The Great Unknown

throughout the novel of The Great Gatsby, but two personalities stand out among the rest. These characters exhibit traits that make one seem to be greater and worse than the latter. The character with a strong moral compass is Jay Gatsby for the reasons of him wanting to achieve his goals through the American dream and his unwavering stance on being able to live in the past, however, Daisy is quite the opposite as she manipulates people into giving her wealth for unknown reasons and is extremely…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald poses as one of the most classic American love stories of modern literature, exploring the tragic story of a forbidden love. Underneath this beautiful tale, the novel actually has a less romantic theme, the loss of social values and the destruction of the American dream. The ideal American dream dates back to the American settlement, when poor immigrants set ambitions of opportunity and wealth. The Declaration of Independence even documents this hope “that…

Thus, the “Great Viking Invasion” began. They were able to conquer almost all of the kingdoms in northern England until they came to Wessex where the Vikings were defeated by King Alfred the Great. While defeated, King Alfred was unable to force the Vikings out of the country. Despite a peace treaty, the warring went on for many years. As legendary as…

self-realization for Joan. Brecht tells us that no matter how long we try to hold onto ourselves there comes a time when everything bursts out. Joan realizes that she hasn’t accomplished anything as she say these words, “Came to the stockyards with great plans, encouraged by dreams…” this makes audience feel sympathetic towards Joan. So finally in part h of this scene everything is laid out clearly as Mauler reads out the paper loud. The fate of Mauler for which audience was waiting for so long…

For some parents, the name of their baby determines what he/she becomes. My parent’s reasoning for naming me Alex is because of Alexander The Great. The meaning of my names is comparable to my namesake, who was an ancient leader who defended his empire. Although there are some aspects of my name that I can relate to, there are others to which I cannot. According to behindthename.com, Alexander means “defending men”. I like to think that this is true since I play center defender when playing…

The Argentine Great Depression was an economic depression in Argentina which began in 1998 and lasted until 2002. This depression began due to the Brazilian and Russian financial crises. Among many more, this crisis caused the fall of the government, riots, unemployment and defaults on the country's debt payment to the IMF. During this time, Argentina’s economy shrank by 28 percent from 1998 to 2002.More than 60 percent of Argentines were poor and seven out of ten children in Argentina were…

whether or not there were, in fact, great leaders. In the ancient world, a leader was considered great if they were military skilled, they incorporated other people's culture, followed through and were firm in what they believed. Since in the ancient world religion was a huge part of the people lives, great leader was also expected to have some sort of divine connection. All theses trait of a great leader in the ancient world could be found in Alexander the great, king of Macedonia. In his years…

Avenue, was a Chinese man who had been sent from Beijing’s orphanage to an orphanage near Pennsylvania’s border. Years passed and Yorker had grown different from everyone else in an unusual enormous size and muscular strength. He lived alone in an unknown forest where he had built his own house. Yorker's daily life was building houses to shelter poor people and providing them with food from his garden. Edward Smith was an African man who lived near the border of Pennsylvania…

Vision of the 1930’s Deserve the Nobel Prize?” This infuriated Steinbeck and put negative thoughts in his head. From then on John Steinbeck decided to no longer write any fiction. In conclusion, John Steinbeck was an admirable author. His life gave him great inspiration that led to his success through his stories. His writings gave sensible depictions and showed immense emotion, this gave him many accomplishments. Although most of his work was fiction it still gave you an insight into John…

main tactics that I will be discussing will be the use of legalized bribery, and how it was used to buy out most of the U.S congress, as well as many other politicians who had substantial influence within the financial sector. The use of at the time unknown credit default swaps, and their effects on the housing market. Where a so called bet could be placed on the percent chance of someone defaulting on a mortgage loan. To where then it would be packaged and sold off to someone else to make a…