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XV. Felix Dennis - How To Get Rich! The media tycoon Felix Dennis wrote a book titled, “How To Get Rich” where he shares his secrets of success. Here are some ways to become rich according to him: Confidence is the key. Having tunnel vision is essential. Building stamina to work hard even if you get ridiculed. Be willing to fail and not care what the neighbors think. You only get as far as the people you cater to. Prepare to work long hours. He believes you should never give up ownership no…

point where “everybody had seen” his “cream color, bright, (and) swollen” car filled with “triumphant… boxes” (Fitzgerald 64). Gatsby’s car was the very definition of wealth at the time. The car is very well known and famous for being the epitome of luxury and status. His affluence is also visible in the nickel plates on his car and the excessive amount of green leather and glass themselves. Every weekend, “his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in…

A paradoxical question has arisen from many philosophers’ musings: what is reality? Plato gives his version of the answer in his anxiety-inducing “Allegory of the Cave”. In a dark cave, Plato depicts prisoners who have been “chained so that they cannot move, and can only see” what is in front of them (Plato). With this restriction in movement, they are only able to see the shadows of “men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals” (Plato). These…

Introduction: ELIE SAAB (ES) is an international fashion house brand named after its owner and Chairman Elie Saab. Saab belonged to a Lebanese family and always wanted to make it big in the fashion industry. Therefore from a very young age he began sewing. He designed dresses for his family members and at an early age of just 18 he opened his first atelier with 10 employees under him. “His first collection was displayed in Casino Du Liban in Beirut “(Nadia and Hussam, 2012). The brand ES was…

Summary: Sometime later, Gatsby offers to take Nick out for lunch in the city. Gatsby shows off his Rolls Royce, a giant yellow car adorned with luxury. On the way to the city, Nick inquires about Gatsby's past, only to be met with a clearly made up story about being the sole heir of a family fortune. However, Gatsby does show Nick a medal won during the war and a picture of him at Oxford University. At lunch, Nick comes to question Gatsby’s past more after Gatsby introduces him to Meyer…

It is Gatsby who destroys the Great Self ------so we should “beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” Life is blended up with dream and memory. Believe it or not, when people are trying to “run faster, stretch out [their] arms further” to chase their fantasy, one vital thing is always missing—the pure and the ingenuous heart they had when they were young. Jay Gatsby, or James Gats, the main character from one of the most renowned novel in the U.S.…

It can be seen at every turn; there’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and no matter how steely and impenetrable a mind may be, it still manages to gain access to the deepest of desires and most vulnerable of beliefs. Advertising pervades the lives of anyone exposed to it, bending moral and emotional principles at the will of the marketer. Advertising controls consumer decisions without concern for the actual consumer, leaving behind empty, exploited shells of people with open wallets.…

Two people grow up in similar circumstance, live in the same town, work similar jobs, and have similar dreams; yet, one will continue to work hard and live a moral, socially acceptable life, and the other will turn to crime becoming a social deviant. Why? What factors cause one to become a deviant; and fail to have any effect on the other. These are age old questions that philosophers and scholars have tried to answer throughout recorded history. Often religion or lack of it has been believed to…

The Portrayal of Idealized Femininity in Overboard The embodiment of idealized femininity has been a common trope throughout many works of literature throughout the ages. The idea appears in centuries old works such as Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in which the form of an idealized woman is sculpted and created. Over time, many other authors have produced works that include the idea of creating the perfect woman, and the idea has transferred to the cinematic world during the current era. One such…

“It's what non-car people don't get. they see all cars as just ton-and-a-half, two-tons of wires, glass, metal and rubber. That’s all they see. People like you or I know, we have an unshakable belief that cars are living entities. You can develop a relationship with a car. And that’s just what non-car people don’t get… when something has foibles and won’t handle properly, that gives it a particularly human quality because it makes mistakes, and that’s how you can build a relationship with a…