This Is Now

Stephen Crane utilizes detailed examples and depicts a strong bias in his poem, “The Impact of a Dollar Upon the Heart”. This poem dramatizes the conflict within the wealthy. In this poem, he depicts the emotions and experiences between the contrasting lives between those with just one dollar compared to one million dollars. Crane’s overall focus is not to demean the wealthy but to prove that their public facade masks their private despair. Through the use of powerful symbols, metaphors, and…

“Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you’ve had” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald is a writer who has imposed himself and his life story into many of his characters. Most notably, his famous novel called The Great Gatsby, is about a man who feels unhappy despite his wealth. However, there is another story in which Fitzgerald uses himself as the main character, a short story called…

disillusionment with the world they came back to. A young adult in the Midwest believed that he had an exceptionally promising future. He attended boarding school, but he found himself not knowing what he wanted with his life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, This Side of Paradise, Amory Blaine spends his life in and out of schools, trying to find what he wants in life. He then moves back to Minneapolis and has a reencounter…

The anticipation was killing me. I had been waiting for this day for what seemed like forever, and I was so glad it had finally come. I’d been talking about it all week, and I was starting to annoy people. However, I just couldn’t help it. I felt like my heart was going to explode out of my chest with all the happiness inside me. I’d been trying not to think about it because it made me anxious. Now that it was time, it was the only thing on my mind. The day started out great just like I’d hoped…

neglected her. But after he got punched, he brood over the opposite scenario; that he was the villain and Marjorie's husband was the hero instead, “The situation had miraculously and entirely changed—a moment before Samuel had seemed to himself heroic; now he seemed the cad, the outsider, and Marjorie's husband, silhouetted against the lights of the little house, the eternal heroic figure, the defender of his home.” Lastly, the fourth and final “fist” taught him the importance of the little…

In the year 1835, America was quickly developing as a prosperous nation. This prosperity was beheld by many worldwide, including critical French journalist Alexis de Tocqueville. de Tocqueville found that though Americans themselves inhabited one of richest lands of the time, their happiness was rather scarce. Perhaps, thought de Tocqueville, Americans’ happiness went extinct as a result of their fear of death before accomplishment. de Tocqueville believed Americans did in fact aspire to…

Coming into college, I had incredibly high hopes for how I thought things were going to pan out during my college career. Socially, I thought I was going to make this huge group of amazing friends who would never leave my side, and they would be the truest friends that I could ever imagine meeting. While I do see some of my friendships going that way, some of the friends that I met at the beginning of the year turned out to be the kind of friends that I wasn’t interested in keeping. I also…

so far from him. “He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in the vast obscurity beyond the city...” (p180). The vast obscurity is the Midwest where Gatsby grew up. This place is the root of all his dreams and hopes, of his greenlight. There was a type of respectability during this time. This is the place where the story of Gatsby and Daisy begins. He felt almost sorry for Gatsby because he had it all except for his love. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic…

describe an idea of success that Willy, and now Biff, cannot understand. With the first short, declarative sentence, “Great inventor, Father” Ben reveals that a successful salesman is not someone how aims to make large amounts of money, instead it is the person that connects to products they are selling. In addition, Biff’s grandfather was a man who man skilled enough to work with his hands and independent enough to thrive in the industry as an individual. For this reason, the reader understands…

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…