The Millionaire Next Door

Cities Make Us Smarter Triumph of the City, written by Edward Glaeser, dives into the topic of cities and how they have transformed and shaped our lives. Plastered across the cover reads, “How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier”. Glaeser provides fantastic insights into each of these adjectives, but one stands apart from the rest. Cities make us smarter. Glaeser makes this clear when he states in the introduction, “Cities, the dense agglomerations…

USC’s purchase of Verdugo Hills Hospital Located in the heart of Los Angeles in Southern California lies the home of the USC Trojans. In the year eighteen eighty the city of Los Angeles opened the doors of its first university to a total of fifty three students. USC began its journey in a city just as underdeveloped as the university itself. Since then they have blossomed into a nationally known institution and have graduated hundreds of thousands of students who have gone on to make a huge…

The Death of Marilyn Monroe: Murder or Suicide? Marilyn Monroe was very famous in her life as well as in her death. Monroe’s famous death was ruled a suicide by investigators, but there are many conspiracy theories surrounding her death and many people who believe that Monroe did not commit suicide but accidently overdosed or was murdered. Despite these popular conspiracy theories, Marilyn Monroe did commit suicide. It is evident that Marilyn Monroe committed suicide because of her long…

popular novel, The Great Gatsby, is considered one of the greatest Modernist novels after nearly ninety years. Through the story, Fitzgerald revealed his own life experiences and the true corruption of the upper class. The story of the puzzling millionaire, Jay Gatsby, still holds a strong position in the Modernists works that are still read…

fictional towns called West Egg and East Egg. The Great Gatsby is a classic piece of american fiction. The plot of this story is a midwest native Nick Carraway goes to New York in search of the American dream. Nick, a wanna-be writer, moves in next door to a millionaire named Jay Gatsby and across from his cousin Daisy and his husband Tom. Nick becomes drawn into the captivating world of the wealth and as he bears witness to their illusion and deceit pens a tale of impossible love, dream and…

New ending for Slumdog millionaire When Jamal is presented with the last question, it was just something he didnt even come close to knowing, and he anwsers wrong. He answers B, like the host hinted him by writing it on the mirror in the bathroom. When Jamal finds out the answer was wrong, he tells the world that the host told him the answer was B in the bathroom. In conclusion the world didn’t give a shit and thought he was lying. Jamal then got really upset and furious but he couldn't do much…

A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a mistake that inevitably leads to his or her downfall. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows narrator, Nick Carraway as he moves next door to protagonist Jay Gatsby. Jay is a mysterious, self invented millionaire, who believes in the American Dream, and confuses it with his love interest, Daisy which leads him to his demise. The play “Othello” is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, about Othello and Desdemona, two interracial lovers…

Every choice an author makes in his/her writing is intentional. No character needs to exist and no action needs to occur, so all characters and actions have meaning. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the character of George Wilson as more than merely the spouse of Tom’s mistress. George Wilson 's character is a device which Fitzgerald uses to illustrate the person Jay Gatsby was on the path to becoming before he met Dan Cody, who took Gatsby in and taught him his own way of life.…

would take someone unbelieably rich, such as Jay Z, to live like Gatsby did. However, there are moments that many people can relate to. Such as, the heartbreak of the one you love being unattainable, affairs made by a significant other behind closed doors, fatal car crashes and murders, some accidents and some out of anger or revenge. That can be a reason as to why this novel can be seen as literature and as an important part of modern…

Chrystian Garcia Ms.Vaitekunas-Willis English IV 9 December 2015 Great Times in the Roaring Twenties The beautiful era of the 1920s has given people great memories and happiness. As the economy grew during the 1920s, dramatic, social,and political changes started to happen. The national wealth doubled during 1920 through 1929, so people moved to the cities from farms. Thanks to the nationwide advertising and the spread of common chain stores, people bought the same goods and listened to the…