a time shortly after war, this novel captures the audience, forcing them to participate in the setting and with the characters. Jay Gatsby, the focal point of this novel, is used as a representation of this era in American history and as an example of the pursuit of the American Dream. Fitzgerald uses vivid diction that captivates the reader and his symbolism creates a lasting, universal impression for all who pick up the novel. Throughout the following, I will use Fitzgerald’s diction,…
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Hanah Geraldi 3/4/15 Materialism: The Corruption of the American Dream What is the American Dream? Is it settling down, having a family and good job that pays the bills? Or is it merely a pursuit for wealth and high status in society? While both notions are attributed to being central ideas behind the American Dream, the latter is the most common. From the 1920s to this day, the idea of the American Dream has evolved into a desperate struggle to attain a luxurious lifestyle with a large house…
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Roots is, in Alex Haley’s words, a “novelized amalgam” of documented historical and fictionalized events. Haley’s artistic intent, that his family’s narrative should serve as a symbolic saga for all Americans of African descent, pervades the novel on all levels. With the exception of the last three chapters, the novel is told from an omniscient, third-person perspective. In the spring of 1750 in Juffure, The Gambia, a son is born to Omoro Kinte and his second wife, Binta. The child is named Kunta…
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Research Report The Immigrant Asian American women population in the US has for decades struggled to acclimate to the western world. From finding proper jobs with fair wages to voicing themselves to the world about their struggles in finding the American dream. The issue with the immigrant Asian American people has raised a large debate and because of this many organizations have been established to deal with this issue directly. After searching through many organizations I stumbled upon two…
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Within Sula the novel displays several different complexities of womanhood. The main two that really appealed to me were– the lady and the tramp. This also ties in directly with the relationship of Nel and Sula. When examining the relationship between these two, it is imperative to examine the labels that they both represent individually. Sula is the promiscuous black woman that crept into the role of the tramp as a result of her attitude towards sex and womanhood: “To Sula, sex is disconnected…
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I am a 47 y/o African American Female. My Nursing career began at age 15 when I became a member of the high school organization call (HOSA) Health Occupation Student Association. At age 19, I received the title of Certified Nursing Assistant; age 21 License Practical Nurse; age 24, Associate of Science Degree in Nursing; age 42, Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing; and now at age 47, I am seeking a Master’s of Science Degree in Nursing. I have had a rich career thus far filled with unforgettable…
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People of all ages enjoy watching movies and are unconsciously transformed emotionally and psychologically. Life lessons can be taught or inspired through the stories of tragic main characters overcoming obstacles and searching for meaning in their life. Films can be conventional or unconventional in design. Each method of storytelling has different qualities associated with them. According to Bill Swanson’s chapter How Films Feed the Mind or When I’m Hungry, I Don't Want to Eat Candy, he defines…
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Wharton believed the rumors. After the Civil War, her parents moved the family to Europe because it was safer there than it was in the states at the time. Throughout her childhood, Wharton’s family travelled between Europe and various places in the American Northeast. By age 18, Wharton had begun to publish poems in magazines and had become very prominent in society, like her parents. She fell in love with a man, Walter Berry; however, she became engaged to an older, wealthier Bostonian, Edward Wharton…
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Dream Messages Dreams mean a lot. Dreams are Heavenly messages. Sometimes they are ideas from the past; sometimes forebodings of the future and sometimes communications for the present. Dreams are the closest we can get to prophetic visions and revelations (Danziger, 2012). This writer has convincing personal experience with these kinds of dreams, in which messages have been transmitted and acted out in real life to their fulfillment. It happened one night in my home in Cleveland, Ohio. Shaking…
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the protagonist “nimbly plays with fire to boast of his freedom” (Fann). As he does many times, McLean ends with his idea that the music of the 1950s has died. In the final verse of the song the speaker walks among the ruins of his generation, searching for remnants of the 1950s that he once lived through. Lines 81-83 seem to speak about a person who when asked for any happy news can only smile and walk away. This seems to be speaking of Janis Joplin, who died in 1970 of a heroin overdose. He…
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