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A&P by john updike Literature Research Paper
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The Couples and A&P are the most crucially criticized works for the use of adultery and sexuality. A&P is a story in which Updike torn into pieces the immature mind of a teenager named Sammy and his thoughts and observations. A&P can be considered as the psychological analysis of the behavior of Sammy and the actions resulting from the unripe speculations.
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Dulce Et Decrum Est by Wilfred Owen and The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien Literature Essay
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They believe that those who dispatch soldiers to war have a different knowledge and experience of it than those who partake in it. Conversely, they also share the opinion that the catastrophic experiences of war end in victory. This paper will compare and contrast the strategies used by the two authors to display this theme and explain why both are correct. Similarities of Why War is a Burden In his first line, Owen starts by stating that they were “bent double, like old beggars under sacks” (Gioia and Kennedy 1).
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Sibling Rivalry in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Literature Research Paper
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The common link that connects yet separates the five siblings is their mother Addie who is directly the reason for mutual feelings of contempt. Moreover, in order to fully trace the problems that arose because of this rivalry in the lives of the Bundrens, it is necessary to strategically analyze the brought up or the life of each character.
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Analysis of Mrs Miller's Monologue Literature Essay
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The only reference she made was a poor old man with whom she lived before.  So it is likely that he is her foster parent or guardian. And her own lack of roots is the reason for her to seek the comfort and security of my home.  In this way, we both are just in the same position, albeit separated by our age and experience.
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Winning and Losing Speeches in the Apology by Plato Literature Essay
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It is good to note that speeches in Thucydides are formed by a subsequent party, as a result, should not be regarded as a word-for-word imitation of what Socrates uttered on that event. However, in what relevance does Plato’s Apology locate to the valid justification of Socrates, no means can be used to determine (Jowett et al, 12).
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Social Commentary in Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre Literature Essay
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The twists and turns and fluctuations of fortune that comprise the plot of Jane are both original and engaging. The notable aspect of the novel is its authorship by a woman.  Although originally published under a male pseudonym, it is evident to the scrupulous reader that the work is by a woman, as it contains numerous insights into female psychology.
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Death, Be not Proud by John Donne and Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson Literature Essay
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John Donne, an English poet of the 17th century and Emily Dickinson, an American poet of the 19th century have both shown interest in the issue of death. In their respective poems, “Death, Be not Proud” “and Because I Could not Stop for Death,” they raise questions concerning society or expressing their philosophy of life.
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Textual Analysis of How to Watch Your Brother Die by Michael Lassell Literature Essay
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The author used a first-person perspective in order to enable the reader to understand clearly the issue of homosexuality and the consequences it contributes. The author reveals the theme of commitment between two characters including the brother and the lover of the deceased. He uses a contrasting language of love and hatred in the poem.
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Odysseus Manly Conduct and Resourcefulness in Ancient Greek Society Literature Essay
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Ancient Greek society was mainly made up of free people and slaves. Slaves were used as servants and laborers for free people who were mainly rich landowners, called aristocrats meaning best people. Their system of Government was known as oligarchy which was the rule by the few whereby slaves secured no legal right.
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Comparison of Big Clock and Maltese Falcon Literature Essay
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Since the inception of cinema into the genre of modern art, it has been noticed evidently that directors from time to time have been inspired by great novels. At times, they directly took the plot and transcribed it into a screenplay and at other places, there are storylines twisted and turned according to the convenience and demand of the cinema.
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A woman in New Orleans in the book A Confederacy of Dunces By John Kennedy Toole Literature Essay
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Through the lives of the imaginary characters, the author describes the social setting of the early New Orleans society giving a factual description of some of the features of the city most of which make the story more realistic in the audience familiar with the city.
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James, Missy, and Alan P. Merickel. Reading Literature and Writing Argument. 5th Literature Essay
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As one breaks down points of the topic they present, they ensure that readers obtain all material in it and understand the context of writing. In ordering writing this way, one is able to present every detail of his/her topic in good order. Writing should also follow chronological organization to aid the reader’s comprehension of events as they took place.
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The main idea of the play Hamlet by Shakespeare Literature Essay
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The main idea of the play Hamlet by Shakespeare. Hamlet is the tragedy by Shakespeare the main idea of which is too difficult to be explained. This makes the work both outstanding and controversial at the same time. Many critics have still been trying to find the answer to different questions: if Hamlet was sane or insane; if the ghost was real.
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How Do Authors Create and Maintain Tension and Suspense When the Killer Is Known From the Beginning Literature Research Paper
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1981 novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold is more than just an account of how the Vicario brothers killed an otherwise innocent man named Santiago just to avenge their sister’s shame. In these two novels, the authors were able to maintain the element of suspense although the reader knows from the very start who the murderers and the victims are.
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Journey Motif in Children and Juvenile Literature Literature Dissertation
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I believe that as children and juvenile literature has gone through the course of rich historical background and tough criticisms, particularly in establishing its concrete definition, children and juvenile literature has been able to provide entertainment to its readers including adults.
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Allegories and Satire in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Literature Book Report/Review
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Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is described as a satire on human nature as a whole and a satire on Victorian traditions.  It is more than a child’s fantasy of a reversed and chaotic world. It is a socio-political satire on the conflict between the individual’s deepest consciousness and the actual world.
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Analysis of the poem The secret Life of Books by Stephen Edgar Literature Essay
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Language, narrative, character, themes, and genre are fundamental aspects of any piece of literature. "The Secret Life of Books" is one of poetic works by Stephen Edgar. Stephen Edgar is a renowned Australian poet, who utilizes perfect craftiness, diverse cultural reference, and resounding capacity in making science a reality in literature.
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The Definitively Non-Standard English Literature Essay
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The author of the paper states that normally the mind has a lot to speak. It is able to think, plan, and store information to an extent. However, the information in the mind is just but a cloud of thoughts if not put into a form that can be referred to, at a later time and even accessible to others.
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Boys And Girls vs A Good Man Is Hard To Find Literature Essay
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An in-depth analysis of both the stories suggests that all that Laird and his father and the Misfit and his gang did was to get the skins off their victims. Laird’s father made use of no part of the fox’s bodies but their furs. “…the whole pelting operation… [included] the killing, skinning, and preparation of the furs” (Munro).
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Clothes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Literature Essay
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The essay would intend to focus on the paradox on which images apparently engages the thought process of the readers on the conflict that the protagonist of this story Sumita faces due to the paradigm shift in her lifestyle from Indian to that of American and the way this conflict is expressed through the changes that she makes in the choice of her clothes and its colors at different times.
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The Novel Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence Literature Essay
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Critics have claimed the novel to be autobiographical in myriad occasions. Also, they perceived that the experience of the novel would definitely relate the readers to the life of the young D. H. Lawrence as an aspiring artist. The detailed introspection of the novel would enable its readers to find lots of scope and space for thematic expression.
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Dave eggers, what is the what: the autobiography of Valentino. Achak Deng Literature Essay
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It is in this setting that Achak Deng began his epic journey across borders. According to Marshall (2006) in his report for Africa Conflict Prevention Pool, armed conflicts and ‘forcibly displaced populations’ escalated in sub-Saharan Africa between mid-1950s and mid-1970s1.
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Social Accounting Practices, Capacities and Connections Within Rural Society as a Two Thai Villages Literature Essay
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The practice has the benefit of translating various and complicated processes into sets of financial figures. The theoretical framework of this research will give a brief idea of how villagers adopt and constrain their accounting systems. Although they might adopt these systems from their ancestors, this research will take a closer look.
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The Visit of Barack Obama in Regents College Literature Essay
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A potential increase of the budget up to 2-3% is possible under the influence of the continuous increase of taxes but also the differentiation in the costs of advertisement as decided by the management team of the relevant organizations; also, differentiations in one or more details of the text published would lead to the increase of the relevant cost.  
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The Dental Hygienists Role in Patient Motivation Literature Essay
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Communication is essential, it is also crucial for a hygienist to be an expert in the information related to his job. One should be updated with the latest discoveries or improvements in dental hygiene. His knowledge about oral hygiene essentials should be comprehensive and not just limited to what he adopts himself.
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Moral Judgements on the Characters in Short Stories Literature Research Paper
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The story starts in motion with young Brown leaving his three-month wife, Faith, home and meeting a stranger in a forest to join an undetermined, but unholy ceremony. It is being discussed in the story that his wife, Faith, wears a hat with pink ribbons on it. Hawthorne explains the character of the wife by the symbol of pink ribbons.
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Fitzgerald as a Social Critic in the Great Gatsby Literature Essay
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However, through The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald dons the role of a social critic to bring out the adherence and affinity of the generation towards false material values during the Jazz era (Bruccoli, 2000). Through the rise and fall of Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerlad critiques the American society that was keen on affluence and was morally irresponsible.
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Define and Argue Literature Term Paper
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For a marriage to exist there must be various components which include trust, respect, love, caring for other’s feelings, sharing responsibilities, fidelity, the desire to work everyday on your union, the development of good communications. It is unrealistic to assume that couples who have been married for a long time are happy; instead, we have to consider the elements or components of a healthy marriage or successful relationship.
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Man and Monster in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Literature Essay
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Written by Mary Shelley, the wife of one of the most revolutionary poets of the Romantic age and the daughter of extremely rebellious parents who sought to challenge the order of things in the society, the work challenges our traditional notions of things.
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Critical Race in Literature Literature Research Paper
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While as a global society we have developed past extreme scenarios of racism, episodes of racist behavior still manifest themselves in modern society. Specifically, The United States of America as a social system has developed from a colony that legally permitted slaves into an integrated social system with codified means of recourse against racism.
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Analysis of Into the Wild Book by Jon Krakauer Literature Essay
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Frank’s idea is adopted by many, as the American Dream. Many people are in support of his idea. All over the world, people are applying it, in maneuvering form the middle-class levels to gaining high social standards. He has written many articles on how individuals can rise to greater heights in life.   
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Critical Analysis of The Awakening Literature Essay
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When the novel first appeared, Kate Chopin was criticized by the society for illustrating a sexual, independent woman who breaks away from the strict southern patriarchy hierarchy.  In the novel, the main character Edna commits suicide as the final resort to break free from the oppression of the Victorian society.
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A Streetcar Named Desire Literature Essay
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The basic plot of the drama revolves around the personality clash between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski; the two major characters of the play. The play expresses the intense feelings of love and hate, sexuality and devotion, fantasies and hard realities that follow the lives of people with broken and scarred souls.
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Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr Literature Essay
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Martin Luther King, Jr. has been a great influence on the citizen to the US. Very few people around the world have had such a great influence on their nations by the way they speak or write. Reading the Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr., it is clear that the author is an exceptional writer who knows how to express himself.
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Workbook Engagement and Reflection Literature Essay
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Introduction Modern literature depicts the cultural ethos of modern times. Modern sensibility is faced with the problem of identity and deterioration of the traditions and values that were cherished by the people of the past. Man in his quest for existence comes across the issue of coping with the world around him.
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Policies of Nazi Germany towards Jews and the Policies towards Jews of other Countries in Europe Literature Essay
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The Jews have a long history that runs down through an ancestry of biblical ties of the second millennium. Their traditional beliefs are said to have influenced the biblical antecedent and by extension the Christian fraternity. They are known to have achieved political independence in the early 1300 BCE only to be defeated by their neighbors.
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Analysis of Othello Tragedy by William Shakespeare Literature Essay
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Towards the end of the play, it is observed that Othello’s insecurities and complexes regarding his black background and heritage have reached its peak and the readers rather than hating him begin to pity him for his situation. As it is stated in the text, “Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away”.
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Existentialism by Albert Camus Literature Essay
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The story is told in the first person by Meursault, whose mother had just died. The theme of existentialism is early seen in his seeming indifference at his mother’s passing. He opens the story with: “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure.”
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Critique of Rabbit Hole by John Cameron Mitchell Literature Essay
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Tammy Blanchard is an appealing actor who takes the role of Howie’s sister, and Diane Wiest as their mother. Lastly, Miller Teller acts as Jason, a troubled student from high school. This essay critiques and analyses Rabbit Hole in details. Brief summary of Rabbit Hole The chronicle of the film is based on Pulittzer winning play written by David Lindsau-Abaire (Hudson).
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The Use of Metaphors in the Book, The Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin Literature Essay
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These inhabitants can later mature into full male or female once in a month in their phase of sexual arousal which is called Kemmer. This whole novel is based on metaphorical language that is built on unstable balances between binary opposites like winter and summer, betrayal and loyalty, weaknesses and strength, courage and fear.
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A study of Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman as a modern tragedy Literature Research Paper
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Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman can be said to have the thematic and structural features of a modern tragedy for reasons other than its tragic denouement.
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Historical Analysis of the Peloponnesian War, Euripides Satyr Play Literature Term Paper
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The only reason to re-tell this story would be for it to stand as an allegory of the war that was currently raging during Euripides’ time.  The Cyclops was probably a stand-in for Sparta, which was raging war against Athens at that time. When Odysseys defeats Cyclops by poking out his eye, this was clearly an allegory for Athens defeating Sparta.
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The Book Egyptian Earth Literature Essay
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Haqqi is less totalizing in his delineation of rural Egyptians. He is more aware of class relations that complicate the notion of a romanticized, monolithic, and ultimately helpless peasantry in revolt against modernity, variously allegorized. Still, it is suspected that al-Sharqawi would not have thought of his characters as romanticized.
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Analysis of the Story: Neighbors by Raymond Carver Literature Research Paper
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The story surrounds what transpires when the Stones are away from home and the millers have to take care of their apartment. This paper will analyze the story as well as the style that Carver employs to reach his audience effectively. The story presents a chronological order of the ventures of the Millers when their neighbors are away.
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William Shakespeare: A Question of Authorship Literature Research Paper
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Rather someone else has written and published those unparallel popular literary works in Shakespeare’s name. Among these authorship candidates, Edward of Oxford appears to be the most powerful. In numerous books, articles, and research papers have been published purporting this stance that “Shakespeare of Stanford-upon-Avon”.
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The US should have never invaded Iraq in 2003 (Public Rhetoric) Literature Essay
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Bush’s administration was determined to invade Iraq with or without compelling evidence that Iraq had an active program for obtaining and hiding weapons of mass destruction (MacAskill). Several American voters strongly believe that they should never have involved themselves in the Iraq war.
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A Commentary on King Leontes in Shakespeares Winters Tale Literature Essay
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A Commentary on King Leontes in Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale. One of Shakespeare’s final plays is The Winter’s Tale, written in a novel type of genre that does not end in a tragedy. It portrays how a jealous king allowed the banishment of his infant daughter and imprisonment of his own wife due to false pretenses and assumptions, as well as his and his family’s eventual redemption and reunion.
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Losses and Gains in the Character of Miss Amelia in The Ballad of the Sad Caf Literature Essay
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Carson McCullers was known for portraying the tragic cycle of love in the novella The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951), and the situation of the three main characters resonates among the novella’s readers. The stage adaptation of the story by Edward Albee shows the similarities in the intended portrayals of the characters within the short story.
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The Failure of Jay Gatsbys American Dream Literature Research Paper
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The Great Gatsby is a story of a self-made young man, who is infuriated by the state of poverty he was living in, trying to support himself as a janitor in his college life, only to decide to leave college and join a mentor who introduces him to the ways of the rich. His need for money had become so great that he "was in the drug business".
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Classical Chinese Poetry Literature Essay
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Poetry is one of the earliest forms of artistic literature practiced by different communities to educate the people and pass the desired message. Poetry among the Chinese people can be retraced from as 170BC to the present day, where literal techniques are used to communicate different messages within the community as well as to other parts of the world.
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