The Death and Life of Great American Cities

New york is a city of bright lights, tall buildings and big dreams. It is a place where people go when they want to be someone in life. Walking around the city they see the glamor but they also see the downside to the once hopeful dreamers. The ones who did not achieve their dream and have to deal with the backlash of their sanguine demeanor. In The Great Gatsby the main theme is “the American dream” but inside that theme we see many other, smaller, themes that make up the overarching concept.…

witnessed one of the largest atomic destructions ever recorded in history when “shock and blast waves rippled over the city, punched the innards of buildings and homes, and bore the detritus on the nuclear wind”- everything immediately turned into dusk after America dropped the Little Boy on Hiroshima and the Fat Man on Nagasaki (Ham 317). To the civilians who saw the bombing of the two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they would never be able to come back to their normal lives. It was a shock, a…

Being no exception, Death of a Salesman, The Great Gatsby, and There Will Be Blood have followed this theme. The three aforementioned pieces of literature feature protagonists who have a common endeavor. Each strive towards the “American Dream,” the acquisition of supposed happiness that is only attained through hard work and wealth. Willy Loman, Daisy Buchanan, and Daniel Plainview each experience grotesque dehumanization as a result of their journeys towards the American Dream. They are all…

came an overwhelming sense of greed, sadness, and jealousy. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is shown that even the richest people in America had a tough time living during one of the most flourishing ages in history. Jay Gatsby, the main character in this novel, had an incredible resemblance with his creator. The type of women they loved, the extravagant way they portrayed their love for them, and how the American Dream treated…

Jacobs understood the importance of this and knew how cities could maintain this safety, but warned of what would become of them if they did not stray away from the current city styles. More modern planners, such as Joel Kotkin argue that Jacobs’s lesson is no longer applicable to modern cities because they have different functions than those of the past. This argument is valid in the sense that city…

A life for a lifePresident Donald Trump has signed an executive order that may limit women across theworld the ability to safe abortion. He has reinstated the global gag rule also known as TheMexico City Policy which prohibits giving U.S. funding to non-governmental organizations thatoffer or advise on a wide range of family planning and reproductive options if they includeabortion. Every women has the right to essential and accurate information about her body,whether it involves abortion or not…

A Discussion of Three Messages from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman After viewing Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman this semester, it is clear that this story was well developed and well thought out on Miller’s part. A slew of conflicts and characters bounce around in a cauldron of conflict, resolution and sadness. The main character, Willy Loman, acted by Dustin Hofman, was a marvelous man, and provided the plot line with a slew of emotion and plot twist. This character being the father…

opinions of the public in favor of their justification. Books such as A Tale of Two Cities or Slaughterhouse-Five are novels that hold strong moral themes in intention to inform and persuade their targeted audience. Both the A Tale of Two Cities and Slaughterhouse-Five hold similar archetypes, such as Death and Rebirth, but contain dissimilar opinions and themes on the topic of War and morals. A Tale of Two Cities was written by Charles Dickens, an author living…

Heart of Aztlan by Rudolfo A. Anaya is a novel that displays Brelas life during the periods of post-Korean War. Though it is a novel that involves fictitious characters, the described situation in the novel was real. Though the characters utilized in the novel are in dire hopelessness, the mood of the novel is filled with hope. The book is a pure dedication as indicated by the author to people all over the world that could have in life struggled with self determination right, dignity and…

An American Tragedy “Soul Food is death food, it will kill you”. This bold statement was uttered by civil rights advocate, Dick Gregory in the PBS film, Soul Food Junkies”. Today’s African-Americans are marching, in step, to a slow death. Taken from their homeland and inducted into slavery, in Africa about 80 per cent of the diet was organic and consisted mainly of fruits and vegetables with little meat, mostly roasted. The African-American diet which was healthy and nutritious has been…