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Nick Carraway Jay Gatsby
1,348 words
The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway,
who was once Gatsby's neighbor. Nick Carraway grew
up in the Midwestern United States and went to
school at Yale University. After this, he was
stationed in France during World War I. Returning
home after traveling a great deal, he is unhappy
and decides to move to the East at the beginning
of the summer of 1922, renting a broken down house
in Long Island's West Egg section. He begins
working in nearby New York City as a bondsman and
it is here ...
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Devoted His Life Daisy And Gatsby
908 words
Jay Gatsby, the focal point of F. Scott
Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby, started out as
a poor boy helplessly in love with a rich girl. He
then left to serve for his country in the war,
leaving Daisy his love, behind. After returning
from the war, Jay Gatsby, both generous and
mysterious devoted his life to winning back his
lost love Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby is generous by
throwing parties, buying things for others, and
offering help for a friend in need. Gatsby's
parties are major gala events ...
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Hate Crimes James Byrd
967 words
Hate crimes are toxic in our community and
everywhere. There are numerous instances of
verbal, physical, and emotional abuse each year.
The consequences of the hate crimes have been and
are horrible for both the abuser and victims. As
Andrew Sullivan once said in The New York Times
Magazine, A free country will always mean a
hateful country. It is reality, and while we need
not endorse it, we should not delude ourselves
into thinking we can prevent it. Although this
quote is true we should very ...
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Viet Cong Automatic Weapons
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... a father. I dont know what I would have done
without a dad. I dont think I could have lived
without one. Chapter 10 In the Hospital The bullet
was removed and my leg was stitched back together.
Its been two days and the pain is still there. I
just feel like ripping my damn leg off. I have
written a letter to mom and dad, and to Johns
wife, telling them what happened. They all wrote
back asking if I was okay. The doctor said I will
be well enough to go back to war, but I will not
go back to m...
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Past Five Years Management Skills
846 words
Already having experience in the business world
has proven to me that it is essential to have
skills to maintain and improve daily functions.
Three skills I'd personally like to improve on are
my organizational, time management, and
presentation skills. At my place of employment for
the past five years, I've noticed that as I gain
more and more responsibilities, it becomes harder
to remember appointments or find items on my desk.
The need to become more organized is quickly
becoming a necessity....
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Infected With Aids Find A Cure
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The Black Death (Bubonic Plague) began in Central
Asia in the 14 th century in the mid- 1300 's. It
was said to have lasted over 400 years. Its
symptoms were the swelling of the armpits and
other areas of the body, mostly the groin and the
neck, another symptom would be rings around your
cheeks, the main symptom was black patches around
the skin caused by bleeding around the buboes
(swollen lymph glands). About one fourth of Europe
died within a few years after the Plague was
introduced to Europ...
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Modern American Poetry Adrienne Rich
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Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland in
the year of 1929. Rich grew up in a household as
she describes it as .".. white, middle-class, full
of books, and with a father who encouraged her to
write" (Daniel). Her father Arnold Rich was a
doctor and a pathology professor and her mother,
Helen Jones Rich, was a pianist and a composer.
"Adrienne Rich recalls her growing-up years
clearly dominated by the intellectual presence and
demands of the male in the family, her father,
while correctly ...
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Welfare To Work Welfare Recipients
1,587 words
No matter how liberal or conservative, all
politicians agree that welfare costs could be
greatly reduced if abuse and fraud were
eliminated. Welfare was first introduced in the 20
's as a program to help people get through the
depression. The government created many public
works jobs to employ the thousands that lost their
jobs. At the time it was a great program but
seventy-five years later, major reforms are
necessary to eliminate the widespread abuse and
fraud. Today, the U. S. spends well ov...
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Visually Impaired Optic Nerve
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... s what lessons were learned from these three
particular studies? The answer lies with lowering
the IOP. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study
evaluated whether "lowering IOP was effective in
delaying or preventing glaucoma in patients with
ocular hypertension" (Johnson & Brandt, 2005).
This study was designed to identify the
characteristics in progression of disease in
patients. Also identified as major predictive
factors for development of glaucoma was optic
nerve anatomy and central ...
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Ays Medium Sized
750 words
PRIVATE SECTOR: Ready for action As Egypt is known
for it's mixed economic system, Compared with
other emerging markets, Egypt's private sector is
tiny. The public sector still accounts for almost
70 per cent of GDP despite the fact that hundreds
of public enterprises have been wholly or partly
privatised during the past four years. Judging,
however, by the rapid growth of some of the
country's largest family-owned businesses, this is
unlikely to hold true five years from now. Roof
Ghabbour, cha...
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Pompey And Crassus Returned To Rome
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of the history of the Greco - Roman world
decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and
strength he created a strong empire. What happened
during his early political career? How did he
become such a strong dictator of the Roman Empire?
What events led up to the making of the first
triumvirate? How did he rise over the other two in
the triumvirate and why did he choose to take
over? What happened during his reign as dictator
of Rome? What events led up to the assassination
of Caesar? What hap...
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Case Study Five Years
474 words
Elephants should not be killed because they help
the environment. Elephants actually help the
environment by acting like a bulldozer and
knocking down dead trees that would stand dormant
otherwise. Africa does not have the time or money
to bulldoze these dead trees that take up land
that could be used for some well needed shelter.
There are too many homeless people in Africa to
have dead trees taking up in some cases large
parts of land. Elephants work as construction
equipment that Africa does ...
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Chemical Fertilizers Organic Food
749 words
Since the 1920 s when chemical fertilizers were
first used commercially on a large scale, there
have been claims that agricultural chemicals
produce less healthful and less nutritious food
crops. By the 1940 s, the organic farming movement
had begun, in part due to this belief that food
grown using more traditional, chemical-free
methods was more healthful. Foods grown by these
methods came to be known as "organic. " Today,
this notion has continued in the alternate health
arena, and some altern...
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Past Five Years Women Were Not Allowed
871 words
Logan's photographs reveal the world of these
women, from portraits of them at home to the
war-torn landscapes of Kabul and its marketplaces
newly brimming with beauty products. This stunning
journey in text and image will open the readers
eyes to the Afghanistan of yesterday, today, and
tomorrow. On September 27, 1996, the Taliban, an
extremist militia claiming to be Islamic
fundamentalists, seized power in a violent
takeover of the government. It was at that point
that the Taliban government i...
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Criminal Justice Policies Concerning Part 2
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... by the third parties (March 21, 1950).
According to this convention, the criminal
liability shall be fixed for forcing, involvement,
or seduction in purposes of prostitution by the
third parties, exploitation of prostitution, as
well as for organization and brothel-keeping.
Besides, the Russian government considered that
disposition of the article 241 - 1 relating to
definition of the term prostitution is not
distinct and insufficient for acknowledging it as
criminally liable act. Russian Fe...
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Struggle For Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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The Classical Argument Position Paper It is normal
for historical events to fade out in peoples
memory, as time goes by. However, this is not the
case with issue of Jewish Holocaust. Quite
contrary we are being continuously told by the
controlled Medias that we share the blame for
millions of Jews being killed, because our
ancestors did not do much enough to prevent
Holocaust. Countless experts and witnesses tell us
that under no circumstances we should criticize
Israelis genocidal practices in ...
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Twenty Five Years Capital Punishment
401 words
My cousin who has just moved down here from
Montgomery, Georgia, was worried sick upon hearing
the news that a man was shot down, approximately
four blocks away from our house. Later, his
reactions to this news became the joke of our
house. It was then I realized that every day we
are bombarded with such news of crimes and
violence which has immune us from such fearful
reactions. For some one, who hasnt lived in an
urban area for long, doesnt realize that crimes
are a part of ones every day life...
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