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‘In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald presents 1920s America as a moral wasteland.’ Explore this viewpoint with close reference to Fitzgerald’s craft

The moral wasteland of 1920s America is presented by Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby through social and moral decay within society. This destruction is masked by the façade of opulence in East Egg...

Answered by Clara S. • English Literature tutor

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How do you know what to do first when solving composite function?

So when you're solving a composite function you carry out the function closest to the 'x' first. It is useful to think of a composite function as the function of a function. Let me demonstrate with an exa...

Answered by Molly F. • Maths tutor

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Discuss the use of personification in the following quote from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: ''Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.''

By making 'love' the subject of the sentence, love itself is seen to do the action of 'looking'. This is an example of personification: a human quality is being given to a non-human thing; in this case, l...

Answered by Robert F. • English tutor

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What is the difference between the preterit and imperfect tense? When would each be used?

Preterit to express an action completed at a definite moment in the past Eg. Yo estuve en su casa por tres horasto express actions that because of their nature are not us...

Answered by Zoe F. • Spanish tutor

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What is the difference between the imperfect tense and the passé composé?

They are both used to talk about the past, however the imperfect tense talks about something that happened habitually or over a long period of time in the past and the passé composé is used to talk about ...

Answered by Eleanor W. • French tutor

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