Classics

The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is viewed today to be a classic and one of Fitzgerald’s best works. The story takes place in New York, 1922 and includes a romance, murder and engulfing the reader in the culture of the 1920’s. However, Fitzgerald did something interesting when writing the story. He placed himself into the story as Gatsby himself. Fitzgerald used these characters to portray his life leading up to the book and his own personality and his outlook on his…

Before Confucianism there was the Mandate of Heaven and the Classic of Changes. The Mandate was led by the Zhou dynasty (1122 BC - 256 B.C.). This doctrine asserted the ruler’s accountability to a supreme moral force that guides the human community. The Mandate caused a lot of internally fighting amongst dynasties because it decriminalized constant rebellions. The Classic of Changes was published in the 9th BC and was said to be have complied by a mythical hero Fu Xi. These were sets of six…

Classic Film Noir traits of hard boiled detective, femme fatale and miss en scene are represented in the films Chinatown,The Big Sleep and the Basic Instinct. In Film Noir the main female character is known as the femme fatale and Femme fatale is a attractive and seductive woman, especially one who will ultimately bring disaster to a man who becomes involved with her. In the film Chinatown Evelyn Mulwray fits into the role of femme fatale because of her skills in hiding things and lying. Her…

A classic case might be providing anger or stress management to an adult in a family where child protection has intervened in some way. This might be a monitoring role where a child is on the ‘children at risk’ register, or a care order may be in force. A child may even have been removed, and an adult may be facing criminal charges or civil court intervention. As a therapist, however, it is important to have some small grasp of the trauma that occurs to all parties, whether guilty or innocent.…

In “The Classic Woman?” Mary Ritter Beard cleverly describes the life of women in Greece as such, “There seemed to be almost no end to the horrors of women's lives in Greece and Rome that you could discover if you tried hard enough”. Women were treated very unequally in Ancient Greece. Women had little to no rights, especially compared to men. The Middle East has come a long way since Ancient Greece and women have fought long hard years to have the equality that there is today. Some of the…

therefore able to recall memories and how they lived their life before. There are three different categories of locked-in syndrome: classic, incomplete, and total. Classic locked-in syndrome is where a patient is conscious and has quadriplegia, anarthria, and vertical eye movement, along with the ability to blink. Incomplete locked-in syndrome is the same as classic, except patients have additional, but limited, voluntary movement besides vertical eye movement and blinking. In total locked-in…

When the spring season approaches, the end of one season comes to an end and another one arise. The World Baseball Classic gives fans a tease of baseball before the real season’s starts in April. The World Baseball Classic is when different countries put a team together and play each other for bragging rights. As it approaches one only must look at Team USA roster, and go down the list of names and see familiar names and faces. Based on the MLB.com, The team is made up of 34-man roster, but I…

So what makes it a classic? Classic doesn’t necessarily translate to “favourite” or “bestselling” but when it has stood the test of time. It is an expression of life, truth or anything about the universal condition, and continues to be relevant to inspire emotional responses to people across all time periods and cultures. F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’, published on the 10th April, 1925, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who revolves his life around one desire, to be reunited with…

The Classic Period was a time period between the years 1750 and 1820. During the Classic Period, there was three main composers that stood out from everyone else – Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. That textbook states, “Even those who know very little about art music usually know something about Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven” (“Music of the Classic Period”). Though each was successful alone, whenever the three crossed paths in Vienna, history was made. Each composer gave a unique quality to…

by J. D. Salinger that is a 21st-century literary classic but is incredibly overrated. It is one of those books almost every high schooler must-read during English class, and most wonder why the book is so popular in the first place. The story itself is not bad, and its multiple symbols and themes that are closely analyzed are probably reasons why this book is forced-fed to teenagers. However, it seems like the true reason this book is such a classic is that it is seen as raw. When relating this…