Essays Tagged: "Long Island"

"The great gatsby": characters.

try to make money selling bonds; however he doesn't seem to be doing so well.He decides to move to Long Island with a friend a rent a house because he does not like life in a small apartment.They fin ... does not like life in a small apartment.They find a nice bungalow on what is called the west egg of long island. In west egg lives the people who have just recently made their fortune or "new money" a ...

(3 pages) 51 0 4.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amistad.

had sailed a zigzag course and ended up on the coastline of the United States.The Amistad sailed to Long Island, New York in late August 1839. Sengbe and the others got off to gather food and water an ... nough funds had been raised they could sail home. The surviving thirty-five Africans would take the long journey to Sierra Leone. Before the ship left, Lewis Tappan talked to the passengers and thanke ...

(5 pages) 75 0 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Descriptive essay.

Coffee ShopI waited until the last minute to search for a flight to Long Island and could not find one available. The wedding rehearsal would begin at 3:00 p.m. With so ... late seemed to be the only things edible. The orange juice appeared to be fine until I discovered a long piece of hair dangling outside the cup. This was enough to make me gag!I had had enough! The fo ...

(2 pages) 133 0 4.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Analysis of symbolism in The Great Gatsby and its representation of 1920s America.

The story of The Great Gatsby takes place over one summer in 1922 in Long Island. On the surface it is a love story with a tragic ending but if one looks deeper into the ... rious characters typical of that place and era. Gatsby lives in a huge mansion on the "West Egg" of Long Island, paid by the proceeds of bootlegging and other crimes. His friend Nick lives next door i ...

(4 pages) 72 0 3.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Politique du 11 septembre 2001

an; le Bronx, au nord-est; Brooklyn et le Queens, à l'extrémité occidentale de Long Island`Richmond, sur l'île méridionale de Staten Island » . C'est cependant ... et de ne pas quitter la maison et surtout pas pour travailler. Pour les hommes, le port de la barbe longue de cinq doigts, la prière demeure aussi obligatoire. On autorise les sanctions suivant ...

(9 pages) 31 2 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

The Catholic Fitzgerald !

m that. "Sometimes," Fitzgerald wrote to his daughter near the end of his life, "I wish I had gone along with that gang [the pure entertainers, like the songwriter Cole Porter], but I guess I am too m ... y between New York City and the "Eggs"-West Egg and East Egg, Gatsby's town and Daisy's town out on Long Island-there's a strange little no-man's land of ash dumps and abandoned cars. This is where th ...

(13 pages) 38 0 3.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Character analysis of characters in the GREAT GATSBY. Includes quotes and in depth information. by MUNDEAZY

d his wealth by participating in organized crime. From his early youth, Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth but his main motivation in acquiring his fortune was his love for Daisy Buchanan, ... Minnesota, who travels to New York to learn the bond business. He lives in the West Egg district of Long Island, next door to Gatsby. Nick is also Daisy's cousin, which enables him to observe and assi ...

(3 pages) 26 0 4.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The Great Gatsby" Summary

t arrived in New York, where he moved to work in the bond business, and rented a house on a part of Long Island called West Egg. Unlike the conservative, aristocratic East Egg, West Egg is home to the ... s. Overhead, two huge, blue, spectacle-rimmed eyes--the last vestige of an advertising gimmick by a long-vanished eye doctor--stare down from an enormous sign. These unblinking eyes, the eyes of Docto ...

(3 pages) 40 1 4.6 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Poem Analysis: "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman

Only attending school until the age of eleven and living in Long Island, this man became one of our nation's most honored poets (Poetry Criticism). Walt Whitman ... became one of our nation's most honored poets (Poetry Criticism). Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island (Poetry Criticism). He attended school there until the age of eleven, after which he wor ... lel idea.All of these famous writers have read Whitman and had an opinion. There are some that were long since gone before his work was written and did not get a chance to read it. Whitman is here com ...

(6 pages) 68 0 3.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Nonverbal Communication From A Personell Perspective

no one to go with on that given day. As soon as I got there I found a table to sit at and ordered a long island tea. Sat at the table for at least an hour just drinking and watching everyone in the cl ...

(2 pages) 31 0 0.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

The great gatsby 2

hat is the key to each relationship from the outside because he has no other choice. Nick is new to Long Island and is confronted with some characters for the first time. Just like the reader. Having ...

(3 pages) 1350 0 1.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nick from The Great Gatsby

to life on the East Coast to better fit in the intellectual, rich and snobby East and West Eggs of Long Island. As a narrator, Nick is an observer and analyzes all the people he meets, always learnin ... all the people he meets, always learning more about his new home and its population. He gives many long descriptive passages referring to these, and thanks to his honesty he provides an analysis unpa ...

(4 pages) 17 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Day care in new york and how i

Currently there are only about twelve or so day-care investigators on Long Island, whose responsibilities are to inspect and monitor all 1,659 providers caring for 35,319 ... rsity of New York have developed two new training tools for the investigators.This past summer, the Long Island representatives went for their first ever formal training in day-care regulation, and ha ... nts that were substantiated in the past five years is at its lowest, with drastic drops from 35% on Long Island to 19%, and 35% in New York State to 23%. If the current interest in improving the regul ...

(3 pages) 1099 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

The Great Gatsby

The Story In the beginning Nick Carraway has just arrived on Long Island after his studies. This is where he met Jay Gatsby, his neighbor. Tom and Daisy Buchanan ... er Wilson was mad at his wife murderer and he tried to find him. He fined out that the yellow car belonged to Gatsby. He went there and shot him in his pool then shot himself not far away.Gatsby's fat ...

(2 pages) 14 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

The Story In the beginning Nick Carraway has just arrived on Long Island after his studies. This is where he met Jay Gatsby, his neighbor. Tom and Daisy Buchanan ... er Wilson was mad at his wife murderer and he tried to find him. He fined out that the yellow car belonged to Gatsby. He went there and shot him in his pool then shot himself not far away.Gatsby's fat ...

(2 pages) 20 0 2.3 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Chasing Grace by Martha Manning

eldest of six and moved around a lot because of her father's job with the FBI. Finally settling in Long Island, Manning attended an all girl catholic schools all the way through high school. She cont ... nce and how she looked like her soul was dead. She thought that this woman hadn't been homeless for long. "I've learned that the Lord giveth, and the Lord can sure as hell take away. What is the diffe ...

(2 pages) 1138 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Bead Bar Network You will form evaluative decisions when you determine the network topology and architecture that best suits the Bead Bar.

franchises. The studio division keeps track of the six bead bar studios, located in New York City, Long Island, Washington D.C., and Boston Massachusetts. The Bead Bar on Board allows them to place t ... uld be beneficial, it would be better to spend the money on making a network that can be used for a long time rather than to spend less on one network and then have to change it in a few years when th ...

(4 pages) 82 0 4.0 May/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Literary Modernism of American Writers of the "Lost Generation" F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby

valley of ashes, a strange setting created by the author that lies between the glamorous houses of Long Island and New York City, I visualized as a desolate place where all hope is lost; however, the ... the green light Gatsby is seen pondering outside his mansion, representing, on the basic level, his longing to be reunited with Daisy and to live his own American dream. This, again, was correctly int ...

(4 pages) 20 0 3.0 Sep/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The "Great" Gatsby

ader to the main character, Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is wealthy man who lives in the West Egg area of Long Island, home to those who recently became associated with money. He throws extravagant parties ...

(4 pages) 23 0 5.0 Jul/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

biography of poet walt whitman

tman..Walt Whitman (American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist) was born in May 31st 1819 in Long Island. He was the son of Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor. Named after his father, Whitman ... er his father, Whitman spent the first four years of his childhood in his birth home in west hills, Long Island. , until his family moved to Brooklyn due to his fathers hope of finding employment in c ...

(5 pages) 64 0 0.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry