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the 1920s turned to the American Dream we know today, which involves the assumption that if we work hard we can have wealth, and w...

necessary in order to reconstruct the aspects of needlework, fabric and even the most intricate details not otherwise available th...

family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...

of "real-world effects" anyway . In other words, the penalty will not act as a deterrent if in fact murderers are oblivious to the...

remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had ever...

attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...

to find out what kept gangs together (26). These are the questions which most interested these researchers and one can say that in...

about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...

of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case...

so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eyes of others. T...

the foundation of the past that Jay will always try to defy. In essence, as he grows he tries to make money, become powerful, and ...

this fact that is akin to the shame that Sanders feels over his fathers drinking. When asked if his First Communion clothes were ...

have to share the proceeds with anyone. The first man generally enters through a garage door. The second man, however, indicated ...

similarity to the fascinating stories that are in both N. Scott Momadays House Made of Dawn and Anna Linzers Ghost Dancing as the ...

and fall-related injuries among the adult clients in home support services. Hypothesis/hypotheses While the hypothesis of the stu...

moved to St. Louis in 1901, which is when he produced a string of hits, such as The Entertainer, which was featured in the 1973 fi...

with the wealth he possesses, and likely also very taken with his obvious infatuation with her. She does not stop his adoration of...

of someone coming in and trying to make it better? But why is this? For the most part, unless there is a compelling...

make it seem that it was their fault, or that they deserved it. You have shattered this exquisite self-serving Southern illusion, ...

ever written. F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of Jay Gatsby resonates with almost every reader because he is so human in his hopes a...

America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

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

in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position was anythin...

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...

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...

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