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    F. Scott Fitzgerald. This short novel captures the roaring twenties and the time of prohibition extravagantly. The story takes place the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway moves to West Egg district of Long Island. His neighbor is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who throws huge extravagant parties every weekend. Gatsby is hopelessly in love with Daisy Buchanan who is married to Tom. Nick Just so happens to be cousins with Daisy which Gatsby swiftly discover and invites Nick to one of his parties,…

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    In the New York Times Bestseller, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer writes an incredible story about the terrorist attack of 9/11 and its effects that it has on Oskar Schell and his family. Throughout the novel, Oskar, a very intelligent and precocious, nine-year-old boy living in New York City, is on this journey to try to figure out what this mysterious key that he found in his dad’s room belongs to. He hopes it reveals some sort of secret or connection to his father…

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    Each coin has two sides ,among those characters in Kite Runner.From my perspective, Amir has the strongest emotion in this story. Based on how they are presented, each character is playing a different role ,everyone is unique and different in many way ,I would like to compare Amir and Hassan, those two of the main character in this novel.Above all, I think Amir is the one which his emotion is persistent. To begin with,When the novel first portray Amir's childhood, He got a great friend in…

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    The Movie Crash Essay

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    “Crash” is a drama film from 2004; Paul Haggis has produced and directed the movie. The film is set in L.A, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. There are several main characters, including Shaun Toub as Farhad, Bahar Soomekh as Dorri, Sandra Bullock as Jean Cabot, Brendan Fraser as Rick Cabot, Matt Dillon as Officer Ryan, Terrance Howard as Cameron Thayer, Thandie Newton as Christine Thayer, Ludacris as Anthony, Larenz Tate as Peter and Michael Peña as Daniel. The film is truly…

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    The book I did this book report on is Invisible Man, the author is Ralph Ellison. Ralph was an American novelist, scholar, and literary critic. His best novel is Invisible Man.For the book, Invisible man is fiction and bildungsroman, so you can expect to see the protagonist have some physiological growth in this book. Main Characters for this book are The Narrator, Brother Jack, Ras, and Mary. The Narrator is the protagonist in this book, he is a well-educated black man who is a very gifted…

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    Whom The Bell Toll Theme

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    Raeheth Sahni 5 November 2014 For Whom The Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical understated style had a strong influence on 20th century fiction. He was greatly appreciated in the literary world and went on to win the Pulitzer prize for his work. Hemingway insisted with the WW1 ambulance drivers in 1918, however he was severely wounded and had to return home. In 1930 he went to Spain as a journalist and film production assistant…

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    "Known to everyone as Flo, recognizable everywhere in cowboy hat and pink sunglasses" (New York Times para 2). Florynce Kennedy was born in Kansas City, Missouri on February 11, 1916, to Willey and Zella Kennedy. Her father was a Pullman porter and waiter, but later in life owned a taxi business. Flo grew up with five siblings, all of them girls. (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Flo's childhood was relatively uneventful with one incident that she recounts in her autobiography, Color me Flo.…

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    Anglian fiction. Flood of fire is about a world of sepoys sahibs and rajahs who are travelling from Assam to Calcutta to Canton. “Vikrm Seth attained dizzy height of success with The Golden Gate (1986) and A Suitably Boy (1993). He stunned the literary world with his novel. Upamanya Chatterjee, with his novel English August (1988) was a great success”. Chatterjee’s tone was ironic and shown all the administration. Chatterjee brightly uses Indianised English in the novel. His contemporary…

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    The "American dream" from the Start - to take root and direct is the American nation ideal and pursuit of this, it has strong vitality, but why go to the disillusioned? Gatsby story tells us that if such a dream come true - has only the pursuit of material and to become a 'superpower' longing but lack of why wealth and have a wealth of survival after what some have the ultimate human significance of thinking about it, so that eventually come true a mirage, it also will be short-sighted and…

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    James Bond as a Representation of Normative Society James Bond, a character introduced in Ian Fleming’s novels, has been considered as being one of the most mass-mediated characters of the last century. He is a popular hero, an icon of adventure, a guru of male style, the last word in gadgetry, and a loaded symbol of sex and violence. However, these features and attributes are not necessarily a fixed part of the James Bond character. Throughout the last century one can see that the character…

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