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historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

for the era in which Bach had produced these variations (Smith, 1996). The Advent melody is represented in four canonic statement...

more than six feet tall and that he was one of several presidents who had achieved a second term falls (Schlesinger 179). Susan Pa...

devastating effects of cancer and the lack of available organs for the purposes of transplant. Indeed, the 1980s is often dubbed t...

right direction, but change is slow and the collective influence of thousands of years does not disappear easily. One theory tha...

belief stemmed from these aforementioned considerations, as well as with the inherent conclusion that proper behavior is an instru...

members who are still alive have eye witness testimony to state the contrary. However, to argue a claim is inflated to the point ...

will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedra...

addresses the topic of fear, as well as other negative emotions, explaining to Albom that fears are multiple and can seem overwhel...

centralized law-maker, a centralized executive enforcer, and a centralized, authoritative decisionmaker," it seems that there is n...

of Gatsby himself, at least in part. Gatsby is far from a worthless fool like Trimalchio, but he is surrounded by sycophants and o...

She builds a strong house for herself and makes weapons, and lives alone for 18 years. During that time she hunts down the dogs th...

the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...

Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...

believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your...

affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...

Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...

process. It is the last that might be most valuable. As an example lets look at Grenada, since it is short enough to be easily sum...

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

far more refined individual, even if he still slung to some of his impoverished perspectives. For example, he shows his need to sh...

the lessons learned from the process. It is the last that might be most valuable. As an example lets look at Grenada, since it is ...

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

they are dominant and which they run largely to suit themselves. By making marriage and motherhood the ultimate goal of a woman, t...

a woman, men have systematically made it impossible for women to advance into meaningful, well-paying positions in the workforce, ...

less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...

poverty to a position of wealth. While many people who wanted this particular American Dream of wealth and material possessions ...

example, Gatsby is showing her through his house and he shows her his silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her ...

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...

example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...