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Great Gatsby - Tragic Love Story
TRAGIC LOVE STORY In Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the protagonist, Jay Gatsby is a tragic character rather than a pathetic one. After losing the love of his life, Gatsby desperately wants to rekindle their relationship. Gatsby strives to impress Daisy, and by doing so he acquires wealth. He orders his life around this one desire: Daisy. This novel portrays material values and focuses much on outer beauty pressuring its characters to be portrayed
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The American Dream
The American Dream One of the greatest quotes that Gary Colombo states in Rereading America is: "Can we exist as a living community if our greatest value can be summed up by the slogan "Me first"? (294-295).Analyzing this, and the fact that I am a young immigrant student who is planning his future in the American community, makes me ask my self "Can we?". I have always had this inside desire to be somebody important
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Cuban Blogs: A Labor of Love and Defiance
When 32-year-old Yoani Sanchez wants to update her blog about daily life in Cuba, she dresses like a tourist and strides confidently into a Havana hotel, greeting the staff in German. That is because Cubans like Sanchez are not authorized to use hotel Internet connections, which are reserved for foreigners. In a recent posting on Generacion Y, Sanchez wrote about the abundance of police patrolling the streets of Havana, checking documents and searching bags for
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Kelly Slater, Pipe Dreams
"I thought, Pfft, come on. People from Australia are world champions...But a world champion from Florida? Fuhgeddaboutit." There is a surfer that once said this. Not one surfer from Hawaii, Australia, not even California, but from the small town (which is now a huge town thanks to him) of Coco Beach in Florida...Kelly Slater (and for the record, his real name is Robert Kelly Slater, but once he saw the movie Bad News Bears, where
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The Creation of Night
There was no denying it: the thing was hideous. Though it had a roughly human shape with more or less proportioned head, neck, torso, and limbs, it was devoid of normal human features; it had a smooth, flat face with wide-set, opaque eyes, round nostrils where its nose should have been, a lipless slit of a mouth. It was fashioned naked yet had no navel, nor genitalia, and its surface was a sheen of sickly,
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Love
Personal space, body language, and overall interaction between the participants in the gym was something that I hadn't paid enough attention to in the past, from the distance I could see that their interests. The intimate couples that I noticed in the gym seemed again sought to have created a private space for them by erecting invisible barriers through their private body language directed only at each other, resulting in considerable more space between
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Love
Personal space, body language, and overall interaction between the participants in the gym was something that I hadn't paid enough attention to in the past, from the distance I could see that their interests. The intimate couples that I noticed in the gym seemed again sought to have created a private space for them by erecting invisible barriers through their private body language directed only at each other, resulting in considerable more space between
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Candlelight Dreams
My older friend next door once told me that if I shut my eyes and blew on a candle, all of my wishes would come true... I used to believe her and go around the house candle hunting. How my parents must have laughed to see me scrambling around the furniture, picking up the candles around the room , and blowing the little flame out until my cheeks hurt. I made the most outrageous wishes.
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Lured into Love
In the novel O Pioneers!, Willa Cather introduces Marie into the story as the center of attention. By foreshadowing in the beginning of the novel her attraction to everyone around her, one can clearly see how the problems to come have a firm foundation leading to the problems with Marie and her affection towards a common soul, man or woman, and the affect it has on her relationship. From a common standpoint, anyone could
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Friday Night Lights
town with an alarmingly rising crime rate and such bleak prospects that Money magazine rated it the fifth worst place to live in the United States. Football, Permian High football, was what held the town together. And hold it did, with crowds of 20,000 flocking to see games on Friday nights, and thousands watching every practice and internalizing every success and failure of the team. The Permian Panthers was no ordinary high school football team.
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Love a German
Richler devotes so little of his argument to the original causes of his reading, and so much more to the causes, as the focus of the essay is not about himself as a child, but rather the discovery of a brilliant novel. He is directing is analysis more on the impact the novel had on his life, rather than his life before the novel. Richler describes many effects on his life after reading novels. He
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Kelly Slater Pipe Dreams
"I thought, Pfft, come on. People from Australia are world champions...But a world champion from Florida? Fuhgeddaboutit." There is a surfer that once said this. Not one surfer from Hawaii, Australia, not even California, but from the small town (which is now a huge town thanks to him) of Coco Beach in Florida...Kelly Slater (and for the record, his real name is Robert Kelly Slater, but once he saw the movie Bad News Bears, where
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Love Theme in the Kite Runner
Love Theme in The Kite Runner The Relationship between Amir and Hassan Hassan was loyal to Amir through everything because that is the personality he was born with, because he grew up with Amir and looked up to him as a brother a friend, not because he was born a Hazara and not simply because he was Amir's servant. Amir never asked Hassan to do anything like that for him. This accentuated Hassan's love and
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Dream Career
My Dream Career Selecting a career is the most important decision in a person's life. The Health care industry has a good future in the United States of America. According to the American Department of Labor, the Medical assistant is one of the fastest growing health care professions. I have always been inclined towards health care and therefore I decided to be a medical assistant. To become a medical assistant one should possess different qualities.
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The Night of the Iguana
Differences in film and play: "The Night of the Iguana" May 13, 2006 John Houston carries a common theme throughout most of his movies, the theme of religion. The same holds true for his theatrical presentation of Tennessee Williams short play "The Night of the Iguana." The main character of the play, Reverend Shannon, is known to be a teacher of the word but this is not portrayed in the play even close to as
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Broken Dreams
Luke is jogging down the ground, followed closely by a stalker. He feels the hot, heavy breath of his follower on his neck, and can see his large shadow looming in front of him. He tries to fun faster to get away, dodging and weaving, but cannot seem to shake him; he is with him every step of the way. There is no escape. A call from a mate is an enormous relief; Luke
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Winter Dreams
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, "Winter Dreams," ambitious, "desirous" Dexter stands at the threshold between admiring "glittering things" and finding out that the "glittering things" he admires fade away sooner or later. Dexter's character throughout this short story, changes in many ways, from being unaware of what he really wanted in life to being aware of what he actually became. Dexter in the story started off as a very young boy who worked as
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Romeo and Juliet - Love?- Feature Article
"LOVE IS A Certain Inborn Suffering derived from the sight of and excessive Meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other, and by common desires carry out all of love's precepts in the other's Embrace" is definition of medieval love. But Really, How much does Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet comes to terms of traditional " love"? Think about Romeo in the
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Other than being some of the most brilliant people in human history what do the following have in common: Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Michelangelo, Isaac Newton, Andy Warhol, and Bill Gates? They have all been speculated to have some sort of autism. There are a few types of autism, but I will be talking mainly about Asperger's because the main character in the novel The
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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Statement: 'Because the story is narrated from Chris' point of view, we learn little about other characters.' Discuss. The reason we are left with a small understanding of the other characters is because the story is told from Chris' perspective. Telling a story from a first person perspective encourages us, the readers, to listen and relate to Chris, the speaker. Using a first person perspective allows the reader to see exactly what Chris is thinking,
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Dreams
Dream 1, my first dream takes place in my driveway. I am sitting in my parents minivan in the middle seat and no one else is in the car with me. There is a shoebox in the very back and I have no idea what is in it. So I open the box and there is what looks like an inflatable doll in there and it starts to inflate all by itself. I jumped out
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Enstines Dreams, a Summary
For a man who dressed in college sweatshirts, wore no socks (like his students), and was kicked out of Germany for his religion, Einstein's Dreams is an impressively intellectual book. It discusses theories of time in story settings from man and woman to friend or foe. Beginning with Einstein sitting at his desk as a patten clerk in Switzerland, it leads you through his theory of time, how is slows and speeds up. The book
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Tender Is the Night Summary
Rosemary Hoyt, a beautiful eighteen-year-old movie starlet, on vacation with her mother, arrives at a rather deserted portion of the French Riviera. There, Rosemary meets Dick Diver, a handsome American psychologist in his thirties with whom she instantly falls in love. Dick and his wife, Nicole, are exemplars of grace and sophistication, and move among a social set of similarly extraordinary people. Rosemary becomes part of this world, and in the gay times that follow,
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What Is the American Dream?
What is the American Dream? Is a question that will be answered differently every time it's asked to a different individual. Everyone has a different opinion regarding what is the American Dream and what it takes to make the dream a reality there's a simply explanation to this: People come from different places, and everyone has a different story to tell. No two lives are just alike, there are going to be people who have
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Why We Dream
Dreaming 2 Since the beginning of the age of man, people have been studying the different functions of the human being, how we move, how we talk, how we act, and for the most part these physiological behaviors have been explained, or at least understood on some level. However, when it comes to topics pertaining to the mind, or psychological matters, scholars and researchers have been confused about certain areas for a long time. Many
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