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    "This Side of Paradise‚" a semiautobiographical novel by Fitzgerald chronicle the life of the young Amory Blaine as he entered the World War I. The war devastated the youth of the 1920s and 1930s‚ where many felt that their morality vanished and found themselves losing hope in America. The novel portraits two significant time periods‚ the "Jazz Age" and "The Lost Generation". The Jazz Age took place in America during the 1920’s and considered as a cultural movement from which dance

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    3. Depreciation percentage=$1‚640‚200/$15‚411‚620 = 10.64% New Fixed Assets=$15‚411‚620 + $30‚000‚000 = $45‚411‚620 $45‚411‚620*.1064 = $4‚831‚796 new depreciation Pro forma Income Statement Sales ($36‚599‚300*1.12) $40‚991‚216 Cost of Goods Sold ($26‚669‚496*1.12) 29‚869‚836 Other Expenses ($4‚641‚000*1.12) 5‚197‚920 Depreciation 4‚831‚796 EBIT 1‚091‚664 Interest 573‚200 Taxable Income 518‚464 Taxes

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    Joanne S. Frye was a feminist writer who grew up in the fifties and sixties. She was born in South Bend‚ Indiana in 1944 to parents of Mennonite heritage. She got her PhD in English in 1974 at Indian University. Frye wrote her dissertation on Virginia Woolf because she loved Woolf’s brilliant language and analytical life insights. Shortly after she divorced‚ she took a teaching job at the College of Wooster‚ were she taught English and eventually helped establish and teach in the Women’s Studies

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    his feelings towards the people living near the hovel. Paradise Lost and Frankenstein’s personal journal allow the monster to see how he was created and what his place is within society. Finally‚ Lives unfortunately gives him an unrealistic hope for his future. If the monster had read To Kill a Mockingbird‚ then he would have understood how to go about the cruelty of society. Each book that the monster read shapes who he becomes at the

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    The 1950’s-60’s70’s-80’s Miranda Moultrie Nixon Back Again The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election‚ held on Tuesday‚ November 5‚ 1968. Moon Shot On July 21‚ 1969‚ President Nixon spoke from the Oval Office to Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin at the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon‚ Americans Neil Armstrong and Woodstock A village in New York state

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    differently. We can learn from books‚ from other’s life. We can also learn the hard way and easy way. Either way‚ learning can be painful for all of us. Especially for children who have to experience the real life around them. The short story “The Lesson” by Toni Carde Bambara‚ shows seven poor children who experience where they are a level of economy the hard way. Even though it hurts for the seven children to force the lesson down their throats‚ such lesson become the lesson that is necessary and valuable

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    Life through a Black Lens Becoming an individual and finding a true self-identity is not always easy as it seems‚ but can be seen as a sign of growing up. This is seen as an issue in Toni Morrison’s‚ novel The Bluest Eye. The main character is a young girl named Pecola Breedlove‚ who deals with the struggles of developing an identity and being accepted by society. Pecola is a young girl growing up in the early 1940s; she would face many great trials along the way such as‚ being poor and black. She

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    Unfulfilled Desire Unfulfilled desire and rebellion are predominant themes that arise throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Starting off with Walton’s letters‚ it is clear that Walton is damaged psychologically. He commenced on this journey to “a part of the world never visited‚” because of a burning desire to believe that he achieved something important in his life (52). During this journey‚ Walton realized he was situated on a ship occupied by men who he didn’t

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    freedom really meant and means for black women to articulate how the bodies of black women to articulate how the bodies of black women articulate slavery.” CITATION Son07 \l 1033 (Mc-Coy-Wilson‚ 2007) She also parallels the hauntology existing in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” which focuses on black females in particular. In the book Sethe‚ a mother kills her own daughter known as Beloved‚ to protect her from the terrors of becoming a slave. Finally in Samira Kawash’s article hauntology is explained

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    Recitatif Isn’t it amazing how children seem to be able to see the best in everything? In the short story Recitatif by Toni Morrison‚ The two main characters become friends as children and it seems that its almost everlasting due to the innocent nature of them meeting. When one is in their adolescent ages it seems that its easier to not ....A child’s innocence makes it easy to befriend someone and as we get older society can hinder us continuing an old friendship or pursuing a new one. Both

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