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- 4341: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From the Common Man
- ... tremendously wealthy communities, East Egg and West Egg, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatsby as a Romantic, larger-than-life, figure by setting him apart from the common person. Fitzgerald sets Gatsby in a fantasy world that, based on illusion, is of his own making. Gatsby's possessions start to this illusion. He lives in an extremely lavish mansion. It is a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy ... at Oxford. Supposedly after his family had all died he lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe collecting jewels, hunting big game, painting and doing things for himself. (66) During the war he was apparently a promoted major that every Allied government gave a decoration to. (66) However, the medal he received seemed to be either fake or borrowed. The fantasy world that Fitzgerald gives Jay Gatsby also concludes with parties that are practically like movie-like productions. These parties are so fantastic that they last from Friday nights to Monday mornings. His house and garden ...
- 4342: Internet Pornography: Freedom of Press or Dangerous Influence?
- ... this paper are international, almost everyone of them cites the First Amendment of the United States. In many of the papers it is implied that the United States sets precedent for the rest of the world as far as laws governing the global world of the Internet. Paul F. Burton, an Information Science professor and researcher, gives many statistics showing that presence of pornography on the Internet is not necessarily a bad thing. He gives one example that shows ... morally correct, and the causality of pornography. There is no clear-cut answer, however, it is now up to the U.S. government to make a decision and set precedent for the rest of the world. Works Cited Akdeniz, Yaman. "The Regulation of Pornography and Child Pornography on the Internet." Online. World Wide Web. http://137.205.240.103:80/elj/jilt/biogs/akdeniz.htm. 4 March 1997. Burton, Paul ...
- 4343: George Washington: Biography
- ... Washington's plan to strike a major blow at the army of Sir Henry Clinton at Monmouth, the his quick action on the field prevented an American defeat. In 1780 the main theater of the war shifted to the south. Although the campaigns in Virginia and the Carolinas were conducted by other generals, including Nathanael Greene and Daniel Morgan, Washington was still responsible for the overall direction of the war. After the arrival of the French army in 1780 he concentrated on coordinating allied efforts and in 1781 launched, in cooperation with the comte de Rochambeau and the comte d'Estaing, Yorktown Campaign against Charles Cornwallis, securing the American victory on Oct. 19, 1781. Washington had grown enormously in stature during the war. A man of unquestioned integrity, he began by accepting the advice of more experienced officers such as Gates and Charles Lee, but he quickly learned to trust his own judgment. He sometimes got upset ...
- 4344: John DeLorean and His Acomplishments
- ... to-mouth. Any interruption- in anything- could spell disaster. The first such disaster occ urred when a shipping strike shut down some supply lines. The second was a stagnant US auto market. The worst since World War 2. Dealer credit lines were quickly exhausted. DeLorean dealers lost the ability to pay for the cars they had ordered. The U K government (now under the control of the conservative party,) put DeLorean Motor ... to create a massive, international money laundering scheme. As the days went on, the calls from Hoffman kept coming. He kept telling DeLorean that he and his partners were big muc ky-mucks in the world of organized crime. He continued to threaten the DeLoreans. John continued on the road towards a breakdown. His world was falling apart but DeLorean wasn't licked yet. On October 18th, John sat down ...
- 4345: Violence On TV
- By: Anonymous VIOLENCE ON TV What has the world come to these days? It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The last of these is a ... major source of violence. In many peoples' living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the children who view it are often pulled into its realistic world of violence scenes with sometimes devastating results. Much research has gone into showing why children are so mesmerized by this big glowing box and the action that takes place within it. Research shows that it ... violence affect the child's youth, but it can also affect his or her adulthood. Some psychologists and psychiatrists feel that continued exposure to such violence might unnaturally speed up the impact of the adult world on the child. This can force the child into a kind of premature maturity. As the child matures into an adult, he can become bewildered, have a greater distrust towards others, a superficial approach ...
- 4346: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe Many authors have made great contributions to the world of literature. Mark Twain introduced Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as ... and in each one he made a reputation that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us memorable short stories; but none has produced so great a number of famous and unforgettable examples, so many tales that continue, despite changing standards to be read and reprinted again and again throughout the world (Targ VII)." "Poe was the father of the modern short story, and the modern detective story (Targ VII)." "With the possible exception of Guy de Maupassant, no other writer is so universally known and ...
- 4347: Inexcusable Acts In Literature
- ... the story, performed these horrid acts, and his people still felt the same way towards him at the end of the story. His actions were accepted and even honored by his people. In today's world Gualtieri's misdeeds would be viewed as immoral sins. Pride is what caused him to do these retched things. Pride, one of the seven deadly sins, is the "wanting to elevate oneself above others". Gualtieri ... the faith of man, I know my price I am worth no worse a place. But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, Evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war Nonsuits my mediators. For, "Certes," says he, "I have already chose my officer." And what was he? Forsooth, a great a great arithmetician, one Michael Cassio, a Florentine." (Shakespeare 1.1.7-17) Iago's ... of seeing ones possessions in the hands of another, whether it is animate or inanimate. Jealousy brings with it hate and revenge, such as in Othello's case and the numerous cases of today's world which we read in newspapers or view on television of the ultimate revenge taken upon someone they love. Every misdeed carried out, like Othello's, is highly immoral and inexcusable in today's day ...
- 4348: Radar: A Silent Eye in the Sky
- ... morning news to check the weather forecast. While radar seems to be an important part of our everyday lives, it has not been around for long. It was not put into effect until 1935, near World War II. The British and the Americans both worked on radar, but they did not work together to build a single system. They each developed their own systems at the same time. In 1935, the first ... radar can tell the distance and direction of the object creating the echo. This is the most common form of radar, and it is the one that is used the most in airports around the world today. Continuous wave radar works on a different theory, the Doppler Theory. The Doppler Theory works on the principle that when a radio wave of a set frequency hits a moving object, the frequency ...
- 4349: Glass Menagerie 2
- Glass Menagerie Everyone has their own little world in which they indulge themselves in whether it be real or just a fantasy. In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, everyone in the play experiences their own little world, and the shock it is to be thrown from it. Tom supports his family despite his unhappiness of his world. He tries to please Amanda by being the sole supporter, but only gets rewarded by Amanda's constant nagging and suspicion. Eventually Tom finds himself more like his father as he seeks adventure in ...
- 4350: Invisible Man
- ... a sentence from page four of Invisible Man will be analyzed. The invisible man writes about his frustrations toward society: You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that youre a part of all the sound and anguish, and you strike out with your fists, you curse and you swear to make them recognize you. And alas, its seldom successful.(16 ... and because of this he is frustrated by society. Freud says, "The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world."(20) Furthermore, guilt is supposed to arise after an act of aggression is carried out. In fact, the first feeling of guilt came after the initial band of brothers killed their father. On this topic ... book. However, he still thinks he is invisible, and he lives underground. A particular passage from Freud seems useful here: While this procedure already clearly shows an intention of making oneself independent of the external world by seeking satisfaction in internal, psychical processes, the next procedure brings out those features yet more strongly. In it, the connection with reality is still further loosened; satisfaction is obtained from illusions, which are ...
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