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    Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the American Dream is pointless through his depiction of Gatsby's love life. Gatsby had some many parties. The things that he had at his parties were amazing he had a Rolls-Royce, a marble swimming pool, crates of fresh lemons and oranges, buffet tents in the gardens, forty acres of lawn and gardens, and

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    Spring is right around the corner, and it 's time to start thinking about the gardening. Whether it be flower beds or a vegetable garden, all your hard work in the beginning will set you up for an enjoyable summer. Here a few different types of beds that you may want to try. Raised concrete block vegetable garden You may ask yourself why you would want a raised concrete garden? Concrete blocks absorb the heat all day long and maintain the root heat long into the night, warm roots have produce many more

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald lived a life of parties and pandamonium, and so did his character, Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald expresses the destruction and emphasizes the entriquit factors of these complex festivities. In chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes polysyndeton and imagery to illustrate how glorious, but also chaotic, his parties really are. The first type of figurative language used in this story is polysyndeton. The conjunction “and” is used to emphasize the size of Gatsby’s

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    exclusively Laura who gains an empathetic understanding, towards the problematic class divisions at the heart of the text. The phonetic dialect within the conversations in The Garden Party, further exemplifies the central theme of class division. In Laura’s conversation with her sibling Laurie, she asks him if he enjoys parties, to which he replies ‘Ra-ther’, a transparent indication of an upper-class dialect which adheres to a formal speech pattern. Through the conversation, Mansfield contrasts the

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    Kid 's Gardening Classes for Summer 2008 are the perfect solution for an adventure for the young gardener in your home. Summer Camp for the Young Horticulturist is a great opportunity for kids to join their peers who also enjoy working in the garden and cultivating new life through growing plants. Having the ability to grow something is a special talent and kids with Green Thumbs know well the fulfillment of watching a plant grow from a seedling to a full-fledged plant. The Kid 's Gardening Classes

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    Laura And Araby

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    describe dramatic situations or use drastic words, they describe silent love and helplessness; also they expound the revolt against oppression and the hypocrisy. They express a lot thing through the two characters, the boy in Araby and Laura in The Garden Party; the two young teenagers are similar but also different. However different their lives are, they both experience the disillusionment when they face the real world. Depending on the environments the boy and Laura live, we can tell the boy in Araby

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    John Berendt’s novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil follows a New York native reporter as he investigates in Savannah. The story tells us, the readers, how the people living in Savannah deal with a murder case between a well-known man and a well-known hustler. The book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil shows the reader the various speakers, the impersonal tone, and the occasion of the trial. On the contrary, to most books, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil does not have a direct

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    she immediately suggests calling off the party. Mrs. Sheridan, Laura’s mother, is repugnant against the idea of canceling the party. Jose also displeased with Laura’s suggestion and says, “If you're going to stop a band playing every time some one has an accident, you'll lead a very strenuous life…” (Short Stories). After that, despite Laura’s exhortative remarks for them to cancel the party, the previous planes still uphold. Towards the end of the party, Laura and her father converse about the

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    Comparing Death in D.H. Lawrence’s The Horse Dealer’s Daughter and Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party Controlling the movements of the short stories, death is a regnant theme in D.H. Lawrence’s “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” and Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party.” Death brings forth consciousness and it excites the need for an epiphany within the protagonists. To a lesser extent, death creates tremors in the worlds of the antagonists. Death furthermore makes the indifferences of the

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    blue gardens, which are full of hope. Daisy has a streak of blue paint on her cheek to show the vast past she and Gatsby share. Dan Cody buys Gatsby a blue coat, promising he will be a successful man. To begin with, Gatsby’s parties are very populated and very loud. He has great parties with great music, “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths…” (Fitzgerald 39). Gatsby likes giving back to people and seeing people happy, but this is not the only reason he throws parties. He has

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