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2000 he made some strong deals such as purchasing Ben & Jerrys, Slim-Fast Foods and Best Foods (Mullin, 2001). The deals that Fitz...

Ruskin argued vehemently against the issue of slavery. Basically, he reasoned that men and women are no different from one anothe...

assignments behind them, these gatherings serve to share information of course, but they also serve to keep individual team member...

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

far more refined individual, even if he still slung to some of his impoverished perspectives. For example, he shows his need to sh...

only for you!" (Bronte Chapter X). But, he also begins to realize that he will never have her and his dreams seem to end. He marri...

Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

about the characters thoughts and motivations. So we are going to read the story and see what happened through Nicks eyes, which m...

of Gatsby himself, at least in part. Gatsby is far from a worthless fool like Trimalchio, but he is surrounded by sycophants and o...

affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...

many argue saw the true beginning of a consumeristic culture as the American Dream turned to one of material wealth as a sign of s...

just get the story out. In fact, many novelists and short story writers are storytellers. They simply tell a story. That is all th...

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...

ever written. F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of Jay Gatsby resonates with almost every reader because he is so human in his hopes a...

with the wealth he possesses, and likely also very taken with his obvious infatuation with her. She does not stop his adoration of...

to look first at social treatises such as Anthony Burgess, "Is America Falling Apart?". This essay was written by Burgess after sp...

in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...

certain light. The narrator to tells us that, "Ive heard it said that Daisys murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an ir...

pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...

very influential in his work for he and Zelda essentially lived the exciting lives of the flapper generation of the 1920s. They dr...

and Princeton. Many of the staff appear to be committed to the school, despite disagreements many have stayed in their jobs and m...

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...

This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...

the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...

As the War was coming near its end Truman had sent a very urgent plea to Japan that they needed to surrender. They refused and the...

Its also interesting to note some other factors -- namely that with television reporters and commentators entranced by Kennedy, Ni...

is to truly examine our lives. It may seem that living a life of wealth would be easy and would negate the necessity of deeper ex...