will be guided to develop answers to the following questions: By the time they have experienced our full educational program and services‚ what should our students know‚ and how should they be able to use what they know? What content‚ skills‚ and work habits should be the priorities for learning? What attitudes‚ qualities or characteristics should our students demonstrate? How well should students perform the desired outcomes‚ and what does excellent performance look like? How will we measure and
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of The Great Gatsby I thought that Gatsby’s never-dying love of Daisy was sweet‚ just as how he stayed in love with her all the time they were apart. Yet‚ in my second reading‚ I was irritated with it; for all he knew‚ Daisy could have changed into an entirely separate person. Yet‚ he projected past-Daisy onto current Daisy‚ trying to force her to be that person. I felt that his urgency for Daisy to renounce her love for Tom to be extremely vexing because he would not stop trying to change something
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What relationship exists between Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and Will Self’s recent adaptation‚ and to what extent is Self’s transformation of the original a response to the new social context within which he is writing? The introduction will outline how Wilde’s original version could be read as a story with a moral‚ drawing on the myth of Narcissus and Goethe’s Faust‚ and that on a basic level‚ Self’s text operates in the same way. Referencing Houston A. Baker Junior’s essay “A tragedy
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Throughout the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ it was evident that Tom and Daisy had an unstable relationship. Both Tom and Daisy come from wealthy backgrounds and the upper echelon of society. Tom is a small man hiding in a big hose with an equally large ego. Daisy is a hospitable character who is forever in love with having a rich and lavish lifestyle. Though big‚ strong‚ and arrogant‚ Tom still shows that he cares a little bit for Daisy. Tom and Daisys main commonality is money. Daisy did not marry
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How Does Anne Change Throughout “Persuasion”? Throughout the novel Austen develops Anne’s character steadily‚ and purposefully shows her evolution from a timid and nervous spinster to a confident and liberated young woman. This dramatic transformation is conveyed through her own actions and the perception of the other characters towards her. In the beginning of the novel Anne is introduced with little consequence‚ since she “was nobody with either father or sister: her word had no weight;
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Writing the Modern City February 28‚ 2014 Pip and Estella: a Comparison Though superficially Pip and Estella appear to be complete opposites‚ in reality they are not. Viewed by their benefactors as objects‚ tools developed by Magwitch and Miss Havisham to be used in exacting their revenge upon society‚ they are understood better as two sides of the same coin. Both Miss Havisham and Magwitch equate their charges with possessions Estella is associated with Miss Havisham’s jewels and Pip is associated with land and stocks
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Today our world is filled with hate. There are wars between countries and groups of people‚ there are unloving relationships‚ and there are countless hateful insults that people are called daily. Unfortunately‚ indirectly or directly‚ teenagers get caught up in a lot of these issues and can have a devastating impact and fill the individual with hate. This is common in high school especially with the diverse group of personalities and different types of people. Teens can completely forget who they
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The great philosopher‚ Confucius‚ once said‚ “The expectations of life depend on diligence.” Expectations are everything in life. Where one will end up is completely up to that individual and their work ethic. Expectations can also lead judgement and distrust in individuals that you meet. In the literary classic‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F Scott Fitzgerald‚ there is an overarching theme of how expectations can control our lives. At the beginning of the novel‚ the reader meets Nick Carraway‚ a quiet
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prevalent feature in pop culture. When one thinks of love and how to achieve it‚ relationships will most commonly come to mind. Relationships as it is being the only known way to achieve true love. One of the most iconic prices of literature displaying this is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The main protagonist of the book‚ Jay Gatsby is an iconic character for his bad relationships and involvements with different people. Such relationships include Gatsby and Tom‚ Gatsby and Nick and Gatsby and
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Death of a Salesman and All of My Sons‚ two different plays written by distinguished playwright Arthur Miller‚ yet the two main characters Joe Keller and Willy Loman are notably identical to one another. Although both are not faced with similar situations‚ both Keller and Loman handle their situations with an ignorant and shallow mindset towards the world. Keller and Loman have significant tragic flaws which ultimately lead to their demise. Both characters are unable to accept reality the way others
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