The reaction by Nick when Gatsby tells him about things like his time at Oxford, his medals for his service in the war, and his time living "like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe'' was that he thaught t<span>hey impress Nick, who envies Gatsby's adventurous and eventful past.
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They literally had everything until the man fell into temptation. Know that in the Bible it says "man shall not eat the fruit" so technically when eve took the bite, she still didn't know it was bad until when Adam took the bite and he realized what he has done, that's when eve realized what she has done. If it were to say "man and woman" then the whole story would be so different. The Bible would be different as well.
He is the one that said " If men were angles, no government would be necessary."
For some of us, it began late at night: huddled under bedroom covers with our ears glued to a radio pulling in black voices charged with intense emotion and propelled by a wildly kinetic rhythm through the after-midnight static. Growing up in the white-bread America of the Fifties, we had never heard anything like it, but we reacted, or remember reacting, instantaneously and were converted. We were believers before we knew what it was that had so spectacularly ripped the dull, familiar fabric of our lives. We asked our friends, maybe an older brother or sister. We found out that they called it rock & roll. It was so much more vital and alive than any music we had ever heard before that it needed a new category: Rock & roll was much more than new music for us. It was an obsession, and a way of life.
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