(The Great Gatsby Chapter 8) Look at the very last line of the chapter: “The holocaust was complete.” This book (from 1925) was written before the Nazis came to power in Germany (in 1933), and so also before their systematic murder of Jewish people and others--what we know of as the Holocaust. Look up the earlier the meaning of “holocaust.” Then explain why Fitzgerald uses this term to describe the events of chapter 8 (and actually the end of chapter 7 as well).

What is a positive result of the scientific revolution

Read the excerpt from act iv, scene iv of romeo and juliet. capulet: good faith! ’tis day: the county will be here with music straight, for so he said he would. [music within.] i hear him near. nurse! wife! what, no! what, nurse, i say! 30 re-enter nurse. go waken juliet, go and trim her up; i’ll go and chat with paris. hie, make haste, make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: make haste, i say. [exeunt.] 35 this scene is an example of dramatic irony used to create suspense since the audience knows that the musicians will not arrive on time. capulet approves of the match to paris. romeo is already married to juliet. the nurse will be unable to rouse juliet.

This passage contains repeated allusions to all the following except. a. sailing b. suitors c. hunting d. dreams