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Crank written by Ellen Hopkins is based on a sixteen-year-old girl named Kristina, who ends up getting herself into a lot of predicaments and bad habits while on a vacation to visit her father. Kristina is a young woman that was raised amongst divorced parents and a very unhealthy and unstable living environment every since she was a child. The narrator of this novel is an extremely reliable narrator because everything she says starting from her poor life experiences from not seeing her father for eight years to the poor relationship she had amongst her sister, brother, step father and mom. In this novel the narrator describes Kristina as a girl with little experience in life never because of the poor relationship her father and her mother

The book the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in the summer of 1922 on West Egg, Long Island. Jay Gatsby is a mysterious millionaire who is in love and obsessed with Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby throws his giant parties trying to impress Daisy so that he can win her love. Nick Carraway is the narrator he takes a job in New York and rents a small house next to Gatsby’s mansion. Nick goes to one of Gatsby’s parties and realizes they knew each other from the war. One Gatsby and Nick meets Gatsby he gets Nick to get with Daisy. Daisy is Nick’s Cousin who is married to Tom Buchanan.Tom is having an affair with myrtle, George's wife. Daisy and Gatsby meet after a long time and they love

In a sanitarium for Alcohol and depression, Nick Carraway writes an account of the Summer of 1922, the summer he spent in New York City and on Long Island with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, their friend and famous golfer Jordan Baker, and of course the famous Jay Gatsby. Nick rents a house on Long Island in the West Egg, the “new money” types as in the people who earned their wealth instead of having it handed down to them. Nick finds that he lives next to a very famous and mysterious Jay Gatsby. A man never seen or heard from but his parties are the place to be for anyone who is anybody in New York. Nick states that the summer began when he drives over to his cousin’s house for lunch. Daisy lives in the East Egg, where all the “old money” types are, fortune handed down to the next generation. Here is where Tom, Daisy, and Jordan enter the picture. After Nick arrives back home, he is invited to one of the infamous parties thrown by Gatsby. After arriving, he hears countless numbers of stories about this “ghost host” but none seem to match or make much sense, until he meets the real Gatsby, and all is explained. This all sounds like some worn out soap opera a stay at home wife gets addicted to, however, it is actually the plot of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel The Great Gatsby written in 1925 and made into two different movies; the Paramount Pictures version of 1974 and the 2013 Warner Brothers version. Fitzgerald created a timeless classic when writing, but

The amount of amps to kill a human is somewhere between 100-200 MA(.1-.2 amp). This amount of electricity may seem like a very small amount, but this would kill you instantaneously. The amount of electricity that would be coursing through your veins would be too extreme. This however, is another story for the character Michael Vey, he is known as the living taser and this would be an under exageration. This 14 year old child carries enough voltage to stun and kill a full grown crocodile. To put that into perspective a human body would be fried with that many amps.

The Great Gatsby takes place in New York during the Roaring Twenties, also referred to as the Jazz Age. There were two formations of lands, West Egg, which was where the narrator, Nick, lived and East Egg, the more fashionable and luxurious land on the other side of the coast. Gatsby threw these extravagant and lavish parties at his mansion, hoping to reconnect with his soulmate Daisy. The women would

The Great Gatsby takes place in New York during the 1920’s; an era of endless parties, social standards, and individuals searching for their goals in life. The theme of, the future one sets for oneself can change drastically by making one decision, is displayed throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and shown through the characters of Gatsby and Daisy as well as through the symbol of the green light.

Beery Starts his exploration of how a person is shaped by their life by starting at, of course the beginning. The main character, Hannah Coulter is born in 1922 in a fictional place called Hargrave, Kentucky. She is an only child. living on a small family farm with her

The novel The Great Gatsby is set in the 1920’s when people started to change the way that they looked at things. The narrator Nick Carraway tells the story as he was living in a small cottage beside Jay Gatsby’s mansion. Daisy Buchanan is a woman who does not think she should be able to do anything but be a fool for love. Last but least is Jay Gatsby a man who no one really knows but wish they knew. Gatsby was a man who always thought Daisy belonged to him but in reality she was never his to begin with.

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by the author F. Scotts Fitzgerald in 1925. But the story is based in 1922 this book is mainly about a man named Jay Gatsby. His life story is told to us by a man named Nick Carraway. Nick rents a small house right next to Jay Gatsby’s. It’s located in the West Egg area of Long Island New York. Carraway soon comes to find out that Gatsby is a very mysterious man that is known for throwing the most extravagant parties. He then reconnects with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom Buchanan. They introduce Nick to Daisy's best friend Jordan Baker. Baker proceeds to tell him more about Buchanan’s marriage, and how he is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson. Later on, in the book Nick Carraway

The Great Gatsby follows Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in 1922, an era of loosening morals, jazz and bootlegging. Chasing his own American Dream Nick ends up living next door to a mysterious, party throwing millionaire, Jay Gatsby and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Throughout the novel there is a theme of Racism and Anti-Semitism. Racism and Anti-Semitism in the 1920s will greatly influence the ideas of Tom Buchanan and Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby.

In the beginning of the novel the reader meets a young Janie who is living freely and has dreams for her future. She wishes to find love one day as she takes steps that enter her into womanhood. Her grandmother, Nanny, marries her off to Logan Killicks,

“All of the Children of silence must be taught to sing their own song.” This is one of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet’s most famous quotes. Gallaudet lived a very normal childhood and had a very eventful adult life. Gallaudet was a very intelligent child, which led him be granted admission to Yale University at the age of 14. After completing college, he met a young girl named Alice Cogswell. It was Alice that ultimately helped him change the lives of all deaf and dumb people for years to come, by starting the first school especially for them. Gallaudet had many health problems during his life, though it never slowed him down. He suffered from nightmares, “nervous attacks”, self-inadequacy, and lung problems along his journey for equality of all

The novel The Great Gatsby is a story that takes place in the 1920’s. The story

In the beginning of this novel, Nick caraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but not fashionable area populated by rich people. Nick is unlike all the other people in West Egg, he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg. Nick’s next door neighbor in West Egg is a strange man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a huge Gothic mansion and throws parties every Saturday night.

Bridging the distance between nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poetry is of great significance. As often the case with innovators and artists who are ahead of their times, Gerard Manley Hopkins was torn by contradictions and his poems regarded as unconventional for the historical period. His works are specifically marked by the varied use of linguistic features and rhythmic patterns which did not match the traditional writing styles of the