Great Expectations

the Phillips Curve, it became a base model for Central Banks globally to help set their monetary policies(Blanchard, 2010). However, in recent years, this inverse correlation between unemployment and inflation has seemed to vanish. As inflation expectations have anchored and unemployment has lowered, the Phillips Curve has flattened(Phillips Curve May Be Broken, 2017). The flattening of the Phillips Curve has since become the subject of lots interest by economists and central banks leading to…

Love is an inevitable emotion that can lay dormant in one’s heart for years at a time. Someone in love can go years without seeing their companion and still never lose feelings. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby found himself to be in love with a girl named Daisy. The two met shortly before Gatsby left for war, and Daisy promised that she would wait for him to return. Five years later, Daisy was married to another man and Gatsby was left watching as Daisy lived her life. He…

When society urges an enticing yet, zealous young man to engage in charisma, gallinty, haughtiness, dominance, and deadly persistence, he responds with eager disclosure. In Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick, a young man, who resides in New York, meets Gatsby, after receiving an invitation to attend one of his extravagant parties; Gatsby, a wealthy but perplexing man, greets Nick and offers his friendship since he is particularly interested in reuniting Nick’s radiant cousin, Daisy…

really carried, mentally and physically. In The Catcher in the Rye we learn a lot about the 1950s and the expectations of how a teenager should act in the 1950s. We learn how phony people are every single day. For example, Holden is taught in school dating expectations, like holding doors for women, but when he goes out on his own he doesn’t see the same actions portrayed by men. In The Great Gatsby we learn a…

humanity; he is like the ‘tribeless, lawless, hearthless one5.” In the Greek culture, citizens had virtues they were to live by if they were to keep the gears of society turning. Women, slaves, blacksmiths, and warriors, among others, had individual expectations of them. Aristotle claimed that the women and slaves of the barbarian society had no distinction to separate the two, much unlike the Greeks rigid…

privacy fast sores under to the reality so people certainly like celebrity gossip, that celebrities are rich or well-known and therefore get great benefits by being celebrities, and expectation celebrities somehow complied including that Faustian bargain by way of becoming celebrities. In sordid words, society offers celebrities a wonderful existence yet great riches or demands so share on the charge so much the celebrities stay positioned within a fishbowl yet watched by scrutinizing eyes…

The Recession of 1981-1982 Compared to the Great Recession of 2007-2009 Post-Great Depression, the United States experienced several recessions, which reveal trends that may help economists predict future recession cycles. The Recession of 1981-1982 and the Great Recession of 2007-2009 were similar because both were the worst recessions the U.S. has faced in terms of unemployment rates. While the Recession of 1981-1982 resulted in the peak of unemployment post-WWII at 11%, the Recession of…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning is initially suppressed by the rigid ideals of the Victorian era, however, she undergoes a metamorphosis and gains the courage to defy the conservative values of the 19th century. Through reviewing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” it is apparent that an idealistic love is only achievable once societies values are questioned. Gatsby is the victim of the values of his post World War I society. He…

Women in the 1920s The “Roaring 20s”, a great time for many people especially people in wealth. Many new things and opportunities arose throughout this time, especially for women. In the 1920s, the expectations of women were very straight forward; be faithful, listen to your husband, and not be very independent at times. But, in the 1920s the expectations of women would change and go into the other direction. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story about told by Nick Carraway…

friendship, dreams, and the death of them. The reader will learn about and connect with two men eager to live their lives the way they want by using any opportunities they find during the Great Depression. George and Lennie represent anyone going through life and experiencing the ups and downs and expectations of what could lie ahead. The reality that John Steinbeck shows us in this book is something that people everywhere either have experienced or could relate to in some way. Even though…