...The life of the American Expatriates in Paris in the 1920’s according to Hemingway’s Memoir “A Moveable Feast” “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast,”- with these words Hemingway starts his memoir. The writer himself was “lucky enough” to spend seven years of his youth in the European center of culture and entertainment of the Jazz Age. Throughout the literary works of Hemingway it can be observed that Paris had a special place in his heart. He adopts Paris as a setting not only in “A Moveable Feast” but also in “The Sun Also Rises” and “Midnight in Paris.” But what makes “A Moveable Feast” stand out from many other works written by Hemingway is that it is a memoir, thus, the characters are real people and the events are actual as well. However, “various critics have pointed out that “A Moveable Feast” contains serious factual errors." Though, the most of the factual errors are about the workplaces of the characters, for instance the one of Walsh, and do not significantly influence the understanding of life flows of the memoir’s main characters. Hemingway along with other expatriates viewed Paris as a place where he could find a market for his literary works. “Many Americans who settled in Paris [believed] their native land was a cultural sink.” Those who caught the drama of the World War I and the time of...
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...1. List and briefly describe the advantages and disadvantages inherent to the food truck business model and as compared to traditional restaurants. Food trucks have exploded into mainstream American cuisine. Once thought of as a cheap meal available at odd times of the night, street food has become a vehicle for chefs on the rise to make their mark on the food industry. Operating a food truck may seem like an easy task, but it can turn out to be a tremendous undertaking and risky financial venture. Operators must be prepared to lose money, to manage fixed costs, and to do constant forecasting in order to determine how much food to prepare. The advantages and disadvantages are numerous, but we will proceed to name a few. Food trucks carry the explicit advantage of lower investment and operational costs, thereby reducing overhead and other related costs. Instead of renting or purchasing a building, a potential operator could purchase a truck, register it appropriately, and have it outfitted to cater to a mobile kitchen. The immediate out-of-pocket costs involve: purchasing the vehicle with cash or using a loan, which creditworthy buyers can secure at a rate comparable to that of a traditional mortgage, vehicle registration costs in the state of operation, and a CDL or required driver’s license for operating the vehicle. A food truck operator is also able to avoid payroll taxes since he or she is not drawing a salary from the business. According to Legion Food Trucks Inc.,...
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...Ernest Hemingway: A Concise Biography 1996 born 1899 Oak Park, Illinois, a wealthy suburb of Chicago died 1961 Ketchum, Idaho (61 years) A. Residences Lived in Illinois, Kansas City, New York, Italy, Paris, Canada, Austria, Spain, China, Key West, Africa, Cuba, Idaho B. Major Works The Torrents of Spring 1926 In Our Time – collection of related stories 1925 The Sun Also Rises 1925 A Farewell to Arms 1928 Winner Take Nothing 1933 “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” The Snows of Kilimanjaro 1935 To Have and to Have Not 1937 The Green Hills of Africa 1938 “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber” For whom the Bell Tolls 1940 The Old Man and the Sea 1952 awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 A Moveable Feast 1964 posthumous C. Themes – driven by action expressed through minimalism and realism Fighting against the odds or against difficult forces Struggling against mighty forces Surviving among other humans Competing with other men Falling in love D. Style of Writing Minimalism – clear, terse prose often driven by action, only a sketch presents the story using dialog to furnish characterization and motive readers must fill in the bare essentials by analyzing the setting, characters, and sequence of events as well as the symbols E. Friends and Expatriate Americans who moved to the French Riviera - the “Lost Generation” Sherwood Anderson ...
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...However, the Eastern Orthodox countries that accepted the Revised Julian calendar, accepted only the part of the calendar which included fixed dates and celebrations but chose to not accept the movable feasts such as Easter. In today’s society there are a few institutions and individuals that have proposed the idea to fix the date of Easter and eliminate the need for calculations of the moveable feast (Hillerbrand). According to the Hansard Reports from the United Kingdom Parliament, there was an Easter Act of 1928 that was proposed to fix the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April. The Easter Act still remains on the Statute book of the Parliament and has yet to be implemented but it would also need the approval by the Christian Church...
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...Elizabeth but his travels lead to affairs, which lead to more wives, and more to cope with. Writing was his ‘way out’ so to speak, the only way he could deal. Though he wasn’t yet known by many, or what one would say all that successful, he continued his pursuit of writing; soon luck would find him. While on a trip to Paris, in 1925, he found himself at the Dingo where he met F. Scott Fitzgerald who had just published his newest novel The Great Gatsby, and was now interrogating Ernest about his sex life and whether or not he and his most recent wife ‘saved it for marriage’. Obviously uncomfortable, but impressed by such conversation, Hemingway answered and gave Fitzgerald advice on ‘love’ and wrote a chapter about it in his writing The Moveable Feast. He opens the chapter with the following passage "His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and their construction and he learned to think and could not fly anymore because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless."Assumed to have taken note of...
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...years. * Unable to pass the physical examination due to poor vision, Hemingway could not join the United States Army as his father had hoped. Instead, he chose the Red Cross Ambulance Corps and served on the Italian front. One of his first short stories entitled, A Natural History of the Dead was written after witnessing the brutalities of war. After a war injury, a romantic relationship with one of his nurses spurred the writing of A Farewell to Arms and A Very Short Story. * After the war, Hemingway returned to newspaper work with the Toronto Star. In 1921, he married his first wife and they eventually moved to Paris and then to Canada. During this time period, Hemingway wrote some of his greats such as The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast, and In Our Time. * In 1927 Hemingway divorced Hadley Richardson and married Pauline Pfeiffer. * The rest of his life contained triumphs such as For Whom the Bell Tolls, the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, as well as extreme tragedies in his personal life. Later it was proven that Ernest Hemingway suffered from severe bouts of depression, alcoholism, and manic depressive episodes due to a hereditary disease known as bronze diabetes, in which excessive iron levels concentrate in the blood causing damage to the pancreas as...
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...Leaving on time is not an option when in mid treatment of a sick animal and breaks and lunchtimes become moveable feasts. Some days are routine, blood tests, health checks, vaccinations, castrates and spays, all of which I saw in work experience. Situations can quickly change, like when a puppy with Parvovirus was admitted. Barrier nursing procedures were put in place and distressed owners calmly reassured. Sadly the animal died, but work carried on. In another practice on a quiet day, a dog attacked by another was rushed in as an emergency. In spite of the team’s hard work, the dog did not survive. Being a RVN is as much about caring for people as for the animals in these situations. Owners need calm support and comfort when difficult decisions have to be...
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...Festivals were important to people in the Middle Ages because it balanced out from all of their work and stress. It gave them a time to have fun and enjoy life. Many of the festivals related to religion and nature to reminded everyone to be thankful. There were festivals celebrated for every month of the year because of religious purposes. Everyone of all social classes were involved in the celebrations. At these functions they would socialize, sell their goods, and eat foods made by traveling cooks. What individuals did at these gatherings was based on their social class. In medieval times, the main source of entertainment for the people of a variety of festivals, they will attend. In these functions, they will socialize, sell their products, and most importantly, by eating foods made traveling chef. Good food and drink is the key to successful festival. There is always a variety of food and drinks, but sometimes it depends on a person status in the social hierarchy, they are allowed to consume. Medieval castle society like a trapezoid, the most important position in the top rung of the ladder, and in the bottom of the least important. It is important to know what foods to eat different categories are allowed, because it also affects what is available so that they have at the festival. Each festival is different, what categories of individuals belonging to what happened there is really dependent. For those living...
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...I’m in Cebu as I write is, attending the second edition of Taboan, the Philippine International Writers Festival which was first held in Manila at about this same time last year, February being National Arts Month. Taboan will be making the rounds of the regions from year to year before returning to Manila, so this moveable feast (poet and NCCA commissioner Ricky de Ungria beat me to the metaphor) will see many places yet. The Arts Council of Cebu under the very gracious festival director Mayen Tan and presidenta Petite Garcia is in charge of Taboan ’10, a project of the Committee on Literary Arts of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). The festival got off to a lively start with a keynote speech by Cebu’s own Dr. Resil Mojares — a formidable, internationally recognized scholar of Philippine literature, history, and society — who chose a deliberately provocative subject and title for his talk: “Will Magdalena Jalandoni Ever Be a National Artist?” For those who don’t know Jalandoni (and — perhaps to prove Resil’s point — 99.99 percent of us don’t), the Iloilo-born Jalandoni (1891-1978) was a prolific writer in Hiligaynon of fiction, poems, and plays, her novels alone totaling an astounding 36. Resil made it clear that he wasn’t making a brief for Jalandoni’s selection as a National Artist; with typical scholarly modesty, he said that he simply didn’t know her work well enough to make that judgment. Rather, he was using Jalandoni’s case to...
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...Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution. During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat. Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and...
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...Research Paper: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald [pic] Lovely Louis and Abigail Saint – Juste English 1 Ms. M. Jeanty November 26, 2007 In the early jazzy years, there was a small restaurant where people were dancing to a new jazz number. They were laughing, eating, chatting, and enjoying themselves. In the mist of all the laughter, there sat a man in a dark corner writing vigorously. His name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was an American author of novels and many short stories. He was also recognized as one of the greatest authors in the twentieth century. Fitzgerald’s Early Years Francis Scott K. Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. He was named after his famous distant cousin Francis Scott Key, who was the author of the National Anthem. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, and his mother were both Catholic and of Irish descent. However they both came from different societies. Fitzgerald’s mother came from a background where money was everything, such as: position and stability. And his father came from a background where discipline was the most importance. As a result all the attitudes and manners that were established in Fitzgerald’s character came from his father and all the concerns of stability in the society came from his mother. Between the years of 1898-1901 and 1903- 1908 he lived in Buffalo, New York. And this is when he attended Nardin Academy. However when his father was fired from his job, his family...
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...Week 2 Reading summaries Claude Fischler “Food, Self and Identity” (1988) * Food goes deeper than being a source of nutrition, it is central to our individual identity given that we are constructed, biologically, psychologically and socially by the food we choose to incorporate into our lives. * Omnivore’s paradox: One of the fundamental components of our identity as omnivores is that we have the autonomy, freedom and adaptability to consume a wide range of food. However this liberty also implies dependence and constraint. Omnivores cannot obtain all the nutrients it needs from one food alone and omnivores must also avoid harmful foods. * The principle of incorporation dictates that food and cuisine are a central component of the sense of collective belonging. * Disgust is a socially constructed biological safeguard. The psychology of eating behavior reveals that children have the tendency to accept only a limited range of food they are familiar with. This gives us insight into our natural instinct as humans to put new exotic foods through thorough examination before we consume it. * Because of how complex identifying a food can be based on its cultural origins, the culinary system provides a pre-fabricated matrix where one can identify a food by understanding its place in the world. * In today’s society as food is becoming more processed and integrated through globalization our cultural and physiological identity through food is becoming...
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...AS/A2 English Literature B Student Guide A-LEVEL STUDENT HANDBOOK CONTENTS PAGE | | | |What we Expect of A-Level Students |3 | |Overview of the AS and A2 Course |4 | |Assessment Objectives |5 | |AS Marking Criteria |6 | |A2 Marking Criteria |7 | |Selecting and Studying Texts |8 | |Approaching Essays – coursework |9 | |Punctuation Guide |11 | |Glossary of Literary Terms |12 | |Reading List ...
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...With The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald made a conscious departure from the writing process of his previous novels. He started planning it in June 1922,[citation needed] after completing his play The Vegetable and began composing The Great Gatsby in 1923.[2] He ended up discarding most of it as a false start, some of which resurfaced in the story "Absolution".[3] Unlike his previous works, Fitzgerald intended to edit and reshape Gatsby thoroughly, believing that it held the potential to launch him toward literary acclaim. He told his editor Maxwell Perkins that the novel was a "consciously artistic achievement" and a "purely creative work — not trashy imaginings as in my stories but the sustained imagination of a sincere and yet radiant world". He added later, during editing, that he felt "an enormous power in me now, more than I've ever had".[4] Oheka Castle on the Gold Coast of Long Island was a partial inspiration for Gatsby's estate.[5] After the birth of their child, the Fitzgeralds moved to Great Neck, Long Island in October 1922, a setting used as the scene for The Great Gatsby.[6] Fitzgerald's neighbors in Great Neck included such prominent and newly wealthy New Yorkers as writer Ring Lardner, actor Lew Fields and comedian Ed Wynn.[3] These figures were all considered to be 'new money', unlike those who came from Manhasset Neck or Cow Neck Peninsula, places which were home to many of New York's wealthiest established families, and which sat across a bay from Great Neck...
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...translate and publish the Bible in the commonly-spoken dialect of the German people. Luther's hymns sparked the development of congregational singing in Christianity. His marriage, on June 13, 1525, to Katharina von Bora, a former nun, began the tradition of clerical marriage within several Christian traditions. Martin Luther was one of the most influential and compelling figures of Church history. Some of the most fundamental tenets of the Catholic Church were called into question by Luther, and lead to the greatest religious revolt in Church history, now known as the Protestant Reformation. Who Was Martin Luther? Martin Luther was born to Hans and Margaretta Luther on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben, Germany. He was baptized on the feast day of St. Martin of Tours, for whom he was named. Martin’s childhood was one of abuse and uncompromising cruelty, “His father once beat him so mercilessly that he ran away from home …His mother, "on account of an insignificant nut, beat me till the blood flowed, and it was this harshness and severity of the life I led with them that forced me subsequently to run away to a monastery and become a monk." His father owned and worked a copper mine in the nearby town of Mansfeld. Having come from peasantry, his father was determined to see his son rise up to civil service and bring honor to the family. To achieve this goal, Hans sent Martin Luther to schools in Mansfeld, Magdeburg, and Eisenach. In 1501, when he was seventeen years old,...
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