Yacht

Fear: Being hunted by another human. After falling off a yacht into the ocean and ending up stranded on an island with a human hunter, Rainsford has to try and survive three days while being chased down by an evil murderer called General Zaroff. After hunting all his life, Rainsford won’t ever hunt again because of his emotional and physical experience’s on Ship-Trap Island. If Rainsford stays on Ship-Trap Island, he will not have to search for food or find shelter. Rainsford knows there is food…

of her and her money but she decided not to listen. Maddie believed the world was a good place, she didn’t want to believe what they told her and decided to do thing for herself and make everyone her friend. When Maddie wanted to throw a party on a yacht, she decided she needs music. “How much do you normally make when you play,” She asked. “A thousand dollars,”They replied. “Really? That much?” “Yep.” “Okay, then that's what i’ll pay you,” (West 155). When the band she found told her the price…

SYNTHESIZING HAPPINESS Defining happiness may seem as elusive as achieving it. We all want to be happy, and we can say whether we are happy or not, but can we honestly define it, study it or measure it? Some people say happiness is leading good life, freedom from suffering, flourishing, well-being, joy, prosperity, and pleasure; but it can’t be well defined without looking at three major constituents of happiness. Seligman and his co-authors say that happiness consists of “pleasure (or positive…

American Dream. In chapter six of The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway describes Cody as a drunk, and, inferably, a frequenter of parties. It could be reasoned that it was at one of these parties where the reporter Ella Kaye “came on board [Cody’s yacht] one night . . . and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died” (Fitzgerald 106). Cody’s twisted version of the American Dream was undeniably fulfilled, and yet he wanted more. Instead of being content with his more-than-meager lifestyle, Cody…

The American Dream, coined by James Truslow Adams, comes from the ideal that all Americans should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. After World War I, America became consumed by material excess and a desire for money, and by the 1920’s, people no longer had to work diligently for their money, because of the rise of the stock market and the bootlegging industry. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), set in…

Dr. Mason’s dignity and willingness to forge head on in the face of racism and discrimination while the blatant evidence of these heinous insults was on full display. In 1959, at the Coast Counties Medical Society meeting at the Biloxi Yacht Club, Dr. Mason awaited the scientific session to begin, the executive committee informed him the speaker, the Republican candidate for governor, Rubel Phillips would not speak to an integrated audience. (Mason 40) Dr. Mason protested to no avail,…

His real name was James Gatz. But he had a dream and ambitions of breaking free from the place he was born into. He created a new name for himself that reflected his true self identity. When a rich man Mr. Dan Cody on the yacht stopped at the bay, James warned him of the upcoming wind that would break soon. Mr. Dan Cody saw this young ambitious boy and asked his name and that’s how Jay Gatsby was born. A few years later, Gatsby appears as a very rich and lavish man who is having parties’ every…

When Anand Patwardhan, popularly known for his socio-economic and human rights oriented films like Bombay Our City (1985), entered the realm of documentary filmmaking in 1971, he challenged the institutions dominating Indian documentary film production, distribution and censorship. Whereas when Paromita Vohra, acclaimed for her documentaries on urban life, popular culture and gender like Morality TV and Loving Jihad (2007), entered much later, in 1995 she had to deal with a completely different…

name, which allows him to become someone he isn’t. Nick, the narrator, relates how Gatsby transforms himself, “He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career - when he saw Dan Cody’s yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior” (98). Because he believed he could become among the elite, Gatsby changes his identity. Around the same time, Gatsby meets a millionaire, Dan Cody, who eventually becomes a living…

Have you ever thought about a place where everyone is the same? Perhaps a world where people have the same beliefs and values. A world with the same culture. Would it be uninteresting and lifeless? Would it be better than what exists today? In the essays, “America: The Multinational Society” by Ishmael Reed and “Wrong Ism” by J.B. Priestley, the two discuss their beliefs of humankind moving towards a world culture. Authors Reed and Priestley both portray a growing world culture as the joining…