decline of the “American Dream” in “Jazz Age”. This novel shows us unusually rich literary and aesthetic connotation is has by its unique narrative perspective, the ups and downs of plot, superb accurate language, various rhetorical devices and vivid character images. To some extent, the reason why The Great Gatsby can become a famous classic work is that the author uses extraordinary narrative techniques in it. All the techniques are employed skillfully by Fitzgerald. The study of narrative art in this
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paraphrasing) that the only way a secret can be kept is if one of them is dead. Yet the characters in this novel are quite good at keeping secrets. A) Example 1: Chapter 1,page 15 B) Significant quote: “Tom’s got some woman in New York.” (Fitzgerald 15). C) Analysis: Jordan Baker is fully aware of Tom’s affair with his mistress that he frequently goes to visits. She shares this to demonstrate to Nick that Tom is dishonest and is not truly committed to Daisy. A) Example 2: Chapter 7, page 133 B)
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From the moment the assignment was handed out, I knew what I wanted my topic to be. After having multiple discussions centered around gender roles and taking adequate notes on gender role, I felt that it only made sense to write my essay on the topic I had already done so much research on. However, my stance on gender roles had shifted. At first, I believed that there was no “superior gender” in the book and that both sexes demonstrated adaptability. But, after I briefly mentioned this position
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that it is a play worked out in one’s mental process, rather than a realistic representation. Instead of external reality, the inner vision becomes the primary concern of expressionistic drama. Thus this paper focuses on the repressed state of each character in the Wingfield family, and tries to shed light on their inner psychology by means of psychoanalytical approach. As a mother figure, Amanda is quite distinctive from those in conventional drama. With the father absent for years, Amanda takes on
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within literary works. This is appropriate because Marxism was originally formulated to analyze just such tensions and contradictions within society. Marxist literary critics also see literature as intimately linked to social power, and thus their analysis of literature is linked to larger social questions. Since Marxism is a belief system which can be used to analyze society at the grandest or most detailed level, Marxist literary criticism is ultimately part of a much larger effort to uncover the
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Job Analysis The merger between EnviroTech and InterClean is now in full effect. EnviroTech needs to restructure the sales department. One has come up with a job analysis a workflow of the sales department. This paper will consist of a job analysis for the sales representatives of EnviroTech. The paper will also address the work process of the sales force. Finally, one will select five representatives to represent EnviroTech. Job analysis A job analysis is the basis of human resource management
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Webb Mullin Mrs. Nugent English II September 18, 2012 Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket Jack Finney starts off the story with Tom Benecke sitting at a desk in the living room of his eleventh floor apartment, typing a memo for work. His wife Clare is preparing to go to the movies alone. With difficulty, Tom opens a stubborn window, and a gust of wind blows his paper out of the window onto a ledge. We see how Finney casually introduces that his apartment is on the eleventh floor of the building
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fueled by ambition and hopes of success, can often be exposed as a nightmare in disguise. Set in the roaring twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby demonstrates such a point, criticizing the American Dream as well as the dishonest values of characters attempting to achieve this dream. When Nick Carraway moves to Long Island's West Egg, home to the newly rich, he is not expecting to get dragged into an atmosphere of depravity and deceit. Next door lives the elusive Jay Gatsby, a self-proclaimed
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Several characters in Shakespeare’s plays undergo transformations that allow for both propelling the works’ momentum and allowing for a social layer to preside within the work. In As You Like It, Rosalind and Celia traverse into the Forest of Arden where they find themselves disguised as lower class citizens, and find truth, innocence and love. In Measure for Measure, the use of disguise is used by the Duke to reveal the innocence of Claudio, and the deceit of Lord Angelo. Yet, if any elaboration
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The InterClean- EnviroTech Merger Scenario October 19, 2010 HRM/531 The InterClean- EnviroTech Merger Scenario Job Analysis InterClean job analysis for new salesperson position sales associate with two to three years of experience and some environmental sanitation knowledge. Job duties include awareness of InterClean products, services, and practices. Each sale associate must apply the knowledge and skills to potential customers so they would consider using the company. Salesmen must evaluate
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