Green Light College Essays Samples For Students

DRAG RACING

The drag race track event has some of the super champ drivers that run 120 mph in 11 seconds. Contestants board street cars and accelerate over 100-m parallel tracks to overcome the machines anti-spin electronics with immense skill adrenalin. Hundreds of drivers in drag race come to grace this event once they pass the weight, body style, and engine size test. The experience I had at the drag race made me realize that the motor sport provides a dual and a contradictory tussle for the racers. Drag racing entails motor sport racing using specialized automobiles. The race uses a straight course, popular ...

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Essay #3

THE GREAT GATSBY ENDING
If you could change the ending of the Great Gatsby, what would you write and why? (Stay focused and select what you want to discuss carefully.)
The Great Gatsby is an American based novel that was written in the year nineteen twenty five by Fitzgerald F. Scott. The Novel primarily focuses on a very young and wealthy boy known as Jay Gatsby. Major themes handled include the theme of change, resistance, idealism and social encounter. The novel is without doubt a seminal piece of literature and I always find myself reading it over and ...

Jay Gatsby was a mysterious man who was seen to create himself, or at least some sort of illusion of himself that he wanted people to see. He was self-conceived because of a dream that he had, yet in the end, he was crushed by reality. The story written by Fitzgerald shows the visions people had for America. It represents their struggles through characters. The story shows that there is no such thing as the American dream, and that the dream should stay a dream forever. Gatsby, as a character, suggests that once the dream is realized, it becomes bitter and ugly. The ...

Green Light Study

Discussions have been going on in the country as to whether correctional facilities help to reform a parson who has been incarcerated. Many within the correctional systems believe that it does help but statistics show otherwise. The green light study was carried out in New York so as to ascertain whether the correctional facilities do help reform prisoners and make them better members of the society.
The study involved putting prisoners into three groups and later follow ups were made for two or three years after release. One group was taken through a pre-release program where they were equipped with ...

Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tim O’Brien are Minnesota-based authors who have written prescient and affecting works that highlight the human experience. In The Great Gatsby, the Roaring Twenties and all its debauchery are encapsulated in the tale of Jay Gatsby, poor boy made good, whose fortune and ambition is all for the sake of one woman he wants back in his life. In Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," an American platoon experiences horror, death and loss in the jungles of Vietnam, all while carrying various objects of both practical and personal significance to them. Both stories ...