... of this story never really knows the true character of Gatsby, for example, how he got all his money. I believe that Gatsby is an illusion created by Nick and that is the only place that can withhold such a being. Nick relied on Gatsby's fantasy of living in the past to see the reality of himself in the outside world. Ever since the beginning of the book the reader can tell that Nick ... is insecure. He calls himself non- judgmental, yet he is one of the most judgmental characters a person can read about. Before ... into his origin since he had a fixation, which was that he was missing...

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... women take in today's society. I really see what she said as all a girl's purpose to do is be pleasant and pretty and that is the role women have taken. I really think she is saying a lot and making a big statement that I agree with. Page 24 "Don't believe everything you hear Nick." ... I included this quote because it was a good thing to be considered in the story. The connection to previous actions in the story is that a lot of things that are told, are found out to be untrue. This shows that just because Nick may lie sometimes, he's not ... the only one. Gossip and rumor are a part ...

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The articles I read about Matthew Shepard, by James Brooke were horrifying. To think that human beings could do such an awful and hurtful thing to a fellow person just because they are ... happen everyday to all sorts of people. Matthew was hated against just because he was open about his sexual preference. He was tied to a tree, beaten, and was left in the freezing weather, begging for his life. Knowing that this just happened four years ago is a frightening thought. After so many years of learning how to be equal with other races ... been a part a hate crime that was so extreme. I've seen...

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... but they must also interact with these various cultures in a non-obtrusive or offensive way. Many of the journals and field-notes we have gone over in class are all written from a one-sided point of view. If an anthropologist were to immerse him or ... a little time to warm up to an individual whom I've never met before. I"d almost be on guard especially if this individual was documenting my behavior, I would change my personality to seem to be cool and relaxed. I assume the anthropologist would know my language so I would attempt to communicate with him or her, asking them various ......

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... you be able to relate to them? If you didn't know your friends how would you be able to help them? If you didn't know the skills of your work, how would you be able to work? In my eyes it all comes down to one thing, and that is knowledge ... . The bible says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge", and if you think about it, it's true. When I talk to people my age we ... cars, videos, clothes, sporting events, and things of that nature; they know everything. I can't remember having a conversation about the government with anyone my age, because it's something they don't know a...

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... an intense image of foliage shaking in their roots at the thought of the west wind's approach. As the poem progresses, Shelley puts a new twist on the idea of personification. Or, more accurately, Shelley reverses the idea of personification by attaching inanimate qualities to the person speaking in apostrophe form to the west wind. In the fifth stanza of the poem, the second line asks, "what if my leaves are falling ... or she's metamorphosis into a tree, but still compares their thoughts to "withered leaves" (Charters, p. 872) Finally, in the fourth to last line of the poem, the speak...

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... of his hated uncle, Hamlet exclaims "Frailty thy name is woman!" He leaps from the single example of his mother's impulsive behaviour and condemns all women for all time. This is the first of many comments by Hamlet and others, about the sometimes mysterious ways in which people change. Every thought in Hamlet's first soliloquy is painful. Hamlet reveals ... " she had shown "wicked speed, to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!" Hamlet choice of vocabulary - "dexterity" - suggests that the queen has suddenly changed into some sort of cunning sexual athlete. This first soliloq...

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... even possible and a whole new world opened up for me. Because it is something special about losing yourself within yourself, having a clear mind and just being in the moment. I went into some very deep meditative states where I felt my whole body floating above my physical body, also known as astral projection. I heard voices ... began to understand that there is more to life than we think it is and everything didn't seem that tragic anymore. I got to know myself in a whole new way, the real me and suddenly I stopped hating my body. I rejected all negative thoughts because they had no rig...

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The reason I choose "The Road Not Taken" by the great Robert Frost is simply because I like this it. Not only is it written by Frost who is my favorite poet but is about being a nonconformist, which I think I am. In lines 18-20 "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." Frost is trying to get the point ... across that it is ok not to do what everyone else does just the be yourself. The speaker of this poem is the author Robert Frost. The occasion of this poem is a choice, it could be anything whether ... . Also, I think he is...

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... how insignificant they may seem, all serve a purpose and have consequences to them. In "The Necklace", Madame Loisel chooses to not tell her friend that she lost the necklace and spends 10 years of her life trying to pay for the new one. That is a consequence, or an effect. The choice that she made served as a blessing in disguise. You see, before, Mme. Loisel ... was a quite materialistic driven person, who longed for the riches that she thought made a woman. After undergoing those ten very unpleasant and horrible years, she became a real woman. One with grace and inner beauty, whom ev...

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... writer. Also women who had the gift to write could have been writing great novels. For example Judith, Shakespeare's sister had, "the quickest fancy, a gift like her brother's for the tune of words. Like him she had a taste for the theater." She just did not have an opportunity to express the gift that had been given to ... could do it as well as men, even write better than men, because women were more sensitive and could understand things better. The second reason, is that women in the 16th century would have been writers, if they would have been married a little bit older than they were...

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... is an issue that not many people think about, and that most can not even define because of the wide variety of cultures that live here. These differences in our mannerisms and culture could effect our society so much that we ... from ten provinces and three territories to four provinces and three territories in a time frame of a few years. One of the things that I feel separates a Canadian from any other nationality is the role of culture and heritage. When immigrants come to Canada from another country, they are encouraged to remember their other identity, language ... not true, althou...

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... , if they were up in Minnesota or I was down in Tennessee, maybe we"d be friends. Then I started thinking; maybe it was the same for my great-great-grandfather. That reb who shot him in the leg was probably a farmer like him, and about the same age. If they"d ever had a chance to talk instead of shoot each other, maybe that whole bloody mess would have ... reading it. Once I started reading I found it interesting and started to forget about the length. Confederates in the Attic is a great book and very educational. While I was reading this book, I recognized facts about the battles and o...

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... played many times before but with different rules. Knowing how to play the game and think a bit before I started was very much like Machiavelli. My strategies to begin included thinking about what I was going to do to try and win and take great risks in doing so with out hurting myself or destroying myself. ", ... since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power." (8). This shows that you can take over countries or ... brings up another lessen Machiavelli has to teach in being loved and being hated and by which people it is okay ...

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... also in adolescence. So, I see easily people who are in trouble. There are two characters, which tell adolescent life. Holden, a protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye, and Paul, a main character of Six Degrees of Separation, represent our adolescence very well. They do not have any direction to live and ... and teachers help us. But Holden and Paul do not have any of them. Holden has his parents, but they are helpless and never appeared in the story. Therefore Holden and Paul could not think their future. Holden and Paul are immature. They lie to others and they have no direction. Howeve...

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... deal with and endure no matter how difficult they became. The best example of bravery in the book would be Atticus. Everyone in the town doubted him and hated him for defending a black man, but he stood up to the pressure and did what he knew was right. "The one thing that doesn't abide by the majority rule is a person's conscience." (P. 105, ch. 11) He didn ... did what he knew he had to do, what was right in his heart. Mrs. Dubose shows us bravery throughout the book as she battles her addiction of morphine. She is misjudged by the children, they do not like her because of the way she...

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... picking a satisfactory partner like beauty, body contour, class, etc. They seldom search for a person who has a good personality. Most people nowadays judge the person by his/her physical looks before considering having him/her as a partner. People of the older times just allow love to take place. It is only now that a person tries to manipulate someone he/she likes to make ... her/him fall in love with him/her. The individual chooses strategically where to take the person and what to do in every place they go to. The most embarrassing thing that people do nowadays is that they use fanc...

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... has a certain way about him a certain way that he tends to flow to and that way is something that I like to call existentialism. The definition in my words would have to be A man or woman that is not isolated by their experience of a universe that is indifferent and hostile ... . Emphasizing humans freedom of choice to make meaning of world by creating their own lifestyles and changing ethics by the beings around them. Now for another characteristic of Grendel and that would be nihilistic this is when u think nothing is real no moral values . ... immature and unable to form complete ph...

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... people have no idea what they've just done. They play for a while, and lose a couple of hundred dollars and then get up to let another try. The pro just sits there and exclaims "I"m just lucky I guess". Well, we"d all be "lucky" if we could tell when others are lying or not. This pro feeds off ... the facial expressions and body movements of his opponents, and therefore doesn't even really need to know what is in his own hand. If he knows that his competition is ... so much. We all have lied. Probably 999 people out of 1000 will admit to lying at least a few times in their life, and the...

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... can keep his mid off it. But when he returns home, and looks around, the visions of his wife reappears. "But, ah, the long nights when the wind comes shaking The cold black curtain, pulling and jerking, and no one there in the bed to be near you," when he comes home he can only see four walls ... home from work and there is no one to talk to. When he goes to bed, there is no one to sleep beside him. The theme of this poem suggests loneliness. "I look in the houses, when twilight narrows, And in each a man comes back to a woman," he envies he co-workers because when they come home ... wou...

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... tough girl; she wants to be better then everyone else. Sylvia is very nave and ignorant to the world outside of her neighborhood. We see this when Miss Moore is telling the children that they all live in the slums and how they are all poor and Sylvia just doesn't understand what she is talking about. ... Sylvia gets to FAO Schwartz thinking that she is better than everyone else and that everyone lives the way she does. "Good Country People- is written in third person point of view. Hulga is the protagonist in the story. Hulga feels out of place and miserable where she is; she has no soc...

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... she had planned had somehow never developed. Julian knew she somehow had to make the time to get away from the office. Making the plans was even difficult for her. She had experience with the fact that anything planned could and would be postponed. The cell phone attached to her hip was a verifier of this fact. Julian thought of her tiny, noisy wonder of technology ... as a cell mate. She never could leave it and she had to talk to it. Oh, the days when life was exciting. What had her life turned in to? A busy, overworked mess enveloped in her tall statue. Her life was no longer hers. T...

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... " sense of hearing and his madness that he gives away the fact that he killed the old man. Conceived within his mind, the murder has little or none to do with the victim, the motive is unclear and the murder is unprovoked. The "disease" of madness within the person causes the conflict in this story, person versus himself. The narrator's belief in his madness causes him to believe that he ... a murder because he would not make mistakes. He sees himself as the perfect madman, smarter than most and able to see how great madness can be. The idea that he convinces himself of his capabilities ...

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... own choices without any determinism of their ultimate fate. One's life is self-deceiving and inevitably determined through choice and chance with no separation between the two. The interpretation of this poem is often misconstrued due to the memorization of its lines that are never truly read. Frost's poem has become easily recognizable through its references in commercials, television shows, and other publicized ... one refers to this poem, they often think of it as one where the individual standing in the woods makes a triumphant decision to differ from the crowd and take the "road le...

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... other people with money because she just gets jealous and angry looking at what she could someday be. She has a friend, a former schoolmate at the convent, who was rich, and whom she did not like to go see because of her wealth. Mathilde acts very selfish towards her husband. He sacrifices ... his whole life earnings for her and Mathilde shows no appreciation for anything. All she wants is a different lifestyle. The evening of the party had given her a moment to relax and think about her dreams in which she once thought of before as never coming true. For once ... is plunged into povert...

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