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Gatsbys DreamWhat is the American Dream? In the Webster's New World Dictionary, dream is defined as: "a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything lovely, etc." In F. Scott Fitzerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the lead character Jay Gatsby defines the American Dream as: everyone ...
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Air PollutionThe first thing people see, in the morning, when they walk outside is the sky or the colored sun. Is this world giving us the privilege of seeing the natural colors of the sun through all the layers of pollution within the air (Dinanike 31)? Not only are beautiful sights such as this hidden behind ...
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Greek Daily LivingSome people believe that no civilization has ever been able to compete with today's western culture and lifestyle. However, the ancient Greeks with their amazing ingenuity were able to develop an amazingly high standard of living for their time. Although the Greeks had little technology, they ...
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Religions' Views On Life After DeathThroughout the history of civilization, there has always been a certain mysticism about what really happens to a newly departed soul. In each of the major religions of the world, there is a certain idea about what happens to the soul after death. Not all religions have the same beliefs about ...
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GenderIn the last thirty years, there has been considerable changes in the way men and women's regard each other's roles and their image. The sixties, with the liberation of the pill and unisex fashion, it meant that men and women started to present themselves in very similar ways. Men adopted ...
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Macbeth - Imagery In MacbethIn his plays, Shakespeare uses many forms of imagery. Many forms of his imagery are used in his play \'Macbeth,\' including the forms of clothing and darkness. Each detail in his imagery, it seems to me, contains an important symbol of the play, and symbols that we must understand if we are to ...
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Odysseus: Character And DevelopmentOdysseus character and development from when the story starts and when it finish is fascinating. The development of his character is based on his experiences. When Odysseus begins his journey, his character development is under major construction.
Odysseus begin his journey from sea. he goes ...
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PecolaToni Morrison allows the reader to see racism at it’s very worst. Through lack of guidance, is left ignorant emotionally and educationally, thus easily affected by society’s judgments. The reader sees what happens to an innocent young girl who is dependent on society for identification, ...
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Japanese Aesthetics, Wabi-sabiIn the Western world, aesthetics is considered the branch of philosophy that is concerned with concepts of value and beauty as they relate to the arts. Philosophers from Plato until the present time have had rigid ideas about what artists should create and what people should like, but in today's ...
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Exaggerations And Reinforcement: A Male Version Of Women's LibDuring the time from the mid 1980's to the present, the Women's Movement has snowballed into a giant attack on the cultural norms that have existed in this country for a very long time. The "assertive" women have unleashed an assault on everything from the way women dress to the way that women ...
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Symbolism In The Novellord OfSymbolism gives a novel a deeper level of meaning and a stronger emotional effect.lord of the flies is a novel extremely rich with symbols that give it a literary value.
One of the most important of these symbols is the conch .It comes to stand for authority,democracy and civilized behaviour.Piggy ...
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Dave Matthews Band, The Most Compelling Band AroundDave Matthews Band is a unique, musically gifted band. Its combination of sounds of folk, jazz, rock, world beat, and reggae give it its originality and musicality that extends the bounds of music. The five members of the band: Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, LeRoi Moore, Stefan Lessard, and Carter ...
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The Catcher In The RyeThe theme that the world has an outward appearance that seems fair and perfect but really they're as Holden put it "phonies." This is shown countless amount of times in his journey through New York and even before he left. The setting is in the 1950's; so I'm pretty sure that he didn't encounter ...
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James Watson's The Double Helix: A ReviewA review of Watson, James D. The Double Helix. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
James Watson's account of the events that led to the discovery of the
structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) is a very witty narrative, and
shines light on the nature of scientists. Watson describes the many key ...
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Harrison Bergeron By Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
In the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut I perceive the theme to be the importance of individuality, and a need for individual difference for fear of losing our humanity when nowadays equality for all is an issue. In many aspects, equality must be striven for. People ...
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Gothic ArtRomanesque may first be sensed in new structural developments.. Sophisticated but unsatisfactory
attempts to vault the great basilican naves safely, with elements of
Roman, Byzantine, or Eastern origin, impelled progressive Romanesque
engineers, from about 1090 onward, to invent a new type of ...
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Rabbit, Run Happy EndingsThere is something extraordinarily powerful about the euphoria associated with happiness. What causes this and where does it come from? Some say it has to do with a completeness in one's self, a sense of well being and understanding. It also comes from living for the present, and living for the ...
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The Quest Of A Hemingway HeroA Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway is a story of Love, war and one
Man’s pursuit of finding his own personal code in order to make a separate
peace. Fredrick Henry is an American who serves as a lieutenant in the
Italian army to a group of ambulance drivers. Hemingway portrays ...
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Huckleberry FinnThe narrator (later identified as ) begins Chapter One by stating that the reader may know of him from another book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by "Mr. Mark Twain," but it "ain't t no matter" if you have not. According to Huck, Twain mostly told the truth, with some "stretchers" thrown in, ...
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