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    representations, Jay Gatsby was damned from the very beginning by F. Scott Fitzgerald for the purpose of Gatsby’s significance. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set in the Roaring 20s, the birth of the “Jazz Age” and the era of Prohibition; gone are women’s conservative dresses, flappers are the fashion and America was in a massive economic boom. The stock market reached an all-time high with millions of Americans buying stocks, all unknowing of the looming Wall Street Crash of 1929. James Truslow Adams, on the

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    John Adams was born on October 30th, 1735 to John Adams Sr. and Susanna Boylston Adams. He was the oldest of three and lived in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father was a farmer, deacon, and town councilman. The Adams were not very wealthy and John Adams’ father knew he could only send one son and he wanted to send his eldest. However, John Adams told his father “I do not love books and I wish you would lay aside thoughts of sending me to college.” His father in reply asked him- “What would you do

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    the American Dreams in the novel. Everyone’s dream is to be rich, to be well-known, and to have more things than the next person. The actual term “American Dream” became widespread in the 20th century by James Truslow Adams when he published his book Epic of America in 1931. Adams explains the American Dream as “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and

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    of the opposing Republican Party who strongly disagreed with the new tax causing the Whiskey Rebellion. Internationally, Hamilton wanted a strong economic relationship with Great Britain. He developed the Jay Treaty that insured a diplomatic agreement from peaceful trading with Britain. The Jay Treaty included decisions of debt payments, country boundaries, and Britain occupation of forts in newly independent America. Hamilton believed in a strong central economy that was aided by foreign affairs

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    non-violent civil war within a revolution, evolved into a 21st century brief summation of a few key people, taxes, and battles. John Adams accurately forewarned his trusted confidante and fellow patriot, Dr. Benjamin Rush, in 1790 when he wrote that the history of the American Revolution “will be one continued lye [sic] from one end to the other.” In his prediction, Adams assumed people would only remember that “Dr. Franklin’s electric rod smote the earth and out sprang George Washington. Then

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    John Adams and John Quincy Adams. These two men were influential people in each of their own generations. Being President was something that they both got to experience during their lifetime. Implicating policies and supervising foreign and domestic affairs, both John Adams and John Quincy Adams impacted the history of America while being the 2nd and 6th president of our great nation. John Adams and John Quincy Adams were both born in Braintree, Massachusetts 32 years apart. John Adams was married

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    Lilith has many stories to her existence, as many Gods or Goddesses do, who is then known throughout society as the Patron Goddess, Mother Goddess, Mother of Demons, Queen of the Night, and First Wife of Adam. There are many controversies as to her origin and the modern interpretation of her nature presented as historical, in which these historical facts themselves regularly misrepresented. Question are continually asked; Was Lilith once a compassionate Mother Goddess? Does Lilith originate in ancient

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    is persistent because Illuminati enthusiasts believe that they are up to something all the time, which is very hard to disprove. The Illuminati has existed since the dawn of time. It was founded in Bavaria on the first of May 1776, by a man called Adam Weishaupt, who couldn’t afford the Freemason admission fee. His society grew from as little as five members to thousands of people in a very short time frame, but then, after Karl Theodor became ruler of Bavaria, secret societies were made punishable

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    Applications to Today In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel “The Great Gatsby,” he demonstrates the social unrest between the upper and middle class in the 1920’s. Throughout the novel, the narrator, Nick Carraway, describes the life of the middle class while Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan represent the upper class. The idea of this unease and discourse was heavily accurate to the time-period in which it was written. In the 1920’s, known as the jazz age or the roaring twenties, women didn’t want to let go of their

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    Prominent American writer and historian James Truslow Adams once wrote, “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement." In both The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, the main characters search for the achievement of the American dream in themselves and the world around them. While the American dream is defined differently for the

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