The Man with the Golden Arm

regain his once lost love, Daisy. When Gatsby becomes obsessed with Daisy, his life becomes delusional and his goal of transformation distorted, leading to his death. Daisy is an illusion, she represents what Gatsby wants, Daisy Buchanan is the golden girl. Gatsby is tricked with her, but does not realize he will never…

observers of her fall to exhaustion, of the rhythmic rise and fall of her chest. They had been worked on for many restless nights, borne of passionate meticulation, of intense servitude to the craft, for in three nights, there was to be a bright, golden hunter’s moon. It was a time when merchants and those with skill to offer would travel for days to a city beyond the mountains, drink into the morning, and prepare their massive festival for the following week. It was a glorious, prosperous time,…

dictator’s approach, even if the end goal is different. This can be seen with his comment on the utopian aspects of each regime, in which he suggests “Nowhere was the social idealism of the two dictatorships more distinct than with the idea of the 'New Man' who would build the new society and stride through its new cities. Each social vision, communist and National Socialist, presupposed that the citizens of utopia would be different from the people of the present” (242). Despite the…

dignity and victory, an era that will erase the painful past, and build for a better shiny future. In this essay, I will introduce a leader, born from the pain of his nation and grow up to become its salvation, a man who will be remembered in the books of history as one of its makers, a man who will move the stagnant water in the sea of the east…

wrongly win.' (1.5.20–23)" (Spolsky 497). She decides she will convince Macbeth, however possible, to pursue the crown: "Hie thee hither,/ That I may pour my spirits in thine ear/ And chastise with the valour of my tongue/ All that impedes thee from the golden round" (1.5.23-26). She has already decided that Duncan has to die; she is the one taking control in the…

the accumulation of his actions and character are seen as the cause for his fate. Their view underlines his character flaws and in the end makes Oedipus look guilty and to blame for the outcome of the play. Others however see Oedipus as a righteous man, a victim of Fate and the wrath of Gods. Yet it is through exploring the theme of Fate and Free will that Sophocles makes either view believable; that one can determine our fate just by our actions and by being who we are, or that our fate is…

It was ten thirty in the morning. On a beautiful sunny, summer, Monday. My least favorite day of the week. I had received a phone call from Northwest Hospital in Seattle, WA. A nice young man with a deep voice told me that there was an open room and to come as soon as possible so I could be prepped for induction. I was almost three and a half weeks over due. After hanging up I just froze. I could not believe the day had arrived. The day I would give birth to my eight-pound seven-ounce baby girl.…

He was considered as a Renaissance man, Leonardo was curious, intelligent & talented. Many people thought he was the smartest man to ever live with all the inventions he created, he basically was. If Leonardo didn’t follow his dream, then we wouldn’t have a lot of his inventions that we have & use today. We wouldn’t have the interest…

In a relationship, whether romantic or friendly, it takes time to get to know a person for who they really are. Unfortunately, as the knowledge of another person deepens, there are often aspects of themselves that do not seem as enchanting or real as they did previously. The person 's flaws are overlooked or attempted to be ignored, and it is only later than the results of these actions are not positive. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the journey of seeing someone for who…

and I went to the front of the boat to huddle together and stay close to one another for safty. “What is going on?” I asked my mom with the sound of panic in my voice. She turned to me with the calm look she always had on her face and pushed my golden hair out of my face. She looked into my big blue eyes, the ones I had gotten from her, and replied with, “Everything is okay, don’t worry.” I was glad that my mom stayed calm in a situation like this. Around ten minutes later the same thing…