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  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a fictional novel written and based on the 1920s, also known as the Roaring Twenties. A time where people drank, partied, and were becoming immoral. The main character and also the narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway, is a conservative young man from the Midwest who comes to New York to seek ‘freedom’ and escape his small town background. But then decides to leave, judging

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Tasha
  • The Foundations of Plato’s Great Society

    The Foundations of Plato’s Great Society

    The Guardians The first task in the construction of this ideal society is to identify the fundamental needs of man: food, shelter, and clothing and to assure they are sufficiently provided. Next is the division of labor which is the structure by which these necessities are to be provided along with a simple system of trade to be able to satisfy the need that the State cannot provide. After these basics are provided, Plato believes

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Bred
  • Peter the Great: A True Revolutionary

    Peter the Great: A True Revolutionary

    Peter the Great: A True Revolutionary Words you think of when you think of Russia throughout history: unmodernized, backward, retrogressive, archaic, medieval, dank and slovenly etc. I could go on, but I digress, the picture has been set. Russia hasn’t exactly been the picturesque empire, if that, that so many believe it could have or should have been. Being one of the physically largest country in the world during almost all of its 1500 +

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    Essay Length: 1,440 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Great Gatsby Essay

    Great Gatsby Essay

    All books have themes and lessons in them that teach us something important after reading them. Sometimes these lessons are learned from the characters of the books. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby teaches us lessons about success, hope, and ethics or morals. Many of the characters in The Great Gatsby are used to construct different themes and teach us moral lessons. Gatsby has been in love with daisy for many years. Gatsby uses

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Victor
  • Marcellin and Gandhi

    Marcellin and Gandhi

    How Religious Beliefs and Values have the power to Address Problems of Social Injustice and inspire us in our Own Lives. In the world that we live in today, nothing is more powerful than religious beliefs and values in society. Wars are fought and won over them, communities are brought closer because of them, and they transcend race, class and all social restraints. Religious beliefs and values have the power to address problems of social

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: regina
  • The Great Depression: Where True Heroes Are Found

    The Great Depression: Where True Heroes Are Found

    October 29th, 1929, a day in history that I will never forget. My name is Bob Bigsby, and I survived The Great Depression. My survival was all due to two of the hardest working people I have ever met, my mom and dad. It was just the three of us living in our small two-bedroom house in New York City, right outside of Manhattan, home to Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange. I

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Max
  • Symbolism in the Great Gatsby

    Symbolism in the Great Gatsby

    "The Great Gatsby" is a book full of symbolism. On a large, political scope the book itself is a symbol of the materialism of the twenties. Many of the symbols in the book are given their meaning by the characters - who are symbols in and of themselves. To make this last point, it is only necessary to look at Gatsby himself. Gatsby is, in a nutshell, the American Dream corrupted. He has worked

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Steve
  • The Great Gatsby the Jazz Age

    The Great Gatsby the Jazz Age

    The Great Gatsby The Jazz Age In 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald said that “An author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.” Fitzgerald wrote about what he saw during the 1920’s, which he dubbed “The Jazz Age,” and The Great Gatsby is considered a correct depiction of that era. After World War I, many Americans felt a distrust toward foreigners and radicals

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Vika
  • Two Great Rebellion Films

    Two Great Rebellion Films

    Rebellion is a common topic in movies because it draws in audiences with its bad boys and bad attitudes. Two of the greatest rebellion movies of all time are Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean, and Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. The opening scene in Rebel Without a Cause shows a drunken teenage boy lying in the street, giggling, while he plays with a toy. The directors of these

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    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Janna
  • Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, there are many characters with a meaningful purpose. These characters include Estella, Miss Havisham, Able Magwitch, and Philip Pirrip, better known to himself and to the world as Pip. Pip is by far the most important character in Great Expectations. Pip’s actions and thoughts make up the main plot in the novel, making Pip key in understanding the novel. Another important point in the story is knowing

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    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Janna
  • Mahatma Gandhi

    Mahatma Gandhi

    I am purely amazed by the astonishing personal revolution by which a simple inarticulate man transformed himself into the Mahatma, who ushered the British Empire out of India without even firing a shot. In the age of Empire and Military might he proved that the powerless had power and that force of arms would never prevail against force of spirit. Based on all this, Mahatma Gandhi surely deserved an award, which spoke of his

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    Submitted: March 13, 2010 By: Victor
  • Book Review - the Great Depression

    Book Review - the Great Depression

    Amanda Carrion Review of The Great Depression America 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine September 2, 2004 The Great Depression America 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine covers many topics of American history during the “Great Depression” through 1941. The topic that I have selected to compare to the text of American, Past and Present, written by Robert A. Divine, T.H. Breen, George M. Frederickson and R. Hal Williams, is Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first president of the

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: July
  • The Odyssey: Book 23, the Great Rooted Bed

    The Odyssey: Book 23, the Great Rooted Bed

    The Odyssey: Book 23, The Great Rooted Bed Tone: The tone in the beginning of this book is very frantic; it starts out with Eurycleia rushing through the hallways and into Penelope's room to inform her of the good news. The old nurse tells Penelope that Odysseus is indeed back home to Ithaca. At first Penelope couldn't believe it but when she was reassured she cry tears of joy. The tone then shifts to a

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression had a major effect on most American family’s during that time and some long after. Due to the Great Depression many family’s lost there jobs and soon after there homes. Family’s were forced to move westward to try and find work. Family’s that still had jobs could not survive much longer because wages were cut. Banks went out of business, and family’s that had money in banks lost it all. When the

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Tasha
  • The Great Depression and the New Deal

    The Great Depression and the New Deal

    The Great Depression And The New Deal The great depression in the united states caused a worldwide economic depression lasting from 1929 until the dawn of world war II, and it was caused by the collapse of the U.S. stock market. The Great Depression was the most terrible and longest economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world. The events associated with the Great Depression had destructive effects on the United States. During

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The American Dream, and All Its Splendor (great Gatsby)

    The American Dream, and All Its Splendor (great Gatsby)

    The 1920s were a decade of rebirth characterised by the founding of the "American Dream" -- the belief that anyone can, and should, achieve material success. The defining writer of the 1920s was F. Scott Fitzgerald whose most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, has become required reading for present-day high school students. We study Fitzgerald's novel for the same reason we study Shakespeare. The literature composed by both authors contains themes and morals that

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Yan
  • Peter the Great: Russian Revolutionary

    Peter the Great: Russian Revolutionary

    Peter the Great: Russian Revolutionary In the history of Russia, there were countless emperors, Tsar’s, and all sorts of nobility, but through it all none of them truly succeeded in bringing Russia to its enlightenment. “Through out the decades and out of the ashes rose a giant; sailor, soldier, carpenter, Tsar; Peter the Great” (Land of Tsar’s). Peter was determined to change Russia’s “moskovite isolation and backward” way of living. With persistence and determination Russia’s

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    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    There were several people responsible for shaping the political, social, and economic structures in the United States during the twentieth century, one person being Henry Ford. Henry Ford has influenced the automobile industry in an outstanding way. The early twentieth century marked a dramatic change in the economy of the United States. Businesses and industries began to grow everywhere around the United States. Along with this new factories came new jobs, which lured in many

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    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • Death of a Salesman Compared to the Great Gatsby

    Death of a Salesman Compared to the Great Gatsby

    Comparing Death of a Salesman to The Great Gatsby In the search for the American dream many things can be lost, this is reflected in the novel The Great Gatsby and the movie Death of a Salesman. Both of these works demonstrate the lengths that some people will go to in order to achieve the stereotypical life of a rich, successful and powerful American, which is often referred to as the American dream. Death

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    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    English Essay In the The Great Gatsby, Gatsby's mysterious persona and illegal 'gonnegtions' depict him as one who holds material wealth in higher regard than moral decency. However, despite such corrupt ways, Gatsby was able to see the American Dream for what is was supposed to stand for. He always kept the symbolical green light in front of him and believed in promise and unlimited hope for equality and spiritual happiness. Gatsby was able to

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    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Yan
  • Report on Alexander the Great

    Report on Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great was one of the greatest ruler's and conquerors of all time. He conquered the mighty Persian Empire and most of the known world at that time. Alexander was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia. He was the son of an excellent general and organizer, named Philip II King of Macedon. His mother was Olympias, princess of Epirus. She was brilliant and hot-tempered. Alexander inherited the best qualities of both his

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    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Yan
  • Why Is It So Great to Be Canadian?

    Why Is It So Great to Be Canadian?

    The reason behind why being Canadian is so great is our freedom. Freedom, geography, diversity, opportunity. These are just some of the things that you think of when the word Canadian or Canada is present. To some we may seem to be a primitive country (some Americans still think our land is 95% ice and that we live in igloos) but to those who know us, we are nice, hardworking people that live in a

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    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The 1930s, a decade of despair and depression all across the United States, contrasted sharply with the prosperity of the “roaring” 1920’s (). Many factors played a role in bringing about this decade of despair universally referred to as The Great Depression. The main causes are believed to be a combination of the stock market crash (October 24, 1929) and the greatly unequal distribution of wealth between the rich and middle class citizens throughout the

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    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Symbolism in the Great Gatsby

    Symbolism in the Great Gatsby

    Symbolism in The Great Gatsby What is unknown is often talked about as being mysterious, perhaps even ominous. Naturally, many people become curious and want to find out what lurks about in the dark and be able to say that they know what others do not. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, the main character, Jay Gatsby is quite enigmatic. Seclusion and isolation are well known to Gatsby, especially when it comes to

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    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    Jay Gatsby, a major character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby contributes to many ideas expressed in the novel. His hope and dedication to his goal reinforce the positive aspects of the American Dream yet his attempt to grasp it by means of riches reflects the corruption of this once idealistic promise. His belief that the past can be recaptured also contributes to the idea of time in the novel. Gatsby is a self

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    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: July