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James Joyce, in his genius, cleverly placed food and drink throughout his short stories in his collection Dubliners. Despite how subtle and meaningless they may seem, they have a very specific meaning and were deliberate, that is, they were a way of giving the story much more meaning through one of the three themes of the entire collection: paralysis, gnomon, and simony, express his character’s situations into materialistic substances such as food, and communion, which aren’t exclusively in…

Egomaniacs are the kind of people who always have to feel important. All they do is talk themselves up. They are always looking for ways to be better than everyone else. Many people in society are like this, but mainly they lay among the rich crowd. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan acts very much this way, in the sense that she is a self-absorbed, vacuous socialite whose decisions lead to the destruction of both Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson. Critics agree that…

The American Dream is the idea that anyone can attain success and upward mobility, despite what class they were born into. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many characters desire to obtain this dream; however, their failure to achieve this lifestyle shows the concept of the American Dream is just an illusion. Fitzgerald shows few characters actually successfully living in the elite upper class; most are just trying to get there. Tom and Daisy Buchanan are the only two characters that…

Gun violence in the United States of America is a serious topic that has been causing many death for a long time and counting to do so. Some people blame government of not taking a significant reaction toward gun violence. Moreover, there are many organizations, socialists and politicians who take a stand against this madness and try to convince the federal government to prescribe a low that can control the gun business and make it difficult to obtain a weapon. According to The Trace, “from…

I’d visited Lewes once before. Bonfire Night, 2002, aged 4, ears stuffed with cotton wool and potential pyromania growing within. From that, one can understand my intrigue when it was described as “a genteel town” by David James Smith for The Sunday Times - quite the opposite to how I’d perceived it! I had to see it to believe it. I travelled by bus from the nearby city of Brighton and Hove, to enter Lewes like a local. Trying to look sophisticated, in the sea of briefcase gripping…

The Black Death was ‘one of the worst disasters in history’, killing a third of Europe’s population. In the 14th century the plague hit Asia and Europe, lasting from 1346 till 1352. The Black Death was an epidemic plague in the 1300’s, which spread rapidly throughout Asia and Europe. The causes of the Black Death weren’t just animals and fleas, humans played a great part in the spreading of the plague throughout Europe. Many symptoms were shown at early stages of the plague such as headaches,…

used, and walked over. Nick describes the picture in which he saw Daisy and Tom after the love affair between Daisy and Gatsby became revealed. Nick describes Daisy and Tom in saying “They weren’t happy, and neither of them touched the chicken or ale-and yet they weren’t unhappy either”(145). To stay in a relationship where neither of the people have no happiness is ignorance, why would someone choose to do something like that? Love should add to your life, not take away from it. So if no one…

An ancient Egyptian temple at Abu Simbel had a granary that could store enough grain to feed 20,000 people for a year (Fernandez-Armesto 56-65). The ancient Egyptians, like all of the other river valley civilizations were completely dependent on agriculture for food and wealth, as Fernandez-Armesto says, “without agriculture, people could have no security of life.” Without agriculture people would not know where their next meal would come from, but with agriculture they would always know where…

Seminar Script Shaher: Our group is called the time travellers and our presentation is about Elizabethan Marriages and Family social structures Krish: Within the slideshow we’ll be discussing where, when, and who was involved The status of people Different Social Classes And marriage and family life Shaher: The Elizabethan Era took place in old England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the first which was took place from 1558 to 1603. Jagan: So, what was the elizabethan era? Basically, it…

Often in literature, as in life, not everyone is cordial and heartwarming. Since there are billions of different types of people, some of these people have to be unpleasant, and there are a lot of selfish, dramatic, and careless people in this world. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the character Daisy is a perfect example of one of these selfish, dramatic, and careless people. She is a rich socialite who had feelings for an extravagant man named Gatsby before the war. She then…