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The Great Gatsby
<view this essay>.... Carroway warned him to give it up, because it was impossible. Unforturately, Mr.Gatsby was not believe it. So at the end, Mr.Gatsby's dream still had not came true because Daisy did not break up with Tom and go with him. It can be seen in the last chapter on the novel, when Gatsby was murder, Daisy went to somewhere else with her husband, and did not go to Gatsby's funeral.
I called up Daisy half and hour after we found him,
called her instinctively and without hersitation. But
she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and
taken baggage with them.
Therefore, Nike Carroway's analysis was right by these clear observation. .....
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Breaking Down Racial Barriers
<view this essay>.... book very interesting. It gave me a better understanding of just how cruel blacks were treated, not only by whites, but sometimes by their own race. His accounts painted a real life picture for all of his readers. First hand experiences of fear, pain, and anger can be felt through the many confrontations faced in the story. It showed of the way that society forces black people to live and work, just because of the color of their skin.
The thing that I found most enjoyable about this book, was the author’s own bravery. He risked his comfortable lifestyle and everything that he had to research something that he truly believed in. Here you have a white man .....
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Anselm's Definition Of God
<view this essay>.... these being: self-existent, a necessary being, omnipotent,
omniscient, completely just and timelessly eternal. After reading the
Proslogion by Anselm, it gave me a greater understanding of these
attributes listed above. Although, they are all of equal importance, I
feel the most prominent of God's attributes is the fact that he is self
existent. In essence, that means that God depends on nothing else for his
existence, he is uncaused. Therefore, his existence is timelessly-eternal.
This means that God cannot stop existing. On the other hand, contingent
beings (such as ourselves) depend on something else for their existence.
One example of this is, t .....
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Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown": A True Romance VS. Young Goodman Brown
<view this essay>.... Faith
asks Goodman not to depart that night, pleading, "pray tarry with me this
night, dear husband, of all nights in the year", he answers her saying ,
"my journey must be done." He then questions the sincerity of her
"peculiar" plea asking whether she doubts him. Since when is it such a
farfetched request for a wife to ask her husband for company on a given
night? Does this request signify a lack of trust in her husband? If
anything, it illustrates a lack of self confidence in himself as well as a
lack of trust in her. In addition, after departing his wife, Goodman Brown
states to the mysterious man he meets in the forest, that "Faith kept [him]
back awh .....
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Black Boy Essay
<view this essay>.... Not all the country was racist, the North was antislavery and it was the place to be if you were black, but getting there was the hardest part, many people tried all their lives and didn’t succeed. For Richard going north was the main goal in his early life; but because of Mississippi’s racial indifferences Richard would be forever separated from whites, the tension would always be there and he would never trust a white person enough to let his guard down. Racial prejudice had indefinitely effected Richard’s early life.
Racial prejudice often leads to physical violence. Richard’s life was invariably surrounded by racial tension and had often seen as .....
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The Great Gatsby: America Degenerates Into A Place Of Moral Destitution
<view this essay>.... that gaiety was merely a thin facade, and that behind it lurked
a hideous ugliness that penetrated to the essence of the human spirit.
It was during the Jazz generation that the common man, a man no
different to James Gatz, pursued the glowing icons of his age. As religion
gradually faded away, it was money that had become an object of veneration.
The desire to become wealthy was parceled in the form of the American Dream,
a savage ideal that was fundamentally flawed from the outset. The fallacy
of the American Dream cursed all who aspired to its promises while the
upper class enjoyed the luxuries that accompanied their status, exploiting
those below them a .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester Prynne And Adultery
<view this essay>.... humiliate her for creating her own laws and beliefs. Hester Prynne is a person victimized by a Puritanical society that has resurfaced in Boston, New England.
The novel begins in the marketplace, which serves as a meeting ground for the entire community. This is where Hester first feels the wrath of her milieu. The townspeople are angry and anxious, ready to punish her. "Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped" (Hawthorne 1185). The environment surro .....
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The Martian Chronicles: "Yours Will Be Mine Soon"
<view this essay>.... leads to destruction.
Man's greed for land causes desolation. In the begginning, a first
expedition is sent to Mars to try to colonize it. This plan is cut short
when a Martian, who has telepathic abilities, senses the men coming. When
the men land, they meet a martian with a gun and so ends the first
expedition. Next, another group is sent to try to gain land on Mars.
These men land and go knocking from one door to the next saying that they
were from Earth. Each martian tells them to go to another person.
Finally, the men come to a house where a man gives them a key and says
they "will be taken care of" in the next room. They enter only to find .....
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