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  • F.Scott Fitsgerald’s the Great Gatsby - the Surface and Deeper Readings That Are Presented

    F.Scott Fitsgerald’s the Great Gatsby - the Surface and Deeper Readings That Are Presented

    A novel is a form of entertainment, but is can also be so much more. Literature does not just provide entertainment but an insight into the culture and humanity of the society that it was written in. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an entertaining story that is set in the 1920’s. It is about a man who is trying to rekindle his relationship that he had with his former lover, who is

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    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Vika
  • Present Status and Expected Continuing Development of Imaging in Medicine

    Present Status and Expected Continuing Development of Imaging in Medicine

    Introduction With the predicted decrease in human health and shorter life expectancies that society began to observe within the last century, the world is now is preoccupied with improving overall health of the population and fighting a constant battle against diseases. Breakthroughs in medicine over the years have facilitated this in becoming a waning battle. One such technique employed, which became known in the 1970’s as a separate field of study, is Nuclear Medicine. Nuclear

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    Essay Length: 807 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Bred
  • Great Gatsby

    Great Gatsby

    The American Dream was based on the assumption that each person, no matter what his origins, could succeed in life on the sole basis of his or her own skill and effort. The dream was embodied in the ideal of the self-made man. The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American dream in the 1920s, a period when the old values that gave substance to the dream had been corrupted by

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    Essay Length: 712 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Great Gatsby

    Great Gatsby

    One night, Gatsby waylays Nick and nervously asks him if he would like to take a swim in his pool; when Nick demurs, he offers him a trip to Coney Island. Nick, initially baffled by Gatsby's solicitousness, realizes that he is anxiously waiting for Nick to arrange his meeting with Daisy. Nick agrees to do so. Gatsby, almost wild with joy, responds by offering him a job, a "confidential sort of thing," and assures Nick

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    Essay Length: 981 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • A Marxist Look on the Great Gatsby

    A Marxist Look on the Great Gatsby

    A Marxist Look on The Great Gatsby Throughout “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald characterizes the citizens of East Egg as careless in some form. This relates to the prominent class issue seen all through “Gatsby.” It seems as though Daisy and Tom almost look down upon others. At one point in the book, Nick says “in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had

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    Essay Length: 600 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Artur
  • Great Gatsby

    Great Gatsby

    A major theme in The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was that wealth is power and wealth and power corrupt because Gatsby got his money illegitimately just so he could be wealthy, characters in this book only cared about people if they had something to offer them, and people would do almost anything to get ahead socially. Throughout the book, there were many hints that Gatsby’s business wasn’t totally legitimate. When Gatsby

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    Essay Length: 423 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Great Society

    The Great Society

    The Great Society was a domestic social program created in the 1960’s by President Lyndon Johnson. While President Johnson acknowledged the greatness of the United States, he also recognized there was a large segment of the United States that was not part of the success story – people living in poverty. While I am not saying that giving to the less fortunate is wrong or those who are at disadvantages because of uncontrollable circumstances should

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    Essay Length: 901 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Anna
  • The Great Gasby and the American Dream

    The Great Gasby and the American Dream

    Within the veins of every American flows the undeniable drive to succeed. This power creates rich from poor, turns struggles into money and ultimately opens the window for all peoples to better themselves. Although the American dream still converts dirt into gold today, views on this leap to greatness have changed moderately since the 1920’s. In the beginning America was new and undiscovered. There were resources just waiting to be taken hold of in order

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    Essay Length: 678 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Top
  • Expectations

    Expectations

    High school and college have become two different standards of education all in their own. Not only from the lifestyle, but a persons mind set of being dependent on their teachers in high school has to become independent in college. The teaching style a student is accustomed to be no longer available in college, for instance going to class’s everyday, teacher student relationships, and doing homework every night doesn’t exist anymore. As a student

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    Essay Length: 723 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: July
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression Of 1930. William Cunningham Strayer University To my amazement the Great Depression serves as a natural debating point that "justifies" or "refutes" various economic policies. The Great Depression and the New Deal are complex topics that are open to many interpretations. The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually all of the industrialized world. Seeing the order in which events actually

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    Essay Length: 1,673 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby In today’s world most people only think of money and fame. To live the lives of the rich and famous. However what do people really know about that kind of life? Do they know about that tragedy and the unmorality of people who have such disregard for their surroundings? F. Scott Fitzgerald tells all about the destruction these type of people cause in his 1920’s drama The Great Gatsby. There is not

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Life and Great Works of John Updike

    The Life and Great Works of John Updike

    The Life and Great works of John Updike An American novelist, short story writer and a poet, John Updike was a country boy with a great talent that needed to be unleashed. He wrote many novels and won many awards; his best works did involve the novels that told the story of a man’s life. The best-known and most widely analyzed work, John Updike wrote a great series of novels depicting a reoccurring theme of

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    Essay Length: 1,341 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Use of Symbolism in “the Catcher in the Rye” and “the Great Gatsby”

    Use of Symbolism in “the Catcher in the Rye” and “the Great Gatsby”

    Use Of Symbolism In “The Catcher In The Rye” and “The Great Gatsby” There are many writers like James Joyce, Patrick Kananach and Thomas Moore who use symbolism to convey and support indirect meaning in their writings. J.D. Salinger and F. Scott Fitzgerald both use symbolism in similar ways. In both “The Catcher In The Rye” and “The Great Gatsby”, the authors used symbolism to convey emotions and reality. In “The Catcher In The Rye”,

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Top
  • Chapter Analysis of Great Gatsby

    Chapter Analysis of Great Gatsby

    This chapter provides the final pieces of Gatsby’s makeup, and this is done by further flashbacks into critical periods of his past. The real history narrated by Nick is, of course, in contrast to the information Gatsby has himself provided. Gatsby was born James Gatz on a North Dakota farm and he briefly attended College in Minnesota, but dropped out after a few weeks. He then worked on Lake Superior, fishing for salmon and clams,

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    Essay Length: 665 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders

    Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders

    Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders There are a number of different ways to motivate others. Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders by John Baldoni discusses ways in which leaders can create conditions for motivation. This book uses a diverse collection of leadership stories and management principles to demonstrate how to successfully motivate others. This book focuses on “what leaders can do to create conditions in which people will motivate themselves: set the right example,

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    Essay Length: 3,681 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great Alexander the Great is often said to be the greatest conqueror and best military leader to ever walk the face of the earth. He conquered many territories, creating one of the largest empires in history. He was a very kind and generous man, and he also had a good sense of humor. All of his troops respected and liked him, and almost all of his captured territories served him willingly, because he

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Symbols of the Great Gatsby

    Symbols of the Great Gatsby

    Symbols of the Great Gatsby In the Great Gatsby there are many symbols used throughout the book that relate to different topics. The Green light symbolizes Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy. While that represents the quest for the American dream. The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are painted on a billboard staring down onto the town. This could represent God watching us and seeing all that we do. The location of the East and West age

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    Essay Length: 816 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Hitler - a Great Leader

    Hitler - a Great Leader

    In my opinion, being a good leader firstly he should be able to take full advantage of favorable circumstance, able to rule the country under a chaotic situation. Besides he made attractive promises to gain popular support, skilled in using of propaganda, amoral. Moreover he should have the organizational ability and has the ambition to make his country powerful in the world. In addition, he could use his words to twist and manipulate the minds

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    Essay Length: 1,211 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • What Society Expects of Its Criminal Justice System

    What Society Expects of Its Criminal Justice System

    This paper speaks to what society expects of the police, courts, corrections, and how they are realized and unfulfilled, as well as the employees of the system in terms of their goals and expectations, the temptations and the differences in their goals from society’s goals. Finally, the paper will speak to the individuals that are charged by the system regarding their legitimate and non-legitimate needs. Society expects its police to look into reported crimes, collecting

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    Essay Length: 1,674 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    Color symbolism is demonstrated thoughout the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. There are many colors symbolised in this novel, but there is one main color that is used most repeatedly more than the others. The color green influences the story greatly. Green shows many thoughts, ideas, attitudes, and choices that Gatsby has throughout the story. Fitzgerald cleverly inputs the color green to give the reader a different point of view of

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    Essay Length: 520 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: David
  • Great Awakening

    Great Awakening

    The Great Awakening was when religion was sweeping throughout New England with more conversions and church membership. This spiritual awakening took place from 1735 up until 1745. (Brief Outline Notes on the Great Awakening, 1735-45 ) Most of this had taken place within the American Colonies, especially New England.(McCormick, pars. 9) . The Great Awakening had many causes, however the consequences benefitted many. Many people were moving farther and farther away from religion, the Great

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. Though the U.S. economy had gone into depression six months earlier, the Great Depression may be said to have begun with a catastrophic collapse of stock-market prices on the New York Stock Exchange

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Bred
  • Great Gatsby - Nick

    Great Gatsby - Nick

    Nick was born in the Middle-West. His family could afford to give him a good education and that is why his father always tells him not to judge others. Not everyone had the chance to enjoy the privileges he had. In my opinion, not judging others makes Nick kind of respected among his friends and acquaintances. But he, for sure, is not perfect. In 1915, he graduated from Yale and was called up for war

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Janna
  • Democracy and Development: Exploring the Expected Association

    Democracy and Development: Exploring the Expected Association

    Democracy and Development: Exploring the Expected Association Khandakar Q. Elahi and Constantine P. Danopoulos Abstract Many social scientists, particularly in North America, believe that democracy hinders development. This paper discredits this obscure opinion by clarifying the conceptions of democracy, capitalism and development: Democracy, the theory of a political system of the non-communist state, is founded on the political wisdom that people are the sovereign authority of the state, and government, which executes this sovereign power,

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    Essay Length: 6,624 Words / 27 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Economical Events That Lead up to the Great Depression

    Economical Events That Lead up to the Great Depression

    Information: In the 1920's, things were really rocking in the US and around the world. The rapid increase in industrialization was fueling growth in the economy, and technology improvements had the leading economists believing that the up rise would continue. During this boom period, wages increased along with consumer spending, and stock prices began to rise as well. Billions of dollars were invested in the stock market as people began speculating on the rising stock

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: regina

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