In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway serves dual roles. The first one introduced, Nick Carraway is the novel's most well-developed character. The opening paragraphs of the novel reveal Nick's morals and ideals as a person. Though believing himself to have been given a fair amount of the "fundamental decencies [that are] parcelled out unequally at birth", Nick still is inclined "to reserve all judgements" (6, 5). With that inclination, he is then able to get to know most of the
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Question #1: Please read Problem 11 about credit cards and the kinds of debt being incurred by consumers these days, and answer the following questions: Are banks acting in a responsible fashion with their solicitations of consumers for credit cards and increases in credit card lines? I believe that the banks are not acting in a responsible fashion with their solicitation of consumers for credit cards and credit card lines. As mentioned in the article, the banks are advertising “promotions
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| Juvenile Justice | | | Paul Eyster | 4/3/2013 | Prof. Bidwell | Though crime, in general, is on the decline there are specific crimes and group offenders that are actually increasing. Specific crimes such as hate crimes, those crimes motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group, based on color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation, and juvenile crimes have become escalating debates. Lionel Tate, a 12-year-old boy at the time of his actions, is a suitable case
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The Value of Literature Literature can be used to place value on a wide span of topics. From books that may break our hearts to one’s that make us laugh uncontrollably. Even though literature is only written in words, it is our imagination that makes those words come to reality, by the way we see the words in our imaginations. Whatever literature that is read, it is in the perspective of the author and you are reading through the lens of the writer. Philip Marchand said “Not to understand the disposition
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Extra Credit: Law of the Land As we are taught all through our lives what we can and can’t do our enforced by someone. As children when we make a mistake the law is our parents for example if we steal our parents will punish us whether it be a spanking, standing in the corner, or some other type of punishment. As we become older and gather more liable for our actions our parents may still enforce some punishment and type of law but so will the state we live in. The state that you live also faces
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The Railroad I was by the ol’ well out back fetching some water when I came across an injured bird. Seem to me like a baby and I wasn't just gonna leave it out there in the bitter December ground. Couldn’t even see the green in the grass. He would have frozen to death so I took him in and made him a bed outta hay and leavings of sheep hair over in the corral. I nursed the little fella to full health. His wing was battered like he’d been in a tussle or something. Perhaps his poppa got upset at his
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Literacy Introduction Literacy is defined as the ability to write and read certain information. Literacy can take two forms; it can be informal education or the formal type of education. Informal education is the schooling which is done outside the usual classrooms. Informal education can be self tutoring, on the job training, the youth education program or home education done by parents. Formal education is the learning system done in a learning institution by professional teachers using a specific
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Critical Thinking Paper: Revised Assignment 5: Critical Thinking Paper: Revised Carol Ann Simmons Mr. Jon Becker Critical Thinking December 11, 2011 Critical Thinking Paper: Revised Introduction The issue of child behavior in school age children is growing rapidly and is far more worst than it was ten years ago. Some of the key role players in the behavior of children today are bad parenting, lack of respect
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morphed and changed dramatically; some for the good and others for the worse. For example, in today’s day and age it is hard to discipline children and give a little tough love when they misbehave in public places. If a parent is caught in the act of spanking their child due to disciplinary reasons the parent can be fined, jailed, or even worse, have social services called on the parent or parents and have their children stripped from them. There is a major difference between abuse and a subtle smack
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is stripping objects or subjects from their individual or “familiar” characteristics and giving them unusual or “unfamiliar” traits to allow the reader to see it in a whole new perspective. An example of this is in Tolstoy's defamiliarization of spanking, explaining the act as “to strip people who have broken the law, to hurl them to the floor, and to rap on their bottoms with switches.” The crude description removes the disciplinary context it had and creates a vicious and “savage” form of abuse
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