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    Daisy Buchanan - Nick’s cousin‚ and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war‚ Daisy was courted by a number of officers‚ including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However‚ Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved‚ and when a wealthy‚ powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him‚ Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite‚ Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg

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    example both of them wanted to improve social life be re designing space. Both of them wanted to increase security for individuals and create their own authority in the process of authorising social order. Also another common connection between both Buchanan and Monderman is that they ‘used site maps‚ statistics‚ photos‚ reports and interviews’ (Silva‚ 2009 P. 345) as a basis to create there image of how urban life should be

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    The Careless Killings of Daisy Buchanan The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a man named Jay Gatsby‚ who has a dream of winning over the wealthy Daisy Buchanan. In this "American Masterpiece"‚ three innocent people die because of the carelessness of Daisy. She is responsible for betraying Gatsby’s dream‚ running over Myrtle with her car and indirectly causing George’s suicide. Daisy is both directly and indirectly responsible for the death of Myrtle Wilson. Fitzgerald

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    Daisy Buchanan is one of the main characters in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald written in the 1900’s. Daisy believes that she is in love with two men. One man named Jay Gatsby‚ who she dated when she was a teenager and never let go of. When Gatsby was away at war‚ she married a different man named Tom Buchanan. The reason she married Tom because of his money‚ where as Gatsby was a poor and they were unsure if he would ever be able to come back home. Daisy wasn’t able to tell anyone

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    Daisy Buchanan‚ formerly known as Ms. Fay‚ or who could have been known as Mrs. Gatsby‚ is the wife of Tom Buchanan‚ the lover of Jay Gatsby‚ and the second cousin of Nick Carraway. She has a thrilling‚ magnetic voice which shows excitement and usually dresses in white clothing. She has dark‚ shining hair with bright eyes and a passionate mouth. She is from a wealthy family in Louisville‚ Kentucky where all the officers in war were in love with her due to her beauty and popularity. In 1917 she met

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    Daisy has been described as ‘selfish and shallow’. How far would you agree that this is how Fitzgerald portrays her? Daisy Buchanan‚ in Fitzgerald’s 1920s American novel: ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ is the love of Jay Gatsby and the person he has devoted the last five years of his life to. Initially‚ Fitzgerald portrays her as pure‚ attractive and innocent‚ but gradually reveals her selfish and shallow personality. Ultimately‚ the reader feels that she is not a worthy objective of Gatsby’s dedication.

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    A brother‚ a son‚ a friend‚ Tom Wingfield the narrator and a character in the play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ which is based on Toms memory of his many experiences living with his mum and sister during the Great Depression. As this is a recollection‚ the play has a hard time presenting the events objectively as the mind‚ most often times distort the facts of events. Tom is an aspiring poet‚ which works at a shoe warehouse to support the family to which is gets frustrated with due to the numbing routine

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    Daisy Buchanan is Nick’s cousin and Toms wife. She lives with the rich old-money population of New York on East Egg. From Nick’s first visit‚ Daisy is associated with otherworldliness. For example‚ the first image we have of Daisy in Chapter One is as one of a pair of women‚ lying on a couch and surrounded by fluttering‚ moving material - from the curtains to their white dresses‚ nothing is safe from the breeze blowing through the room. This sense of constancy in a sea of movement - indicated by

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    Corporate Social Responsibility of TOMS Shoes BUS 311 Ethical Management May 20‚ 2013 Tom’s Shoes Corporate social responsibility is defined as "actions of an organization that are targeted toward achieving a social benefit over and above maximizing profits for its shareholders and meeting all its legal obligations" (Ghillyer‚ 2012). The for-profit company‚ TOMS Shoes‚ takes social responsibility seriously starting with their central goal: "We can create a better tomorrow by taking

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    problem. The solution to the problem is called Toms‚ and all you have to do is buy a pair of shoes to help out. For every pair of shoes that you buy there is another pair of shoes delivered all over the world and even in some specific areas. Toms is an emerging organization that has helped out people with their health‚ education‚ and mental self. The Toms organization all got started with Blake Mycoskie. He is the founder of the Toms shoe and also created the idea of the One for One

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