Everyman

For the Money, For the Man Eager for money, heavily weighted on influence and constantly judged are the lives the women live in within the 1920s. Females rarely worked and consistently depended on the makings of their husband which left a huge title for the male to uphold. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald characterizes three women to fit the time period in different ways. Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson and Jordan Baker all contraste each other yet show how their identity differs from how…

This course is the only one special class that I have not learn before. I really learned some new knowledge about myself and my body. “Good to be alive” that is you always talked a lot, I never thought about this sentence in my past life. And also, it is important to do what I really love and never live under other people’s thinking. The first thing I want to think is that what is truth. For hundreds of years philosophers battled over whether "truth" exists. The argument usually concerned…

Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick John Watson have been around for more than a 125 years, and yet from the Victorian age to the present they have remained popular culture figures. It is unlikely that you will come across someone from a first world country that has not heard of the legendary duo. Naturally, this begs the question of why they have endured time so effectively. After over a century the name Sherlock Holmes still brings to one’s mind images of a deerstalker and magnifying glass;…

God’s Instrument After years of typing away on his antique typewriter for hours on end, the Oscar winning storyteller John Irving triumphantly finished his seventh novel A Prayer For Owen Meany in 1989. The emotional tugging that the novel forces upon its audience made it one of the most read novels of the 20th century (McCarthy 2). This humorous yet heart wrenching tale tells of an unlikely friendship between two boys just before the Vietnam era. As a time full of war, death, and lost hope;…

Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams modeled a method in social work that existed in contrast to the Charitable Organization Societies (COS). Addams chose to live among the disadvantaged and immigrant populations, seeking a reciprocal relationship that would encourage a symbiotic existence between social classes (p. 59). Where Hull House did not attempt to decide the fate of the poor, COS existed solely to facilitate “friendly visitors” to enter the homes of the poor and use the data they…

Throughout musical history, there have been numerous artists who have shaped the sound, direction and aesthetic of their respective genre and pushed it to uncharted territory. These artists are hailed as icons and their impact casts a vast shadow on both future newcomers and the artists that are currently known to hold the crown. Kanye West is an artist whose name deserves to be held to this standard, as an innovator, tastemaker and arguably the most influential artist of his generation. While…

In 1931, James Truslow Adams used the term “The American Dream” for the first time in his book The Epic America. Since then, it has been the ideal for people living in the United States, and it has served as a powerful incentive for immigrants from far and wide to come and experience it for themselves. Since Adams's time, however, the definition of “The American Dream” has changed for some, and the accessibility of the dream has come into question too. Merriam Webster describes The American…

Alex Trotter Foster English IV 07 April 17 Losing Your Faith “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night” (Wiesel 3.68), Elie Wiesel states in his memoir Night. Elie Wiesel was a young boy during captivity dealing with intrinsic evil brought upon by German war generals. Throughout these harsh times, Elie Wiesel enlightens the reader on how one is likely to lose their morals and faith in times of struggle. “Night is the tale of…

Shally and Katz express struggles common to men such as good vs. evil, power vs. submissiveness, and work vs. ownership. Gender, like race and class, is a part of professional wrestling. Professional wrestling leaves little surprise that boys to act act masculine. As Katz says, “we get a very traditional and very conservative version of masculinity represented as an ideal of physical strength, the ability to control and scare other people, to intimidate, and especially to not back away from…

circumstances where the separation of whites and blacks occur. “When your first name becomes “nigger”, your middle name becomes, “boy” and your last name becomes “John”, said by King. This gives an example of how the majority considers they are superior when everyman should be equal. If King didn’t incorporate an example of separation of color, his audience would not find his proposition a logical cause for change. In shock King, finds serval laws were enforced coupled with a bizarre amount of…