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Scott Fitzgerald utilized the theme of the American Dream in the novel The Great Gatsby to illustrate the nation’s obsession with success in the eyes of society. Fitzgerald achieved the theme through the comparison of his own life and love story to the legendary tale of Jay Gatsby that he created. Furthermore, Fitzgerald draws from the historical time period, the Jazz Age, to emphasize the population’s lure to luxury. However, critics have discovered the novel’s inconsistencies through its several

1. Research background: The waves of refugee from Syria to Europe begun after the outbreak Civil War in Syria. On March of 2011, protests appeared in the southern city of Deraa after police arrested and tortured some teenagers who illegally painted revolutionary slogans on a school wall. But the peaceful protests rapidly grew into rebel fighting against the government after the government 's violent crackdown. In July, 2011, a group of defected Syrian officers founded the Free Syrian Army to gather

addition to its resemblance to the author. The Great Gatsby exists as an extremely real and historical book that grasps the reader’s attention and transports them to an incredibly real place amongst Fitzgerald’s personal life, which society survives unknowledgeable of and deserves to reread and gain an enhanced understanding. F. Scotts Fitzgerald’s birth took place on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota

How much we value the right of free speech is put to its severest test when the speaker is someone we disagree with most. Speech that deeply offends our morality or is hostile to our way of life warrants the same constitutional protection as other speech because the right of free speech is indivisible. However, in recent years, the right to free speech is one of legal and moral ambiguity-What separates offensive free speech from dangerous or threatening (and presumably illegal) hate speech? Under

was and why retaliation should proceed. This failure on the part of party officials and media to stem the progress into the abyss contributed significantly to fuelling a climate of intolerance and turned them into agents of destruction of Rwandan society. (Sibomana 1999: 49). The Western media thus has the power to ‘transform a crisis from one that is at micro level hardly noted by decision-makers, to one that is at macro level and receiving higher priority’(Auerbach and Bloch-Elkon 2005: 16). As

act determining legality through the decision from the court. These following states are currently considering on accepting the Death with Dignity act: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin. Physician- assisted suicide is a very controversial act, and the determination of legality depends or ethics, laws, safety, and

The current American Psychological Associations (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct were addressed in 2002, which are now resolving conflicts and regulations addressed with previous experiments. The Institutional Research Board that is governed by the APA Ethical Principles to approve research regulates current experiments. History of malpractice, but was not deemed unethical at that time, were done by certain scholars. Wendell Johnson experimented with children and stuttering

that seeing is a prelude to historical knowledge and that understanding the past relies on the ability to imagine. At the same time, the role of thought and imagination in the production of society--as reflected in the earlier work of Louis Althusser (1970), Maurice Godelier (1984) and perhaps more significantly, Cornelis Castoriadis (1975), suggests yet another role for photography in the construction of a social and cultural reality. Photographs in capitalist societies contribute to the production

official, and permanent. While given the definition of marriage and most of society making same sex marriage nearly impossible; Psychology Today recognizes that “any” two people who love each other can come together and be united. In 1970, in Minnesota, the first gay couple to apply for a marriage license in the U.S. was Jack Baker and Michael McConnell and they were not allowed to marry. However, on May 2013 Minnesota finally legalized same sex marriage and the law would be effective starting August

Journey through Beethoven's Musical Structure Traditional analysis of Beethoven's use of Sonata Allegro form tends to focus on harmonic or melodic movement and key relationships. This study stretches such investigations to include questions of historical context and philosophic motivations that drive a composer to structure music in a certain way. Ultimately this leads to an inquiry about how these traditions affect us as listeners, and more specifically how they relate to gender issues in a musical