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Expert Author: Ashmita Saha | Summary
James Gatz changes his name to Jay Gatsby early in his career to carve out an opulent life for himself away from his parents who were 'shiftless and unsuccessful farm people'. Jay Gatsby is the central character of the classic novel The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. After struggling through the initial few years as army many, bond salesman and sailor, Gatsby finally 'comes into a good deal of money.'
Expert Author: Frank K. Githinji | Summary
Gothic romance novels or stories were popular in the 18th and 19 century. This was a very interesting type of romance genre which was mainly governed by mystery. They were known to touch on the supernatural and those who have a liking for horror found them especially entertaining.
Expert Author: Linore Rose Burkard | Summary
Imagine if Queen Victoria never came to the throne...because her cousin, Princess Charlotte Augusta, beat her to it. Of course this couldn't have happened; Despite being as wildly popular to the England of her time as Princess Diana was to ours, Princess Charlotte never became the Queen she might have been, and by birth, should have been, for the simple reason that she died before getting the chance to. Read on to catch a glimpse of Her Royal Highness, Princess Charlotte --passionate, a sometime pawn of her warring parents, and the Princess of Wales during the regency until her death in 1817.
Expert Author: Suzanne Macguire | Summary
Silk paintings of Vietnam have won international acclaim in recent times and this tradition has further broadened the bounds of Vietnamese art. Vietnamese silk paintings are known for their elegance and softness in a wide range of styles.
Expert Author: Stefano Sandano | Summary
The city founded by Romulus in the 8th century BC is located on a permanently navigable river,the Tiber, not too far from the sea. The site where Rome is, is well supplied with springs and healthy because of the hills. Rome was surrounded not only by city walls but also by a pomerium, created when a furrow was solemnly ploughed round the site of a city.
Expert Author: Sharon Eiffel | Summary
Directed thought has immense capabilities. In fact it is from thought that all that ever was, is and will be, comes from. What an exciting revelation! So does this mean that all we have to do is direct our thoughts towards something and then it manifests? The answer to this is yes and no. Yes, with our thoughts we create our reality and no, even though we can use thought to create our reality, there are guiding principles which we must follow; otherwise our success cannot bring us the peace we seek.
Expert Author: Sharon Eiffel | Summary
Those who succeed have a certain type of mind. While it is true that they have ambition, vision and driving power, capacity for work, and a strong will they also seize each opportunity when it comes. They are always willing and ready. The main cause of their success can be found in their way of thinking. Whilst others can see the word IMPOSSIBLE, they don't even understand the word. To them all they see is opportunity.
Expert Author: Suzanne Macguire | Summary
There have emerged new styles in the contemporary art scenario of Vietnam. These art traditions are responsible in bringing back the limelight once again to the modern Vietnamese art.
Expert Author: Sharon Eiffel | Summary
Man has got into the habit of always wishing and attempting to live in the future, but we can only live in the moment. Yesterday has gone past and tomorrow is guaranteed to none of us; but today is here before us, so lets make the best of it. We can never live tomorrow, or yesterday but only today. Hence, it is important to celebrate each day which is a special gift from God to us, and make it special and unique. We should live each day as if it was the last day in our life and strive to accomplish all our heart's desires.
Expert Author: Sharon Eiffel | Summary
"Determination, Dedication and Devotion" are considered the three pillars which determine an individual's nature. These qualities instil in man a fighting spirit, a will to succeed and most importantly faith and trust in God. If any of these three qualities are absent, man becomes weak and vulnerable.
Expert Author: Sharon Eiffel | Summary
There is a famous saying that goes, "Man is what his mind is."

Humans are controlled by their minds and each action that it takes is based on the thoughts generated. These thoughts, no matter what the situation is, reflect the nature of man, his behaviour and aspirations. One famous philosopher once said, 'Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him'.
Expert Author: Sharon Eiffel | Summary
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -Thomas L. Holdcroft

Setbacks as we may call them are an evolutionary process which is necessary to our development. They are a learning stage. Sure, we may face trying times but what is important is not to get stuck in that moment. We must learn to lift our mentality beyond what can be seen, and go deep within ourselves for answers and solutions.
Expert Author: Fabian Tan | Summary
There are three main languages in the world today, and they are English, Chinese and Spanish.
Expert Author: Sharon Eiffel | Summary
It is very easy to place the blame of failure on someone else. People always tend to take the easy route of placing the responsibility for something going wrong on other people, situations or external factors. In fact it is human nature to point the finger. Oh yes, we are all self exalting, never accepting that we can go wrong. Whether we aware of it or not, each one of us has an ego, and it is this ego which leads us to finger pointing behaviour.
Expert Author: Sharon Eiffel | Summary
Faith is simply supreme and out of this world. For when everyone else sees no way, faith sees the way. It breaks through perceived barriers, dissolves limitations and it is unexplainable. Once too many times, a miracle happens, someone gets healed of cancer, and doctors are puzzled. Several attempts are made to come up with explanations as to why, and of course in a society which seeks hard evidence all the time these stories are dismissed as dogma because they lack 'evidence'.
Expert Author: Randell Rogfend | Summary
Iron John is a German fairy tale found in the collections of the Brothers Grimm, tale number 136, about a wild man and a prince. It is Aarne-Thompson type 502, the wild man as a helper. Most people see the story as a parable about a boy maturing into adulthood.
Expert Author: Randell Rogfend | Summary
Iron John is a book, which was written by an American Poet Robert Bly in the year 1990. This book is on the subject of - Men. The author has tried to explore the mythology and the deep-rooted cultural traditions of a specific dynamic male mode of feeling. This feeling as described by Bly is a forceful combination of fierceness and tenderness, which was sacrificed to the demands of the industrial revolution at that time.
Expert Author: Grace Pallin | Summary
President Franklin Roosevelt set the Tennessee Valley Authority was into action on May 18, 1933. This was part of a set of programs known as the New Deal that attempted to lift the country out of a devastating Depression. It sought to provide much needed jobs to individuals all over the country and electricity and irrigation to the Tennessee Valley.
Expert Author: Davinos Greeno | Summary
In Africa it seems to be all misery and nothing but problems, in the past few months we have had the attempted assassination of the Somali President, the invasion of Northern Somali towns by Ethiopian troops, continuing ethnic problems is Darfur (Sudan) and more than 20 people have been killed in political clashes in the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa, in the latest round of elections.
Expert Author: Clare Nicolas | Summary
Poor pay and lack of jobs are forcing workers to abandon their countrys health service to seek work in the UK and USA.

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