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  2. Gatsby: An American Myth - Wikipedia

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    Tom takes a call from his mistress Myrtle Wilson to Daisy's indignation; she sings about her unhappiness beneath her perfect facade ("Golden Girl"). Myrtle's husband George runs an unsuccessful garage in the Valley of Ashes; the death of their child to Spanish flu years prior has driven a wedge in their relationship ("Valley of Ashes"). Tom ...

  3. The Great Gatsby (2000 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Gatsby is a 2000 British-American historical romantic drama television film, based on the 1925 novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.It was directed by Robert Markowitz, written by John J. McLaughlin, and stars Toby Stephens in the title role of Jay Gatsby, Mira Sorvino as Daisy Buchanan, Paul Rudd as Nick Carraway, Martin Donovan as Tom Buchanan, Francie Swift as Jordan ...

  4. The Great Gatsby - Wikipedia

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    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

  5. Myrtle Byram McGraw - Wikipedia

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    Myrtle was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the fifth of seven children of the farmer Riley McGraw and his seamstress wife Mary Byram. [1] She grew up in an area that was still recovering from the aftermath of the American Civil War.

  6. Monroe's motivated sequence - Wikipedia

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    Monroe's motivated sequence is a technique for organizing persuasion that inspires people to take action. Alan H. Monroe developed this sequence in the mid-1930s. [1] This sequence is unique because it strategically places these strategies to arouse the audience's attention and motivate them toward a specific goal or action.

  7. New York schools staff accused of taking family on trips ...

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    The report claims that Linda Wilson, Queens regional manager for Students in Temporary Housing (STH), took her own family members on a Disney World trip sponsored by her job.

  8. Uses and gratifications theory - Wikipedia

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    The audience motivations they were able to identify helped lay the groundwork for their research in 1972 and eventually uses and gratifications theory. [17] McQuail, Blumler and Joseph Brown suggested that the uses of different types of media could be grouped into 4 categories: diversion, personal relationships, personal identity, surveillance ...

  9. Motivation and Personality - Wikipedia

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    Motivation and Personality [1] is a book on psychology by Abraham Maslow, first published in 1954. Maslow's work deals with the subject of the nature of human fulfillment and the significance of personal relationships, implementing a conceptualization of self-actualization . [ 2 ]