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The 1920s were a time of extreme inequality in wealth distribution as a select few achieved the American Dream, with great wealth, while the majority of people maintained working class status, suffering from wealth control in the top one percent. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby gives insight into the lives of the select few, as it follows wealthy characters from lavish parties to expensive restaurants in New York City; the wealth and frivolity of the 1920s upper class fills the novel. In…

Top 10 Child-Friendly Restaurants in Chennai Once you turn a parent, it’s inevitable to consider your kid’s preferences before visiting a place. Thankfully, Chennai has a lot of eating-out options for families. Whether your kid is a picky eater and relishes only familiar meals or a little more adventurous and wishes to try some new cuisine every weekend, there is a restaurant in Chennai for every need. Here’s a round-up of 10 child-friendly restaurants in Chennai, where you can savour a hearty…

dreamed of and have helped usher in an era of unmatched prosperity for our community,” Gia said. It was my pleasure to have a chance to meet up and interview Ms. Gia Ly, the Chairwoman of the Vietnamese-American Chamber of Commerce (VACOC), co-owner of Crepe Corner and family business Zen Vegetarian in Westminster. She is also an owner of Arrow GTP, a company that works with…

Blue, in its many variations, is prevalent all over the world--in the color of the sky, the feathers of a bluejay, and even in the music genre “the blues.” No matter what form it may be in, blue serves as a color symbolic to people of all ages, being the traditional color to represent, in the simplest of terms, sadness. Mentioned numerous times throughout the The Great Gatsby, there is no question that the color blue serves as more than simply a descriptor. Similarly to other colors, such as…

After the First World War, the public suffered the consequences of the Great Depression. Fashion became more compromising and subtle, reflecting the tough social and political situation. Moving away from the daring style of 1920s, many designers adapted a romantic and feminine silhouette look in their design. For this essay, I will explore Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli’s design philosophy, their rivalry, and last but not least, how their creations seem to overlaps during the 1930s to 1950s.…

After Meiji Restoration, Japan had almost completed its modernization stage. During its modernism period, the flourish of mass media brought various doctrines and ideologies into Japanese people minds namely Capitalism, Marxism, and Militarism. Compared with the literature written in Meiji Restoration era, the ideology of Success Advancement now was not main focusing point as before. In my opinion, the reason is that after Meiji Restoration, Japanese people gained the confidence on their rapid…

Marketing Group Assignment Haura Haseena INTRODUCTION Haura Haseena Collection is an online based company that produce and sell Muslimah clothing such as niqab (cloth that cover the face as part of sartorial hijab), long hijab, tunic blouse and jubah. The company choose to sell Muslimah apparel because of the soaring demand in the market and during that time, which is 2014, there were not many brand and business sells Muslimah apparel like today. In addition, Haura Haseena also decide to sell…

The Great Gatsby, which was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published in 1925. In 2013, Australian director, Baz Luhrmann adapted the novel into a film. Both the novel and the film take place in the summer of 1922. The plot follows the lives of Daisy and Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway, and Jay Gatsby. Nick Carraway is the cousin of Daisy Buchanan, who is a rich woman that comes from a rich family. Long before meeting her husband, Tom, Daisy was smitten with a man, Jay Gatsby. Back in this time…

In a world without the different ideas from authors, readers would be reading the same types of stories without any diversity. There would be only one theme of a story until a brave author would break away from the chain and make a different type of story. Sure, the writer of the story would be rejected from society for a while, but the story they wrote will change the views of future author’s writing. Literature throughout history has shown many various ideas of themes. One of the most…

The History of Pizza There is much iteration of just how pizza became the food that we know and love today. One story says that pizza has been around since the Stone Age when people would bake crude bread on the stones of a fire and after the cooking of this bread they would top it off with different seasonings and toppings. They would use this bread as a plate to sop up broth or gravies (Stradley, p. 1). Another story says that pizza was founded in Naples, by the Greeks, in the 1700s. The story…