Great Leap Forward

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” the past has always played a huge role on the main character Jay Gatsby life . When we think of time past, present and future pop into our heads . The present is the place where all our attention is focused , where we think about our future and what is yet to come. Then there are people who are “stuck” in the past and they cannot move on into the future. In the novel Jay Gatsby is one of those people who struggles to let go of the past.Gatsby…

success. We successfully gained our independence from Britain and started a brand new nation. We rose to the top from nothing and were once at the top and nothing came close to how great we were. We came together as a nation when we sent troops overseas to fight for others freedom and survival. We trudged through the great depression and came out with a smile. We saved so many lives in WWI and WWII by building the second largest fighting force in the world! We did all of this by pulling…

In every American story, there is an individual that seeks the American Dream in some sort of way. Particularly in the 1920s and 30s, there are many who made risky decisions based off of this dream. In the renowned novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays these ambitious decisions made through three different types of people. Social status, love, race, and gender play an important role and are the main decision-making factors in this novel. However,as well as there are hopes 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…

The Great Depression was a long ten year struggle for America. Times were rough from the New York City streets to the Great Plains. Banks began to close on an everyday basis. In Donald Worsters book "Dust Bowl" he writes about the Great Plains and how the people have struggled through out "the dirty thirties". In Chapter 9 "Unsettled Ground" George Taton Believes that if people would have just gave up trying to plant seed in dust that mother nature would have fixed the Plains in half the time it…

The Comradtic Mechanism “Summer Solstice, New York City” by Sharon Olds; is a short poem about the longest day of the year, a day when one person tries to end his own life and the police who work to save him. Your life. Possessive. It is your life, no one else. People like to think and speak in these terms; to make things belong to them, or to make themselves feel like they do. When people think about how to handle a problem that is effecting them, they like to think is a small closed off space.…

A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes Peoples dreams may not always come true, but sometimes a dream is the only thing that keeps you going. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two friends who travel to a farm in hopes of earning money so they can achieve their dream while they meet unique people on the way. Curley's wife is the type of person who yearns attention, throughout the book she goes around showing off her body while wearing an unnecessary amount of makeup. While, Crooks is…

The overall theme of loneliness in, Of Mice and Men, is a major key and contributes to all aspects of the novel from setting to the characters. Three major characters in the novel support the theme of loneliness, these characters are Crooks, Curley's wife, and George. All three characters are lonely in their own ways. They contribute to the underlying theme with their actions, their words, and their thoughts. The main character George is one of the loneliest men in the novel. He spends all his…

This causes great discussion and debates about turner’s real life, and if he should be downplayed or glorified. As a matter of fact, in my point of view, Styron and Grey were able to have the cake and eat it too. Both of them were able to financially profit from this…

Nancy Scheper-Hughes paints a vivid picture of the village folk living in “Ballybran”, once vital, now desolate and isolated by lack of economic opportunity and diminishing population growth. As a psychological anthropologist, she seeks deeper answers, attempting to identify psychological and cultural root causes of anomie and despair in the people living in rural Ireland. She explains multiple reasons for both their anomie and extremely high rates of mental illness which lie in shrinking…