work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost” — Samuel Butler “COUNTRY” – EMPIRE OF THE SUN The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist Astrocytes... Stella matutina, (Morning star) Teenage wasteland Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours Stevie Wonder You Sexy Thing Hot Chocolate Superfly Curtis Mayfield Pulsars, Before a spirit can be summoned it must teach the shaman its song Amazonian Colombia One More Chance – THE Notorious
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The Hunger Games Setting The Hunger Games is this first novel in a series of three written by Suzanne Collins in 2008. Katniss Everdeen, one of the stories main characters, lives in the country of Panem. Throughout the course of novel Katniss is in different places such as District 12 and the Capitol. Panem is the country where Katniss lives with her family. This country is split into thirteen different districts. Katniss and eight thousand others call District 12 their home. District 12 is a
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condition of the poor such the Wilsons, who must live between dirty ashes. Eyes of T.J. Eckleberg- Doctor T. J. Eckleburg’s dull eyes are painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. They symbolize God staring down at the moral wasteland of the American society, judging upon the emptiness of the dreams of the world. As the meaning of the eyes are left very vague, it gives them an unsettle nature and mystery.
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Death of the American Dream Ronald Reagan once said “The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends him to be.” F. Scott Fitzgerald claims that the American dream is withering and that the real dream is being lost in the 1920s during the time of the booming America. In the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald uses symbols as a way to show something to the reader. He uses the Green light, the Valley
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the momentum to knock her off balance. Her back legs buckled, sending her bottom half to the sandy floor. Sand rolled between their bodies, and impairing the vision she had of him and likely impairing his own. Why did it have to be so dry in this wasteland? Fangs snapped towards her, narrowly missing her face and digging deep into the skin near her shoulder. She whine, but suppressed the yelp that was caught in her throat from the pain. Pasiphae should have been used to it by now with her loses at
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The world-wide web has enabled mankind to find information quickly without the necessity of having an intellectual foundation for it. As a result of the invention of the internet, information that would have taken hours to months to discover before now only takes a matter of seconds. This is wonderful for mankind because it means that extra effort is no longer required to find the answers to their questions. Technology immensely benefits mankind, however, it is also detrimental because it causes
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Jo tells Nick that Tom has been having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, a woman who lives in the valley of ashes, an industrial wasteland outside of New York City. After visiting Tom and Daisy, Nick goes home to West Egg; there, he sees Gatsby gazing at a mysterious green light across the bay. Gatsby stretches his arms out toward the light, as though to catch and hold it. Tom Buchanan takes Nick into New York, and on the way they stop at the garage owned by George Wilson. Wilson is the husband
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The Great Gatsby In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses four settings; two main locations of wealth, the East and West Egg, New York City where both sides do business and the Valley of Ashes home of the poor and a total wasteland of ash. The Eggs are separated by a small bay, on Long Island. This bay separates more than just the two locations. It also, separates and defines two very different social classes and ways of life. One area is known as the East Egg, where “old money” resides and the
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One of the main reasons we should save the wetlands is because we need them. They soak up excess water and help clean up water left behind by floods. wetlands also provide a habitat for animals including 50% of federally listed and endangered animals. wetlands also clean our left over water, the plants filter the the leftover water and convert it to a less harmful substance. Although wetlands are great at filtering water they can't do it all, stuff like industrial waste,sewage and storm water runoff
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Assignment 1 Presented to Michelle Ford Prepared by Kaiheng Xu April 6, 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS PURPOSE OF PAPER -------------------------------------- 1 INTRODUCTION Brief definition of sustainability Economic impacts Social impacts Environmental impacts Political issues Natural disasters -------------------------------------- 1 ----------------------------------- 2, 3 ------------------------------------3, 4 ------------------------------------4, 5 ------------------------------------5
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