The Other Side

different than present day. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald presents Fitzgerald's view of life during this time period using a fictional story with characters and events that symbolize things in the real world. Fitzgerald shows two different sides of his own personality through two different characters. Fitzgerald also demonstrates the aspects of life in the 1920s that he hated by creating characters with unfavorable qualities. In The Great Gatsby life during the 1920s is portrayed…

Daisy have all been corrupted and destroyed by the dream.Fitzgerald shows us the American dream while using every character in some way. Most of the characters either have the happiness and not the material side of the American Dream and those who have the material side of it want the happiness side too. In the book The Great Gatsby the author Fitzgerald shows us that the American Dream is to have money, a car, a…

Demand-side, supply-side and monetary policy are similar in the way that they represent economics and their theories. Economic policy alludes to the moves that legislatures make in the financial field. It covers the frameworks for setting levels of tax assessment, government spending plans, the cash supply and financing costs and the work market, national possession, and numerous different ranges of government mediations into the economy. Economic policy hopes to accomplish our economy being…

explained in J. S. Lawry’s “Green Light or Square of Light in The Great Gatsby.,” Daisy while trying to show how miserable she is in chapter 1, seems insincere about her miserableness. Lawry claims that Fitzgerald’s line about how Daisy and Tom "stood side by side in a cheerful frame of light,” characterizes how content Daisy actually is with her “miserable” marriage. Lawry’s claim is far from a stretch, as Daisy shows her contentedness with Tom towards the end of the story in Chapter 7 after…

strolling all throughout Manhattan. As we walked out of Penn Station I knew summer was officially coming to an end because I could feel the cold air hitting my face. We took the train and headed to the Lower East Side, which is known to be fairly close to China Town and Little Italy. The Lower East Side is southeastern of the city. The area has been known to be home to many immigrants from China, Russia, and Italy. The area has historically been known as a working class area, but has changed…

career when he dropped out of Princeton in 1917. A lot of his books are inspired by his own life, and most of them include the 1920’s and the extravagant lifestyle the rich lived during that time. Some of his most famous works are The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and Tender is the Night. While he did not win any awards for his books when he was still alive, he is now considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. I have only ever read one book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The…

For this assignment I chose the Blindside. There are a couple reasons I chose this movie, one being it is the only movie I had on DVD, and the other being that it has to do with my future career. I hope to work with adoption and foster care, as well as low income communities. This movie was filmed and publicized in 2009, and was based off of a true story. The story line is about a character named Michael Oher, or in the beginning he is called Big Mike. Within minutes of the movie, you learn that…

non-restricted satisfactions for lavish materialistic things attract Daisy and other women he has affair with. He is a selfish rich man who breaks things and leaves others to clean up his mess after the incident that happened in one of his sprees, it involved violently breaking Myrtle’s nose after sleeping with her while Nick was in the next room, he is either not realizing or ignoring how damaging his actions can be to others and doesn’t seem sorry at all. He says "And what's more, I love Daisy…

Pink Floyd The Dark Side of The Moon By Alais Galvez Pasadena City Professor Kyle Luck College Music 24B History of Rock Music May 4, 2018 “Pink Floyd were an English Rock band formed in London in 1965”. (Wikipedia) On March 1, 1973, a band called Pink Floyd released an album called, The Dark Side of the Moon. The songs on the album, The Dark Side of the Moon is “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” “Echoes,” “Breathe,” “On the Run,” “Time,” “The Great…

Film Adaptations: Romeo and Juliet (1968) and West Side Story (1961) Many films have been created based on novels and play scripts. Plays have transitioned from performances on stage to the big cinema screens. Since many legendary play scripts were created before our century, American film directors had to ask themselves, “How can an older piece of work interest the audience of today?”. Directors found it challenging to express an original piece of work while attempting to interest the minds…