One of the most famous authors of American history, F. Scott Fitzgerald started out as a nothing, and he was a nothing. After he wrote his first novel to win over his one love, Zelda, Fitzgerald was a star. This first novel, This Side of Paradise, was his big break. The irony, though, is that Fitzgerald has a rags to riches story while his main character, Amory Blaine, has a riches to rags story. Fitzgerald used the society around him to assist in the historical context of the novel. He used the…
One of the most controversial topics that has been deliberated over in this world since the beginning of time is the stereotypes of women. No matter how they act or what they wear, society always finds something wrong about them. Women today are seen as objects that can be manipulated to conform to the stereotypes that society has put on to them. People in the world today shun females and make them change themselves just to please others. They have been told that they need to be thin, wear high…
place for folks to visit. Each and every time I go back to the place that I'll always consider home is an extremely emotional and truly joyous event for me.� Much of my family has, sadly, �passed away, but my mother still lives in the concrete Cape Cod style bungalow in which I was raised for the first nineteen years of my life. It's located on a quiet residential street right on the fringe of Baltimore City and Baltimore County in an area popularly known as "Gardenville".� The homes are…
He says that Western companies think they can avoid political risk by spelling out every detail in a contract, but "in Asia, there is no shortcut for managing the relationship."88 In other words, the contract is in the relationship, not on the paper, and the way to ensure the reliability of the agreement is to nurture the relationship. Even a deal that has been implemented for some time may start to get watered down at a time when you cannot do anything about it. A Japanese-led consortium…