... in support of UST's great time. I saw that everyone there loved hip-hop dancing and were very positive in socializing with other schools. My interviewees were named Egg and Rock from the "Ones To Watch" dance school, Fanny from the BCDC (Billy Chan Dance Center) dance school. I thought it was very good to ... done, which meant the school being open late. Rock said," I took that opportunity to use the facilities to practice hard." The next hip-hop dancer, Egg, started in 1995 but was not consistent. He would start and stop. If we are to talk about really taking hip-hop seriously, then he ...

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... seen its failures with patients developing cancer and in 1999 a patient actually died from gene therapy. However, there is already a new wave of DNA-based drugs in the market like Enbrel for arthritis and Gleevec, a treatment for chronic myelogeneous leukaemia. Hence in terms of medicine, no medical breakthrough ... to immortalize the double helix structure in paint with his 1963 "Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid- There are so many art exhibitions held focussed just on genetics and DNA, one was held recently in New York. Other than art itself, the icon has manifested itself in many fil...

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... uses the settings of East and West eggs, The Valley of Ashes, and New York City to assist the actions of the main characters. The East Egg is more of the upscale region of the setting. People that live there have all the money, drive fancy cars and dress in expensive clothing. ... It symbolizes comfort, which means that it is always pleasant there. The East Egg also symbolizes prosperity. The people there, like Jay Gatsby, are successful. Daisy Buchanan is one of these people. She goes to Gatsby parties and wants ... fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to expres...

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... is very hypocritical because at the same time Tom is having an affair with a woman, Myrtle, from the valley of ashes, an industrial wasteland situated between West Egg and New York. There are many symbols that F. Scott Fitzgerald uses in "The Great Gatsby". The green light at the end of Daisy's dock, the giant ... eyes of T.J. Eckleberg, Owl Eyes, the drunk at Gatsby's parties, East and West Egg and the valley of ashes are all examples of some of these symbols. The green light at the end of Daisy's dock symbolized Gatsby's longing for Daisy, ... nose" (27). The eyes look out over the va...

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... actions of a man in love but a man desperate for his past. When describing the fascinating dichotomy between West and East Egg, Fitzgerald emphasizes that West Egg was the less fashionable of the two. Hinting the word "fashionable" numerous times when describing East Egg accentuates the difference. Although both areas are extremely rich, they are differentiated by old money and new money. However, let ... Gatsby. Once again we question Nick's reliability as a narrator and why Fitzgerald would create such a storyteller. The diversity of the two "Eggs" continues when Nick portrays the hou...

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... The Great Gatsby, has attained the wealth that he so desired and lives in a gaudy mansion in New York's West Egg, where he practices a life of extravagance. New York's West Egg residential section in Contrast to its East Side is symbolic of the social hierarchies in America of the 1920's. The burgeoning economy ... 's library are actually real and not covers. Owl's statement is symbolic of the double standards and hypocrisy among the rich of the West and East Egg- how they use opulence to mask their moral depravity. Owls statements about Gatsby serves to show that there is something diffe...

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... Jay Gatsby and his neighbor Nick Carraway; Gatsby in a elegant mansion, Nick in a small cramped cottage. In more fashionable East Egg live Daisy and Tom Buchanan. Midway between West Egg and New York City lies a vast ash dump near, which are the garage and home of George and Myrtle Wilson. Significantly all the characters pass through this " valley of ashes, " a ... stare unfeelingly at the tragic events that happen before them. After serving in World War I and getting an education at Yale, Nick begins work as a bond salesman. Settled in West Egg, he renews his relationship with his co...

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... asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the stylish East Egg district of Long Island. She is ironic and somewhat cynical, and behaves apparently to mask her pain at her husband's constant infidelity. Tom Buchanan: ... freeloader who almost lives at Gatsby's mansion, taking advantage of Gatsby's wealth and generosity, but he failed to attend Gatsby's funeral. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a former classmate of Nick's at Yale. Daisy and Tom ...

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... Gatsby who is very mysterious and lives in a huge gothic mansion. Every Saturday night he throws extravagant parties. Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom Buchanan, live in East Egg Long Island. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to a friend of theirs named Jordan Baker. Tom and Daisy hint to Nick that they want him to start a relationship with her, which ... he does. Later on, Tom travels to the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. He goes there to visit his lover Myrtle Wilson. Tom takes Nick there with him to a party to meet M...

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Two locations can be across seas or be a mile from each other, and still have the same dramatic differences in physical appearance and morals. For example, West Egg and East Egg, West Hartford and East Hartford, or even New York and Baghdad all have striking differences. It can be the location that affects people's attitudes or morals; but at the same ... . Thus, the people within a location that have adopted the values of the community, can have a greater affect and influence on someone than the location itself. Nick Carraway arrives in West Egg from Chicago, expecting to have a simple life ...

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... others. After his return from War, Nick decides to move to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island. One weekend Nick gets together with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, a rich man who lives in West ... Egg who is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle, the wife of George Wilson, a Gas Station owner. On this night Nick is introduced to Jordan Baker, a friend of Daisy's and ... an acquaintance of Gatsby Nick's neighbor in West Egg, who lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant par...

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... a better and larger life who doesn't get caught up in the shallow, materialistic notions of most people doing the same thing. For instance, Nick ends up renting a house in West Egg that is "a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month" and is " squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season." (pp. 8-9). Nick's next door neighbor is ... Jay Gatsby. Nick's "second cousin once removed" was Daisy Buchanan who lived with her husband Tom in East Egg, just "[a]cross the courtesy bay" from West Egg (p. 10). After getting settled, Nick visits the Bu...

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... decided to move to New York to enter into the business of selling bonds. He settled down on an area of Long Island called West Egg, directly beside a more fashionable area of Long Island called West Egg. Across from him lived a rich man named Jay Gatsby who also was a World War I vet. Not far away lived a married couple Daisy and Tom Buchanan ... found out from Jordan, that Gatzby was once in love with Tom Buchanan's wife, Daisy. In fact the only reason that Gatzby had moved into the large mansion on West Egg was to be close to his lost love. Daisy soon rekindles the love between her an...

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... social classes are much more similar than they are different. We become aware very early on that when thrown into a "party" environment the snobby and reserved people of the East egg, the West eggers, who represent the new generation of wealth, and even the middle and some people of the lower class all act in very similar ways when placed in ... a free flowing setting. When we are first introduced to the East egg we are lead to believe that it is extremely well mannered and represents all that is good as far as old-fashioned values. We quickly come to realize that this ... says "Why" s...

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... threat of being implicated of Myrtles death she forgot about her love for Gatsby, went back to Tom for help and not even stopping to think about Gatsby left East Egg. This shows how much she values personal safety and an easier way out of situations compared to actual people and their feelings. This constant blindness in Daisy led her to ... I couldn't bear to shake him free [Nick]- [Pg 141]. This is proof of how he still felt when Daisy, is in her house packing up with Tom to leave East egg in order to save herself from questioning over Myrtle's death. Gatsby, on his side, is blind to ...

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... genetic and a possible alcoholism gene. (www.brainerd.com) It is believed that rather than a person developing into an alcoholic, their DNA predetermines it. The National Institute of Health is conducting the research. As of yet, there are many parts of a persons DNA that could lead to alcoholism and current research shows it may not be caused by a single gene. This multi-gene ... ...

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... the past many innocent people have been put to death but they point out that forensic science was not nearly as advanced at the time of Britain's last execution. As DNA has been more easily used to solve crime, people who were not responsible for the crimes they are charged with have more chance of proving their innocence before being put ... reinstated in Britain today. In Britain a man called James Hanratty was convicted and hung for the murder of government scientist Michael Gregsten and his mistress. A posthumous pardon was granted after DNA results proved that it could not have bee...

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... play a significant active role; he is only a passive observer. When Nick arrives in New York, he soon visits his relatives, the Buchanans, who live in East Egg. Nick resides in the nearby (and less fashionable) West Egg, where Gatsby also lives. Like Nick, Tom Buchanan is from a prominent family from the mid-west. Tom is a former athlete at Yale, a vulgar and insecure ... ...

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... Caraway, a native of Minnesota. Nick moves to the suburbs of New York in the summer of 1922 to pursue a career in the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, just across the bay from his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom. Throughout the movie, Nick visits Tom and Daisy periodically, and on one of those ... comes when Jordan informs Nick that Tom is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle (and her husband) live in the valley of ashes, a dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. As both the story and the summer progress, Nick fina...

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... life, and will go to any means necessary to get himself to this goal. The reader comes to know this man as Jay Gatsby, the fabulously wealthy resident of West Egg. From the views of Nick Caraway the reader sees that Gatsby is a man elevated to wealth by himself in the crime business, who has followed his dreams only to find ... ). Gatsby is known to the reader only by the stories and rumors that circulate the community. The people see him as a rich man, like all the others of the two Egg communities, who lives the good life and throws spectacular parties. The author has tricked the reade...

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... home, as his father was a drug addict and passed away when James was only fourteen. A mere five years later his stepfather died. Discrimination was something that was ingrained in Baldwin's DNA, and it ran the gamut from racism, to the bias against his sexual orientation. As he discovered his sexuality in his teen-age years, he continued to bear the burden ... ...

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... showed that up to 80 percent of the public supported capital punishment. Today, with crime rates down and some of Death Row inmates being exonerated by sophisticated techniques such as DNA testing, 66 percent of those polled say they support executions. In the 38 states and federal government that currently have death penalty statutes, five different methods of execution are prescribed ... ...

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... million, he helped define the method of scientific, corporate philanthropy, and he established a series of institutions for philanthropy. He also founded the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research that helped identify DNA as the crucial genetic material. He also established the General Education Board for the promotion of education within the United States, organized the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission, which aimed for the ... ...

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... Cavendish laboratory, headed by Sir Lawrence Bragg, to learn crystallography. There, he teamed up with 35-year-old grad student Francis Crick to work out a model for the structure of DNA, the double helix. They published this model in Nature in 1953. Watson shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins. At the time ... ...

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... . He is also a friend of mine. We went to the same college. Q: Could you give me his address? I would like to ask him some questions. A: Sure, he lives in East Egg. 200 Dosoris, Long Island, NY 11542 I took a picture of the mechanic and went directly to Tom Buchanan's. When I arrived at his house, he was about to leave for New York ... ...

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