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Gatsby Believes Tragic Flaw
897 wordsA tragic hero can best be defined as a person of significance, who has a tragic flaw and who meets his or her fate with courage and nobility of spirit. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a tragic hero. Jay Gatsby is an enormously rich man, and in the flashy years of the jazz age, wealth defined importance. Gatsby has endless wealth, power and influence but never uses material objects selfishly. Everything he owns exists only to attain his vision. Nick feels inclined to reserve all judgements (p....
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Midsummer Nights Dream Romeo And Juliet
739 wordsTragedy Comedy Versus Tragedy SHAKESPEARE: Tragedy versus Comedy Undeniable similarities can be drawn between two Shakespearean masterpieces, A Midsummer-Nights Dream and Romeo and Juliet. These similarities involve themes and classical Shakespearean character types. Both plays have a distinct pair of lovers, the confused couple, Hermia and Lysander, and the romantic couple, Romeo and Juliet. Both works could have also easily been transformed into the opposite with a few effortless modifications...
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Tropical Storms Pacific Ocean
456 wordsTropical CYCLONE formed Hurricanes Hurricanes Tropical CYCLONE formed over the North Atlantic, E North Pacific, W South Pacific, and Indian oceans in which the winds attain speeds greater than 75 mph (121 km / hr ). A tropical cyclone passes through two stages, tropical depression and tropical storm, before reaching hurricane force. An average of 3. 5 tropical storms per year become hurricanes; one to three of these approach the U. S. coast. Hurricanes usually develop between July and October. A...
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Tom And Daisy Nick Describes
1,027 wordsIncorporation of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author incorporates the aspect of the American Dream to develop the story. The American Dream s goals embody the story to show how one can attempt to put effort into accomplishing one s aspirations in life. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald gives various examples of different characters so called American Dream. Some characters are able to achieve their goal and others are not able t...
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Nick Carraway Great Gatsby
421 wordsThe Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel I have read many times and will probably read again many more times. It is my favorite novel. Although this book takes place in the Jazz Age it could easily be taking place today. The Great Gatsby along with its themes are timeless. Money and morals and whether you have them or don? t are dominating themes in this novel. Daisy and Tom Buchanan live a life of extreme decadence. They have a beautiful mansion, high status in society, and all thing...
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Years Of His Life Story
1,370 wordsIn Pouliuli, a novel written by Albert Wendt, Faleasa Osovae awakens to find the life he? s been living all along is a mere fa? ade. Pouliuli invites readers into the Samoan community of Malaelua, which is turned topsy-turvy when Faleasa misleads his aiga and community by acting maniacal. Albert Wendt ties a famous Malaelua saga about a mythological hero named Pili to Faleasa Osovae? s life. In the myth as well as in Faleasa? s story, they both had the same goal, which was to live the rest of th...
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Joy Luck Club Lindo Jong
592 wordsIn the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the ignorance, the disregard of, and the necessity of love are all introduced as the characters tell their life stories and memories. The characters in The Joy Luck Club take love for granted. By ignoring love, concentrating more on material possessions, and hiding their true identities, the characters dont realize loves importance. One character that takes love for granted is Harold, Lena St. Clair's husband. This occurs when Lena leans over to him in ...
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Joy Luck Club Lindo Jong
717 wordsIn the novel, ? ? The Joy Luck Club? ? by Amy Tan, the ignorance and disregard of, and the necessity of love are all introduced. As the characters in the story explain their life stories and memories. The characters in? ? The Joy Luck Club? ? seemed to take love for granted, by ignoring love and concentrating on material possessions and hiding their true identities. It seems to me that they don? ? t notice or realize loves importance. Harold, Lens St. Clair? ? s husband is the one character that...
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Fellow Students Environmental Issues
771 wordsMy goal, upon finishing my graduate studies, was to obtain a position in a large corporation. I received and accepted an offer from Koc Holding, a diversified conglomerate, and began my professional career as a project engineer at the companys Energy and Environment group headquarters. I believe that the same perseverance and determination that enabled me to attain these goals will allow me to contribute my unique background to Xxx's dynamic student body. In addition, I will share with my fellow...
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Victorian Era Strong Sense
1,476 words13 MAY 98? New Women? of the Victorian Era The Victorian era brought about many changes throughout Great Britain. Man was searching for new avenues of enlightenment. The quest for knowledge and understanding became an acceptable practice throughout much of the scientific community. It was becoming accepted, and in many ways expected, for people to search for knowledge. Philosophy, the search for truth, was becoming a more intricate part of educating ones self; no longer were people holding on to...
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Believing In God Existence Of God
1,640 wordsPascal s Wager was developed from Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), a physicist, philosopher and mathematician. He was also a deeply religious man, follower of the Jansenist movement and a French Christian sect, which emphasized personal holiness and especially predestination. Pascal put up a philosophical defense of faith as a fundamental mean of understanding the universe. (Massimo) He was interested in the question of whether it could be rational to believe in God, even if you think it is enormous...
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True Happiness Ordinary People
495 wordsPlato tells us that the each human soul contains three elements: reason, spirit, and appetite. Appetite consists roughly of instinctive drives, spirit in acquired desires such as those for honor and self-respect, and reason in the ability to acquire knowledge (including moral knowledge). Having made this simplified distinction, it can be seen that Plato believes that humans are born unequal. He draws the conclusion that one shall have enough reason to overrule the spirit and the appetite. And na...
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Years Of His Life Story
1,372 wordsIn Pouliuli, a novel written by Albert Wendt, Faleasa Osovae awakens to find the life he? s been living all along is a mere fa&credit; ade. Pouliuli invites readers into the Samoan community of Malaelua, which is turned topsy-turvy when Faleasa misleads his aiga and community by acting maniacal. Albert Wendt ties a famous Malaelua saga about a mythological hero named Pili to Faleasa Osovae? s life. In the myth as well as in Faleasa? s story, they both had the same goal, which was to live the res...
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Houghton Mifflin Company Continue To Grow
742 wordsPoverty is defined Poverty Poverty Poverty is defined as the state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts. (More children live in poverty in the United States than in any other developed country (p. 192, Parrillo). Generally, poverty is blamed either on the individual or the system. Several dimensions such as intelligence, poverty culture, family life and the system of capitalism give explanation as to why poverty exists in the U. S. Intelligence has been labele...
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Minimum Wage Affordable Housing
835 wordsWhy are People Homeless? Where am I going to stay tonight? Is it going to be too cold to sleep outside? Or will the shelter be too crowded to sleep in tonight? Questions such as these do not arise in my everyday life. Yet, there are many people who have to ask themselves those questions everyday. Although, many homeless people are not seen in small towns such as this one, homelessness is an increasing problem. The media has said that minimum wage has improved; whereas, it is not improving as fas...
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Allen Ginsberg Work
880 wordsRimbaud and Ginsberg as Modern Poets Anyone who has read a fair sampling of modernist poetry or studied some representative visionary poets has found the experience something of a revelation. Immediately exhilarating for some, initially intimidating for others and, for all of us, a profound departure from traditional literature. According to Rimbaud, for a poet to be absolutely modern he must become a visionary and a poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless and systematized disor...
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Anabolic Steroids Mood Swings
1,042 wordsYouve seen them, and you thought you knew what was going on. The muscle-heads at the gym, the all-star basketball player, the amazing offensive tackle, and the lightning fast swimmer. All of them used steroids, and you knew it. They were all unnaturally strong, and looked like gods. But what you could not see is the terrible side effects which come through the use of anabolic steroids. These powerful drugs have both positive and negative results from their use. Along with increased strength and ...
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Saint Anselm Understanding God Greatness Greater
548 words? Now we believe that You are something that which nothing greater can be thought. Or can it be that nothing of such a nature does not exist, since? the Fool has said in his heart, there is no God? (II). ? Saint Anselm? s point in his argument for the existence of God is clear cut and simple to understand. He clearly sets forth the idea that if God is so great, than no greater being can be thought of or conceived. For one who already believes in God, this argument is meaningful and easy to accep...
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Penelope And Ithaca Odysseus Grows Life
794 wordsThe Strength in Mortality During his monumental journey, Odysseus grows from a gallant young warrior to a wise and mature adult. Odysseus initially finds himself fighting for a name, this is equivalent, for humans, to the immortality of the gods. Odysseus concludes that the death-defying mortal life, with its danger and relationships of love, is far superior to a purposeless and shallow immortality. Every courageous attempt towards his ultimate goal of returning to Ithaca and Penelope is tempere...
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Advanced Placement Humanities United States History Future
435 wordsThroughout Studying Humanities Studying Humanities Throughout life one faces many obstacles against himself and mankind. By triumphing over these conflicts a person develops characteristics in correspondence to his or her experience. Humanities is the study of this basic cycle of life and its effect upon all cultures and nations. Todays generation, like many before and many to come, can attain a better understanding of the present course of history through the study of the past mankind experienc...
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