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The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1704 | Pages: 7.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby - Buying the American Dream
"Our great cities and our mighty buildings will avail us not if we lack spiritual
strength to subdue mere objects to the higher purposes of humanity", is what Lyndon B.
Johnson had to say about materialism. He knew the value of money, and he realized the
power and effect of money. Money can have many effects, however money cannot buy
happiness. Many people disbelieve this fact, and many …showed first 75 words of 1704 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1704 total…is an excellent
personification of someone trying to buy happiness. Buying the American Dream is
something that almost everyone does, yet it never works, it is never enough. LBJ believed
in personal happiness. He believed that only oneself, no outside influence such as money,
could make oneself happy. Therefore, " . . . Our great cities and our mighty buildings will
avail us not if we lack spiritual strength to subdue mere objects to the higher purposes of
humanity"
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