Bruce Jay Friedman

Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” the past has always played a huge role on the main character Jay Gatsby life . When we think of time past, present and future pop into our heads . The present is the place where all our attention is focused , where we think about our future and what is yet to come. Then there are people who are “stuck” in the past and they cannot move on into the future. In the novel Jay Gatsby is one of those people who struggles to let go of the past.Gatsby could not…

After reading both Styron’s novel and Thomas Grey’s book, The Confessions of Nat Turner, I have come to the conclusion that both writings have holes in their accounts, that almost any historian can find fault in. Grey was a struggling writer that needed the money and could say anything he wanted after Nat Turner’s execution since Turner was no longer alive to point out inaccuracies. Then Styron openly admits that he is not a historian, he is a novelist. A novelist that cares more about…

Let it be the dream it used to be. Was America ever great, the poem “Let America be America again” by Langston Hughes looks deeper into this theory. To many in America at this point of time, the American dream had disappeared before their eyes and hopelessness had filled this void within the American people. This poem expresses the silent Americans’ concern of how America was intended to be verses what it had become to them, and could aspire to be again. The American dream right from Dictionary…

Essay 2: Crime and the Connection between American Values There are many American cultural values that contribute to shaping America’s heroes and villains throughout our history. These American values are The American dream, achievement, individualism, universalism, and the fetishism of money (Messner & Rosenfeld 70-74). To begin, the American villain Jordan Belfort embodied the American values listed in the previous sentence. Since a young age, Belfort had a natural inclination as a salesman…

Caribbean tourism is a highly contested topic with two extreme polar views on the same subject. This is a fact plain to see in plenty of articles, and this case with two texts that provide different stances on the topic of tourist development in the Caribbean is no exception. First, there is an advertisement of a 1950s The Great White Fleet’s cruise vacations to the Caribbean directed towards a class of rich, (and at the time, most likely Caucasian) travellers. On the other hand, text two is the…

In “The Colombian University “Miracle Study Flawed and Fraud” author Bruce Flamm explains that the study is full of error and was very poorly conducted. The study could have not even taken place. The whole study seems to be full of deception. Not only is the study considered fraud but also even the conductors of the study could be considered dishonest. Lets start with the study as a whole. The study took place at the Columbian University Medical Center in New York. The Miracle Study was…

What makes you rich in life? Is it money, or clothes? Is it how many people love you, or how many times you laugh during the day? The song "Royals" by Lorde was released as a debut single on June 3, 2013, later winning a Grammy for "Song of the Year", along with many other accomplishments. Although the songs title may be misleading, Lorde wrote this song to express that she is not very wealthy, but it takes more than that to be admired and looked up to by people. Lorde recognizes other…

When people hear the term American Dream, many think of success, goals, and opportunity. As a country alone, America is routinely correlated with the possibility that one can thrive and create a way of life for themselves that wouldn’t be attainable anywhere else. As proven by a number of new immigrants, success is surely possible in America. However, according to Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me, the dream is an ongoing challenge in present day. Coates claims that the…

Hillbilly elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (J.D.Vance,2016), is a part autobiography and part of social issues around J.D. Vance. He is a real-world “rags to riches” success story, which many dream of achieving. Many refer to it as the American Dream. He explains how he escaped poverty while people near areas of Appalachia still remained in poverty. Poverty and substance abuse are the chief reasons why the American Dream is out of the reach of many “hillbillies” or rural, white…

In the book Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, Tandoori Angel, also known as Tandy, is a whip-smart teenager who lives in New York City. She has three brothers: Harry, Tandy’s twin brother, Matthew, Tandy’s famous football star brother, and Hugo, a ten year old with an uncanny strength. Her parents Malcolm and Maud, own a company called Angel Pharmaceuticals, and are one of the most well known people across the world. One night in their penthouse, her parents…