This American Life

but what does this mean, and how does it represent the American dream? Carpe Diem means, “Seize the day”. This phrase embodies the American Dream, which is do whatever you can to have your best life. This is exactly what the message is in Tim McGraw’s hit song, “Live Like You Were Dying”. This song is also in the country genre which is a completely American genre. This song is reflective upon how McGraw has lived his life upon receiving the news of his father’s death. After this occurred he…

The Great Gatsby Analysis The Great Gatsby is a book written by the American author Scott Fitzgerald, in 1925. It takes place in a small, fiction village called West Egg close to Long Island in New York City, US. The story takes part during the summer of 1922. West Egg is described as a town for new rich men who is on a pursuit of happiness. We see that the whole novel is colored by the jazz age and this makes everything described classy. Characterization: The narrator is Nick Carraway…

Westcott and their children, as the seemingly comfortable middle class family. He makes mention of their physical and material appearances seeming to be untouched by the strains of life. Cheever, wants his readers to catch simple mentions, in his text, that the family, though outwardly appearing to have accomplished the American dream with ease and without hardships along the way, is really just pretending. “Jim and Irene Westcott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory…

celebration date is on the 1st and 2nd of November. Day of the Dead is the Mexican holiday where families and friends honor their departed loved ones with festivities, particularly with foods, drinks, and other activities that the dead enjoyed from life. Day of the Dead first originated in the 16th century from Aztec traditions in honoring the dead, but later the tradition merged with elements of Christianity by moving the celebration date to November 1-2 (originally being in the summer),…

Twenties” is a period after World War I where American society went to a radical change and social reform, and American situated as the most powerful nation of the world. The economic was growing very fast, and the manufacturing were working in full of capacity. The industrialization and the economic prosperity influenced people’s lives: individuals, especially the upper class who has plenty of free time and spend their live aimlessness, enjoy their life happily after the misery of the war with…

An Analysis on Jay Gatsby as the Epitome of the American society in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby is a novel that focuses on the lives of Americans who belong to the upper class in society in New York set in the 1920s. The 1920s, better known as the Roaring Twenties, was the era characterized by a number of positive and negative outcomes that highly influenced the United States of America. This was the era of economic prosperity, the rise of consumerism, the popularization of Jazz…

Walker Percy describes the interaction of consumer and merchants, in “The Loss of the Creature”. Most Americans live as convicts of the false ideologies in the United States; inequality and ignorance chained Americans into an…

stories and poems that he lost along the course of his life, moving here and there. In 2000 he began to rewrite all the stories he lost the accumulated into his book and his poems. He died with an unpublished 725 page work of art and numerous poems about his wife of 45 years, nature and the culture he was so immensely proud of. “East of Daybreak” is a historical fiction, which is an oxymoron, yes but the historical part is about the “real American Indian cultural heritage and issues…

Emily Dickinson was an American poet known to be on the forefront of the unique poetic voice that is so widely known today. Although Dickinson was considered one of the founders of the American poetic voice there is little information on her and her life. The reasoning behind there being so little information on Dickinson is because she spent most of her life as a recluse. There was only a meager amount of people who knew were Dickinson was and who got to interact and communicate with her.…

"I Liked My Life." Fabiaschi reveals when we choose to ignore that something is going on around us we will face the issue sooner or later the question is will be able to make a decision once everything is said and done for us. We know that Donald Trump was a business man, celebrity, and racially profiled people. Yet, we choose to be ignorant to the outrageous remarks, phrases, and actions our President…