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    Money and corruption in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" During the time in our country’s history called the roaring twenties‚ society had a new obsession‚ money. Just shortly after the great depression‚ people’s focus now fell on wealth and success in the economic realm. Many Americans would stop at nothing to become rich and money was the new factor in separation of classes within society. Wealth was a direct reflection of how successful a person really was and now became what many people

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    Bibliography: David Brown‚ David Farrier‚ Sandra Egger‚ Luke McNamara & Alex Steel‚ Criminal Law: Material and Commentary on Criminal Law and Process of New South Wales (The Federation Press‚ 5th ed‚ 2010). Kathy Mack and Sharyn Roach Anleu‚ ‘Getting Through The List’: Judgecraft and Legitimacy in

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    Written task Great Gatsby Jonne Velthuis V5b June 10‚ 1922 Dear Diary‚ This night we went to a party at Gatsby’s place. This week I’ve dined with him before and Daisy insisted on going to the festivities. Word goes around that there are parties there every week. First I had no interest in going‚ but there is something about this Gatsby. I think he has an eye on Daisy or something. This man shouldn’t be trying tot get an affair with Daisy‚ or I’ll punch him in the face. Although

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    Gatsby has for Daisy‚ and how Gatsby wants to live the ‘American Dream.’ The green light also consequently becomes the reason for Gatsby’s downfall at the end of the novel. The green light symbolizes the class distinction between the East and West Eggers. The green light is located across the bay on the East side where Gatsby is pointing. Even though both sides are equally rich‚ there is something that Gatsby lacks that is located on the other side. Nick‚ the narrator of the book discovers his neighbor

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    Kainene and Olanna are twins‚ but nothing alike. The sibling rivalry is palpable. Olanna is beautiful and Kainene resents that everything seems to come easy for her sister. Kainene is slim and angular‚ and all business. Her sister‚ Kainene‚ has no such beauty‚ and is referred to as "the ugly sister".Olanna is one of three narrators in ’Half of a Yellow Sun’.  She is an Igbo sociology teacher.  She comes from a wealthy upper-class family and is well educated‚ which wasn’t very common for women in

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    trusted when it comes to determining if the lobster is of legal size‚ or if it has eggs. They’re honest and know what they’re talking about. 3. What are shorts? Lobsters that aren’t large and mature enough to be captured legally. 4. What are eggers? Eggers are female lobsters that carry a plethora of eggs on the underside of their belly. 5. How are females carrying eggs marked? Why do they do this? A small V-shaped cut is made into their tails. This is to alert other lobstermen that they were

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    fashionable East Egg glittered among the water”‚ on page ???‚ Nick suggest that East Egger’s values are different by saying “white palaces of fashionable” he later is proven true. The other location‚ just across the bay is the Western life‚ of a West Egger. A West Egger earns their wealth‚ referred to as “new money”‚ by hard work and determination. The region referred to as West Egg‚ described by Mr. Carraway‚ on page ???‚ as “…the less fashionable of the two‚ though this is a most superficial tag to express

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    the United States. However‚ once their children are enrolled and start to attend school‚ they realize it will not be that easy for them. Their children start to live in two different worlds‚ one at school and another completely different at home (Eggers-Piérola‚2005). In the case of the students that their primary language is not English‚ it is very difficult for them to follow their classmates’ pace of learning. On the other hand‚ the children who were born in the United States but have Hispanic

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    George’s suicide. Daisy is both directly and indirectly responsible for the death of Myrtle Wilson. Fitzgerald arranges Daisy to kill Myrtle in an auto accident‚ to typify the careless character Daisy portrays. Daisy grew up among "East Eggers"‚ where everything including money and wealth was handed to her on a "golden platter." Daisy innocently thinks that someone will

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    throwing lavish parties. Many of his partygoers seem to be mere spongers who drink his champagne and eat his delicacies but never bother themselves to express gratitude to Gatsby or to even to wait for his personal invitation. The idle life of the West Eggers shows the nature of people during the time of material excess. East Egg‚ a home to aristocrats or the people who generally inherited their fortune‚ is viewed as a place of aristocracy. Indeed‚ Buchanans’ tasteful house and the manners of their

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