This Week

With the help of relatives he attended Princeton and in 1917 he left Princeton and served in World War 1. While in Alabama for military training, he fell madly in love with Zelda. Fitzgerald wrote his first novel, This Side of Paradise and it appeared in March 1920. About one week after This Side of Paradise appeared Fitzgerald and Zelda married, but though their relationship started off great it quickly turned sour. By the 1930s, his wife became extremely ill and Fitzgerald took up excessive…

man's duty to his family may make a rigid corpse seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness. Samuel thought mostly of his family, yet he never really wavered.” With all of these “fists” that Samuel got, he decided to end things right. “Within a week things had happened. Hamil quarrelled furiously and violently defended his scheme. He was summoned to New York and spent a bad half-hour on the carpet in…

Zamperini has many kinds of special strengths that he used to make it out of the plane crash. Zamperini was in the plane crash and was in this horrific situation for almost seven weeks. There were others also on the plane some died and some of them lived. Zamperini was watching men die right in front of him. He had very little food and water. He had drifted about 2,000 miles in the water but it wasn’t that much…

society where statements like this are propagated has resulted in a shockingly docile population. In other words, there is a disgustingly large amount of people who just don’t care. When something is wrong, people do not say anything for fear of being judged or getting in trouble. When all the facts do not add up, people turn a blind eye. The list could go on and on, but the point is, this kind of behavior is unacceptable, and people should learn to speak up. I learned this lesson the hard way.…

of the King, she can't feel the beauty of Ulysses and the Lotus Eaters" (6). What's more, after their marriage, Archer found that in reality "traveling interested her even less than he had expected," their estimated six-week European traveling was canceled after only three weeks. Poor Archer, he was still dreaming to "read Faust together by the Italian lakes" in May. Also, he starts to realize that his marriage is becoming "what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of…

“The First Shot Fired” It all started when I went to my nephew’s birthday party at a gun club when I was 12. my nephew’s grandpa told me to bring my shotgun, so I did and when we got there he told us that he owned this gun club. After we were done eating and opening presents he told me “get your shotgun, we’re gonna see how good you are.” When I got my shotgun we went up on to the wobble stand he told me to say pull when i’m ready. I loaded a shell, took my safety off and mounted the gun and…

woman can. The professor responds, “You’re going to do his laundry?!” This makes a social commentary about the roles that women play in a man's life. We see this trope a lot in Futurama: a male character makes a sexist comment but promptly gets whacked upside the head for it. Sure, the knee-jerk feminist defense feels good because the person saying something awful gets instant retribution. Professor Farnsworth exclaims this as if it is the only thing women are good for, which is in fact…

two old men the waiter and his customer share this common bond. The waiter is completely loyal to his patron, in part because of their age, and also because they…

The use of pop-culture references in literature shows the skill of an author. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini uses references to Titanic and Pinocchio to create his novel. This story of Afghan women during the time of the gulf war explains the absurd practices certain male figures go to, to sustain dominance. Hosseini uses pop culture references to develop the subjects of enduring and power in his novel. Hosseini references pop culture movies like Pinocchio to express the…

allowed people to triple their net worth practically overnight. This economic increase had drastic effects on the social lives of the people during this time. The media glorified American prospect with a style called romanticism. This genre was a driving force for the creative minds, drawing those from all over the world, seeking the American dream. The dream that Fitzgerald depicts…