This paper discusses the elements of popular culture in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It highlights how the novel reflects the social and cultural atmosphere of the 1920s in America, particularly the rise of materialism, the pursuit of pleasure, and the decline of moral values. Through its depiction of jazz music, fashion, parties, cars, and the obsession with wealth, the novel serves as a mirror of the Jazz Age. The study concludes that The Great Gatsby is not only a literary masterpiece but also a cultural document that captures the spirit of its time and the contradictions within the American Dream.

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This article presents yet another methodology for the calculation of dimensionless thermal response factors for vertical borehole ground heat exchanger (GHX) arrays, which is a concept introduced by Eskilson (1987). The presented method is based on a well-known solution to an analogous problem in the field of well hydraulics. This solution method, known mathematically as an incomplete Bessel function, and known in the field of well hydraulics as the 'leaky aquifer function', describes the hydraulic head distribution in an aquifer with predominantly radial flow to a well combined with vertical 'leakage' from geologic layers above and below the pumped aquifer. The solution is adapted to model heat transfer from an array of arbitrarily-placed vertical boreholes of finite depth. With proper expression of parameters in the incomplete Bessel function, we show that g-functions of previous researchers can be approximated. The proposed method has been implemented into Matlab and Excel/VBA for g-function generation and monthly GHX simulation.

Testing reading comprehension can be achieved by using many types of tests. Tests such as open-ended, multiple-choice and rational cloze tests are widely used by school teachers and language researchers. In this research a multiple-choice rational cloze test was used as the measuring instrument for both pre and post-tests. 

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