...The American Dream, fueled by ambition and hopes of success, can often be exposed as a nightmare in disguise. Set in the roaring twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby demonstrates such a point, criticizing the American Dream as well as the dishonest values of characters attempting to achieve this dream. When Nick Carraway moves to Long Island's West Egg, home to the newly rich, he is not expecting to get dragged into an atmosphere of depravity and deceit. Next door lives the elusive Jay Gatsby, a self-proclaimed Oxford man who throws extravagant parties at his mansion with the sole intention of reuniting with Daisy Buchanan, his lost love and true desire. The American Dream was traditionally the belief that anyone, regardless of background, has the opportunity to be happy and successful through hard work, yet as America evolved, the dream did too. The once virtuous ideal modernized into a plot for materialistic power. By the end of the novel, Fitzgerald is trying to project the idea that the American Dream is not only an unattainable ideal, but in addition, corrupts those who seek to obtain it. Firstly, Gatsby's unrealistic dream of Daisy is used to portray the unattainability of the American Dream. In Gatsby’s mind, Daisy is perfect in every aspect and the object of his greatest desire. He becomes so engrossed with the image of Daisy from his memories, that even she herself cannot fulfill his expectations: "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy...
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... MWF: 7:30-9:30/ TTh 7:30-9:00 Part 1: Analysis Situation: In Banahaw there is a 9 year old boy named Danny Dimatuto, heis being bullied by kids, adults and almost all the people who knows him, because of his appearance and more for his lack of knowledge. For that reason nobody took him seriously except for ben whose son of his mother’s friend. Ben saw how loving and caring Danny Dimatuto in a short time Ben and Danny Dimatuto became friends. They went through difficult times such as Ben being Criticize by others because of him, but their bond is too great to be shattered. Problem: The problem is that Danny Dimatutu stayed who he is he didn’t try to make himself better. The community where he grows criticize, bullied and outcast Danny Dimatuto. Solution: Danny Dimatuto should’ve try harder to improve himself and proved others that he can also be a normal person or even greater. Also the community where he belongs could have helped him bloom into a better person. Message: Don’t be contented of who you are always find a way to be greater every single day. Everyone who wants to do well to the human race always ends up in universal bullying. Even if you are the most uneducated, ugliest, and disgusting person in the universe, there’s always this one person who will accept you completely and will try to understand and help you at your darkest times. Part II: Analysis Relating to SHE: The story of Danny Dimatuto is like Albert Einstein that...
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...Young Goodman Brown Analysis Prompt I The ironically named “Young Goodman Brown” is possibly the most ironic character in the entire parable. His name and “title” give the illusion that he is a good, righteous, and pure member of society who cannot be shaken from his seemingly correct beliefs. In this way, Brown presents himself to his wife and the rest of society. Before leaving for his ominous journey, Brown consoles his wife by saying, “Say thy prayers, dear Faith, and go to bed at dusk, and no harm will come to thee.” (pg 383) The false proscenium Brown has so carefully constructed dictates that he must be strong and unwavering, more concerned for his wife’s well being than his own, which, as we see later, is not the case. When in the...
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...about 1200 words in a period of up to four hours CA task: Explore the ways sympathy and dislike of ‘Curley’s Wife’ is created in ‘Of Mice and Men.’ CA = Week starting 20 October 2014 (All 4 lessons this week) (Possibility of starting one lesson early at the end of week 6). Level or Grade A*-C Differentiate appropriately for the group that you teach and for individuals within that group th Length 7 weeks (To include CA) Learning objectives AO3 (See mark scheme for band descriptors) Interpretations of texts/understanding significant meanings of the text Engagement with writer’s ideas and attitudes Interpretation of ideas supported with evidence Understanding of features of language and structure Learning outcomes Close analysis of text extracts leading to development of reading skills Consideration of context and writer’s intentions/themes and ideas Speaking and Listening to show understanding of issues and empathy with character Writing a draft essay and set targets for the assessment Produce an analytical essay for CA (New Acronym = SMILE (Structure, Meanings, Ideas, Language, Evidence) Prior knowledge (Enter pre-requisite knowledge and skills.) Analytical essay – Year 9 KS3 reading skills National Framework for Secondary English Strands National Framework for Secondary English – Strands 5 Reading for meaning 5.2 Understanding and responding to ideas, views, themes and purposes 6 Understanding the author’s craft 6.1 Relating texts to the social, historical...
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...The American dream is turning into a nightmare, with disheartening levels of inequality, unemployment and homelessness. In this eyewitness report, CommonWealth Magazine visits the US, in what may be its final days at the top. Capitalism is facing unprecedented challenges. Nowhere is this truer than in the United States, where unemployment has reached huge proportions, and across the country some 3 million people — the equivalent of 90 percent of Taipei City residents — are without a home. Support for the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is growing rapidly, as protesters across the United States and around the world make a ruckus about the uneven distribution of wealth and the way the rich use their money to make more money. Target No. 1 in the protests is the epitome of capitalism: the banking industry, and the governments that bailed out the banks with taxpayers' money during the last financial crisis. The protesters began to occupy Zuccotti Park at the end of Wall Street in mid-September. When we visited in October the number of blue tents pitched in the park was still growing. To me the scene looked like a disaster zone. Sitting in front of a glitzy investment bank, a shabbily dressed homeless man held out his hand for a cigarette, while warning with a threatening look in his eyes that he does not want to be photographed. But just around the corner white-collar workers sporting fashionable neckties pay the equivalent of NT$ 1,500 for a sandwich lunch at Trinity Place bar and...
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...Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the most outstanding writers in America. As a member of the “lost generation”, Fitzgerald made the short life of Gatsby epitome of the rise, boom and decline of the “American Dream” in “Jazz Age”. This novel shows us unusually rich literary and aesthetic connotation is has by its unique narrative perspective, the ups and downs of plot, superb accurate language, various rhetorical devices and vivid character images. To some extent, the reason why The Great Gatsby can become a famous classic work is that the author uses extraordinary narrative techniques in it. All the techniques are employed skillfully by Fitzgerald. The study of narrative art in this work has been highlighted in the research area in these years. Zhang Jinfeng(2001) analyzes the role of Nick in the novel from the its structure, themes and other aspects. Cheng Xilin(2009) uses the spatial narrative theory to discussed the space narrative art in The Great Gatsby from three aspects: the geography space, social space and the text space. Xiao Dongbo(2009) starts with the analysis on author and characters and expound the connotation of "American dream" and profoundly reveals the historical process of the formation, development and burst of the "American dream". Shang Guanghui(2011) analyzes The Great Gatsby from the narrators of the role and argues that the communication between the main role narrator and the secondary role narrator reflects all characters of Gatsby from different...
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...beginning of the drama there is conflict and foreshadowing that can be attributed to his own belief that he has failed in life, and that the world did not give him what he deserved. He believes that he has to go outside of the family to find refuge and that is how the story begins and ends. Using Formalistic analysis the essay will focus on the recurring themes in each act and scene of the drama to build to the last scene and the conclusion of the play (Chapter 3, 37).The point of view throughout the play is told through the eyes of Troy Maxon as viewed by the audience. He is the lead in the drama, and all plots revolve around his life and his decisions, some good and others not so good. These recurring themes also give the audience an understanding as to the life of the African American, both male and female, in the mid to late 1950s and early 1960s. Life was improving in the sense of gaining citizenship, but this was also before the civil rights movement and shows that citizenship did not mean acceptance or understanding of the assimilated African American culture, or putting into the open the injustice of the past (Burbank, 118). The second focus of this analysis is the combining of each act and scene through unity, relational issues, and actions that keep the drama moving forward and keeping the audience intrigued as to what is to come in the future of the drama (Chapter 3, 40). Since Wilson loved to use metaphors, the relationship between the metaphors is as important...
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...he appears especially diminutive, ‘like a child’” (Church par. 4). Owen neglects his body throughout the story trying as hard as he can to reject the idea of brute force, and Hawthorne never necessarily praises or denounces him for that letting the reader decide how much of a sacrifice an artist should take and if Owen’s sacrifice was worth his final creation. Even as opposites, Robert visits Owen in the story bringing him an anvil as gift but it distresses Owen so much it causes him to accidently break his Butterfly causing him to go on a hiatus for a period of time, with Hawthorne explaining that “ideas, which grow up within the imagination and appear so lovely to it and of a value beyond whatever men call valuable, are exposed to be shattered and annihilated by contact with the practical.” (Hawthorne 5). The strength and logic of the world hunts down artists as Robert did to Owen, attacking their unique creativity as it must be up...
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...Currently, I am planning to use four meter parabolic dish available in my college for constructing(making) a radio telescope using which I could study radio emissions from sun and 21 cm hydrogen line. As most of my Research projects involved simulations, I have gained a good command in computation and coding. I love doing experiments and analysis of data and that is the major reason why I performed very well in all my laboratory courses. I am a believer of this famous dictum “All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy”. Hence, apart from Astronomy, Physics and electronics, I play badminton and I am a folk dancer. From my school times, I am active debater and involved myself in various literary activities like poetry composition, various oratory competitions like declamation, extempore etc. I am also a member of Renewable energy club and debating society of my college. I love teaching and especially if it contributes to a cause and that’s why I am a part of social organization Nirmaan and currently working in one of their projects where we are providing quality education to poor...
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...Many immigrants come to the United States for a better future for their families and themselves, but not knowing the difficulties they must face crossing the border to get here first. Immigrants know it is not an easy thing to do migrating to the United States because it is not that simple as getting on a plane and heading over here. They must face many challenges and risks crossing the border without getting caught or killed. Once they finally get here (the ones that survive) they realize the danger is not over, but it just beginning. Immigrants that migrate to the United States in pursue of a better life for their families and themselves, but face the first challenge even before crossing the border, which is leaving their families behind. “When men and women immigrate illegally to the United States, they often leave much more than a town and a country. They leave fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters. The children sometimes grow up not knowing their parents — and sometimes never seeing them again. In some cases, they come to resent the parent who isn’t there at Christmas or on their birthday or to tuck them in at night.” (Trevizo) leaving family behind is the most difficult thing for a parent because you do not know if you will die trying to cross the border or how long it will take to be reunited with the ones you love. They have to say goodbye to their love ones like if it is the last time he or she will see them again. Immigrants pay money to be...
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...Yingxi Chen German 380 Dec 5th, 2012 No path to the Lake An analysis of Elisabeth’s alienation in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Three Paths to the Lake Three paths to the Lake is a story by Ingeborg Bachmann published in 1973. In the story, the female protagonist Elisabeth Matreis is a world-renowned photojournalist reaching her fifties. Frustrated after attending her brother Robert's wedding in London, she took a vacation back to her hometown Klagenfurt in South Austria. Elisabeth tried to hike to the lake of her childhood memory through different trails with the help of an outdated map, and she reflected in terms of her past during the trips. In the end, she found out all paths to the lake were destroyed by Germans building Autobahn. The lake she wanted to reach also serves as a metaphor for “Heimat”(home), and salvation of her inner life. There was no path to the lake, so there is no path to Elisabeth's salvation—each of them has been destroyed in their own ways. In this paper, I attempt to analyze Elisabeth’s inner morass and alienation through her geographic and the language deterritorialization associated with Heimatlosigkeit, and substantiate them with the recollections between her and her former lover Franz Joseph Eugen Trotta. In the beginning of the story, Elisabeth was exhausted from the "bad time she'd had" in London (Bachmann 129), desperately seeking an escape back to her childhood home and 1 Yingxi Chen visiting...
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...Immigration and Immigrants A Pathway to Permanency Immigration and Immigrants: A Pathway to Permanency American culture has been shaped by immigrants from all around the world dating back to the founding of this country. Since the beginning, people have migrated to the United States for relief and opportunity. The United States is currently experiencing a new wave of immigration; namely Latinos. Many of whom are migrating to escape the dangers of their homeland. Others are migrating to move beyond the political chaos and economic deprivation of their countries in hopes of having an opportunity at the American Dream and all of its promises. It can be agreed that immigrants come to the United States for the betterment of themselves and their families. However, their dreams are often shattered by the obstacles of gaining residency and citizenship no matter the length of the time they have resided in the United States. While immigrants are the foundation of our nation, immigration regulations were put into place in the 1700’s and has undergone changes throughout the years. Over the past several decades, there has been an emphasis on immigrants’ impact on our economy. In our current state combined with the vast amount of illegal immigrants entering and residing in the United States, immigration and immigrants are significant to America’s success. Our country’s international stature is dependent upon the advancements we make to enhance the lives of our young immigrant population;...
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...Mona Lisa Smile; From a Sociological Perspective A Mike Newell directed inspirational film, falls in place with the setting in the American picture of woman life at a tradition bound all-girl college. Set in the era where women were different than they are today, it explores life through marriage, feminism, and education with the protagonist in a form of a modernist female teacher, seeking to liberalize minds at the significant end of a traditional era. The story began with the introduction of the protagonist, Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a fresh novice professor with a socially progressive mindset hailing from the state of California, who takes up a job in the art history department at what we could call a snobbish girls college; Wellesley in the fall of year 1953. Disregarding warnings from her boyfriend Paul (John Slattery) that this job’s environment was unsuitable for her element of thoughts; Katherine was enthusiastic at the prospect of educating the classrooms to some of the most brilliant and brightest women in her country. Her first impression of Wellesley was however dampened by the first day of class, being humiliated by her smug students who demonstrated their impressive knowledge of the text syllabus in front of her supervisor. Katherine determined to not be shaken by their, and chose to stray from the syllabus to regain the upper hand; an idea which was opposed by the college president. Katherine challenged the girl’s ideas of what constituted...
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...An analysis into the rise of Arab Nationalism following the establishment of the State of Israel post-1948 and its impacts November, 2012 The main catalyst for the rise of Arab nationalism throughout the Arab world stemmed from the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Israel's creation as the result of Zionist Jewish nationalism led to a counter-reaction in the peoples of Arab states - including Palestine - which was focused on removing Zionism from Arab lands and uniting Arabs to defeat Israel with the Palestinian cause being the central call of Arab nationalist intellectuals. By 1919 the Palestinian people had already established their identity as Arab, Palestinian, Syrians during the Paris Peace Conference as part of their process in developing their own nationalism. This longing for a more defined identity had increasingly become a matter of concern for Arab intellectuals especially after a growing Jewish community in Palestine and an absence of one formal representative of the people. Such occurrences led to a reaction and a will to reunite and regain the people’s dignity through the idea of Arab Nationalism. Examples of notable early nationalist thinkers include Sate’ al Husari, Michel Aflaq who were greatly influenced by prominent 19th century European thinkers. One of the earliest forms of Arab Nationalism was embodied in the Syrian Socialist National Party that was founded in 1932 by Antoun Saadeh, which started off by fighting French colonialism from...
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...Opportunities for Action in Consumer Markets Trading Up: The New Luxury and Why We Need It Trading Up: The New Luxury and Why We Need It In the history of man, there have always been goods reserved for the upper classes. In ancient Rome, the elite built lavish marble baths for entertaining friends and allies, while the masses waited in line at public baths. In late-eighteenth-century France, the aristocracy turned to saddle maker Hermès for the perfect seat, while commoners had to walk through wet and muddy streets. But today we are witnessing a different phenomenon: the democratization of luxury. We define it as middlemarket consumers selectively trading up to higher levels of quality, taste, and aspiration. The democratization of luxury is occurring across a surprisingly broad set of categories, and it is destabilizing competition, creating new winners and losers, and offering new rules for brand strategy. Already, this force has transformed a score of markets. (See Exhibit 1.) Many more categories are ripe for the taking. The question for established marketers is, Who will be first to bring the new luxury to my category? To understand this movement, you must first appreciate the differences between the new luxury and the old, as well as the powerful emotional and economic forces behind consumers’ propensity to trade up and seek quality. It’s Not Your Father’s Luxury Old luxury is expensive. Only the really rich—a small segment, typically over 50 and conservative—can...
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