This Week

practicing as “clicking in.” (87). This explanation of the feeling of deep practice resonated with me because I felt that same “clicking in” feeling around mid-term of this semester. In my last paper, one of my goals was to be more conscious in my dancing; I wanted to be more of aware of the what, how and why of my dancing rather than just going through the motions and regurgitating what I’ve previously trained my muscles to do. Although I did not know it was called this, essentially, my…

Over the years there has been an issue with money around the world but they don’t seem to realize what is causing this problem. Athletes are the problem. They get paid millions of dollars and they don’t play. So my argument is why athletes get paid millions of dollars and sit around and collect it. My first reason is athletes getting payed while injured. How can you just sit at home and collect money when it can be used on more important things like school budgets. Kids are struggling to get to…

grandfather’s success as a salesman and fails to understands that great financial prosperity is because the grandfather had faith in his career choices. Ben describes that Biff’s grandfather was a “[g]reat inventor…With one gadget he’d make more in a week than a man like [Willy] could make in a lifetime” (Miller 49). These two sentences that come in opposing lengths describe an idea of success that Willy, and now Biff, cannot understand. With the first short, declarative sentence, “Great…

better economic life. There were so many people migrating that one tenth of New York City alone was made up Italian immigrants. This large amount of migration brought good and bad souls. The bad souls created neighborhood gangs that later transformed into the American Mafia with a hierarchy headed by a boss and even rituals to prove one's loyalty. The Boss was Al Capone in this case, and mastered his role by being a criminal under cover and helping the community in the daytime. For example, Al…

people’s lifestyles and the sheer pointlessness of the lifestyles. The diarist goes through almost an entire week of his life with such precision, giving off the facade of importance when it really just goes to show the lack thereof. The author’s use of detail and repetitiveness, along with an overarching theme of satire creates a piece as a whole which has no point,…

not even two weeks old, thrown away with the garbage. A carefully planned day turned chaotic the moment I picked him up. Life is not a program we can schedule for. We cannot will away events once they have happened. But we can choose how we respond.…

imagined being the hero in a book, or a villain, or just the main character of a novel? In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel This side of Paradise, that is exactly what Fitzgerald has done, with not only himself but people from his life as well. When you psychoanalyze the characters from This Side of Paradise, you can see how similar they are to their real life counterparts. This Side of Paradise is about an egotistical young man named Amory Blaine, who goes to school and attempts to…

1. What sort of man is Tom Buchanan? 2. What do we find out about Tom and Daisy’s marriage? 3. How does Fitzgerald build up interest in Gatsby through the chapter? Chapter 2 1. What does Myrtle do as soon as she arrives in New York? In what ways is this significant? 2. How does Fitzgerald sustain our interest in Gatsby in another chapter in which we do not actually meet him? Chapter 3 1. How do the rumours about Gatsby contribute to the general themes of the novel? 2. At the end of the chapter…

develop an effective marketing campaign for Aero. In this paper I will evaluate and analyze what is needed for the success of unveiling Aero’s new models in the United States. In the following paragraphs I will discuss; pros and cos of using Aero’s customer base, Aero technology advantage, and the media selection plan. Pros & Cons of Using Aero Customers Base The first website I reviewed was bzzagent.com. This website is a platform that allows…

totally dominant) in their media but rather for their nature as masterful depictions of a quintessentially American theme. This theme is the pursuit of perfection despite great success, of the emptiness of wealth, and of striving for an ideal that may not exist. This is prevalent in both, with similar characters Gatsby and Kane embodying this quintessential American persona, this idealist, striving for something he has never known. In art of cinematography that both are excellent; Citizen…