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Delanie Colborne AP Literature and Composition Bowman 12 April 2016 Title? The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the withering American dream by focusing on the importance of money and social class during the twenties. Throughout the novel the reader clearly sees the separation between classes and how they are presented. Fitzgerald’s work shows the absurdities of social standards and the boundaries that are set because materialistic values are altering the lives of Americans as they…

fashionable of the two…Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of the fashionable East Egg glittered along the water,” while Carraway’s house stood “squeezed between two huge places…an eye-sore” (9-10). Carraway also states that Gatsby’s house is “spanking new,” while the Buchanans’ house is a “colonial,” which is…

Many people have their own ways of how to raise their children. There are different ways parents teach their kids how to do certain things. I think it has a lot to do with how the parent was raised, not always but majority of the time. Parents have a big responsibility when they start to have kids and increasing the number of children they want to have. I want to have four children at this point, but later on down the road I may change my mind. Parenting is a big deal to me. When I have kids I…

Child Abuse What is child abuse? “Child abuse is when a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failing to act, causes injury, death, emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child (https://www.childhelp.org)”. In the United states there are thousands of reported cases dealing with child abuse and is very common it seems like. Child abuse is something that we can prevent or we can stop if we look at the signs children use. Child abuse needs to stop! Kids deserve respect just as much…

My immediate family is made up of my father Edward, my mother Melaine, and my brother Antorius. I also live with my grandparents William and Mary. I also live very close to most of my family members on my mother’s side. My great-grandfather split his farmland among his eight children. They each got two acres to build a house on for their family. Most of the children still live on the farmland, so I see most of my family members on a daily basis. Everyone in my family is very family-oriented.…

The five chapters that I read from Ethnicity and Family Therapy (McGoldrick, Giordano & Garcia-Preto, 2005) where about Native Americans, Native Hawaiian families, British West Indian families, and Haitian families (2-4 & 8-9 chapters). I was very excited about this assignment and very much enjoyed reading about these cultures. Any and all details I can learn about Native Americans I find really enjoyable. These details will help me with my current job as well. In the Native American…

West Egg, he is astounded by the massive mansion that is majestically perched to the right of him. He describes the home as “a colossal affair by any standard- it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin bead of raw ivy,” and comes to the conclusion that his small dwelling is within “the consoling proximity of millionaires” (Fitzgerald…

An extensive amount of children experience child abuse in today’s society that affects them during maltreatment and in their future lives. The importance of this research is to indicate what child abuse is, what types of child maltreatment are, how it will both the current and future life of a child, and what ways there are to help kids who have or are experiencing abuse. Scientist, therapist and many researching have been performing studies on kids who have experienced any type of child abuse…

Tiger Mom Parenting As a group of young students walked around Kennedy Middle School, they talked about their parents and how they were screamed at by their unyielding mothers at home. They talked about how bad they felt when their mothers even composed a harangue for them. All around the world, people have recognized the parenting strategy called “Tiger Mom Parenting”. This type of parenting has produced extraordinary results. Piano and violin prodigies, mathematical geniuses, computer whizzes…

The setting that is most accessible and relevant to the reader is the one that is grounded in realism. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the setting is shown to be realistic and is used as an effective way to highlight the relevance of his messages to the reader. The setting is shown through contrast and symbolism. The juxtaposition shown is between the setting of glamorous East Egg, West Egg and New York, and the desolate wasteland of the Valley of the Ashes. The setting…