The Riches

Eli Amsellem In F.Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the American 1920’s are accurately presented on the social and economic aspects of life. Fitzgerald uses characters like Gatsby to express the ‘American Dream’ and its flaws and lies. As well as characters for expressing the high society’s corruption of that time along with their morals and lifestyle. Fitzgerald’s effective use of literary elements such as symbols, imagery, and diction amplify his abstract…

Written in 2006, “The Columbian Exchange” by John F. Richards provides the reader with a sense of how after making contact with the native people of the Americas, the Spaniards proceeded to change the landscape of the region and exploit its natural resources. Richards’ thesis is the colonization of the New World by the Spaniards ultimately destroyed the society and environment of the natives who had called that area their home for centuries. The Spaniards brought numerous diseases, to which they…

Reputation gain. Riches. Discovery. Religion. All of these are goals Columbus and de las Casas are both set on the objective to find in the “New World’s”, but with de la Casas comes clear that changing humanity instead was his true prime achievement in all of this. Both stories bring us the two different perspectives of finding greed or compassion and for how this tied in with what life was life like in the 1500’s. These two conquistadores were our first documentation of what was the set…

The parable of the rich fool, in 12:13-21, warns that material possessions have no eternal significance so we shouldn 't spend too much time worrying about them. When we focus so much on getting lots of material things in life and neglect God 's riches we will find that we come up short before God but our material wealth will now belong to someone else. Immediately following this parable is Jesus ' teaching, and application of the preceding parable, on trusting in God 's provision. Not only is…

In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby represents the corruption of the American dream within the 1920s. He represents this in three different ways. The first of which being his rags to riches story about Dan and how Gatsby inherited vast amounts of money, upon which he loses to Dan’s ex wife. The second being his illegal means of getting money and becoming rich on his own. And the third being his death, and the fact that he killed Myrtle. Gatsby starts off with…

The proverbial question, “Which came first the chicken or the egg?” is a difficult question to answer. Some say that the chicken came first because without a chicken, the reproduction of the egg is impossible. Others say that the egg came first because without it the chicken is nonexistent. However, there is a relation between the two and that is that they both have the objective of existing. Similar to the chicken and the egg, the church and state in sixteenth-century France share the same…

Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio both offer modern society a glimpse into the dark ages through their literary pieces, The Canterbury Tales and The Decameron. Composed of numerous short stories, the two pieces of literature convey the way of life in 1300s as well as the medieval society’s belief and the strong influence of the bubonic plague. Short stories within The Canterbury Tales and The Decameron feature the plague and utilize the illness to construct plot and the overall theme. In…

Richard Cory’s status is revealed immediately through the narrator’s description showing that Richard Cory is obviously a wealthy, high-class gentleman. However, at the end of the poem it is revealed that Cory has killed himself despite all of his riches. Hoyt Franchere calls it an “ironic portrait of a ‘gentleman’ a man who has everything…yet commits suicide” (qtd. in Rollyson 212). The irony of the situation helps to show the brutality of life in that even though…

I will be identifying Anne Bradstreet’s usage of imagery in her poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband.” The key imageries will be analyzed in the way she uses it, how it functions, work together, the ideas/feelings delivered, and how it contributes to the meaning of the poem. Her consistency of her tone through out the poem displays her emotions of happiness she feels towards her husband. The image Bradstreets utilizes works well in forming coherent patterns. We can see this through the imagery…

the End of Life-Care" illustrates stories of four patients with a terminal illness who decide to embrace the finality of their lives by spending their last days at the Sacred Heart Palliative Care Hospital in Sydney Australia. Norma Andrews, Sandy Riches, Darryl Calver, and John Peart are all patients battling terminal cancer who, instead of enduring futile and hopeless treatments, choose to spend the last weeks and months of their lives engaging in uplifting activities and being surrounded by…