V. Theme Love It is about the love of Rosa and Lucio. It is about how powerful love can be. It is about how love can be easily destroyed. It is about how you can love each other even if you are separated. It is about how love can last forever. Sorrow It is about the sorrow of Lucio when he learned that Rosa really loved him, not Oscar. It is about how sorrow can…
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to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him. When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intends to take the blame…
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|Context |Quote |Analysis (incorporating two textual elements) | |Gatsby (or Nick’s |If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, |In Nick’s first depiction of the “great” Gatsby, he | |view of Gatsby) |then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened |simultaneously denounces and condones Gatsby. Nick’s | | |sensitivity to the promises of life.… [Gatsby…
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English102 Professor Bachar Tzu-Ting ,Chiu Hell Scenario Joel Garreau presents an analysis that the rapid changing in technology could lead to a huge change for in human life too. The GRIN technologies, which are genetic engineering, robotics, information and nanotechnology, are going to give human beings a influence. These four elements will be the main factors that affect the world in both pro and con sides. He believes that the Hell scenario in humanity would have a negative ending. It claims…
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Depression, but what was so bad about it? Millions of people out of work People had to travel round the country looking for work, sometimes living in tents or cars No state benefits 1.2 John Steinbeck Born in 1902, died in 1968 Grew up in Salinas Valley, CA – where the novel is set Very concerned with the lives of the poor Many of his books were banned in schools in the US because of their subject matter Won the noble prize for his writing 1.3 Why this title? It comes from a poem by Robert Burns…
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Thomas Mclamb Mr. Evans AP English 110 29 October 2014 The Great Gatsby Analysis Essay The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald presents in his story two distinct female characters that are represented as “modernize” women during the Jazz Age. Those two women are Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker. Each has their own unique personality and way of life. However, both show the type of woman that escapes from the traditional role and become more progressive. Daisy Buchanan represents the women in the 1920’s…
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Beatrice when he was nine and she eight, at his father’s home, most likely for a May Day festival. But Dante’s greatest love, and the greatest single influence on his work, was a woman named Beatrice. Beatrice married another man about 1287, and died in 1290 at the age of 25. BEATRICE •Beatrice was Dante’s angel. He could not touch her, because this was the age of Courtly love. •Dante’s life and work were dedicated to her. •Dante’s muse and inspiration— the female aspect behind the genius. •She…
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In the following essay, I will attempt to highlight the phenomenon in cinema known as the "counterculture youth-pic." This trend in production started in the late 1960's as a result of the economic and cultural influences on the film industry of that time. The following essay looks at how those influences helped to shape a new genre in the film industry, sighting Easy Rider as a main example, and suggests some possible reasons for the relatively short popularity of the genre. "The standard…
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it he focuses, as the title suggests, on Franco and Hitler’s relationship during the Spanish Civil War. In contrast, Tremlett Giles in his Ghosts of Spain addresses the issue of the tangible legacy Franco left to Spain in El valle de los caídos—The Valley of the Fallen—a memorial monument, and the Spanish peoples’ reaction to it. 4, 5 Not all aspects of a person’s legacy can be found in the sphere of academia, however. Art, film, and literature also reflect the events in the historical record, and…
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Cambridge Pre-U Syllabus Cambridge International Level 3 Pre-U Certificate in LITERATURE IN ENGLISH For examination in 2013, 2014 and 2015 Cambridge Pre-U Syllabus Literature in English (9765) Cambridge International Level 3 Pre-U Certificate in Literature in English (Principal) For examination in 2013, 2014 and 2015 QN 500/3685/3 www.cie.org.uk/cambridgepreu 1 Cambridge Pre-U Syllabus Support CIE provides comprehensive support for all its qualifications, including the Cambridge Pre-U. There…
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