.... if anyone knows her. Soon he meets Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting. Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want. Later, as seen in the Plaza Hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this as is shown when he takes the blame for Myrtle's death. "Was Daisy driving?" "Yes. . . but of course I'll say I was." He also watches and protects Daisy as she returns home. "How long are you going to wait?" said Nick "All night if necessary." States Mr. Gatsby. Jay cannot accept that the past is gone and .....

.... find the truth. The oracle repeated the same prophecy that was told to Laius and Jocasta. Thinking that Polybus and Merope were his parents, Oedipus left Corinth. Fate then stepped in and Oedipus met an old man accompanied by several servants at a crossroads. The old man was Laius, on his way to Delphi. Since both men were proud, they refused to step aside so the other could pass. Laius attacked Oedipus, who killed him and all but one of the servants. Not realizing that he had fulfilled half of his terrible prophecy, Oedipus continued on his way to Thebes. Upon arriving at Thebes, Oedipus was confronted by a great Sphinx. .....

.... three boys on the island made them more aware of the evil inside themselves and, in some cases, made the false politeness that had clothed them disappear. However, the changes experienced by one boy differed from those endured by another. This is attributable to the physical and mental differences between them. Jack was first described with having an air of cruelty that made him naturally unlikeable. As leader of the choir and one of the tallest boys on the island, Jack's physical height and authority matched his arrogant personality. His desire to be Chief was clearly evident in his first appearance. When the idea of having a Ch .....

.... a wall always obstructing him. From the beginning is isolated within the confines of his work place. "I procured a high green folding screen, which might entirely isolate from my sight, though not remove him from my voice."( pg 111) In this quotation the narrator put Arnold, Page 2 up a screen to separate his office from ’s, which isolates him from the other members of the staff which thus isolates him from humanity. However, this is not the end of the isolation for he is not only detached from those around him, but society as well. "I placed his desk close up to a small side window, a window that had originally .....

.... witches’ forecasts Macbeth thought he deserved the throne, almost like it was meant to be. Macbeth’s clear thought of reasoning became clouded as his ego increased. He no longer knew the difference between right and wrong. He was being guided by supernatural powers. It was the witches’ power that persuaded Macbeth to kill Duncan. They enabled him to see a floating dagger that lead him directly into Duncan’s chamber, where he committed the murder. As the play progresses, Macbeth became more dependent on the witches’ and their predictions. He insisted that they tell him more about what his futu .....

.... or even music. Certain types of entertainment can even be education. For example, television shows such as “20/20” or “DateLine” are both very informative shows, but interesting enough to entertain the public. Entertainment can be tricky, though. The media can convince us, even brainwash us, to believe certain truths that may not be accurate. The television shows we watch and the music that we listen to are huge daily influences on our lives. They help shape the way we think, what we know, and what we feel. We follow the trends that television tells us are “in” and say the things that everyone says. We tend t .....

.... Is my team ploughing,” the focus is placed upon a conversation between a dead man and one of his friends from his previous life (Housman 18). “XXII: The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread;” meanwhile, expresses an emotional wonder discovered in the eyes of a passing soldier (Housman 15). Both the ambiguous quality of the dead man’s last question (18 ll. 25-26) in poem XXVII and the nature of the chance encounter in XXII stand to exemplify the subtle undercurrent of Housman’s own enigmatic sexuality. “Is my team ploughing” is in the form of “the primitive ballad metr .....

.... this subject. However, he does not stop. Their relationship seems to be fine when the baby has not came in between them. We could see this where the guy says, “We’ll be fine afterward. Just like we were before.” The girl wants the relationship to become as before, but is in a huge dilemma whether to give birth to the baby or not. The man does not want the baby and has the choice of abortion in mind, not thinking of the other problems that would occur through operation such as the girl’s health. Later on, the girl makes a melancholy remark that the hills look like white elephants. Probably the hills bei .....

.... The rendering of the shadows around her eye hints at the kohl rimmed eyes of an Egyptian hieroglyph, an ancient and mysterious goddess (Figure 2, Feature 2). Mary's power, her steady gaze, is unquestionable. The shapes of the piece serve to emphasize her enigmatic power. The clothing is composed of angular and geometrically gilded polygons. The sharp lines clearly show gravity, tension, and the folding nature of the cloth (Figure 2, Feature 3). Conversely, the flesh is smooth and flowing, free from physical forces, sacred. Her face is at the apex of the ungilded space and is surrounded by an approximately 3/8 inch raised gol .....

.... a room in the vivid imagery. The stepmother "often ill-treated the children" and "she kept on trying to persuade her husband to abandon his children…" This is a key indicator of the abuse that Hansel and Gretel suffered under their cruel stepmother. During the times the author lived in, child abuse was common in society. The anonymous author uses the character of the wicked stepmother to convey the abuse a child would suffer during those times. The wife of the woodcutter "was forever nagging" him to "abandon" the "two brats". This is only one of the levels of child abuse children had to suffer. Parents often abused their .....