The Death and Life of Great American Cities

over the realm. Unexpecting and unprepared, the Seven Kingdoms is preoccupied with rebellion. The lords of the realm are plotting against one another and, “are feverishly endeavoring to advance their ambitions and ruin their enemies, preferably unto death,” (Orr p.3). These ambitions are to win the game of thrones and earn the right to sit upon the Iron Throne. Rapes, massacres, and beheadings are all common themes to progress these ambitions. In Martin’s cutthroat series, morality is fatal when…

The Great Gatsby as a Criticism of American Society In the novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald criticizes American society through the eyes of his narrator Nick Caraway, as he watches the…

Johnson’s War on Poverty and Great Society programs, between 1965 and 1972, created many job opportunities for Black workers. African Americans became wealthy enough to “live in spacious homes, buy luxury goods, travel abroad on vacation, spoil their children- to live, in other words, just like well-to-do white folks” (81). The emergence of the black middle class, allowed many Black elected officials to represent Black communities. The experiences of this small African American group became…

Since the first African slaves were brought to America in 1619, life for African Americans has been a struggle. During the time of slavery, blacks were treated just like animals. They were the property of their owners and only received what their masters deemed necessary. Because of this, blacks received little health care and had to survive off of the scraps they were given. As time went on, African Americans learned how to adapt to their surrounds. They made the best meals they could from the…

beating from a baseball bat that caused his life (“Vincent Who”). The beating was brutal enough to be considered as manslaughter. However the sentence was only 3000 dollars and 3-year prohibition (“Vincent Who”). Apparently in the 20th century America, Chinese Americans were no difference than dogs. How did the murder of Vincent Chin unionize the Chinese Americans and other Asian communities to fight for their civil rights in the late 20th century? The city Detroit in the 20th century was the…

Currents of Time in The Great Gatsby A prominent theme in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the idea that time has the capability to pull an individual forward and backward simultaneously. In the 1920s, especially in the urban areas, mainly focused on in the novel, there was a major pursuit to move forward; the future was just around the corner and those who couldn’t keep up were left behind (Hutchins). “The novel, beautifully spare in its prose style, is famous for capturing the…

The perspectives of Lincoln’s death were initially shocked from all. Later, some people believed that Lincoln was a tyrant, but in the end, it came to a consensus that Lincoln was the most important man in the United States. After Lincoln’s death, the North emphasized how Lincoln was a savior. Northerners were extremely happy when they won the war and “celebrated…

Gatsby blind to not see the incongruity of his goal, but he fails to realize that the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan, has other aspirations for her ideal life that Gatsby will never be able to fulfill. Much like the way Gatsby thinks and acts, Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson struggle to be mollified with what they already have. These naïve hopes of a textbook life cause all of the key characters in The Great Gatsby to cause hurt and destruction. Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional novel,…

In her book Dead Man Walking, Helen Prejean had the purpose of showing why it is necessary for people to take action to fix injustice regarding several systems in American society, with her central focus ultimately being the death penalty. She achieved this by using logos, pathos, and ethos to make a well rounded appeal as to why these systems are flawed and why it is one’s responsibility to fix them. Prejean uses logos to open her readers’ eyes to the flaws with the criminal justice system…

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” That speech was spoken by Patrick Henry to the citizens of the city of colonial Williamsburg. Now, colonial Williamsburg is a great place for anybody to go to learn about the historical significance of the city during the times of the revolutionary war. One of the many historic buildings in…