Money has an effect on everyone in both good and bad ways. People who possess a great wealth and live in upper class society tend to exhibit decadence due to their high status. F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s The Great Gatsby contrasts differing moral aspects of wealthy lifestyles. In the artificial world of the East Coast‚ Nick Carraway distinguishes himself as a model of morality. Although the glory of power and money in the East Coast overwhelms Nick‚ he still clings to the values he learned while growing
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integrity and his sense of right and wrong helps to elevate him above the others in intelligence. He knows the difference between good and bad‚ and he believes that the Buchanans and Jordan are just “a rotten crowd”‚ while Gatsby is “worth the whole damn bunch put together” (154). Nick easily recognizes the flaws in society and realizes that even though Tom and Daisy have a substantial amount of money‚ Gatsby
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Macbeth based on Out‚ Damn Slander Out Comparing Traves’s article with Macbeth‚ I realized that the characters in Shakespeare’s play are based on history and he specifically changed Macbeth’s personality in many ways. According to Out‚Damn Slander Out‚ Macbeth actually was not a tyrant and he did not die at the battle with Malcolm. Instead‚ he was a sensible leader of Scotland. Even the historian Ted Cowan describes him “He was the last great Celtic ruler in Scotland.” On the contrary‚
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the world. I don’t believe in prescribing medications to people to try to fix their problems but‚ I think talking about problems is beneficial. Counseling has way more benefits to getting at an individual’s deepest core. Face it‚ we all deal with a bunch of shit throughout our lives. We need friends and family to talk to but‚ we also need someone that has no biased opinion or connection to our day to day lives. To illustrate‚ I would like to describe my life experience with anxiety. I have felt anxiety
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Lennie continued to snort into the pool. The small man leaned over and shook him by the shoulder. "Lennie. You gonna be sick like you was last night." Lennie dipped his whole head under‚ hat and all‚ and then he sat up on the bank and his hat dripped down on his blue coat and ran down his back. "That’s good‚" he said. "You drink some‚ George. You take a good big drink." He smiled happily
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How Badly Do You Want To Be Successful? How badly do you want to be successful? It’s a pretty simple question isn’t it‚ and I’m sure you and everyone else who has ever been asked would say; very badly or that they would do anything to be successful. But would they really? See everyone wants to be successful but no one wants to work for it. We see successful people and think to our selves “Oh if they can do it why can’t I?” That is very true‚ its not like successful people have two heads or special
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Trying New Things Marcus Williams Ivy Tech Community College My brother and I are similar in a number of ways‚ but we’re completely opposite in how we feel about trying new things. He resists and often fears it‚ while I crave it. Trying new things has always been beneficial for me in the past. I enjoy exploring and testing my boundaries because you never know what you might like. Although I have to admit I didn’t always live my life by this philosophy‚ a couple years ago was
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SFC Harris hadn’t returned to West Virginia as of yet he was still waiting for the plan on how they were going to deal with Colonel Magnus and his bunch. The plan was sidelined when one Colonel Lambert arrived on a huge behemoth of an armored train from Washington. Then the subsequent contact with the President via shortwave radio that Colonel Lambert had brought with him. The status quo had changed dramatically with civilian leadership being added back into the equation. The President had been
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Bodega had all of Spanish Harlem on his side. These allies act selflessly‚ helping those who would otherwise be destroyed by the actions of the careless. When Gatsby needs encouragement‚ Dexter tells him “They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth a whole damn bunch put together.” (Fitzgerald 162) Similarly‚ Chino tells Bodega that he’s worth all of the souls in hell. Despite the fact that Irene had two suiters‚ they were “…pleasantly relinquished when Dexter formally asked her to marry him” (Fitzgerald
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feel right without him there sitting where we used to under the weeping willow tree even though mark is here it still isn’t the same. Because of tyler’s disappearance mom wants to move away to some stupid town called rithbridge which is out in the damn bush somewhere hours away‚ yeah that’s smart mom take me a luna to some deserted bush place away from civilisation while tyler is missing what a brilliant idea STUPID WOMAN! I won’t go ill run away if I have to just so mom doesn’t take me away from
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