Chimney

The American Dream promises equality, opportunity and happiness to those insistent on its pursual. However, F. Scott Fitzgerald contradicts this claim in his masterpiece The Great Gatsby, as he uses symbolism in order to portray the inability to achieve the American Dream and the corruption incited in its pursuit. Thus, Fitzgerald uses the symbol of the green light in order to represent the American Dream and Gatsby’s futile quest of this ideal. He also uses the valley of ashes to communicate…

the barriers of wealth and poverty by creating this location a common motif. The Valley of Ashes is described as “...a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke...Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track...the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud…” (23). From the…

Union Carbide celebrated their 50 years jubilee of doing business in India in 1984. Often seeing themselves as heroes of the community, providing jobs and financial growth in rural parts of India, they could never have foreseen the turn of events that would cause the people they employed, and many others around the world, to become so hostile towards them. The world calls it “the worst industrial disaster in history” or “the greatest man-made disaster”, but who was responsible for the unbearable…

The moment you swear in as a firefighter on a new department you join a unique brotherhood. In this brotherhood, you will develop new skills, experience good things and bad things, and you will be adopted into a close knit second family. As we all know, or the majority of us know, firefighters are a pretty unique bunch on individuals. Throughout your time in the fire service you will experience many different things, and because of these experiences you will develop a whole new set of senses,…

• Rectangular painting, divided into top third roof and lower thirds is ground, the floor board. • Scene is set in daytime, in a building with brown pillars that has sheep with the wools being shaved. • The colours of the floor board and the sheep are consistently pale browns with their skin and shaved wool cream in colour; the rooftop of the building is dark, predominantly browns, with black lines between it for the right side of the roof top, and dark grey rectangular on the left side. • The…

chess game going on throughout the entire book and a lot of the characters thought of themselves as pawns. Symbolism: Smoke symbolizes the transition of matter into spirit. Which means that the symbolism of the smoke coming out of the Westinghouse chimney symbolised that everyone thought that Sam Westing was dead. Foreshadowing: It was foreshadowing when it said “The big problems were yet to come” Metaphor: The Westing Game is a chess game, with pawns, rules, and sacrificing queens.…

A Personal Response. Blake’s poetry is considered to be some of the simplest forms of this art, but in pieces of literature such as “Little Boy Found”, “Little Boy Lost”, “The Chimney Sweep”, and “The Lamb”, truly understanding the meaning of each word can change the overall meaning of this piece. Reading between the line is what makes a reader truly comprehend Blake’s viewpoints and ideas that he is trying to say within his poems. Readers thought that Blake was writing about things that did…

The cigarette is positioned at a ninety-degree angle while emitting smoke on the top. It resembles a factory chimney that always releases a ton of smoke every day. The poster wants to tell us that smoking is a factory that does not just produce minute gases. If we smoke every day, considering our large population, we might be producing gas similar to those larger…

Water covers up more of the Earth than the land that people occupy, and it is a source that people rely on to live. If so, it should be expected that people will take good care of water. If it should be like that, then why is it that water pollution is one of the largest problems in society today? The ever growing human development and the high demands people put on the world result in the buildings of factories which results in increased severity of water pollution. “In some areas, depletion…

Before Brayden arrived to pick me up, I worked both of the horses for a hour each. Afterwards, I bushed them and turned them out to the field for the day. They deserved a day off relaxing and grazing under the sun. Before turning them loose to their own devices, I spray them down with fly spray on and slip their fly masks on. Both horses trot around the field before settling down to graze. I watch them for a few moments before returning to the cabin. Tomorrow was the big day. My performance in…