Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Imagine constructing your entire life around one dream. Everything you do is in pursuit of this goal and you ultimately let it take over your life. This dream will become an obsession and in the end it may never come true. In F. Scott Fitzgerald`s novel The Great Gatsby, the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, lives his life solely to win back the heart of Daisy Buchanan. Over time he becomes so caught up in his fixation with Daisy that he loses his grip on reality. He believes that he can recreate the…

Personal Philosophy A personal philosophy is unique, tailored to each individual’s lifestyle, outlook on life, and belief system. It’s a person’s motto that they follow in life, such as love conquering all in the world. A personal philosophy can be simple like being kind to others, while another’s may be complicated. No two people’s philosophies will be the same, because no two look at the world surrounding them, in the same way. My personal thoughts on happiness, ethics, and cosmology…

Adolescence is the most beautiful moment in life where one blossoms before wilting away of age. Along with many physical changes, adolescence also brings psychological change, such as the desire to find a place in society or love. The abundance of hormones in an adolescent causes them to make many mistakes, such as writing “I will finish this bs later” on an English paper. Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God depicts vivid moments that depict the common mistakes teenagers make…

Gay marriage takes away one of the essential parental roles from the basic family structure. It is simply impossible for the gays in marriage to incorporate both the father and mother into the parental roles. Sure one can be tough and the other gentle but they are nonetheless both either male or female. According to the statistics earlier regarding a father and mother this is not a good predicament for the child. Children left without a mother are left without their first contact into the…

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s idea of the American Dream was iconic. The lust for money and the endless pursuit of all things beautiful was a mentality that is now recognized as shaping the actions of many, including Fitzgerald. As he and his wife, Zelda, struggled with alcoholism, their lives quickly declined into depression and anxiety, yet they were under the impression of living a happy life. As literary executor John Callahan said, “In its American guise, the dream Fitzgerald sought…

rushing in and out of rooms, as others lounge on the patio chairs. On the 2nd floor of the Union, in the Goodfriend Lounge, a student mother walks out of the lactation room, having just used the facility to pump breast milk. Another mother hurries in immediately afterward, knowing that she has to make the most of her 30-minute time slot before running off to her graduate seminar. SDSU currently has three lactation rooms available on campus: one in the Union, one in Love Library and one in the…

emotions of passion, devotion, and, of course, love. In Vanity Fair, money is the pinnacle to all solutions to nearly all of the characters ' relationships. Thackeray connects England 's merchant families, the lesser nobility, and the high aristocracy through money and marriage as parents are evidently the chief negotiators in business transactions. Mr. Osborne is perhaps…

moral values which doomed to be impossible. Beauty and ugliness, goodness and evil will be found in one person at the same time. Before marriage, Daisy holded the wine in one hand, holded the letter in another hand. Her abnormal behavior—be drunk and suddently told Jordan that she changed her idea of marriage is a sign of her inner conflict and a vivid reflection of struggle. Both the strong side and the weak side of the humanity, as well as the loyalty and betrayal to love were showed here. In…

Let’s discuss Sam. Sam is a typical human being, except for an over-arching love for being heroic, open minded, and overly thoughtful. These deeds and characteristics are all established in the person’s soul. A good soul is thought to lead to good intentioned decisions, while a bad soul is thought to lead the person down into the dark decisions. A person’s soul creates the loving person that everyone knows Sam to be, but what if the soul disappears. Then you have still have Sam he just does not…

As Christians, we are to know the Word of God and apply it to the decisions that we make each day. Jesus says in John 14:15, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (English Standard Version). The remainder of the chapter Stapleford identifies various broad principles from Scripture for Christian conduct in economic life (p.32). Some of the most important principles discussed…