This American Life

I've never seen a grown up pretending to be a 13 years old girl on you-tube before, must be a new low. Oh, I think that is a compliment, how old do I look do you think? Now I'm a little confused, why did you think I was an adult? Was it the fact I challenged you? Communicated in a grown up way perhaps, I would be really interested to know. You answered nothing of what i wrote, you denied that i have even read the bible without knowing me, you don't know my age or background. No, I went down…

very slow paced week but it did not feel like it took to long to be over. Which is a good thing. For the whole week we had 2 main projects we worked on. The first one throughout the morning and then the second one during the afternoon. So everyday this week was the exact same but I liked it. For the first two periods everyday we worked on a physics project, which was making a mouse trap into a race car. It was interesting, on Monday morning no one had any idea of what we would be doing but Mr.…

literature is the American Dream. This American way of life can be found in some of literature’s finest including The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitgerald, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. The American Dream has been a hope for many people throughout history. Its origin can be traced all the way back to the Puritan search for the New World; they were searching…

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by the American writer Francis Scat Fitzgerald, first published in 1925. It is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman, and it is one of the greatest literary documents dating back to the 1920s Roaring Twenties, a pivotal period that marked a turning point in Americans' lives, morally, materially and socially (Shen, 2012). This classic American novel is one of the finest pieces of American literature. It is such because F. Scott Fitzgerald has…

McCandless wrote “happiness is only real when shared.” This made an impression on me, because it showed that Chris had put everything in perspective, but it was unfortunate as he was on his deathbed. I really enjoyed this film. The cinematography was a factor to my enjoyment. I admired how beautifully the Alaskan landscape was filmed. I also enjoyed that the film was not filmed in a chronological order, but went back and forth in time. I found I enjoyed this because it made the film more…

happened to the American Dream in the 1920’s. The 1920’s was the time period in where people became which is a time period when the dreams became corrupted for many reasons. The American dream not only causes corruption but caused destruction. Myrtle, Gatsby and 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…

revealing paths that Americans might take. Throughout the story, Delillo in a somewhat subtle matter criticizes American society’s flaws. Taking place in a small mid-western college town, the Gladney family encounters difficulties with raising children, drug addictions, and personal fears. The satirical postmodern novel, White Noise, by Don Dellilo, uses the Gladney family’s daily interactions to criticize American culture, behavior, and thought. Delillo criticizes American culture by placing…

Morality of The Orphan Trains For the most part, American history is a story of triumph. Reaching the U.S.A. and achieving the “American Dream” are goals for many people. Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train and the person that it follows portrays the failure of the American dream. Niamh’s story and the tragedy that she faces are tough, but through her hardships she manages to achieve a successful life and find her own “American Dream”. Through the orphan trains, many children like Niamh that…

Professor Lisa Led-Aguilar English 124 American Dreams of Avarice `Often people become mislead by their desire for wealth, enchanted by the idea of the American Dream. Americans often lay morality by the wayside in the pursuit thereof. What is this American Dream, and what is this “money” that rests at its heart. Is it a mere social construct? Based on the amount of “money” one acquire’s, the overall experience of life can be re-rooted, causing many to do the unimaginable (Kasser, 1996).…

Marlise Munoz who was also pronounced brain dead after suddenly collapsing on the floor. Medical caregivers refused to take her off of life support due to state law that required all expectant mothers to be kept alive (cnn.com). The long legal battle that followed between the family and the hospital ended two months later with the hospital finally fulfilling the family’s…