The Great Gatsby: Summary: Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg, Long Island, a wealthy area populated by the new rich, people who made their fortunes due to the economic upswing of the Roaring Twenties. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a huge mansion and throws extravagant parties on the weekends. Nick is unlike the other inhabitants
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She started as a street artist; her charming name coming in the form of a dream derived by her ex-boyfriend. Caledonia Dance Curry, her given name, used the title in small amounts, marking her work for the rest of the streets to slowly gain recognition. Her name and paper cutouts would arise in casual conversations, only to be
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A Raisin in the Sun Latika Vick, Sharlyn Harvey, Suzette Alarcon, & Candace White BSHS/422 November 26, 2011 Tim Nolan A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry based on a colored family between WWII and the 1960’s. The family matriarch is Lena Younger, mother to Walter Lee Younger and Beneatha Younger. They reside in a Chicago Southside apartment along with Walter’s wife Ruth and son Travis. Living in a two-bedroom apartment which they share
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Maturation involves reassessing the childish ideals that one holds dear. In The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger writes about an adolescent teen experiencing loneliness and depression. The character, Holden, is plagued by the “phonies” of the adult world and deflects any complex views that hinder his innocence. Through symbols, such as the red hunting hat, the Shirley Beans record, and the profanity on the wall, Salinger emphasizes Holden’s struggle to embrace his individuality and protect his childish
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2.1 Dostoyevsky's Works, 1859-1863 The first of Dostoyevsky's works to excite critical attention following his years of prison and exile was Notes from the House of the Dead (1860), an account of his experience in prison, told in the form of a collection of biographical and psychological sketches of his fellow inmates. The book was especially welcomed by liberal critics because of its sympathetic approach to the subject and its realistic portrayal of the sufferings of the convicts. In 1861, Dostoyevsky
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smell lavender. Too bad the boys who come calling for her aren’t as sensitive as he is, she thinks. She muses that she would get along well with these simple workmen and wouldn’t let class distinctions get in the way. .......A voice from the house calls Laura to the phone, so she goes back across the lawn, up the steps, across the veranda, and into the hallway, where her father and brother Laurie are about to leave for work. Laurie asks
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written in 1925. The author, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the most outstanding writers in America. As a member of the “lost generation”, Fitzgerald made the short life of Gatsby epitome of the rise, boom and 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
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After reading "Chapter 3: To Heal Sometimes, To Comfort Always," complete the questionnaire titled, "My Nursing Ethic." Using the reading and the questionnaire, write a paper of 750-1,000 words in which you describe your professional moral compass. As you write your paper, include the following: 1. What personal, cultural, and spiritual values contribute to your worldview and philosophy of nursing? How do these values shape or influence your nursing practice? 2. Define values, morals, and ethics
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learned to adapt to changes very early in their lives. Instead of coming home to mom sitting in the kitchen with cookies and milk, children were shuffled off to daycare facilities or baby sitters. Others called “latchkey” children, came home to an empty house with instructions to get their homework done, never answer the door, and wait until “mom and dad” came home. These individuals are independent, resourceful, and extremely clever with technology. As they enter the workforce the need to be extremely
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issued the No.1 document “Opinions on balancing urban and rural development to further solidify agriculture with rural economy” and for the first time put forward the term “New generation of migrant workers.”. Yet there is still no clear definition. In my perspective, “New generation of migrant workers” are migrant workers who are born from the 80’s to the 90’s, who are currently at the age between 16 to 26. Some of them leave the countryside to go into cities for working while others grow up in the
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