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The incredible novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald changed literary history. It’s timeless story is felt through all people and cultures, no matter the time period. Not only is this novel a work of art, but so is the 2013 movie adaption directed by Baz Luhrmann. Luhrmann is able to capture the character's’ essence like no other. F. Scott Fitzgerald has a style of writing that engulfs the reader into his world of parties and the American Dream. He uses tools such as imagery,…

In the passage from The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Nick’s detailed description of Gatsby to illustrate the mysterious and complicated character of Jay Gatsby. In chapter 3, when Nick attends one of Gatsby's lavish parties for the first time, he encounters Gatsby also for the first time. Nick focuses on Gatsby’s smile, because it is one of those “rare smiles” “full of eternal reassurance” that “understood you the way you want to be understood.” This sets Jay Gatsby apart as someone…

The Great Gatsby, a novel authored by F. Scott Fitzgerald, about the highly acclaimed great Gatsby. There it is again the word “great”, now there is no issue with the word itself, its’s aggrandized around what it achieves. Once the word is placed before a noun it manipulates us into having a naïve attitude, it creates a façade. Furthermore, that was precisely the result with Jay Gatsby, we became so distracted by his “greatness” to comprehend that it only came with his name and not through his…

The Meaning of Wealth In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, wealth is viewed differently by many characters. To Huck wealth is a burden that he does not want, “I don’t want to spend it. I don’t want it at all— nor the six thousand, nuther. I want you to take it; I want to give it to you—the six thousand and all.” (Twain, 18). Huck maintains this idea throughout the novel, seeing wealth as a burden that he does not need to be happy. His idea of wealth vastly contrasts with his…

Abegail Hawley Ms. Maggert English III 21 March 2018 Social Class and Morality Indian activist Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.” Tcche roaring twenties was a spendthrift era. The lower social classes really wanted to attain wealth and luxury, but couldn’t due to the restriction put on them by societal norms. This began the era of bootlegging, gangs and crime all across the country and the decline of morality. In F. Scott…

The eighteenth century, Rococo era, was a light-hearted time being pre-revolutionary. This was a period the postmodern world would attempt to emulate. Rococo was a time of, intellectual, social, and political achievements. Not until the eighteenth century did many of the plans and ideas of the last one-hundred years were finally undertaken. Mathematics and the sciences were being accepted and embraced. They were changing the way that society thought and acted. Democracy began to seed in the…

trade unions were outlawed and a system of labor passports was instituted. His incentive for this side of the code was probably to limit political freedom. The code also robbed the women of many of their social and legal gains accomplished during the French Revolution. Women now had to ask for the approval of a man (most likely their husband) before they could do just about anything and divorce was much harder for a woman to get. In other words, they were treated like dirt…

originated with righteous proclamations and ended in a reign of terror. I think that it is best to say that the middle class did not win the French Revolution because it did not properly establish a persistent government that could protect the rights of the third estate and its extreme bloodshed could not be justified by the minimal success that the French middle class did obtain. It’s hard to consider that any revolution is a success when it does not achieve its permanent objectives alongside…

they her owed these rights by birth in the same way as Mary Wollstonecraft did. “The Declaration of the Rights of Women” reads very much like our own United States constitution and the piece was written in response the lack of rights for women in the French constitution. She proclaimed that “Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility. The purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible…

Imagine walking up to that foreign exchange student in sociology and speaking 100% fluent Japanese to them. The lack of understanding in the United States peaks when discussing other countries. If every American is required to learn a second language this cultural confusion would cease to exist. Employers love when possible employees can speak other languages and communicate with customers in a more direct way. Being bilingual is becoming more and more essential to being part of the global…