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- 7901: Great Gatsby
- ... Gatsby believes he can buy happiness, he can buy Daisy, and he can achieve a level of admiration in succulent East Egg. Gatsby is an excellent personification of someone trying to buy happiness. Buying the American Dream is something that almost everyone does, yet it never works, it is never enough. LBJ believed in personal happiness. He believed that only oneself, no outside influence such as money, could make oneself happy ...
- 7902: H.G. Wells
- ... even though they both dealt with space. He used vivid descriptions of lunar scenery, and he was quite close to what it looked like, as people saw in 1960 when pictures were sent back by American
- 7903: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... in Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, Offred offers an inside view of the effects of political change on ordinary citizens - that is, powerless, who are most likely to suffer from a swift, decisively murderous revolution. As a desperate refugee on the "Underground Frailroad," her harrowing flight contrasts the knowing titters of the International Historical Association studying Gilead from the safety of women's rights and academic freedom two centuries in ...
- 7904: Harrison Bergeron
- ... of a broadcasting station and plays unedited and uncontrolled movies and music to the public, while he asks them to take off their mind controlling head bands. This scene gives hope for the future of American culture, and makes one believe that the time for change has arrived. Unfortunately, Harrison later learns that only 1.3% of the public actually heard the true meaning of his program, which was a scream ...
- 7905: Hoop Dreams
- ... they both learned was to look ahead and make plans for the future and don't wait for the future to come bring bad news. I think this story showed a good image on the American Dream. Both boys had to go through very hard times. It was not given to them free. William worked hard to earn it and went to college on a free ride. Arthur thought basketball and ...
- 7906: Huckleberry Finn
- ... thing but meaning the opposite of its literal definition. He is using this irony humorously, covering this declaration of the book's seriousness in a joke. The joke pokes fun at the seriousness of adult American society, with its rules and officials, especially with the citation to "G.G., Chief of Ordinance." Twain will use humor and irony throughout the book, most often combining the two. Indeed, humor usually occurs as ...
- 7907: Huckleberry Finn - Lies
- ... which seems like a contradiction. Ironically, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ends with HuckÕs salutation of ÒYours TrulyÓ. The fact is that Clemens uses HuckÕs morally sound lies as a reflectionon the true nature of American society during the time of slavery
- 7908: Huckleberry Finn - Satirical Plot
- Mark Twain, a famous American writer-satirist wrote many books highly acclaimed throughout the world. For his masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce ...
- 7909: Gravity
- ... waves are waves of gravity. They are vibrations of space itself. They travel through space at the speed of light, but are more like sound than light. Hertz' discovery set the foundation for the electronic revolution of the twentieth century. Electromagnetic waves not only revolutionized our lives, but also our knowledge of the universe. Astronomers gradually opened the electromagnetic spectrum, first using visible light and then radio, x-rays and gamma ...
- 7910: The Modified Market Economy
- ... the consumer. Competitive prices that come from businesses are also good for the economy in general, for example if an Australian owned company, such as Uncle Toby's, can provide the same food as an American owned company at a competitive price, then consumers will tend to buy from the Australian company which keeps more our money in our country. Basically, the government intervention in economies such as ours, is all ...
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