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The American Dream in "The Great Gatsby"
The dream of finding fortune, fame and true love is something that almost all Americans strive for. The American cult classic, The Great Gatsby, this is no exception.
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Baseball in American Letters
Baseball has often appeared as a symbol of American Life in many great novels and some really simple but wonderful poems.
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Classic Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald
A brief biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Great Gatsby
Biographical information and insight into F.Scott Fitzgerald's most widely-taught novel.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Great Gatsby
Biographical information and insight into F. Scott Fitzgerald's most widely-taught novel.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a reflection of the time period in which it was written.
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Fitzgerald's Gatsby: Daisy Buchanan
Daisy Buchanan is the epitome of a daughter of privilege. She comes from old money, never wanted for anything, but she has no concept of how it has shaped her character.
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Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby and Hunter S. Thompson
Just as Gatsby spent his life chasing the green light over the bay, Thompson spent his career chasing the elusive American Dream.
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Flashback and Night and Day in the Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the device of time as a force that hinders humans from accomplishing their dreams.
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Modernism and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
The development of the unreliable narrator in F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby locates this novel within the Modernist movement.
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Revisiting a Classic: The Great Gatsby
A & E presents their version of the tragic romance, The Great Gatsby, originally written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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The Forgotten Tragic Hero in "The Great Gatsby"
An essay examining the character of George Wilson, the "forgotten hero" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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THE GREAT GATSBY
In the novel, we see multiple Edens. Each character is longing for one particular paradise. The concept of paradise in Gatsby is a shifting evanescent illusion of happiness, joy, love, and perfection, a mirage that leads each character to reach deeper, look harder, strive farther. All the while, time pulls each individual farther from the moment he seeks....from an essay in the <b>Rivendell Educational Archives.</b>
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, <I>The Great Gatsby</I>, followed by the best places online to purchase the book.
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The Great Gatsby Meets Law & Order at The Plaza
New York's Plaza Hotel is legendary in life as in fiction; it's also at the center of a six-degrees web of Hollywood fame whose Degree Zero appears to be--Jay Gatsby.
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The Great Gatsby's Summer & American Dream
Time dooms dreams to a demise of death because idealism can never come to fruition.
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Theme and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby explores a time of social and political upheaval and depicts one man's desire to recapture his past during the Jazz Age .
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A Review of 'Tender is The Night'
Fitzgerald worked on seventeen versions of this novel and was plagued with a desire to make it as perfect as possible.
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Bill Gates Brief Biography
Brief biography of Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation's co-founder and chairman, philanthropist, business magnate
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Book Review: Gatsby's Girl by Caroline Preston
Caroline Preston's Historical novel Gatsby's Girl reveals the romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, socialite and inspiration for Gatsby's Daisy.
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Book Review: The Double Bind
Midwives author Chris Bohjalian has written a remarkable novel. The Double Bind explores issues of homelessness and mental illness within the context of a thriller.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Biographies & Resources
For students or anyone interested in learning about F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, here is an overview of biographies and websites relating to him.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories
Known primarily for The Great Gatsby and other "jazz age" novels, author F. Scott Fitzgerald actually made his living writing short stories for popular magazines.
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See America First - Appalachia and the Eastern Seaboard
Valleys of seduction, dance, violence, and fierce desire for escape, are what unite three 20th century operas set in the Appalachian Mountains and along Long Island Sound.
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Summer Reading - 11th Grade
Wells, Angelou, Salinger and Fitzgerald are the most commonly read authors in the summer before junior year - find out what they're all about!
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The Best Book About NYC After 9/11?
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill may be the best novel yet written about New York after the tragedy of September 11th and that raises a couple of questions.
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The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald
With over 2,000 entries, The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald provide valuable insight into the Jazz Age author and the process he used to write his later works.
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All-American Operas
Quick -- name American operas based on American literature. There's more to this subject than you might think!
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Great Minnesota Writers and Their Best Books
Four outstanding voices in American literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jon Hassler, Leif Enger, and Louise Erdrich, have strong ties to Minnesota.
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Hemingway and Hollywood
A new 5 DVD set reveals the bull-like goring Papa Hemingway's novels and short stories got from Tinsel Town
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Robert Redford -- A Man of Cinematic Vision
Robert Redford will always be known as a superstar of Hollywood and a man of cinematic vision.
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The Basil & Josephine Stories
Scott Fitzgerald's short story collection The Basil & Josephine Stories are a series of youthful tales about the travails of teenagers in the early 20th century.
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U-Z Famous American Literature
Continuing the guide to often noted novelists, playwrights, and songwriters of the USA...Following the literary influences on the formation of the "American Dream."
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The 100 Best Novels?
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Author Theory --The Work of Barthes and Foucault
In 'What is an Author?' and 'The Death of the Author' Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes make seminal contributions to literary theory.
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Banned Books Week: Radcliff List
Out of the Top 100 books of the 20th Century as listed by the Radcliff Publishing Course, 42 are or have been on the banned or challenged book list.
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Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
A review of the themed mystery <I>Catering to Nobody</I>, followed by the best place online to purchase the book.
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Chris Bohjalian Writes Character
A review of Bohjalian's most recent novel, The Double Bind, and the ever popular Midwives, helps readers find a new favorite author.
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Have Your Seniors Read These???
Although many seniors believe that they are ready for the college level English and literature courses, many professors have literary works with which they expect incoming freshmen to be acquainted with but that have not been taught in high school. Here is one list.
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Saintly Visions or Blind Faith? (Part Three of Three)
A look at 20th-Century Romanticism in Three American Classics: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and J.D. Salinger's "Seymour: An Introduction."
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Saintly Visions or Blind Faith? (Part Two of Three)
A look at 20th-Century Romanticism in Three American Classics: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and J.D. Salinger's "Seymour: An Introduction."
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The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Richler
In The Incomparable Atuk, Richler satirically creates a character that is fused with both the exotic authenticity of his past and the pretentious greed of the present.
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The Plaza, New York's Classic Landmark Hotel
The Plaza has undergone plenty of changes since it reopened in March, many of them welcome and necessary, but the nostalgic magic of the classic New York hotel remains.
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Writing Imitation Poems
Teachers in need of creative ways to improve writing should try this technique known as mimicking or imitation.
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Art Deco on Display in Hawkes Bay Wine Country
Napier, a highlight of New Zealand's Hawkes Bay Wine Country, is home to perhaps the most complete and significant grouping of Art Deco buildings in the world.
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Avoiding the Winter Blues
When the holidays are over, the winter days and nights may start to feel endless and unforgiving. Here are some ideas for dealing with winter "blahs."
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Flapper Dress Fashion 2008-2009
A perfect canvas for embellishments and metallics the vintage flapper dress is taking over from the modern mini and baby-doll smocks of last season.
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How to Write a Great Book Title
It's all in a name. Your book's title has more than one function. Besides identifying your story, the title of a book has to attract attention and create interest.
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Interview With Young Novelist Estevan Vega
Estevan Vega had two novels published by the time he was eighteen and is about to release a third. In this interview, he talks about his experiences as a young writer.
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Introduction to the 1920s
1920s America: more than sex, drugs and jazz, this era was the real start of the 20th Century.
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