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    The Great Gatsby Essay. In the beginning of The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick is critical of the upper class, but hopeful. Toward the end he is disappointed because he realizes how the lifestyle they live is unrealistic. During the novel, the upper class is disrespectful and full of themselves. When he gets to know the characters he notices how the upper class is so unfriendly and snotty. This easy and luxurious lifestyle that they are living is unattainable to everyone because nobody can get

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    The Shakespearean play featuring a man being stabbed 23 times to death, “Julius Caesar,” is quite unique in many perspectives, because unlike most plays, this play has a plot that deals with controversial events, leaving the bulk of the readers in a state of ambiguity and division. The scene where Julius Caesar was stabbed is ambiguous, because it is a good thing for the people, but the way he was murdered is much too brutal. Whether or not Brutus should have joined the conspiracy to kill Caesar

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    Published in the early 1850s, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is a story by Herman Melville which takes place on Wall Street in New York. Melville is known for “having a reputation that’s extremely interesting because it has unusually sharp contrast and because it permits to the complicated process going on all around us at the present moment” (Riegel). Melville uses a narrator in this story and describes himself as an unambitious lawyer who owns a small office on Wall Street and his primary focuses in

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    Film Scene: American Beauty- Lester’s Performance: 1. The Scene shows the conversation between Lester (employee) and Brad (manager of the company). Towards the start of the scene, Lester is frustrated with his life. His wife is so worldly and they hardly determine each other, and his young offspring cannot determine both of them. He is working as a writer in the media magazine, he is caught for a difficult and futile occupation. 2. Brad, the newly hired organization expertise, is doing investigation

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    Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare is a play about two lovers who bear a child out of wedlock during an era when it was considered illegal. Even though the play centers around the two characters of Claudio and Juliet, they are hardly ever seen. Measure for Measure is a comedic play which underscores moral dilemmas in a Christian world. Comedic features such as; the Duke disguising himself as a common friar in the play, which is how the play starts to develop inner problems, and unsavory characters

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    acially dominated society. Shug not only teaches Celie to love someone beyond her biological family, but to love herself. Sofia in my opinion was the character who most consistently stayed true to herself. She constantly walked the thin line between dependence and independence, like how she would constantly fight her husband, yet stay with him out of love until he pushed her too far. Another instance of her representing the “typical” woman, is how she stood up for herself and her children, without

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    A Taste of Shakespeare - 'Romeo and Juliet' William Shakespeare is widely known for all of his literary works; one of his most famous love tragedies being 'Romeo and Juliet'. A Shakespearean definition of tragedy exemplifies the sense that human beings are inevitably doomed through their own failures or errors, the ironic action of their virtues, or even through the nature of fate and destiny (Sayour, Susan, 2007). Romeo and Juliet is a tragic tale based on two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths

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    I believe the Boston Massacre, the terrible instance where riot-provoking colonists were shot by British soldiers, is certainly not one sided- but the British deserve to take the blame. We all think we understand the gruesome events that occurred on March 5th, but do we really know the true horrors of that night? I have read many different testimonies, and viewpoints attempting to escape concluding an opinion that was influenced by bias so that I could provide an intelligent article for the readers

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    What does a brown rat look like? The brown rat (rattus norvegicus) is a small brown rodent that has bilateral symmetry which means it can be divided into halves. A full grown brown rat can be up to 10 inches long. It usually weighs 8.1 ounces. Brown rats are different than other rats because the top of their head is slanted, like a triangle, and their tail is shorter than their body. Brown rats have brown fur. Their stomachs are lighter brown or gray. Where does a Brown Rat live? The

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    Rural Kansas was a peaceful, welcoming community. The farmers and townspeople were very close and friendly with one another. Nothing bad ever happened in these farming areas because the people were nice and friendly. Until one frightful night, everything changed. Back in 1959, the town of Holcomb, Kansas was absolutely shocked and taken aback by the news of killings that occurred in their small town. The victims were a well-known and loved family from the community. They were brutally murdered in

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