Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

finds out Ashley, the man she loves, is engaged to Melanie. She decides to reveal her feeling to him in private, but he rejects her by pointing out their incompatibility. To her surprise, there is a third person present, Rhett Butler, who have heard all the conversation between them and her confession to him. Scarlett is irritated and starts to despise him from their first meeting. The war soon starts, Scarlett agrees to the proposal of another man who she doesn 't love in order to make Ashley…

dream is created to gain the love of daisy. He believes that Daisy is attracted to Tom because of his money and that if he gains the…

Chasing Madoff is a 2011 documentary film by Jeff Prosserman, based on the 2010 memoir No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller written by the film’s arguable protagonist Harry Markopolos. Chasing Madoff examines Markopolos and his cohorts pursuit of now infamous ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. Madoff robbed tens of thousands of people, of tens of billions of dollars. Investigative journalists from several large publications were sought out and tried to bring forward expose articles but…

result, Peter has no friends and is constantly picked on and left out of activities by his peers because they think his interest in science is too weird. Several times on page two, Peter is faced with the visual code of a hand that represents the other students blocking Peter out of their social lives. In contrast, Kamala is at odds with American society because of her family' heritage as immigrants and their nonwhite ethnicity. Kamala is a Muslim Pakistani-American…

continues to struggle and reassess various aspects of her life. Throughout the novel, Edna Pontellier searches for independence by isolating herself from society and withdrawing from her traditional duties associated with being a mother and a wife. Her pursuit of independence eventually ends in an act of suicide in the Gulf of Mexico. Upon the Pontellier’s return to New Orleans, Edna reassesses her perceived social responsibilities and priorities. She begins to realize “her position in the…

In its constant pursuit of monetary gain, Hollywood has grown to love the Kardashians empire. Whether it is their TV show, cosmetic brand, clothing brands, or magazine modeling pictures; it seems everything the Kardashians do becomes a front page headline. This main stream saturation of their…

Futile Fantasies, Fatalistic Failure The Great Gatsby, the 1925 masterpiece by F. Scott Fitzgerald, chronicles Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of his American Dream: wealth, status, and love. Yet despite Gatsby’s accumulation of wealth, he falls short of his dream, dies, and never integrates into East Egg society or marries Daisy. While narrator Nick Carraway views Gatsby’s life as inspirational, the reader views Gatsby’s life as cautionary; the novel’s ending reconciles this contrast to emphasize…

People are often asked if something is either right or wrong. Sometimes the answer is quite simple but other times the answer can get extremely complicated. These kind of questions can often be answered through what people call common sense. However, there are some situations where the answer will differ depending on who the person being asked and how he was raised and/or how they learn to live their life. As people get older and more mature not only is their body the only thing that grows…

husband and sons. From the very beginning, Ursula exhibits power that extends outside the strictly domestic realm by organizing the wives of the explorers who founded Macondo to resist relocation (Marquez 13). She recognizes her husband’s maniacal pursuits and instead handles the problems with a rational decision. Later in the novel, when Colonel Aureliano leaves Macondo in the hands of his nearly despotic nephew, Arcadio, Ursula instead takes charge when Arcadio’s childish irrationality takes…

Steinbeck 53) George says. In the Great Depression, it is rare to see people living with prosperity without any help from others. Of Mice and Men shows that for the migrant workers during the Depression, the American Dream is a lie. All the ranch-hands dream of life,…