The Wayside

The style of an author is something unique and creative to their person and their soul. The writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald is skilled, concise, and detailed. His novels are not only distinguishable by his incredible imagination but also his impressive articulation. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses diction, imagery, personification, and in order to portray the deeper meaning of his novel with his style. By using…

Red White and Blue - The American Illusion Tommy Hilfiger, world renowned entrepreneur, states that “The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it 's possible to achieve the American Dream.” The Brookings Institute defines the American Dream as the ideal that every U.S. citizen is equal in the sense that everyone has the equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. In The Great Gatsby by…

sacrificed conversation for mere connection" (Turkle). In this age of technology, our society has pulled itself toward the latest new gadget. They're overhyped and overused. Keeping eye contact and holding an average conversation has fallen by the wayside. We Americans pride ourselves in possessions because it's often easier to talk about what we have, rather than deeper conversations such as who we are and what kind of person we want to become. The film Minority Report, and the novel,…

The effects of violence in video games and the effects it has on children. In the life of a game designer one of the roughest critics ever seen has been the national media and dealing with the effects of violence in games and their effect on children. Since the early nineties everyone from news agencies and church groups has been on the offensive towards violence and aggression of video games. Everyone seems to want to push their opinion on the topic across on some of the most trivial matters;…

I have been a Criminal Justice Major at FAU for 4 years, but sometimes I still automatically think about what I learned on the television, rather than what I learned in my classes. Despite my learning about the Judicial System this semester, and my previous experience in other classes, my mind was still expecting something out of Law & Order instead of my textbook. I subconsciously assumed that the criminal case that I was sitting in on would be like those sixty minute spots I watch when nothing…

“Just because we don’t say certain things, doesn’t mean we don’t feel them”. This quote is especially relevant to the love affair that takes place in W. D. Snodgrass’s poem “Leaving the Motel”. The poem entails of the requirements that two surreptitious lovers must carry out after their secret rendezvous to sure that their relations stay hidden. As the narrator of the poem methodically runs through their responsibilities like a checklist, they establish a detached and matter-of-fact tone, which…

One’s mind must be regularly engaged and strengthened, otherwise it will atrophy and dissolve like sand through a sieve. The term mind encompasses everything from measureable qualities such as intelligence, literacy, memory, and inquiry, as well as more abstract aspects such as one’s sense of self. In his futuristic—and nearly prophetic—dystopian novella, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, Ray Bradbury demonstrates his understanding of the universal truth identified above through the thoughts,…

Bargaining has been a common occurrence in human behavior for millennia. The first systems of trade and currency relied on barter systems. Bargaining has especially been prevalent in modern Congress in the United States. Recently though, the power of bartering has faced significant obstacles. The power of “going public” has been increasing due to intense partisanship in both Congress and the American people as a whole. If this trend continues, bargaining in Congress may be a relic of the past.…

When it comes to living life, there is often that though inside one’s mind about the end of life, about death. It is a common topic that reflects upon the humanity of oneself and those around. Life and death are a topic that is versatile to authors of diverse genres. Virginia Woolf is one of those authors who was drawn to this continuum. Woolf’s childhood was filled with death, born in 1882, her mother passed in 1895, her half-sister died in 1897, her father followed in 1890, and her brother in…

The negotiations with M-19 were successful because of the widespread desire for reform of the two-party monopoly on the government. The goal of M-19 was political reform from the outset, so the cost of resistance was low. For the government, the cost of toleration was high, but not compared to the cost of suppression of the rebels. If it were not for eventual disorganization of the party, M-19AD would have been more successful politically because of their grassroots beginnings. The rise of…