I believe that Tom is responsible for Gatsby’s death. He didn’t like Gatsby from the very beginning. He knew that Gatsby has done some crimes in the past. He knew that his wife‚ Daisy is having an affair with Gatsby. In the text‚ he states‚ “‘What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?’” (Fitzgerald 136). This matters because Tom never liked Gatsby‚ basically he didn’t want to see him around. Tom never stayed loyal to Daisy‚ but when he found out that Myrtle is going away from
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began to reinvent the automobile. The 1949‚ 1950‚ 1951‚ 1953 and 1954 Chevrolets received only modest facelifts and were called dull but dependable. However‚ in 1955‚ 1956 and 1957 appearance and engineering was changed radically by Chevrolet. Who was responsible for the new Chevy’s? Chuck Jordon‚ Harley Earl and especially Edward Nicholas Cole‚ Chevrolet’s Chief Engineer. The process of car restoration
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believes that the witches’ prophecies will become true because the first of the prophecies’ is true – the death of his father has made him Thane of Glamis. Although the witches have placed the idea of these three prophecies in Macbeths mind‚ it is himself who carries out the unexpected actions soon that would soon be revealed. The witches themselves do not force him to kill King Duncan or Macduff and his family; it is Macbeths own choice that he makes in order to carry out the
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The Federal Reserve failed to prevent the Great Depression but it was primarily responsible for its length and severity. As Murray Rothbard explains in America’s Great Depression‚ the Federal Reserve creates boom and bust cycles that destabilize the economy. The Federal Reserve created an unsustainable boom in the 1920s by lowering interest rates. Rothbard estimated that the money supply had increased by 61.8 percent between 1921 and 1929. The inevitable stock market crash was a symptom of the inflationary
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not all‚ have had their share in downfall. Accomplishments have to be made first in order to fall. An individual can accomplish so much‚ and then lose it all in a heartbeat. In the novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ there is a character by the name of Okonkwo who had accomplished many things in his life. What happens when things turn bad? Does an individual contribute to things going wrong? As mentioned‚ Okonkwo has many accomplishments. He is considered a hero in his village‚ Umuofia. “Umuofia was feared
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The events of the Salem witch trials are widely-studied‚ iconic events in our history. There are many controversial topics surrounding the accuracy of The Crucible. Did these events actually happen‚ or was it made it up to scare people and teach life-long morals? Dedicated historians and investigators strive to answer and pose new questions‚ forming educated ideas to shape possible theories. Was Arthur Miller’s point really to tell the account of a scandalous time period in history? Many people feel
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of mortuary goes to open coffin but Meursault stops him and requests not to see the body • Spends night in the mortuary beside his mother’s coffin • Woken by people coming into the mortuary • Meursault meets with director of the old person’s home who asks him if he would like to view the body again‚ he declines once more • One of the undertaker’s assistants asks if his mother was old‚ Meursault responds vaguely as he did not know her exact age •
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Point #2: Macbeth begins to see ghosts with the witches‚ who reassure him that no man would be able to kill him. Macbeth‚ satisfied with what the witches say‚ decide that he cannot take the risk of keeping Macduff
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Eating Disorders: Who is to be held responsible? Abstract Only a thin line separates “normal” dieting from an eating disorder. (Hesse-Biber‚ 1996) Unfortunately for young women in this day and age‚ social and economic factors pressure them to pursue the thinness ideal‚ even to the point of dangerous behavior. At one point in time‚ dieting would have been considered one of the ways to improve one’s health. Today’s society has been brainwashed to believe that in order to be healthy‚ one has to
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A tragedy without meaning Othello’ is not‚ as the very genre of tragedy seeks to imitate action and life‚ both of which have an inherit meaning. In some ways‚ Shakespeare’s work can be considered didactic as in the case in classical tragedy‚ the hero’s falls arises as fault of a hamartia on his part‚ a fault which plagues humanity. In fact‚ throughout the work‚ Othello is revealed to have many more faults and weaknesses than a man of his stature should posses‚ providing a reason for his downfall
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