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Love Lust And Obsession In The Great Gatsby
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There is a fine line between love and lust. If
love is only a will to possess, it is not love. To
love someone is to hold them dear to one's heart.
In The Great Gatsby, the characters, Jay Gatsby
and Daisy Buchanan are said to be in love, but in
reality, this seems to be a misconception. In The
Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of
love, lust and obsession, through the character of
Jay Gatsby, who confuses lust and obsession with
love. By the end of the novel however, Jay Gatsby
is den...
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Jane Austen Pride Male Female Relationship
1,846 words
In the cases of Jane Austen's novel Pride and
Prejudice and Emily Bronte's Jane Eyre, the ideals
of romantic love are very much the same. In both
19 th century novels, women's wants and needs are
rather simplified. However, this could also be
said for the roles and ideals of the male
characters. While it was obvious that this era was
responsible for a large amount of anti-female
sexism in society and the economy, can it also be
said that male-female partnerships were simplified
from the male per...
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Sentenced To Death Charles Dickens
1,659 words
... Pip is conducted inside the prison and
imagines that convicts are going to be executed in
the same way as animals are in Smithfield. Mr.
Jaggers, the sinister lawyer, has a strong
character in the exercise of power. He provokes
horror on Pip as Pip notices his unpleasant tone
when arguing with his clerk, Mr. Wemmick, and the
way he threats his clients. The description of his
office suggests that a large part of his work as a
solicitor consists of manipulating evidence and he
is always seen f...
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Form Of Social Hong Kong
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Men have long dreamed of an egalitarian society, a
society in which all members are equal. In such a
society men will no longer be ranked in terms of
prestige, states, wealth and power. Clearly the
egalitarian society remains a dream. All human
societies from the simplest to the most complex
have some form of social inequality. In
particular, power and prestige are unequally
distributed between individual and social groups.
Social stratification Social stratification is a
particular form of soci...
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Good And Evil Good And Bad
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The genealogical method is the basis of Friedrich
Nietzsche's work On the Genealogy of Morals.
Nietzsche's genealogy can be illustrated as a way
to investigate values. The investigation of
values, points out, how certain values were
originally initiated. Nietzsche's genealogy also
presents a critique, by Nietzsche himself, on
already established values. Nietzsche's genealogy
also creates a future in a revolutionary manner
values. In order to understand the Nietzsche's
genealogical method one mus...
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Pride And Prejudice Darcy And Elizabeth
715 words
The title in this novel describes the underlying
theme to the book. Pride and Prejudice are both
influences on the characters and their
relationships. This narrative describes how the
prejudices and the prideful first impressions of
the main characters throughout the novel.
Elizabeth and many of the other characters see
Darcy as proud. "The gentlemen pronounced him to
be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he
was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was
looked at with great admiration...
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Keeping The American Dream Alive In Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald,
is about the American Dream and how it remained as
one. The American Dream is to have a lot of money
and material objects. To the eyes of the world,
the Americans were wealthy and there was no
poverty. This however was not true. Many
interpreted the American Dream as being a passage
to high social status, an opportunity to get what
they wanted, and through wealth and power, one
could gain happiness. Fitzgerald through his novel
shows how aimless ...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Death Of Gatsby
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Many characters were responsible, in part, for the
death of Jay Gatsby, the main character of The
Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, but
each to his or her own degree. Tom Buchanan, a
wealthy member of a socially solid old family,
played a minor and relatively indirect role in the
death of Gatsby. Daisy Buchanan, a beautiful
socialite married to Tom, very selfishly used
Gatsby to better herself at all costs, one of
those being Gatsby's death, but, although she was
directly responsible...
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Homelessness And Sociological Perspectives
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'I've detached myself from everyone and have
become anonymous. I don't participate in life, nor
do I care to participate in life. I'm just an
observer, said a homeless guy on the street. He
looks hopeless and hungry and walks off. Here we
are in the 21 st century and still in this great
nation of ours we face a dilemma of problems. What
are these problems? These problems range from
drugs to terror and even to homelessness. Over the
past year, over 2 million men, women, and children
were homeless...
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Politeness A Comparison Between Chinese And English
1,707 words
1. Introduction 2 2. Politeness - a theoretical
approach 3 3. the concept of limit 4 4. Request
strategies 4 4. 1. Request strategies in Chinese 4
4. 2. Request strategies in English 5 5. Forms of
address 6 5. 1. Forms of address in Chinese 6 5.
2. Forms of address in English 7 6. Chinese:
Politeness across social groups 8 7. Conclusion 9
References 11 1. Introduction In many parts of
this world, former existing borders are removed
and people move closer together. It has to be
admitted that most...
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Idea Of Equality Human Nature
707 words
In his most highly regarded poem Song of Myself
Whitman states, You shall no longer take things at
second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of
the dead, nor feed on the specters in books, you
shall not look through my eyes either, nor take
things from me, You shall listen to all sides and
filter them from your self. (Whitman 28). This is
everlasting and reflects his personal outlooks.
Walt Whitman has a lot to contribute to his
writings. This information is focused on his
personal history...
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Fear Of Failure Critical Thinking
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Recent studies and miscellaneous talks of the new
approach in the educational process possess a
clear trend to the underlying fundamental analysis
of the social and psychological background of the
students. The very popular recently analysis of
the ethnic groups and their social origin is of
particular interest to the teachers and scholars
studying new methods of educations and cognitive
processes. The studies are often controversial but
most of them show a clear sign of the impact of
social sta...
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Good Or Bad Position In Society
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Indian Caste System The social function of the
caste system in Indian culture was too ensure that
the wealthy and powerful maintained their high
social status and standard of living by making
sure that the wealth was unevenly distributed. The
members of the upper castes were lucky to inherit
a perfect system that was started by the Nomadic
Aryans who headed south into what is know as India
today. They evolved the system with the use of
Hinduism to maintain peace in a highly stratified
society, w...
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Social Status One Thing
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Golf Goes Like This Golf is a part of the lives of
millions of people all around the world, and I
have been playing long enough to recognize the
different types of golfers. The golfing world has
been flipped upside down since the entrance of
notorious Tiger Woods and his ace rival David
Duvall. I have been enjoying this incredible sport
for over thirteen years, and I still cant get over
the wonderful morning aroma that fills the air
when I walk to the first tee at a six oclock tee
time. From my ...
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Emma Takes Place
655 words
Austen, Jane. Emma Emma Austen, Jane. Emma. New
York: Bantam Books, 1981. Emma takes place in
Hartfield, which is a part of Highbury, England.
Highbury was a large and populous village, but
Hartfield was much quieter and secluded. The story
is in a time where you only married people of your
own social status. Therefore, the story probably
takes place in the Eighteenth century but there is
no direct reference to the time at which the story
takes place. It was a romantic time where women
were conc...
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Ku Klux Klan Blacks And Whites
1,794 words
A living organization changes with time. Some
parts of it may remain identical to that which was
first constructed. Most parts will adapt to
changes in the world, in society, and in mankind
itself. If it does not change, it withers and
dies. Organizations which fail to adapt to
changes, whether they like it or not, tend to
become shrunken relics of their original selves.
They become mummified images of a once living
creation. Such an organization is the Ku Klux
Klan, better known as the KKK. The...
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Economic And Social Hester Prynne
930 words
Is The Scarlet Letter Relevant to Todays Teenage
Parents? The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel
Hawthorne in 1850, is the story of Hester Prynne,
a woman in colonial Puritan Massachusetts who is
condemned to wear a scarlet letter A on her chest
as punishment for an adulterous union which
produced an illegitimate child. It is a novel of
great psychological depth. However, it is not
relevant to todays teenage parents. Hester and the
average teenage parent of today have to face
completely differ...
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Wolfgang Von Goethe Commit Suicide
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The purpose of this papers it to give general
information about the author, Wolfgang von Goethe,
and introduce as well as analyze the main
character of one of his most influential works:
The Sorrows of Young Werther. The protagonist of
this series of confessional letters, Werther, is
in fact a tragic figure who committed suicide as a
result of his loneliness and critical approach to
society, as well as his obsession for a woman,
Lotte, whom he could not eventually conquest.
Wolfgang von Goethe w...
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Male Or Female Code Of Hammurabi
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Laws and Ethnics of Ancient Times Throughout the
beginning of time many respected cultures have had
certain laws and ethical codes most of them have
some similarities but mostly they have opposite
opinions or laws. Examples of these laws or ethics
are in entries in the book Reading About The World
Volume 1. As a final we were asked to compare and
focus on six examples. They are The Code of
Hammurabi, The Law: Exodus, On Forgiveness, Sermon
on the Mount, Confucius: Analects, The Qu? ran,
and Nicc...
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Slave Labor Latin America
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How Some Black Slaves were able to free themselves
in Colonial America. The history of Blacks under
the yoke of slavery is not a kind one. Colonial
(A) Latin America was the first and perhaps the
worst perpetrator in the crime of slavery. Brought
from across the sea to work without wages and to
suffer horrible treatment the African element of
Latin American society lived a life of extreme
disadvantage. Eventually the restrictions placed
upon Blacks and the measure of prejudice against
them lesse...
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