Fitzgerald suggests that Daisy, like all upper class, are the only ones who can "live forever" because they have a life full of leisure and without stress to make them age. ... The author and his character both attended a prestigious university but failed to graduate, then enlisted in the army, where they each met their "golden girl" (Davis). ... Gatsby obtains wealth at a young age and devotes his life to obtaining expensive possessions and throwing parties that he believes will allow him to win Daisy's love. ... As the novel progresses, Gatsby and Fitzgerald'...

• Word Count: 1551
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

Rail-trails create healthy recreation and transportation opportunities by providing people of all ages with attractive, safe, accessible and low or no-cost places to cycle, walk, hike, jog or skate. Trails help people of all ages incorporate exercise into their daily routines by connecting them with places they want or need to go. ... The alarming national statistics point to a growing health crisis that impacts Americans of all ages. ... Expanses of land that has rarely seen development, rail-trails provide countless Americans reconnection with the natural environment, a renewed sense of c...

• Word Count: 1430
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In China, a beautiful women would have what was called a "Three-inch golden lotus." ... At age three Chinese girls" feet were wrapped with long strips of cloth beginning at the foot. By age five all the toes on the foot would be broken except the big toe, and the two first years of the binding were filled with excruciating pain. ... Children are brainwashed at an early age to think the tall and thin look is natural and normal. ... Tweens are girls and boys from the ages of around nine to fourteen who are not yet considered adolescents. ...

• Word Count: 2215
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Since the dawn of man, people have been looking at the stars, yearning to go to them. For centuries, our ancestors have dreamed of going to another world or finding out what is in the heavens. Only in the past half century however, have we actually been able to leave our world and travel beyond Eart...

• Word Count: 1263
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This is an attempt from a U.N. sponsored, Saudi led coalition that is trying to persuade Houthi rebels into thinking reasonably and diplomatically by bombing them back into the Stone Age. ... With the Pentagon cutting back on spending, it is a golden opportunity to generate some revenue for the U.S. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Cattails, sea grasses, golden bush, and turtleweed are all common plants being planted in coastal wetlands that are naturally found in all aspects of salt marshes. ... Most commercial and game fish breed in coastal wetlands and estuaries and their offspring develop there and return once they are of breeding age. ...

• Word Count: 1853
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bucchianeri talks about greed: "It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.... "Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can parallel," (Kasum) De Las Casas wrote when describing what he saw. ...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

., other factors vary: The Jonesboro shooters, Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, were too young to have stoned up grudges from years as social outcasts. ... "In 1991, the most recent year for which precise numbers are available, there were twenty-four fatal gun accidents involving children underage five, and 203 involving children aged five to fourteen (for a total of 227 for all children under fifteen). ...

• Word Count: 2182
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Declaration of Independence of the United States states " We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain enaliable rights, that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." So why then are people of a di...

• Word Count: 2342
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Cyrus Veesers idea in Great Leaps Forward: Modernization in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is to simply explain how less-developed nations across the planet tried to catch up to "the Wests " rise to power. "The West " is referring to the world's major military-industrial powers, including Britain, ...

• Word Count: 2216
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate