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Nick Carraway, the American Dream, and The Great Gatsby

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

International Business Practices and Cultural Factors

and that other factors precipitate the differences. In this paper, well provide a literature review that discusses this in...

Citigroup and Return on Equity

Citigroup has been creative - legally - in finding benefit in potentially draining situations. An example lies with its IPO of Tr...

Dentistry and Digital X Rays

Like any new technology, there are certain considerations which must be made in regard to digital imaging in radiology. Not the l...

'Great' Leaders Are No Longer Produced in the Contemporary Political System

something is broken. Yet, the author makes the following admission: "But greatness, of course, is an exceptional phenomenon; even ...

Royal Prerogative and the Unwritten Constitution

Hallam (1992) however, points out that citizens of the U.K.: "cannot fairly consider as part of our ancient constitution w...

Oedipus Rex, The Iliad and The Odyssey and how these works relate to Gender

Oedipus. He learned that his predecessor and his wifes late husband, King Laius, had been murdered, Oedipus contends that it shou...

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway on the American Dream

done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...

Baseball Being Ruined by Steroids

national pastime" (Small, 2005, 6). National pastime or not, however, baseball is no less susceptible...

'Embeddedness' in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation

society as an adjunct to the market. Instead of economy being embedded in social relations, social relations are embedded in the e...

The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi and Market Pattern Evolution

trade, external, internal and local. The nature of external and local trade is basically non competitive, as it generally encompas...

Four Types of Social Provisioning in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation

1944). During communal activity, such as feasts, dances and other occasions, the chief distributes gifts to all and the "overwhelm...

2 Questions on Great Literature and Its Practical Applications

guiding light for Gilgamesh. It is also important to note that Gilgamesh himself seeks immortality as this is important to the sto...

Francis Parkman's La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West

which Parkman immediately begins to idealize La Salles character. For example, Parkman states that La Salle, as a youth, was attra...

Five Centuries Leading Up to the Second World War

in Europe there was a great civilization and a great deal of conflict in relationship to property, economics, politics, and religi...

Mandate Period and Middle East Interests of the British and French

Lebanon we can appreciate the conflict. In 1920 the San Remo Conference saw a total collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The oi...

Correctional Institutiones go Hi-Tech

RAND corporation (Bulman, 2009). It will be an empirical study that will reveal before and after incidents of violence. Prisons h...

Egyptian State of Economic Affairs

which Egypt is most dependent for its revenue. Of these three, 32 percent of the labor force is in agriculture, 17 percent is in i...

"The Great Gatsby" and Existential Values

moralism in the United States, and struggling to find worth in either of them. For this "Lost Generation", as they are commonly ca...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

American Literature and Major Common Themes

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

Various Quotations and their Meaning

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

Developments in Negotiation Theory

is given but literature between 2007 and 2011 will be the focus. The evolution of negotiation theory has passed through several t...

Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

and achieve the goal of freedom. After Legree learns that Tom encouraged two of his slaves, Cassy and Emmeline to escape, he vows ...

"The Great Gatsby" and the Pursuit of Hollow Dreams

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

FACEBOOK'S REBUILDING FROM FAILURE

is working toward raising $5 billion through its IPO, and valuation of the company is anticipated to be in the area of $75 billion...

Teaching Children the Great Commission

faith development. Stage 2 is related to children from three/four to seven/eight when they experience intuitive-projective faith. ...

The Mona Lisa

to be the quintessential example of a Renaissance man, as his talents encompassed a breadth of subjects, from art and sculpture to...

Rome Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Mankinds history and prehistory is replete with the invention of extremely diverse tools, devices, and other aspects of the variou...

Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights, Role of Education

This essay is on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The writer looks at the role of educ...