This Is Now

then, if desired, add captions to them and send them to selected individuals.” (Techopedia) This innovation permits us to make these images public simply to our snapchat friends or go as far as anyone can see them. In a personal aspect, I utilize Snapchat to communicate with my friends that go to different universities all over the country. I show on my story what I am doing, who I am with and where I am. This allows my comrades to be caught up with my life and vice versa. I stay on the app to…

world they to live in. The West and East Egg play an important role which act as a symbolism within the novel. The author entails that people are still not treated quickly and that social discrimination still exists, where people do not put a stop to this social implications. An example is found within the novel is when Tom and Wilson negotiation when Wilson wants to resell Tom’s old car. Tom clearly wants to keep his affair with Myrtle and as a result he does not allow Wilson to resell it.…

by our sides to aid us with even the simplest of daily tasks. I personally could see myself getting through a days worth of work without technology, but it would just make my day that much longer and that much more inconvenient. If you look at it this way are we relying on technology more than we should be? In Nicholas Carr’s piece “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he produces the question of wether technology could be aiding our progression as humans or taking away from the fundamentals of…

be explored in the Acts such as identity and power relations. Evident through stage direction and diction, the Induction scenes will be paralleled with the Acts to suggest that power is established through the metaphor of people as animals. Through this exertion of power, the idea of transformation will be explored as those in power control ones identity; the way one acts, speaks, and thinks. It will be argued that through power, those in control can make others subservient to them and…

someone will give us a helping hand when we need it. So I use that way of thinking at all times and at all places. I always try to help as many people as I can and most times I offer the help without being asked. The reason I believe things work this way and that the idea of helping others actually works was because of what happened to me a while back. One day in the winter time as I was making my way back home from school, after soccer practice when I saw a little…

the World War I, women got a lot of freedom to work and to be independent and live their life on their own. This freedom also changed their attitude. They forgot their role of nurturing the family and they started to live their life in their own way. In the novel, a perfect example of the…

The reestablished vitality of our capital in the 21st century has returned London to the cutting edge of the contemporary novel. As in the Victorian time, the production of riches and the general population this pulls in present the writer with unrivaled open doors for characters enmeshed in private enterprise, defilement and philanthropy. Elizabeth Day's third novel is around four outsiders – independent multimillionaire Howard, Ugandan exile Beatrice, widowed Carol and correspondent Esme –…

Many classical pieces of literature do not become famous until after their author has far deceased. For F. Scott Fitzgerald this is more true. Kenneth Eble was assiduous to Fitzgerald's work saying, “It took critics a long time to recognize that a writer like Fitzgerald could be more than superficially romantic, an even longer time to realize that he was, as a novelist, intuitively historical” (Eble, 3). While Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” pervades under many high school student’s…

question the word life. I question my past journey ups and downs and if everything happens for a reason. I also look at judgement in the world today. People judge others for being evil or bad and treat these individuals as if they have always been this way. As I look at my 20-year-old son today, I think to myself where did I go wrong. It takes me back to the day he was born and what a beautiful baby he was. He was a happy baby and I exposed him to love that I never received as a child. That was…

Gatsby’s parties and its guests, Fitzgerald unveils this social divide and discloses the injustices of elitist society, offering a justification for East Egger Daisy Buchanan’s refusal to leave her husband, Tom, for Gatsby. While the flamboyant parties hosted by West Egg resident Jay Gatsby serve as a meeting place for the wealthiest members of the upper class, they juxtapose the occupants of the East and West Eggs. As described by Nick Carraway, the…