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F. Scott Fitzgerald as Jay Gatsby’s Alter Ego

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

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Edgar Reitz’s Homeland: A Chronicle of Germany

home, but in a mythical way that remains difficult to obtain and hold on to. The first episodes of the series begin the process of...

Should People Who Work in the Leisure and Recreation Industry be Considered Professionals?

home, because when we settle down to watch a DVD or film, play a game of Trivial Pursuit or even go outside to play catch, we are ...

The Relationship Between Technology And Human Freedom

minds and bodies has become somewhat of a hobby with the presence of such technology as mood-altering drugs and cosmetic surgery (...

Ondaatje and Lee, Immigrant Experience

in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...

Marketing A Hotel in New Zealand

may serve as a foundations in which to build further successes. Hilton is an intentional company, and along with several subsidi...

Analysis of Greek Funerary Statue

intended for this statue (Woodford, 1986). The initial response of this writer/tutor to the statue was that I was taken with the...

BOMBAY EXCELSIOR AND LEISURE CENTER PROPOSAL

are the folks who tend to spend the most money at the hotel (the expense account is taking care of it, which is why)....

Leadership Theories

people and meanings including emotions, while managers work at a lower level of emotion and do not look for meaning, focusing on t...

COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND GREAT RECESSION

few jobs were created and a general malaise was prevalent. One negative effect of the Great Depression was unemployment - by 1933,...

Competitive Profile of Hilton Worldwide

Roosevelt and the Plaza, and then in 1945 there is the purchase of Palmer House and the Stevens in New York(Hilton Worldwide, 2010...

Matthew 28:19 Making Disciples

disciples to do. Dr. Gene Bunkowske wrote that when he consulted the original Greek, he found that the primary verb is disciple (F...

Leisure and Event Tourism in Dubai

in 2011 handled 47.2 million passengers (Dubai Airports, 2011). Furthermore, airlines are making investments that will increase ca...

Jay Gatsby: A Great Man?

poverty to a position of wealth. While many people who wanted this particular American Dream of wealth and material possessions ...

Marketing Plan for the Sun Disk

salon business remains quite healthy. Exposure cautions eventually extended to tanning beds as well, with the added caveat that n...

Pushkin/Moor of Peter the Great

the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...

Alexander's Conquests vs. the U.S. in Iraq

its troops. And our third point is how it could improve its delivery. First lets look at Alexander. Logistics appears to have bee...

Alexander's Logistical Genius vs. the U.S. in Iraq

supplies its troops. And our third point is how it could improve its delivery. That is, the paper breaks down as follows. The fi...

Alzheimer’s and Therapeutic Recreation

2001). Current theory suggest that the disease initiates the internal cell-death programs which exists in neuronal cells (Marx, 2...

Conrad’s Heart of Darkness/The Death of Kurtz

147). Marlows initial reaction is in keeping with the African environment and the darkness that has touched his life, as it did Ku...

Feminine Voice in Walker’s The Color Purple

In a novel in which the narrator is recounting the entirety of the action after the fact, the narrator already knows everything th...

Analysis of a Modern Classic: "The Great Gatsby"

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

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

Aristotle and Sebastian de Grazia on Leisure

In fact, he suggests that work is done for the "sake of leisure" (267). More completely, Aristotle believed that it is important ...

Georg Simmel and Leisure

People seek out leisure activities, especially leisure activities that remove individuals from the frenetic metropolis because of ...

Leisure Theory and the Absence of Jungian Psychology

Jungs Basics To understand the application of Jungs theories and the absence of his theories relative to leisure theory, it is ne...

Research in Tourism and Leisure

words, "Heritage tourism reintroduces people to their cultural roots" (McKercher, Yo and du Cros, 2004, p. 539). Furthermore, cult...