... . Jay Gatsby later that month. Then he sees what a party thrown by Gatsby is like, with all the rich and famous people attending this amusement park of a party. I enjoy greatly this specific party scene because many people whom I have encountered that have read this book excited me with vague descriptions of Gatsby's regale in regards to social functions. Following this party, Gatsby brings ... report of what he has found out about Gatsby and how Gatsby garnered all the money he had. I see this as the climactic moment of the book, because here Gatsby, like an onion, has been peeled back ...

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... photographer, and Nick's disillusionment with attending wild parties. Then he receives an invitation from Mr. Jay Gatsby. He sees what a party thrown by Gatsby is like - all the rich and famous people attending this amusement park of a party. Following this party, Gatsby brings Nick along for lunch in New York with a special guest, Meyer Wolfsheim. Meyer to me seems to be a very ... classic gangster (which in my opinion were the best criminals America has seen for no other reasons than that they fed the poor and housed them as well as created ... from his grief, he confronts Tom with a...

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... stress on your life, or if your children are beginning to be to much for you, and mabye even school is putting your life into overload mode. The best medicine to treat these kind of problems in your life is to take a vacation to somewhere where you can get a little rest and relaxation. There ... example. If you enjoy site seeing, this is the city to do it in. Alot of great sites here, such as, The Statue of Liberty is the top 10 sites to see in America. Another is Time Square or even Central Park is calming. You can walk on the park trails and clear you mind or just have fun ... taking...

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... State from France to honor the friendship the two live through during the American Revolution. The represent of liberty is a woman, The Liberty represents freedom and opportunity for immigrants. It was built on September 1875. "Auguste Bartholdi was the French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty"(National Park). Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel was the following designer of the interior structural elements of the Statue of Liberty. He also created ... the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. The French and U.S shared similar political views and situations in 1865, and France gave ... ...

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... very much. Pony and Johnny fall asleep in the lot by Ponyboy's house after the movie. When Pony tries to go home at two in the morning his brother Darry gets angry and hits him. This is when the trouble begins. Ponyboy goes and gets Johnny and they run to the park to help Ponyboy cool down from the event which just happened. Well just when things ... couldn't get worse, 5 socs come up and start taunting Ponyboy and Johnny, calling them white trash and what not. The socs start beating them up as the greasers are outnumbered. One of them tries to drown Pony in ... Johnny he passes out ag...

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... his lifetime, supervised his early education until he was fourteen years of age. Franklin D. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on the 30th of January Roosevelt grew up at his parent's lavish estate, Springwood, overlooking the Hudson River in Hyde Park. At the age of fourteen Franklin D. Roosevelt began his more advanced education at Groton School, a preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts. He ... graduated from the school in 1900. In the fall of the same year, Franklin enrolled at Harvard University. He majored in history and earned ... fair grades. Franklin joined the intramural...

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... York City. It is by far a wonder of man's creation, an impressive Beaux work of Art. Yet it is not the first creation of a railroad system neither in its place on Forty-second Street and Park Avenue nor with the name "Grand Central." In 1869, "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt bought the property between Forty-second and Forty-eight streets to build a new train depot for ... the Hudson River Railroad, which he over took in 1863. It shared an East side terminal and named Grand Central Depot. This ... stone reaching measurements of 470ft long, 160ft wide and 150ft high. In the middle of th...

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... In 1927 William Van Alen began that direction when William H. Reynolds, a real-estate speculator as famous as the impresario behind the Dreamland Park at Coney Island. Reynolds commissioned Alen to design a 40-story at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. . As Van Alen worked on the project Reynolds then sold the land to Walter P. Chrysler. Who then had Alen abandoned his original plans for ... the 40-story building. Instead Chrysler wanted the world's tallest skyscraper - a design that would spare no extravagance what so ever in catching the ... topped with a pyramid crown to a building B...

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... , "For decades, heroin was mostly found in the urban sections of the island's north, where the ferry docks from Manhattan and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge touches down from Brooklyn. It afflicted the borough's poorest areas, with sales concentrated in open-air markets at a few notorious housing developments like Stapleton and Park Hill." All in all, the open-air drug market has created a lot of sorrow ... in the streets of New York City. Crime will always increase due to the rapid trade of illegal substances. Although death is ... the last stage of a criminal act, the role that has to b...

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... must have been like and how it was the foundation of what things are like today in the present. Seeing the history of an area that I grew up around, yet not knowing much about, really was an eye opener. The Brooklyn Navy Yard is 300-acre industrial park is located between Williamsburg and the Manhattan Bridges and sits on Wallabout Bay. When I state that is represents ... the past, it is because of the different things that occurred for ... it to be such a success today. In the past, women working were not very common especially in a male ... ...

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... Award nominations for his television writing and then decided to move on to the stage where he quickly established himself as America's most successful commercial playwright. He created a string of Broadway hits beginning with Come Blow Your Horn, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity and The Star Spangled Girl. During the 1970-71 season, Broadway theatergoers had their choice of Plaza Suite, Last ... of the Red Hot Lovers, and Promises, Promises. Still, praise came slowly for Simon. Even having more smash hits than any ... ...

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... published by Grossett and Dunlap in New York, 1906. The purpose of this book is to understand the importance of adult care and teaching. If you are not taught as a young child how to become a successful human being then you will not be successful. If you are treated as an animal (as those in the book) you will become a human but only to know what ... the rights and wrongs are for an animal. The human being is a species that needs to be cared for their entire child hood. There are only a group of people that I would ... recommend this book to, and that is those who don't understand the ...

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... of all this I have taken a very long look at my life. Have I lived a good life? Was I a good Senator, secretary of Navy, and president? Was I good father, husband, son? Have I made the right decisions in life and for my family and country? These questions have been going through my head all day long. I started of thinking back to when I was a small boy ... growing up in Hyde Park, New York; this is in Dutchess County. I became extremely fascinated with birds. I loved to watch them and look at them in all their beautiful colors, and how each of their ... wonderful person. A person who I...

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... success, ignorance, judgement of others, disillusions, and moral values. There are a lot of different lessons that can also be learned from this book. Hope can be interpreted as a theme and hope also explains one of the symbols in the book. Hope is represented by the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. Jay hopes that one day his love with Daisy can get back to ... it comes to success and money. Nick didn't know anything about himself when he first moved to New York. All of the characters in this book have little self-knowledge and they know even less about each other. But many of th...

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... into a by-gone era where young girls are sold to be raised as geisha, and where their virginity is sold to the highest bidder. The book is written as a sort of autobiography about one of Gion's most celebrated and respected geisha, although it is actually a novel. Memoirs of a Geisha is Golden's first novel. It is extremely ... well researched, as it provides an accurate account of the life of a geisha. The book follows the progress of a small girl, Chiyo-chan, as she finds herself going through all sorts of cruelty as she trains to be become a geisha. Chiyo-chan had a very unglamorous ...

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... in a war. Billy was an optometrist. Billy has no fear of dying. After each death in the story he says, "So it goes". The conflict in this book is that no one believes Billy about the Trafalmadores and how he was captured and taken through time. Every one thinks he is insane. They blame ... shot before he has a chance to convince others of his captivity on Trafalmadore or his ability to time travel to the past and to the future, this is the climax of the conflict. In this book German soldiers in World War II captured Billy Pilgrim. When he was released he was assigned to work hard labor i...

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... success, ignorance, judgement of others, disillusions, and moral values. There are a lot of different lessons that can also be learned from this book. Hope can be interpreted as a theme and hope also explains one of the symbols in the book. Hope is represented by the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. Jay hopes that one day his love with Daisy can get back to ... it comes to success and money. Nick didn't know anything about himself when he first moved to New York. All of the characters in this book have little self-knowledge and they know even less about each other. But many of th...

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... is a work of fiction and a tragic-comedy. I came to choose it because I heard it is about a boy who is around my age. In this book, the main character, Holden Caulfield, tells us a story about what happened during his Christmas vacation. Holden is a sixteen-year-old boy who has flunked out of a private prep school. Because he ... well, but I feel sorry for him because nobody can understand his dream, and it is not realistic. Holden seems to be too good a person to be in this corrupt world. The style of this book is unusual because it is told by a sixteen-year-old boy who appears to be ...

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... , and who belongs where in what part of the social circle. They sit at the top of the list and look down upon all the people who struggle their entire lives trying to be good enough to be accepted, and always living in fear of their actions. In the book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton, the main characters go through their days trying to live ... up to the standards of the society of "Old New York ... ", and worry about the reputation of their family names more than that of their own well being. From this ... ...

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... , and who belongs where in what part of the social circle. They sit at the top of the list and look down upon all the people who struggle their entire lives trying to be good enough to be accepted, and always living in fear of their actions. In the book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton, the main characters go through their days trying to live ... up to the standards of the society of "Old New York ... ", and worry about the reputation of their family names more than that of their own well being. From this ... ...

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... just assumed it was all fact. I knew from reading the Preface that there were going to be two parts of the book. The first part of the book sets the stage for the battle and the actual standoff itself by giving the history and character profiles of some of the major players in the battle. The second part deals a little with the actual battle and focuses mainly on how Americans let popular trends ... influence the way they viewed the events of the battle and its significance. It ... did not take long before the Alamo was seen ... ...

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... arguing that this novel shouldn't be read by mature people to gain intellectual insight. But, the problem is, with the book's profanity, religious and sexual nuances, and the main character's defiant example, it degrades the upright moral credo of high school and should not be part of the curriculum. The Catcher in the Rye is narrated in an easy, unfussy train of thought containing a great deal of profane ... school. And, even if they can afford to, they could get into much more serious situations that getting punched by Maurice the pimp. The book is promoting premature independence and...

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... proof of tenement life. It gives faces to the victims of these oppressive conditions. The writings of this book were based on and influenced by the photography done in the tenements by Riis. This book would not exist without flashlight powder and the detective camera. Photography of the time is the greatest influence on the book and the introduction makes the reader realize this. The introduction also told us why many of these conditions ... may have existed. He also points out the conflicting views of the cause of such poverty, the social Darwinists and the social conditions ... ...

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... sympathy for the main character and his family. The book is very depictive and sets the mood for hope initially, then disaster. The hardships the characters endure are realistic in setting. The main point of the story unfolds gradually as the characters arrive in America and their discoveries are revealed about the economic structure of their environment. The reader then understands the place of the immigrants in society whom also capture the gruesome business ... of meat packaging all in the same note. The ... ...

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A Boy At War I chose the book A Boy At War written by Harry Mazer for my book report. The main character in the book A Boy At War is a boy named Adam. Adam's father was a Lieutenant in the United States Navy. Their family was required to move around a lot. Adam went from military school to military school. He never really could ... call any town a home. He was known as a military brat. At the time this book was written, Adam and his family had just moved to Honolulu, Hawaii. Adam would have to start this school year late. He was in high school. ... grandfather had lived. By now Adam had sta...

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• Grade Level: High School