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    The novel the great Gatsby tells a story about Gatsby’s " American dream "is a dream out of experience and its tragic ending. The root of the tragedy is that Gatsby didn’t realize his dream‚ also did not see Daisy’s true nature. Many people see gates than dream as the bursting of the "American dream"‚ in fact‚ Gatsby’s dream and not a real "American dream". The "American dream" is the dream of every citizen of the United States and has always been the pursuit has a long history.‚ in the middle of

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    The Great Gatsby‚ American author F. Scott Fitzgerald tells a story of the effects that societal class has on love. This story creates the basis for Fitzgerald’s views on the American dream‚ which varies personally for each character of the novel. Although the American dream is different for each character‚ Fitzgerald proves that they each have an American dream or goal set in mind. All the dreams have a coherent goal of happiness experienced through love. Although every character in The Great Gatsby

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    Monday‚ December 5th <<Of mice and men>>---Life in the depression The Great Depression Was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States‚ the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s‚ a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment. <<Of mice and men>> takes place in Great Depression of the United States. Everybody needs

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    Great Northern American Case Study Lekesha S. Rideaux Professor Cheryl Molyneaux Leadership and Organizational Behavior 11/3/2012 The textbook defines perception as the process by which the individual selects‚ organizes‚ interprets‚ and responds to information. The Oxford dictionary defines perception as the ability to see‚ hear‚ or become aware of something through the senses; the way in which something is regarded‚ understood‚ or interpreted. Your perception is your reality‚ therefore

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    The American Dream is the idea of the “desired” happy life that everybody wants to achieve: having money‚ a big house‚ and a perfect family. The book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about how to upper class fails to achieve their American Dreams. The main character‚ Nick Carraway‚ narrates the story‚ telling the reader how he perceives the upper class as being hollow. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s life to symbolize the overarching theme of the failure to grasp the American Dream‚ which results

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    The American Dream is an ideology that through hard‚ honest work and determination‚ you can achieve success in The United States of America. In the novel "The Great Gatsby"‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald alludes to the concept of The American Dream in a time just after World War 1 and he achieves this through many characters and the environment in which they live and interact in. The main character of the novel has often been characterized as a clear representation of The American Dream‚ which is a false statement

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    In general‚ the Great Depression brought mass suffering to everyone and was especially hard for the African Americans. The National debt income had drop to 50% and unemployment has risen up to 25% of the total labor force (U.S. History‚ n.d. para 1). Therefore‚ America’s had twenty million Americans receiving public assistance to survive. The blacks faced the harshest conditions because employers starting using racist hiring and firing procedures as the “Last Hired and the First Fired” from employment

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    the movement of culture‚ ideas‚ values and knowledge that occurred from the Muslim Spain to the Western World‚ is brutally severed. The purpose of this essay therefore‚ is to critically analyze the article by Rana Kabbani on “Behind him lay the Great City of Cordoba” and attempt to link it with different

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    the place that made it sound inferior. It was called the “Great American Desert”. I meen that is a terrible name‚ especially back in the olden days. Nobody would want to live in a place where it is always hot and air conditioning was invented. Also‚ there is supposedly no water. “The Great American Desert” was the old name for Nebraska. I know it is very hard to believe. There was a man by the name of Edwin E. Perkins. He was living a fine life that any indigent person would die for‚ but he just couldn’t

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    rather than a southern railroad to the Pacific. In what ways did the Second Great Awakening in the North influence TWO OF THE FOLLOWING? The Second Great Awakening inspired several movements including the movement for abolitionism and the movement for temperance in society in the north. Abolitionism was an issue that the north and south were debating years before the Second Great Awakening took place in America. The Second Great Awakening

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