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    Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He grew up not knowing of wealth and privilege and later entered Princeton in 1913. It was there that he became close friends with Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop wrote song lyrics for Triangle Club theatrical productions. He dropped out of Princeton and wrote his first novel, The Side of Paradise. The roaring twenties had just erupted and the handsome, smart Fitzgerald seemed to be the perfect spokesperson for the decade. With

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    Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us John Quiggin Introduction Australian author John Quiggin's book is loaded with interesting and valuable economic information for those willing to plow through some of the more tedious, technical language that he uses. Still, the points that the author makes about topics like "privatization," "trickle down economics," the "Efficient Markets Hypothesis" and the "Great Moderation" serve as especially appropriate rebuttals to the policies that

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    Nature. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. 176. $29.95.). Review of Politics 72.4 (2010): 723-25. Academic Search Complete [EBSCO]. Web. 24 Sept. 2016. In this review published in an academic journal, McClure attempts to clarify the main arguments and claims Peres Zagorin made in his book Hobbes and the Law of Nature. The author discusses Zagorin’s argument about how natural law acts as a brake on the sovereign’s absolutism and imposes a moral obligation on the sovereign. The review also

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    REVIEW: YOUR INTRODUCTION The film, The Beautiful Mind was directed by Ron Howard. It is a drama, based on a true story about John Nash. Nah was a mathematical genius, who suffered with a mental disorder of Paranoid Schizophrenia. However, his hallucinations weren’t as intense as they were in the film. The film shows some true events and follows through with inspired moments that have been fabricated to symbolize his worth/role in the community. Although the film is a drama it involves into romance

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    Article Review Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Article Review The aim of this paper is to examine the article by Gunnison and McCartan (2010). The paper aims to expand knowledge on the issue of female offending by examining some of the different trajectories through which female offending occurs. In particular, the paper examines the female offending from the perspective of two discrete female offending groups; persistent offenders and late onset offenders. Persistent offenders

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    On March 2, 2015, a startling swath of “Princeton Orange” popped against the House of Representatives’ sea of beige blouses and black blazers as senior Josh Zuckerman smoothed his striped collegiate tie. Sandwiched between renowned sixty-year-old constitutional scholar Robert George and Catherine Sevcenko, the silver-haired director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Zuckerman, 21, resembled the product of an imagined “Bring Your Grandson to Congress Day.” As Congressman Mike Kelly

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    Benjamin Bernanke- Former Chairman of the Board of Governs of the Federal Reserve System For any team a dynamic that has a unique background and skill set will help to address problems dead on (Thompson, 2011). Bernanke would be good to put on an economic crisis team due to his leadership qualities, his educational background, and his fast thinking under pressure. Ben Bernanke is recognized for his hand in helping save the U.S. economy during the greatest recession of recent times. Bernanke has a

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    “The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward,” (Fitzgerald qtd. In “BrainyQuote”). This quote shows why Fitzgerald’s writings have continued to be present in modern generations. With multiple films out in recent years many of his writings have become household names. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s national fame is a result of his early life, writing career, and his eventual downfall. According to Biography editors, Francis Scott

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    changed professions often. Fitzgerald went to a Catholic prep school in New Jersey, then two years later he began attending Princeton University. He wrote for his school newsletter and participated in many other literary activities, but soon after his grades started slipping and he was placed on academic probation. He realized that he was going to fail, so he dropped out of Princeton and joined the army. He wrote his first novel titled The Romantic Egoist, but it was rejected by the publisher. Soon after

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    That year, The New York Times Book Review named Beloved the best novel of the past 25 years. She continued to explore new art forms, writing the libretto for Margaret Garner, an American opera that explores the tragedy of slavery through the true life story of one woman's experiences. The

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