Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

winning or losing. In fact, many people prefer lottery instead of dealing with their routine; they would rather play a lottery than admit that savings would generate a more stable and sustainable amount of money. On the one hand, there are many people who realize their actual chances for winning and continue playing without even hoping to ever become a winner of the lottery. On the other hand, many people, and they make up a majority, think that they have a well-established scheme that works…

will come a culture so complex…and you’ll become millionaires.”(Wolfe, pg.4) First, this quote represents the adherent struggle ahead of the black people that they can 't see. The hundred years of struggle are just a simple overview of black history, starting from the deepest depths. However, he transitions from slavery to becoming a basketball player. This direct comparison shows the so call “value” of an African American. In present day, society wants to put certain stigmas on people. For the…

the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a certain moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby, who represented everything for which i have an unaffected scorn” (pg 2). In this quote Nick is basically saying that even though Gatsby isn’t the richest man Nick still sees him a someone good with potential, a…

starting a business and creating a company is just like “staring into the abyss and eating glass.” It seems like you will never get there forcing yourself to endure pain and starve. You have to keep going what seems like forever doing what you don't want to do for a long time while tolerating the pain. Expect to fail. However, how fast are you willing to recognize and fix mistakes? Self analysis is important to success because you always have to assume you are wrong, no matter how much you…

character who can play and demonstrate the role in the story plot. Movies are rated…

the health of the greater good over personal, selfish wants and desires. When humans see other humans in times of need and struggle, majority of us do something to help. It may be as simple as donating a dollar or the change from their wallet, but it is an effort to make someone's life better. Think about the destruction throughout Texas that's happened these last few weeks due to a historic natural disaster, Hurricane Harvey. The people who weren’t effected from outside states, like California…

They have “FOMO” - the fear of missing out. In the movie, Fight Club, directed by David Fincher, the protagonist, or the narrator who is unnamed, is an everyman who struggles to be apart from the world rather than trying to fit in and live in a world seized by materials and superficiality. Fincher is saying that no one can hide from this technological material take over sickening civilians into…

Socrates once said that “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” This quote encapsulates the current state of the world, in which people are constantly wanting more than they have, which in reality will never satisfy them. Greed and materialism has been a social issue for many years, and will continue to be an issue in Australia, and the world. It is especially prominent in business professions, where greed is considered healthy and…

because of the rise of the stock market and the bootlegging industry. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), set in early 1920’s Long Island, the mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, dreams of acquiring his true love, Daisy Buchanan. An American Dreamer, Gatsby dreams of material wealth and transfers that dream to Daisy, who is as corrupt and empty as the original dream.…

(502). Throughout Wuthnow?s essay, he states that Americans are complaining about working too much and not having enough time to relax; for those reasons, I believe that spare time is a crucial part of my American Dream. Most people who spend a majority of their day working are not truly happy; they wish they had just a little more time to relax and be with their spouses and children. It seems as if now more than ever we have less time to relax: ?Despite the fact that leisure time is less…