...Gatsby’s Ruined Future Gatsby’s Lost Dream "The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement."(Adams 1931). In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald criticizes the American Dream. In The Great Gatsby, a lonely man named Gatsby started out with no money, but he did a series of illegal acts in order to achieve his success. Despite his success, he was still unhappy because he had no one to love. In the end, Gatsby’s ultimate dream was to marry a beautiful and rich women, and acquire the American dream, which is to be rich and have power or importance. However the American dream forced Gatsby to seek materialistic...
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...time when we start to dream. We take other paths, there again, it helps us straighten the walls we build. There comes a time where you must choose, Continue or just give up. Many continue, others invent a better life and others leave, they plunge into alcohol, drugs, and eventually find themselves stuck in a worse position. Some of them manage to escape, others get stuck and end up buried alive. The world lives with Hope, dreams and goals. When Hope goes, happiness goes too. As a result, when you stop dreaming, you stop living… Dreams give a certain hope, courage that luck is out there and not everything is black and white. The concept of a dream refers more broadly to the idea of an "imaginary production" or "ideal", which gives us reasons to live and gives us goals and objectives . For example, an athlete could dream of winning a medal in the Olympics. This dreams gives him desire and courage to excel and to he will do every single thing possible to achieve it . In result , he will have a purpose in life. He will Chase after something he really wants. A dream is a world where anything is possible. It’s a world that restores hope when you have lost everything, a world that gives you another chance to be happy and move on, do what you want and to illuminate your life. A world that allows you to believe, to love, even when you do not feel it anymore. When you wake up in the morning, after a wonderful dream, you think "Oh it was just a dream ..." and so you need...
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...LOVE... LOVE… I LOVE THE CONCEPT OF LOVE TO BE IN LOVE TO FEEL LOVE BUT I HAVE ABUSED THE WORD OF LOVE USED THE ONE WHO LOVED I LOVE THE FEELING OF LOVE THE DEPTH OF LOVE BUT I HAVE RUINED THE EMOTION OF LOVE THE SENSITIVITY OF LOVE I LOVE TO BE TOUCHED BY LOVE MADE BY LOVE MAKE LOVE BUT I HAVE MISTREATED THE CARESS FROM LOVE THE KISS OF LOVE I LOVE TO LOVED BY LOVE BOUND BY LOVE BUT I HAVE LOST THAT LOVE I BROKE MY LOVE AND NEGLECTED OUR LOVE I LOVE TO PICTURE LOVE PAINT LOVE BUT I HAVE DRIED LOVE STOLEN LOVE I LOVE TO WALK WITH LOVE TALK TO ME LOVE SAY IT AGAIN LOVE OVER AND OVER…LOVE BUT I HAVE RAN FROM LOVE MUTED THE WORD LOVE AGAIN AND AGAIN…LOVE I LOVE TO LOVE YOU STILL LOVE FEEL LOVE HEAR LOVE SPEAK LOVE LOVE ME LOVE LOVE MY KIND OF LOVE LOVE THIS LOVE LOVE…LOVE…LOVE... I AM LOVE… music Music Music is what makes you move Music is what makes you groove Music can be good or bad depending on how its used Music can make you choose different clothes to wear Music can make you change your hair Music can make you choose new friends Music can make you want to dance Music can make you fight Music can make everything alright Music can take care of you when your alone Music can make everything feel like home Music can harm and take away Music can make you want to stay Music is the only friend I have Music is my mom and dad Music is what keeps me alive When I feel like I can't survive Music ...
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...Throughout history, countless Americans have pursued the American Dream in order to create better lives for themselves. The freedom of the American Dream, with no limitations on who can achieve it, has often lured numerous people. However, many have ulterior motives behind the dream that go beyond simply obtaining better lives. The character of Jay Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is one of these people. Throughout the novel, Gatsby represents the American Dream through both his wealth and his lavish lifestyle to once again win the love of Daisy Buchanan. Besides the fictional Gatsby, millions of others throughout history have also found the American Dream to be quite attainable. The idea of the Dream is and always has been...
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...4/16/14 Dare to Dream Andersen’s stories are unique in the way their magic and honest messages shine through. Using words, Andersen paints pictures of the places he traveled and the scenes he witnessed. He is an artist in his own right, and his respect for other artists and the way they transform life and pain into something that can last ages is seen through his stories “‘Lovely’” and “Psyche.” Using his characters’ relationships with art in both stories, Andersen conveys that only the people who dare to dream can achieve immortality. From the beginning, the innocence of Andersen’s characters is what allows them to find inspiration in the world around them. The sculptor from “Psyche,” a perfectionist who is constantly destroying his art, “‘could laugh and walk as wittily as any of his friends. But when he stood in front of one of Raphael’s paintings, it seemed as if he caught a glimpse of God” (786). This sculptor, who has all the qualities of a normal man and experienced much of life, is still awestruck by Raphael’s paintings because his contact with reality has not erased his response to beauty. He will not be satisfied with his own art until it is perfect. To the sculptor, Raphael’s painting captures the spirit of God, and the sculptor’s ability to interpret that through a canvas shows his faith that a world exists beyond his. After he meets his Psyche, he sculpts a figure that “reflect[s] the innocence of the young artist,” indicating the idealistic dreams of a young man...
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...plot. The main character Nick Carraway, is from the west and moves to the overpopulated city of New York. He settles in the “West Egg” of Long Island and meets his mysterious neighbor who goes by the name of Jay Gatsby. Nick visits his cousin Daisy, who lives in the “East Egg” and soon becomes somewhat engaged within the fast, upbeat, party life. (Fitzgerald) Although he is not fully involved, he disentangles himself from the whole scene near the ending due to his observant behavior and disgusted attitude towards the whole outlook. However, his attraction towards Gatsby is a main focus. Readers are captivated by Gatsby’s admirable perseverance and determination in working towards achieving his goal of winning Daisy’s heart and beyond that, the American dream, yet his greatness predicts his downfall. Gatsby’s desire of becoming wealthy and dedication to this goal reflects how admirable he is because created himself out of nothing; he “sprang from his Platonic conception of himself; he was a son of God-.” (Fitzgerald, 104) He “reinvented” himself, using his imagination and being “faithful to the end” until he was the prosperous man he wanted to become. But this accomplished goal of becoming wealthy was only a small step towards his bigger goal; being with Daisy. Money was only a factor that connected Gatsby to Daisy; if Gatsby was wealthy then surely Daisy would be with him in a heartbeat. (Ronald) This was Gatsby’s mentality; that Daisy would leave her husband for him,...
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...Throughout history, love has contributed happiness, passion and even reasons for living in humanity. Though love provides many great things and still does to this day, it has also caused obsession, depravity and destruction. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, shows that love can be an awful influence on a person. Through the novel the main character Jay Gatsby was born into a dirt-poor farming family. And since his birth Gatsby felt the he was, “A son of God”(p.6.6-7). This ambitious feeling Gatsby was born with ultimately leads him to doing anything and everything to get what he wants. And when Gatsby falls in love with a girl named Daisy, who tells Gatsby that he cannot be with her unless he becomes rich, leads him to ordain a life of wealth. As Gatsby pursues his life of wealth, Daisy marries a rich man named Tom Buchanan. Gatsby dream of winning Daisy’s love becomes less realistic. But nevertheless Gatsby does everything he can to...
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...go, what I'm going to do, who I 'm going to approach in class, who I 'll avoid as friends, who I think will always appreciate me for who I am etc. Loving me for me as I show a hundred percent more of compassion, compendious, compatible love, trust, support and understanding as to me being the perfect friend shows you care a-lot more. Most time in my life, damaging, not giving happiness, destroying not building confidence. The life destroyer, darkens my future temptation of Satan's device, leaving trail of bribes of my human vice. Joy without suffering, life worth living are my goals as I be strong fighting those who try to irritate me and tell me that life and planning for the future is beyond my control. But I negligence believe that if you work hard on whatever it is you really want or think is right for you in life will come true. Achieving your life goals and truly believing in yourself that you can be or do whatever makes you be you knowing that no one is perfect yet guilty in the court of GOD, but if being axiom in ourselves averaging Right from Wrong in our daily life only a fool would say "Planning for the future is a waste of time; Too much of our future is beyond our control." Tomorrow is promised to no one but making your dream come true living life everyday as if it's your last is the same as saying, plan your future and make it happen knowing for fact that you have enjoyed or did one thing you've planned never regretting anything that once made you smiled. But...
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...they confront the Attention Economy CHAPTER 3: EMOTIONAL RESCUE 37 Why I believe emotional connections can transform brands. If you spend your days reviewing data, read every word of this chapter. Twice. INSIGHTS: Maurice Lévy, Publicis Groupe CHAPTER 4: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE 49 Taking brands to the next level depends on one four-letter word: L-O-V-E. INSIGHTS: Sean Fitzpatrick, sportsman; Tim Sanders, Yahoo! CHAPTER 5: GIMME SOME RESPECT 59 Love will change the way we do business, but only if it is built on Respect. No Respect, no Love. Simple. Let’s celebrate what Respect has achieved CHAPTER 6: LOVE IS IN THE AIR 65 Okay, so how do you create Loyalty Beyond Reason? INSIGHTS: Alan Webber, Fast Company magazine CHAPTER 7: BEAUTIFUL OBSESSION 73 So what are Lovemarks? They inspire Loyalty Beyond Reason through their obsession with Mystery, Sensuality, and Intimacy. Here are our first ideas about putting them into action. INSIGHTS: Jim Stengel, Procter & Gamble CHAPTER 8: ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Understand how Mystery can transform relationships with consumers. Great stories; mythic characters; the past, present, and future together; dreams and inspiration. Be inspired by the ideas and actions of great Mystery makers. INSIGHTS: Dan Storper, Putumayo World Music; Cecilia Dean, Visionaire magazine; Maurice Lévy, Publicis Groupe; Sean Landers,...
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...Killers of the Dream, written in 1949 by Lillian Smith, is a book that states the historical, personal, psychological, political and economic reasons which led to the segregation of the South. The book starts off with the author remembering a childhood incident with her parents that made her wonder about the hypocrisy she has been raised by in the Southern way of life. The incident is that of her mother’s friends finding a white girl at the black part of town. They believed that the girl was kidnapped and ends up living at the Smith’s house for a few weeks. The author quickly becomes friends with this girl-Janie, until her mother tells Lillian that Janie is in fact a black girl and cannot live in their home anymore. Moreover, her mother informs Lillian that she is too young to understand why, and she should not ever ask about this subject again. Hence Lillian now had to explain to Janie that colored children should not live with white children. Both children are left wondering and confused. After recollecting memories from her own Southern childhood, Lillian Smith looks closely into the region’s image of childhood. She talks about the parents’ mentality towards their children and how they are raised. Those parents enforce their children into believing that sexual desires, and all the parts of their bodies that cause these sexual desires, are shameful and should be feared; including their fear for black people. Moreover, to stimulate these fears, the parents introduce the...
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...the horizon symbolizes the hope that Janie has for her future every time that she moves on in her life and the dreams of equality and love she hopes to one day experience. Present throughout the entire book, the horizon manifests itself as Janie’s dreams for a better life. She travels along in the horizon in her marriages, always searching for her own ideal life. In her mind and adventures, the horizon gives her hope that a better life will be there for her allowing her to move on and grow as a person. The beginning of the book states that “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board… For others they sail forever on the horizon.” (Hurston 1)These first parts of the book foreshadow Janie’s own personality and what she is going to do in the near future. This quote is Janie stating that all men have dreams and intentions, just like Janie, but even though they have an advantage over women they do not pursue their own dreams and so their intentions slip away. Janie is different,...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald was a sophomore at Princeton University when he met Ginevra King in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was visiting a friend from boarding school when they met at the Town and Country Club dance. Fitzgerald fell in love immediately and became infatuated with her. They corresponded with each other for two years, but Ginevra never took Fitzgerald seriously. Fitzgerald inevitably ended up losing her because of his lack of money. Not long after their break, Ginevra sent Fitzgerald a letter announcing her engagement to William Mitchell, a man of wealth. Fitzgerald came away from Ginevra with a sense of convivial inadequacy and longing for a girl beyond procurement. F. Scott Fitzgerald used Ginevra, his dream girl and lost love, as inspiration...
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...In the Great Gatsby, the American Dream is supposed to stand for independence and the ability to make something of one selves with hard work but, it ends up being more about materialism and shellfish pursuit of pleasure. In modern times, people still conform to and rebel against societal expectations. In ‘’The Book Thief’’, the younger generation brings hope for a better future by rebelling against the Nazi. In the Political Cartoon, women rebel against society’s expectations on how they were forced to live their life. When the American dream was pure, motivation and ambition were some key aspects of the pure American dream, ‘’He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way…and distinguished nothing except a single green light’’. It shows how Gatsby was striving for his goal and trying to accomplish it. When the dream was pure, motivation and self- discipline were present....
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...book, chase after your original dreams. Gatsby’s new shirts are representing what Daisy could have had if she would have waited for Gatsby, her original desire. The Great Gatsby shows Gatsby's great plan and how he has always had a bigger idea of everything to all come together to achieve his one huge dream, Daisy. Also the green light is the symbol itself of the dream that Gatsby had of Daisy and that if you try hard enough and reach far enough you can achieve your dream. Daisy has always had a dream of being with Gatsby and an important symbol that shows this was Gatsby’s new shirts that he has. In the book Gatsby takes all of his...
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...To discuss “Good Will Hunting” and the American Dream, we can find three main characters on the movie: Will, Sean, and Lambeau. A janitor at MIT, Will Hunting has a gift for mathematics and chemistry beyond his blue-collar roots, but he struggles to find his identity, living in the world. A math professor, Gerald Lambeau, discovers Will's talent and helps him out of trouble with the law. Sean Maguire, Lambeau’s former roommate at MIT, later comes in as a therapist to Will. He is the only one who can really stand up to Will's intelligence and manages to break the layer of Will’s distrust which he has developed over years of solitude. In addition, they Sean and Will develop a bond beyond friendship. Sean makes Will pursue love in his life by traveling out to California to be with Skylar. Will finally learn how living in the world with liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Sean and Lambeau with different world view decide to help Will. Lambeau engrossed on his Fields Medal which he won, and he absorbed his lucrative teaching position at the top technical college in the world. On the other hand, Sean highlights the happiness. He is teaching psychology, and he is sharing his experiences with college students. This contrasting views illustrate the American Dream from their own past experiences. Specifically, in the scene where Lambeau stands across from Sean at Sean's Office. Lambeau cares his professional reputation, he argues that “[Will] has a gift and with that gift comes ...
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