Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

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    Jay Gatsby Downfall

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    mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. In…

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    unpleasant. Dreams provide a contented escape from it. People can also create various goals and ambitions to help them achieve greatness in the world that everyone occupies. People can do what they please and be what they want without any consequences. Dreams allow people to do whatever they want, create goals and ambitions, and offer an escape to a different reality from the tragic, cruel world that people live in today. As children, people wish for the most bizarre, ludicrous commodities…

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    is the movie, The Pursuit of Happyness. It is about a man and his son who are homeless while the father is trying to get a stable job to provide for his family. The affluent businessmen look down on him at first for not being wealthy like them, but later realize his potential as an intelligent, hardworking man. Next, there is the movie, Slumdog Millionaire. It follows a poor boy who enters the show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? He makes it to the last question and he is then accused of…

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    going to have that much so i think they should like lower the price on trucks so you can get one and then they should lower down the monthly so you will still have money left over i mean you know that you are going to need groceries to eat you don't want to die from starvations.…

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    to want to end his life at that very moment. Soon after Blanche finds out Allan’s secret Blanche finds out “The Grey boy! He’d stuck the revolver in his mouth and fired…”(Williams 103). Allan ran off and killed himself due to Blanche’s harsh words towards him. Allan’s death often haunts Blanche “... the feeling of guilt over having caused young Allan’s death” (Kataria 24). Blanche constantly blames herself for Allan’s suicide. Despite Blanche’s failed marriage with Allan, Blanche still wants to…

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    change it. There are many reasons why the title is semi-ironic, including that he was involved in the mob life. He met a girl named Daisy and fell in love with her the in beginning but had to leave for war. Daisy then married another guy who was really wealthy, so Gatsby thought he needed to be wealthy to get Daisy. Daisy is materialistic and had to marry someone with the wealthy lifestyle. Gatsby joined the mob to go from rags to riches to impress her and win her back. He also made…

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    first wish. At the ended of story, he can’t get everything he want because he doesn’t think the consequence before he makes wish. Since the strange events might happen, I still want to make a wish. My grandmother tells me that our dream can come true if we make one when the mentors occur. One night, I see the mentor pass by the sky from my window. I close my eyes and wish for lots of money. There are three reasons to prove why I want to get this wish: I can travel around the…

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    and help someone who was being beaten up. A student learns the true meaning of self-evaluation is saying what you are truly trying for. A depressed student is reading a book with a suicide and relates it to their own failed suicide attempt. A student who doesn’t like reading is enlightened by a book read in Ms. Gruwell’s, and they are tired of being able to get away with so much; they WANT someone to law down the law on them. A student gets offered a job from John Tu, the millionaire. They…

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    unreliable because he does not present characters for who they really are. Nick discloses he enjoys being close to millionaires, “the consoling proximity of millionaires.” (5). This passage is significant because it shows that he has a bias for millionaires and that leads him to not be as critical of them. With this bias, his description of characters is obscured. For example, Nick likes Jay Gatsby more than anyone else in the novel. Gatsby is also a millionaire and when he introduces him, he…

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    People go through their lives trying to find out who they are and trying to show other people who they are. For some, they continually buy nice and expensive things trying to show off that they are someone special or important. Others, however, don’t need nice and expensive things and they are fine with what they have. The things people own can and will convey a message to others. For example, if someone drives a nice car, people will assume they are rich. Even if someone tries not to judge by…

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