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The topic sentence

Cause-effect development

Wildfires

Smog

Melting of polar ice caps

Floods

Epidemics

Droughts

Write a paragraph about the effects of global warming.

The effects / consequences of global warming

lead to massive droughts (more dry areas), large-scale migration, problems of feeding and accommodating the burgeoning population

an increase in the number of epidemics, viruses, unable to survive in colder temperatures, thrive

an increase in the occurrence /frequency of flash floods, witness flash floods, kill people, leave people homeless, destroy property

the Arctic and the Antarctic regions, rising sea levels, places below sea level, in danger

the concentration of smog, increase, illness and death, intensify the severity of heat waves

an increase in the frequency and intensity of wildfires, become prolonged and intensive, cause destruction, release greenhouse gases, increase the temperature of the earth

Topic: The Great Gatsby

Question: What leads to Gatsby's downfall?

two major causes, to doom one's dream, the division of society (social stratification / societal differences), one's idealism

1. East Eggers (the old money people), to be born into wealth, to inherit one's wealth, not to work for one's money, to belong to the socialites // West Eggers (the newly rich or the new money people), to work for one's living, not to have the refinement and taste of the truly rich //a class gulf, to separate somebody / find oneself unable to break into East Egg society, to be held at arm's length

2. to live in the past, to recapture the past, one's own invention, change one's name from …to, to fake status, to buy British shirts, to claim to have attended Oxford, to justify one's position in society ( to win social acceptance) / to devote one's life to somebody (to dedicate oneself to winning somebody back), to be a fake, to be beautiful and charming, to be fickle and shallow, to be unworthy of one's admiration