or relationship choice. There are many factors that can contribute to an individual’s attitude toward money‚ such as economic standings‚ culture‚ upbringing‚ and most importantly the individual’s personal definition of financial success. When asking about the definition of financial success‚ some responses will sound similar to‚ being debt free and
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was lonely‚ I didn’t have no big brothers‚ no big cousins until later. I could remember writing songs.... I remember writing poetry.’ " 1 Tupac was talented in the areas of poetry‚ songwriting and acting from the beginning. He started acting at a young age‚ and he joined the rap group Digital Underground‚ performing as a dancer in 1990. In an interview with MTV‚ John Singelton‚ the writer-director of Boyz in the Hood and Poetic Justice‚ says that Tupac was a natural born actor; he knew how every
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In the two short stories‚ “Young Goodman Brown” and‚ “The Minister’s Black Veil‚” Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts a romantic view of people and sin. Hawthorne himself is the great grandson of one of the judges who accused people mistakenly at the Salem Witch Trials. Because of this memory‚ he is tormented by morals‚ and most of his literature is romance‚ where the setting is dark and gloomy and the main character does not give in to evil‚ even though he or she experiences its powerful prevalence. Apart
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Young Entrepreneur -The Way Ahead -Vivek Krishna.K Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations‚ particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities. Entrepreneurship is often a difficult undertaking‚ as a majority of new businesses fail. Entrepreneurial activities are substantially different depending on the type of organization that is being started. Entrepreneurship ranges in scale from solo projects
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-Bioremediation is the use of micro-organism metabolism to remove pollutants. Technologies can be generally classified as in situ or ex situ. In situ bioremediation involves treating the contaminated material at the site‚ while ex situ involves the removal of the contaminated material to be treated elsewhere. Bioremediation can occur on its own (natural attenuation or intrinsic bioremediation) or can be spurred on via the addition of fertilizers to increase the bioavailability within the medium (biostimulation)
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Debra DeLaet explains that the United Nations differentiates between civil and political rights (first generation rights)‚ and economic‚ social and cultural rights (second generation rights). While both sets of rights are vital to ensure basic human rights in any society‚ second generation rights are more essential in enabling people to lead dignified lives. At least some version of first generation rights are guaranteed to citizens of most democratic societies. In contrast‚ economic‚ social and cultural
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Towards a Better Society Rogers‚ C. R. (1961). On Becoming a Person. New York‚ NY: Houghton Mifflin Company. Published over half a century ago‚ On Becoming a Person is a masterpiece beyond its time. Carl Rogers’ aspiration for publishing this book was “for more basic knowledge and more competent skills in dealing with the tensions in human relationships” (p. xx). The author had a deep desire to share his prolific experience of psychotherapy through various media for all‚ leaving nothing
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Smartphones Hurting the Younger Generations Everyone has been in that position where they are trying to have a nice conversation with a friend over lunch‚ or while hanging out together‚ and the friend is just plugged into his/her phone the whole time and no word is getting through edgewise. Every time a question is asked to the friend‚ he/she only answers with an “uh-huh”‚ a “yeah”‚ or doesn ’t answer at all. May as well be talking to a brick wall‚ right? A lot of people spend majority of their
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As humankind has progressed‚ there has been an increase in governance and rules and regulations of everyday life. These governance and rules rise from general disgust over happenings and concepts all over the world. One such rapidly growing concept is animal cruelty. Animal cruelty simply means cruel unwarranted treatment of animals. Such treatment generally has a single point program - to subject animals and sometimes pets to unnecessary harm and pain. One major type of animal cruelty is torture
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