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    get a significant other‚ but he was older as well and everyone attempted to do what they could in order to stop the relationship. The people were so concerned about her because they did not understand how she was living without her father’s riches; the riches that consumed her whole childhood and robbed her of her innocence. She is truly isolated from the real world because of this. Her love‚ Homer‚ has not been seen quite some time prior to her death and her servant does not say much because he

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    either Captains of Industry or portrayed as a Robber Baron. In this time period‚ a Robber Baron was an industrialist who took advantage of one’s wealth and used it to gain power. A Captain of Industry was seen as a hero to the Americans with a “rag to riches” story. During the Gilded Age‚ a Robber Baron was more common because industry would not have rose so high without corrupt and evil businessmen. The Gilded Age contained many industrial opportunities. These opportunities included oil‚ steel‚ and

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    “The ideals of freedom‚ equality‚ and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American” (Dictionary.com). The American Dream is “a life of personal happiness and material comfort as traditionally sought by individuals in the U.S” (Dictionary.com). The image of America is presented negatively in the novel The Great Gatsby and the play Death of A Salesman because it is depicted as a materialistic lonely place. In the novel The Great Gatsby loneliness is brought to the reader’s attention

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    against how I portray mothers. In the poem “Edward‚ Edward”‚ the writer portrayed a wicked‚ insensible‚ cunning‚ conniving and unloving mother. The mother was wicked because she persuaded her son to kill his father and it might have been to get the riches that were promised to her son. In the poem the writer does not tell us that she did but it could be clarified that she persuaded him to do so‚ for example line 17 through 20‚ “Your steed was old‚ and we have got more‚ Edward‚ Edward; Your steed was

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    In Guy de Maupassant’s‚ "The Necklace"‚ Madame Loisel’s ungrateful‚ materialistic‚ and jealous behavior completely shapes her entire life. Her admiration of the glitz and glam of the rich led to her greatest downfall. Because of her desires she is unable to appreciate the life she had and unable to live the full life of a woman which she had always desired Throughout the entire story Madame Loisel’s ungrateful behavior is well displayed. During dinner‚ while her husband was well appreciative

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    relationship in which he abuses his wife and she abuses him. This abuse is a result of their financial situation and their personal unhappiness. One day tom goes to the woods and sees a “dark-skinned man” which is actually the devil. The devil offers Tom riches as a bribe for his soul. Tom goes back to tell his wife about this offer. She tells him to accept it‚ but he decides that he is not going to do anything that she wants because he is not about to do anything that makes her happy because of the hatred

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    better fighting techniques. Secondly‚ the Spartans could have kills thousands of more Persians if it weren’t for a traitor that told the Persian king a path behind the Spartans where they could flank them and attack from both sides‚ in exchange for riches and power. It goes to show that greed can corrupt a person to do crazy things‚

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    unfoldment subjective wisdom within. Thoughts and feelings are your destiny. You posses everything by right of consciousness. The consciousness of health produces health ‚ consciousness of wealth produces wealth. To walk on the Royal Roads to riches You must not place obstacle and impediment on the pathway of others ‚ neither jealous or

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    it can be said that the boss is a bereaved father. However‚ it is also true that he is a merciless and self indulgent boss who cares little for other people. The first example of this is his treatment to Mr. Woodiefield. Firstly he show’s off his riches and luxuries to Woodiefield the sentence from the text “…he liked to have it admirred‚ especially by old Woodifield” says it all. He is so self indulgent that he

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    cheated‚ and stole from people throughout the book. Yet‚ he is only man exempt from Nick’s harsh scorn. Gatsby is a self-made‚ idealistic‚ opportunist‚ and the embodiment of the American Dream. Gatsby was a self-made man‚ that went from rags to riches to acquire his wealth. “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his

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