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The Dream
A dream is defined as a condition or achievement that is longed for; an aspiration. Throughout the book the "Great Gatsby" we see the dream of one man, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby's dream is not merely what is known as the American Dream-the belief that anyone can rise to success no matter who they are or where they are from. Instead, it is a form of romantic idealism, "some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life."
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The Dream
The Dream In the early twentieth century, film maker and producer Adolph Zukor met Jesse Lasky, owner of Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. The two men admired each others previous work and, in 1916, decided to combine forces. They created Paramount pictures and had one of the most familiar slogans in the film industry, "If it's a Paramount Picture it's the Best Show in Town". Proving their slogan true they started turning out more
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The Dream Game
The Dream Game We were playing our arch rival, the Tojans. It was the one game that I had circled on the schedule in the preseason. It was the bottom of the ninth inning. There were two outs. Only seconds earlier I had my name announced. "Now batting, number one, Matt Matteo." I stepped into the batter's box and did my usual ritual in which I swing my bat towards the pitcher and dig my
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The Dream Team Era
The Dream Team Era During the summer of 1992, the NBA took center stage as the world watched the greatest team in sports ever assembled joke, pose, and finally play its way to the gold medal at the summer Olympic games. The team was named the "Dream Team" and it featured eleven of the NBA's best players. Names like Michael Jordan, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, and Larry Bird headlined the games and the play of Scottie
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The Drinking Age
The Drinking Age As we all know the drinking age here in the United States of America is twenty-one years of age. In this essay I will argue the point that the drinking age defiantly should not be as high as it is, and that the government should reconsider changing the age limit. I believe that there are more logical reasons to lower the drinking age than there are to keep it the same. I
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The Drug (creative Writing)
The Drug The Daystrom Institute was a government-funded body with the official remit of developing drugs and vaccines, and, in general, to further medical research. The unofficial remit, was the secret development of gasses, drugs and toxins that could be used in armed conflicts throughout the world. Of course this contravened almost every treaty that had been signed since the end of World War II, and therefore the secrecy surrounding this plant was immense. Martin
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The Drug War Solution: Opposite of the Current Drug War
The Drug War Solution: Opposite of the current Drug War Pharmacologically every drug has its positives and its negatives, it is based upon the individual’s choice to determine what one out weights the other. for example a extreme drug user rather live his life the way he/she wants with the feeing that he/she wants for his/her life, but with that choice there comes consequences: like not living as long of life due to heavy drug
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The Drypers Corporation
The Drypers Corporation should invest $10,000,000 in national television advertising in 1998 since this is something we have never done before. The exposure that this television campaign will bring will help to increase sales in the United States and also increase the profitability of the entire company. It will help to increase brand awareness, recognition and loyalty for the Drypers brand. We will also be able to increase our market share of 3.1% in the
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The Dubliners
Summary Eveline Hill, a 19-year-old woman who works in a Dublin shop, sits inside her family's house recalling childhood, including some happy memories as well as her father's drunken brutality to her and her siblings. Eveline thinks about people she has known who have either left Ireland (a priest who has traveled to Melbourne, for example) or died (her mother and her brother Ernest), and of her own plans to leave the country with a
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The Dynamics of an Art World in Flux
Since being tagged with the moniker of the “art world” it has stayed true to the attributes of a world. In the fashion of constant evolution and adaptation, the theories that the art world rally behind may alter and waver but the support behind these ideologies do not. The early stance of the art world saw a narrow scope of acceptance whereas today discrimination is nearly defunct. More importantly the role of the artist has
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The Dynamics of Pricing
Pricing is a major marketing tool and the only one that produces revenues. Today's fast pace environment plays an enormous role in pricing, however price is not the only factor in buyer choice behavior. Price is the amount of money charged for products and services or the sum of all the values that consumers exchange for the benefits of having or using a product or service. With the appearance of new technologies, pricing is changing
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The Earliest Works of Lumiere Brothers in France
The famous "Silent era" starts from the late nineteenth century and is firstly connected with the earliest works of Lumiere brothers in France and Thomas Edison in America and last till the early 1930s, when silent films were substituted by the new films where the people were able to listen and hear the speeches of the narrators and actors (of the movies). Thomas Edison, actually, was the first creator of Kinematograf and then Lumiere
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The Early Christian Community and It’s People
In the early Christian church there were many famous people who helped the church, and there were also a few infamous people who did not. Throuought the 1st century A.D some of the most influential Christian leaders lived, such as the apostles. For the first fewhundred years the church was very primitive and unstable and many people were killed during these rimes, these people were martyrs. There were many people and events that shaped the
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The Earth’s Wind
Extras Meteors A brilliant meteor, called a fireball, may weigh many kilograms, but even a meteor weighing less than a gram can produce a beautiful trail. Some of these visitors from space are large enough to survive (at least partially) their trip through the atmosphere and impact the ground as meteorites. Fireballs are sometimes followed by trails of light that persist for up to 30 minutes; some, called bolides, explode with a loud thunderous sound.
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The East Versus the West: the Representation of Jack the Ripper in Albert and Allen Hughes’ from Hell
The East Versus the West: The Representation of Jack the Ripper in Albert and Allen Hughes' From Hell Often times a country decides to pass laws and rules in attempt to rectify its appearance. Sometimes the new laws work and other times they only create more chaos throughout the country. This chaos could have the potential to destroy everything that the country has worked towards. As a result, there is a creation of the fear
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The Economics of Poverty in American Society
The Economics of Poverty in American Society Living in the United States, many of us do not think about poverty too much. Most people in the United States are above poverty level. They do not think about the less fortunate of America. Economics is the main factor of poverty in American Society, and more specifically, macroeconomics since it deals with the aggregate economy. To understand poverty and the poverty level, we need to see how
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The Economy Crisis in Spain
The economic crisis in 2008 has brought a variety of consequences to Spain, some that have been more serious than others, so I will talk about the points that contribute most to this crisis. The crisis in Spain has brought problems that have not only affected the economy but also the social level. If I had to choose some aspects affected by the crisis would be; the price of housing, the risk of unemployment and
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The Effect of an Earthquake
The Effects of an Earthquake According to USGS at http://earthquakes.usgs.gov/learning/faq.php, an earthquake can cause many effects to the earth's surface that we may not realize. Ground shaking, which is the vibration and the shaking of the earth that we are all familiar with, is one of the most noticeable effects of an earthquake. The shaking is caused by two types of waves, body waves and surface waves. Body waves are waves which travel through the
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The Effect of Daily Activities on the Environment
The Effect of Daily Activities on The Environment Our environment today requires us to take care of it to survive. People have negatively affected it by pollution and building. It takes a few changes to daily activities to help improve it. My daily activities consisted of driving, eating food, and reusing/recycling. How do these daily activities affect the environment? Ninety percent of Americans drive at least eighty-seven minutes a day, and I am amongst those
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The Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Hedge Funds’ Net Asset Value
I. Introduction According to economic theory, an investment strategy based on exploiting differences in interest rates across countries should yield no predictable profits. The economic theories that link exchange rates, price levels, and interest rates together are called international parity conditions. According to the uncovered interest rate parity (UIP), the difference in interest rates between two countries reflects the rate at which investors expect the high-interest-rate currency to depreciate against the low-interest-rate currency. According to
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The Effect of the Internet on Modern Society
The Effect of the Internet on Modern Society In this day and age, the Internet is the new resource tool for the masses. It has changed the way we live in society and the way people interact with each other. As more and more people log on the Internet, it has undoubtedly changed the way people think and feel about each other and the world around us. When we begin to look at the ways
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The Effects of 9/11 and Terrorism on Human Resource Management
September 11, 2001 was a day that will forever reside in the collective memory of the world. On that fateful morning, 19 terrorists who were in affiliation with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror organization hijacked four planes. The hijackers crashed two American Airlines jets into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, A third plane into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C and a fourth crash landed in Pennsylvania as passengers
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The Effects of a Valuable Vacation
The Effects of a Valuable Vacation At some point in everyone's life, they go through a significant event that affects their perspective on existence, and helps them grow as a person. The event can be big or small, but the knowledge gained will be everlasting. When I was a junior in high school, I took a trip to Boston and New York for Spring Break. I went on this trip with my mom, dad, and
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The Effects of Affirmative Action
The Effects of Affirmative Action "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: " We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." Dr. King stated this in his famous " I have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. in 1963 Racial discrimination has long been a problem in social history. The discrimination of ethnic minorities has been
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The Effects of Alcohol on the Body
The effects of alcohol on the body Alcohol is one of many dangerous substances that effects our bodies. The effects of this drug can be very harmful. Alcohol is a potent non-prescription drug sold to anyone over the national legal drinking age, 21. Unlike other deadly drugs it is easy to access. This makes it easy to over-consume and create a tragic accident, even death. It can damage a person not only physically but also
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The Effects of Alcoholism
The Effects of Alcoholism Alcoholism can begin as a choice and evolve into something much greater. The choice can turn into a dependence and that can evolve into a disease. When alcohol is abused it is a very damaging force. Abusive behavior caused by alcoholism can hurt other around you. The consumption of alcohol and how the human body reacts can lead to addiction, genetic makeup, and traumatic experiences. There are more factors that
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The Effects of Caffeine
Caffeine What do you call a cow who's just given birth? De-calf-inated! How many of you have had a cup of coffee today? How about a soft drink? Chocolate? An Excedrin? All of the above products have one thing in common: They all contain caffeine. In this speech, we'll look at caffeine's origins and how it spread, some caffeinated products, and the effects that caffeine has on the body. On any given day, four out
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The Effects of Divorce on Young Children
The statistics for divorce in the 1990's suggest that nearly sixty percent of marriages end in divorce. Given this startling figure, the assumption can be made that many children will experience some effects caused by the life-changing event called divorce. What is it exactly about divorce that causes negative consequences for these children? In what ways will these children be effected? Will these effects show outwardly? I will attempt to uncover some of the complexities
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The Effects of Globalization
The effects of Globalization have many ways such as in the way of industrial, emergence of worldwide production markets and broader access to a range of foreign products for consumers and companies. In the way of financial are emergence of worldwide financial markets and better access to external financing for corporate, national and subnational borrowers. In the way of economic that realization of a global common market based on the freedom of exchange of goods
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The Effects of Homeownership
The Affect of Homeownership On Me There have been many events in my life that have affected my behavior or viewpoint. Some of the incidents were happy times, such as the birth of my children. Other times, sorrow was the main emotion involved. While at other times, fear or anticipation was the driving emotion. While each instance has been responsible in shaping the person I have become, becoming a homeowner changed me in ways I
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