Fictional businesspeople

The first scene starts with the eastern train "whirling onward" (Crane 79) from San Antonio through Texas, going west toward Yellow Sky. Jack Potter, Yellow Sky's town marshal, is on the train with his new wife, who "was not pretty, nor was she very young" (Crane 79). They are happy but uncomfortable, the bewildered them with all the amazing things. They were not used to it, and they are unnervingly aware of the proper surroundings. The travelers, and the waiter, and porter, look at them amusingly because their self-conscious affectations. The Potters are supposed to pull into Yellow Sky train station at three pm.. As they get closer to the town, Jack Potter becomes more and more nervous. He has uncertainties about his choice to get married in San Antonio with no heads up to the townspeople.. "His friends could not forgive him. More often than not he thought back on the deep feeling of telling them by not telling anyone about his marriage. Potter decides to take his bride straight to his house and tell the town's people about his marriage. Mrs. Potter understands her husband's uncertainties about going to Yellow Sky. "She flushed in comprehension. A sense of mutual guilt invaded their minds" (Crane 81). In the town, six people are in the Saloon: two Mexican sheepherders, three Texans, and a drummer. The barkeeper likes to enjoy a wonderful quiet day, and the drummer is alot chattier than the rest of his friends. A young man shows up by the name of Scratchy Wilson. The…

In Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun Walter Lee and Beneatha both have great dreams but encounter at least one barrier to their success. In both cases, Walter Lee himself is the barrier that stands between Beneatha's dream and Walter’s dream. Beneatha also finds a barrier in her race and gender. Walter Lee dreams of having a lot of money and becoming a successful business man while Beneatha dreams of becoming a doctor, yet they both find that in their attempts of reaching their…

In The Condemned of Altona, there is the internal and external conflict of free will and whether or not it can be controlled by a person. Father, the patriarch, father of three, and an almost too true to be a real businessman, is shown as someone how follows society and loves money and power. Franz, the eldest son, said to be dead, is an ex-soldier who despised the Nazis, enlisted in the Russian army and later the American army, but lives life thinking what he done was right, but later feeling…

Sometimes, people can’t picture how poor life can be for others. Where is the hope? Suzette in New York Day women describes one aspect of life in Haiti as “In Haiti when you get hit by a car, the owner of the car gets out and kicks you for getting blood on his bumper” (Page 128). In the novel Krik? Krak!, Danticat is trying to send the message that when humans are abused, killed, and have such a poor quality of life, they find hope in symbols, superstitions, and future generations. Abuse and…

Learning Journal 1. Based upon the information provided in class on the traits and characteristics of entrepreneurs, evaluate whether you fit the stereotype. Explain. Based upon the material we have covered in class on different types of entrepreneurs. I would consider myself as a Habitual entrepreneur, because I would like to start one business. The reason is, I think if I started on I could focus more on one thing. Also I wouldn’t want to sell something I worked on so hard to start. Plus if…

This paper had the goal to answer the question whether the depiction of Big Momma in Raja Gosnell’s movie Big Momma’s House can be considered as a contemporary depiction of the Mammy archetype or whether Big Momma and the Mammy indicate too many differences to be regarded to be indentical. After having illustrated basic characteristics of the Mammy icon, followed by an analysis of Big Momma in the movie, similarities as well as differences have become visible. First, Big Momma and the Mammy…

Andrew Carnegie, a self made millionaire stated “the man who dies thus rich dies disgrace” (Carnegie). The inspiration came from his belief that men like him held a great responsibility to contribute their wealth for the good of mankind. In his essay “The Gospel of Wealth” he emphasizes on how millionaires should spread their wealth even by leaving a positive impact in the world. However his main concern is how wealthy man should contribute to society when they’re alive. According to Carnegie,…

The American dream is defined as an “ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved”. Sound like the perfect dream, doesn’t it? But sadly every one must wake up eventually. The American dream is a major theme is novels and poems such as a book called The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and a poem titled “I, Too, Sing America” by Langston Hughes. The Great Gatsby is the story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby…

What is the plot of this story? Use your own words to summarize the plot in one thorough paragraph: The plot of the story is about a prince named Prince Prospero. Prince Prospero was a very rich man. There was a illness spreading rapidly throughout their town killing everyone. The illness was called the red death and was described as fatal and hideous. The Prince thought the only escape from the red death was to lock himself away in his castle with many of his friends. To pass time they drank…

Page 98. “Spr[inging] from his Platonic conception of himself,” James Gatz changes his identify to Jay Gatsby. Page 65. As Gatsby states, “I’ll tell you God’s truth,” he doesn’t intend to tell Nick the actual truth, but the truth his delusional mind has created to fit inside his own religion. Page 61. While Gatsby acts as God of his own religion, Nick compares Gatsby’s house to the yard of a church. Page 110 - 111. Gatsby becomes taken with Daisy from the moment he sees her and her house.…