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    Popular Canadian Author, Gordon Korman, who is also the author of the Bruno and Boots Series, has written a new book- Son of the Mob. It was published in 2002 by Hyperion books. The setting of the book is in New York City, where seventeen-year-old Vince Luca begins dating the daughter of a FBI agent, Kendra Bightly. It just happens that Vince's father also has a strange job, a 'vending machine fixer' as they call it. Actually, Anthony Luca is the head of organized crime in New York City.…

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    The cliche that money cannot buy one happiness clearly applies to The Great Gatsby because its primary focus is showing the upper class of American society in the 1920’s as unhappy. The essence of this book looks into the lives of these seemingly blissful people and concludes that their constant pursuit of pleasure denies them joy. The constant pursuit of pleasurable gain portrayed by Fitzgerald cannot result in gratification because there is no ultimate pleasure; it is just a fruitless chase…

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    In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a large focus is put on the evolving presence of women in society throughout the early 20th century. During the period following World War One, and predating the Great Depression, women began to be seen in a different light. They were granted some of the same fundamental freedoms as men. They were given the right to vote in elections; the right to property ownership as well as the ability to work in roles formerly filled by men. In popular culture…

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    Nick Caraway who is the narrator of the story moves to New York City in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in West Egg, Long Island, which is where the Newly rich live. He also has connection to East Egg because Daisy Buchanan is his cousin. Jay Gatsby, Nick 's next door neighbor ,lives in a gothic looking mansion and he throws amazing parties every Saturday night. It is as if he is trying to impress someone. Nick isn 't like any of his neighbors. He went to…

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    The Great Gatsby takes place in the Roaring Twenties. During the Roaring Twenties society’s morals were lowered. The reason that the society had lowered their morals was because they wanted to live extravagantly so that they could forget the war. The society in The Great Gatsby are murderers, adulterers, deceitful, and materialistic. These qualities portray do not portray the lifestyle of a Christian, but that of a wicked person. Many of the characters in The Great Gatsby exhibit those sinful…

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    (1)The person most responsible for Gatsby’s death would have to be Tom Buchanan, husband of Daisy Buchanan, due to the fact that Tom not only feels jealous of the relationship he suspects Daisy and Gatsby have but he also lied. When they have dinner at Tom and Daisy’s house Gatsby confronts Tom about Daisy and Daisy finally confesses about her true feelings towards Tom. He even had Gatsby investigated. When Myrtle gets hit by the car that Daisy was driving, her husband goes out looking for the…

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an English Philosopher whose work was influential especially in the eighteenth century. Some of his main works include the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, and the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Both of these works were written in response to prompts from the Academy of Dijon. For the first discourse, the prompt was, “Has the restoration of the sciences and arts tended to purify morals?” and for the second discourse the prompt was, "What is the origin of…

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    Blue In The Great Gatsby

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    Blue, in its many variations, is prevalent all over the world--in the color of the sky, the feathers of a bluejay, and even in the music genre “the blues.” No matter what form it may be in, blue serves as a color symbolic to people of all ages, being the traditional color to represent, in the simplest of terms, sadness. Mentioned numerous times throughout the The Great Gatsby, there is no question that the color blue serves as more than simply a descriptor. Similarly to other colors, such as…

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    In the story of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott. Fitzgerald, the two towns of West and East Egg are created. West Egg is established as an area for new money or people that just were not born into their wealth and had to earn it themselves. On this side, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway settle next to each other. However, Nick is not “new money” and instead is living in what looks like a shack near his neighbor’s homes. As for Gatsby, his house is one of the most extravagant. On the other side of the…

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    Gatsby – The Cause of His Own Death In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the roaring 20’s had been introduced. It had been told from first person point of view, by Nick Carraway. The young James Gatz had fallen in love with the beautiful Daisy Fay, before he had gone to war. Daisy had married the wealthy Tom Buchanan, whom is very arrogant and currently having his third affair. As James grew older, he met a man by the name of Dan Cody, and he had decided to change his name to Jay Gatsby. Years later…

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