Great Purge

Throughout the 1900s, wealthy men were considered the dominant gender in the household. This is more detailed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, where wealthy men of high social class with many women being considered significant. Tom Buchanan is introduced as a hulking figure with a history of affairs while being married to Daisy who is Tom’s wife. Despite Daisy being aware she is inferior to Tom, she continues her act of obliviousness to Tom’s affairs in order to continue being apart…

classic American works convey a common theme. These classic works are: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and A Separate Peace by John Knowles. It is apparent in American literature that human nature is driven by the egotistical need to control a given situation, therefore, dominating human relationships. The first novel in which humans’ inherent nature can be seen is The Great Gatsby.…

dream goes as far back as the 1920s, when The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In the literary classic novel, Fitzgerald explores themes of resistance to change, decadence, and tainted love. All of which are characteristics of the American Dream. Through symbols such as the green light, East Egg and West Egg, and Daisy Buchanan, F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates that the American Dream is unattainable in his twisted tragedy The Great Gatsby. The green light is a recurring…

least eight percent lower in 1940 if the New Deal had never happened. FDR’s strategy was flawed from the beginning because cutting production and raising taxes only yields less jobs and more unemployment. Economists also understand that WWII ended the Great Depression and without it, the country would have sunk further and further into debt because FDR annually averaged a modern day one hundred and ten million dollar increase in deficit spending throughout his twelve years in office. On his…

out of the great depression. I plan on finding out the truths and myths to what really helped build America to become the world’s super power from the late 1930s to mid-1950s. Some major events that took place was the regrowth of the industrial age, equality in the work place, the rise of big government, and America becoming the world’s police force. America became rich at the end of WWII. During the new industrial age boom, Americans showed desire to succeed and prosper. One of the great…

Day 1: After teaching day one of my unit I was excited some students had a background on what the depression era was, along with what The Great Depression was and how it happened. Having the video from the history channel ready to show students helped give those students who weren’t familiar with The Great Depression some background knowledge. Introducing Padlet to students was fun and students seemed very intrigued by using this website, I did forget to let them know before posting they will be…

literary figures is shown through the representation of wealth and money in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Money, in this particular novel, is represented as being vastly important to all of the characters involved. This unparalleled emphasis placed on money in relation to other things is not unique to The Great Gatsby though. It can be found in other works such…

opportunity for everyone to make a new life for himself or herself by having the chance to get a job. Fitzgerald views the American dream as something that is long gone and long since forgotten. He defines it as a dream that was just that, a dream. In the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was the epiphany of a failed American dream. He wanted his true love, Daisy Buchanan, to show that she was in love with him as much as he is with her. She is unable to show her true feelings for him because of her…

daily. The richest of rich became the poorest of poor, and the poorest of poor were losing the battle against starvation. The country was in a depression, and everyone was seeking superiority in any way that they could find it. During this time of great depression, people were treated differently, or even badly, if they were not like others. Wealthy, able bodied, white men were the only favored variety of people who were not put at a disadvantage. Society was exceptionally…

While reading the novel, The Great Gatsby, a person should be able to collect a lot of information about the main characters. Anybody that has read this particular novel, always thinks the same thing about the characters. Most people do not have their own opinions about them or think things happened for a different reason that being stated. First off, there are four main characters. While reading the novel, it became very apparent that one of the main characters was Jay Gatsby. The information…