... how he made his fortune. Later in the novel Nick finds out that Gatsby real name is James Gatz and was born on a farm in North Dakota and was working for a millionaire that encouraged him to the achievement of wealth. While Gatsby was in training to be an officer in Louisville he ... looking through Gatsby's library amazed that the books are real. He is one of the few people to attend Gatsby's funeral. Ewing Klipspringer: A good-for-nothing 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 d...

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... being sold, as a young adult's novel. There was a movie and plays made about it, and today there are still many high schools that use this book for English classes. The Outsiders is about a gang. They live in a city in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis, a 14 year old greaser, tells the story. Other characters ... . The author has created the personality of the characters through the descriptions of Ponyboy "the narrator "and through their actions. Here is an example for a description of Ponyboy: Quote "Steve Randle was seventeen, tall and lean, with thick greasy hair he kept combed in complicated...

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... . The memorial is the first erected on the National Mall that honors an African American and the first to honor a non-president - a fact that has led some to criticize the memorial (Collins). Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, of which King was a member of, is responsible for the memorial. They lobbied Congress to ... commented Gary Pettway of Sweetwater, TN, who is also a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Pettway and his fraternity brothers made the trip to DC for the dedication (Collins). The service began with President Barack Obama and included Young, Lowery, Martin Luther King III...

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... that he could never have obtained if he had lived with his parents. Poe was sent to teachers at age five, and even had private schooling in England for the short stint that he lived there. He was very gifted in the languages, some of his early works were written in both French and Latin (Poe ... had been in all of his other schools, and his translations were remembered as "precisely correct" (Edgar's teens.). However, John Allan did not send enough money for his living expenses so Edgar took to gambling. When he came home with a debt of $2,500, John would not pay it and he would also not ...

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... . This marked the beginning of the controversy around Madonna. Her performance at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards was controversial, where she was rolling on the floor in a wedding dress. On the Blond Ambition tour she almost got arrested for obscenity, because she was simulating sex during her performance. Madonna look-alike contests became popular in shopping malls and clubs nationwide. This was ... soundtrack disc I'm Breathless. Madonna starred in the film with Warren Beatty, and resembled both physically and vocally Marilyn Monroe once again. She didn't stay with that look for long....

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... Little Havana, calling the place he was raised "the sheltered environment of an ethnic enclave." He longs for Miami as he feels it the only place he can "inhale Cuban oxygen." As the years go by in Chapel Hill, the tight grasp he has on Cuba slowly starts to loosen as he begins to take hold of his American side. He didn ... , he allowed it to happen. Overwhelming his children with Cuban culture and leaving no room for American culture led Firmat to conclude that his kids may soon not feel at home in their home. This is the last thing he wants. Ultimately, he gives up on his "project of r...

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... following the 2002 Superbowl after the Patriots won. Later in September of 2001 a group of today's superstar artists joined together in New York City for a nonprofit fundraiser. This involved various artists collaborating to remake Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On", and people could call a phone number to raise money to help stop the spread of AIDS in Africa. In light of the events ... we are capable of overcoming anything as his team overcame great odds against them the whole season. Seeing these athletes, celebrities and musicians react to the events that happened on the morning of Sept...

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... off-white container. The vase is centered, almost as if it were the centerpiece of a kitchen or even a dining room table. In the vase, flowers. Irises. Dark green stalks matching the table, with brown leaves, leaving room for interpretation. Dramatic shadows, or dehydrated and dying. Either way, sad. Dozens of once beautiful blossoms, sapphire blue with white streaks. Thin white streaks. Just ... try and build. The tension released. An intellectual orgasm. Something to bring out "who I was."" I looked at the picture and saw the flowers for what they were. Wilted, but still beautiful. It...

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... Romance" (Cather 205). His experience at Carnegie Hall also shows Paul's ability to judge other people based purely on class and wealth. When his teacher came to the opera, "Paul was startled for a moment, and had the feeling of wanting to put her out; what business had she here among all ... these fine people and gay colors?" (Cather 200) While on the other hand Paul lost himself in the soloist and the show, ... in the ideas of indulgence and prestige that the hotel represented. He finally returned home to the middle class house which he expressed his hatred for, climbing in the basem...

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... off-white container. The vase is centered, almost as if it were the centerpiece of a kitchen or even a dining room table. In the vase, flowers. Irises. Dark green stalks matching the table, with brown leaves, leaving room for interpretation. Dramatic shadows, or dehydrated and dying. Either way, sad. Dozens of once beautiful blossoms, sapphire blue with white streaks. Thin white streaks. Just ... try and build. The tension released. An intellectual orgasm. Something to bring out "who I was."" I looked at the picture and saw the flowers for what they were. Wilted, but still beautiful. It...

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... The size of the bloom relative to a human really reflected the relative importance of nature and mankind in the artist's eyes. Okeefe's Black Iris is noted for it's sexual suggestiveness but Okeefe insisted she was representing the flower itself. When Stieglitz's wife gave him a divorce in 1924, he and Georgia were married ... a unique way of depicting the desert that other artist's would not imitate the way they did her flowers. "The bones seen to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even though it is vast and empty and untoutchable...and knows no kin...

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... last April 1999 at Columbine High School that left 15 students dead and made the gun-control debate a top policy concern for many people in America. The report in "legal gun sales report" (Butterfield, 2000) found that the five guns that moved the fastest from dealers to juveniles and young adults and ended ... . There are increased efforts of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms to trace guns. These are tighter federal restrictions imposed on gun purchases by the so-called Brady law of 1994, named after James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was wounded in the ...

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... seeing shootings take place. After listening to what these kids have been through, it is hard to believe that this is still our wealthy, justice for all,land of opportunities? country. When Kozol goes to talk to groups of children whose ages range from seven to eighteen, he encourages them ... be happy because they would never need to come here anymore. People in Manhattan could go on and lead their lives and not feel worried about being robbed and not feel guilty and not need to pay for welfare babies.? (Kozol, 39) The children in this book have been dealt very unfortunate ... book, th...

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... and numerous others. Like many scientists, Charles Darwin experimented with his theory of evolution and natural sciences. Through trial and error, he performed experiments involving the cross pollination of flowers to portray his theory that cross pollinated offspring would survive better than self-pollinators. He wrote a simple procedure and his methodology behind his theory. By proving it correct, other ... this with emotion, feelings and thoughts that affect them enough to solve the problem. However, viewing art and paintings in a broader perspective, it can raise more questions than ...

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... In other word "by no means would anyone from a lower class be caught in an uptown setting" (Doughty). All different classes were for the most part separated by where people lived. There is a variety of characters in the novel The Great Gatsby that comes from different economic acquirements. ... quot;geographical locations separate social classes" (Hoggart 204). Hoggart explains how different geographical areas have a contrasting economy, social statues, and standard of living. For example East Egg represents old wealth. The characters from East Egg acquire wealth from previous years but h...

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... on someone hiding in a dumbwaiter shaft. Another "doctored an escape rope used by drug dealers so they would plunge to the ground and the same group also raided a brothel while in uniform and terrorized and raped the women there." Furthermore, civil claims filed against New York City for police misconduct have been rising steadily for some years. A report ... increase of 31.8% was noted for the first six months of 1995 (the last figures available) compared to the first six months of 1994. In addition to physical brutality, the sample of cases reviewed by Amnesty International, their repo...

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... Unmonitored subways entrances will invite crime." Mark Green who is also running for mayor released a report in June stating, "The proposed cutback would pose a significant security risks or inconvenience to scores of riders."(8) With token booth clerks on subway platforms, what other situation will arrive from this? Some of ... otherwise wouldn't be there. But there are other issues pertaining to the new vending machines. In August 1999, there was a report out on MetroCards buyers getting overcharged by the vending machines through the use of credit cards. "Hundreds of riders who bough...

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... America in search of opportunities, a better and richer life, and prosperity. Every country has its own problems and situations to drive their citizens away and for this reason, some immigrants seek a life in America. In the book Ashes of Roses written by Mary Jane Auch, the protagonist Rose Nolan travels to ... quot; Elsa shrieked. "Especially a girl. You have no sense Margaret. No sense at all" (Auch, 83) . This was true because jobs for girls were very scarce and the ones that were available treated workers differently because of their gender. When Rose was able to find a job, she was ...

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... Tupac had a really hard time as a child moving from New York City to Brooklyn to the Bronx. When Shakur was a teenager he attended Baltimore school for Arts where there he took acting and dancing classes, he also had no contact with his biological father, Billy Garland until he grew up and became an adult ... in the sexual assault case ("Tupac"). As he was growing up in the rap industry he soon became a sensation and began being praised for his musical and acting talent, he later discovered rap then started performing in New York in the 1980s he moved to the West Coast and that is ... qu...

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... a race car literally off the street and compete against similar entries."  Contrary to popular belief, street racing isn't only found on the fast moving streets of the major cities, its going on all over the country. Recent articles published on MSNBC.com report on street drag racing as an increasing problems in such out of the way places as Spokane, Washington and Forth Worth, Texas ... ; other articles found on www.abc.com report on accidents and coverage of events in Washington D.C., Boston and New York City. Los Angeles County is a big street racing scene however, was recently given...

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... to move with his older half sister, Ella, in Boston, MA. This was Malcolm's first major decision he has ever made and things changed for Malcolm when he moved to Boston. Malcolm appreciated the culture that the city offered like the life in which black people had. It differed from the ... get into a life of crime. He started pimping, drug using , drug selling,and stealing. His attitude changed from this move he made. Malcolm worked for a railroad company where he would visit New York City to party in nightclubs. He describes Harlem lifestyle vividly. His nickname was Detroit Red which ca...

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... ; creating in a way their own little society. In their society they organize and participate in violent , unlawful, antisocial or other criminal acts making them for the most part feared or hated. In gangs ,members are encouraged to keep up their behavior and follow the traditions of the gang no matter who has ... help but hear about stories of early gangs from the 1800's to early 1900's . In the wild west outlaws freely ran throughout all of the west on horses stopping in towns to rob banks or just cause trouble in whatever way they could find. Creating themselves a symbol or a name so...

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... ," and including supporting comments by other people such as, " Democrats gleefully pointed out that a Giuliani press release misspelled "Niagara County."/"I'd rather vote for someone from Arkansas than someone from New York City," said Leroy Brown, 64, a former factory worker who now drives a cab in Binghamton. ... catch the subconscious of the reader. The Editors of Brainstorm Magazine wrote an article to positively support and "endorse" Hillary Clinton in her election for Senator of New York. The tone that they use in their article is pleasing, writing "Hillary and New York -- a natur...

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... fast, without reloading. The law requires citizens to be twenty-one to buy one. Purdy, who had expressed his dislike for Asian immigrants and Asian-Americans, opened fire on an elementary schoolyard full of Asian-American children, firing 106 rounds, killing five and wounding thirty before taking his own life. ... Littleton Colorado. The U.S. needs to have some sort of federal law to control all this mayhem. In Florida, 200 people attended a statewide conference on school violence in early May of 1993. The Sunshine State has seen school violence increase more than thirty-four percent fr...

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... and photographic evidence by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) about the spread of hazardous materials above Canal Street, becoming the basis for a second argument from Community Board #2. The essence of that argument is that areas above Canal Street have also been affected by the same ... Quality (CEQ), on behalf of the White House, which was concerned that New York businesses and the New York Stock Exchange would not function as usual. A conflict existed in as much as the EPA is the federal agency responsible for the remediation of hazardous materials outside and ... reports,...

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