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and trash everywhere (Ainsworth). To her right is her grandson, dressed in blue short and a white t-shirt; he appears to be about ...

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...

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

Americans were asking each other. I decided to go to Russia to work, study, and to lend a hand in the construction of a society w...

adapt to social hierarchies" (Sparknotes [1]). In this we could perhaps argue that one thing he knows about himself is that he wan...

different than those who attend his party and do little more than drink and let loose. With such a setting, as one of the most ...

means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...

own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...

his aristocratic persona was largely manufactured, because although Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald had some illustrious ancestors, i...

be left with a limp as a reminder of his close call, however. However, because of this illness, he would often be sent to live ...

has a long history of reaching out and inviting his audience to experience with him the sometimes intense and often expansive sens...

a threat to society and he argues that "devotion to a home to be the base for devotion to anything else. I believe it is importan...

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

As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...

of his beloved wife. His behavior was discordant and disturbing" (Crier). Because of this she began to wonder and slowly realized ...

beautiful Daisy Buchanan. His enigmatic behavior and opulent lifestyle are designed to impress Daisy and bring her back into his l...

two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...

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...

shirts and strolls her through his kitchen. There, we see Daisys hand trailing along a large work table...the elegant chandeliers ...

This paper examines the corporate leadership climb of Jack Welch and the management techniques his autobiography provides with com...

family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...

is lives in the swanky neighborhood of town while Myrtle lives in closer proximity to the billboard noted above. Gatsby is acknow...

* We all have to just cope with change (Lindberg, 1999, p. 34). * The catalyst for change is typically one issue, or just a few is...

of "real-world effects" anyway . In other words, the penalty will not act as a deterrent if in fact murderers are oblivious to the...

the 1920s turned to the American Dream we know today, which involves the assumption that if we work hard we can have wealth, and w...

necessary in order to reconstruct the aspects of needlework, fabric and even the most intricate details not otherwise available th...

girl as if she were an agent of the devil. He even utters some high-sounding phrases about democratic socialism" (This Side of Par...

itself that is the problem. Many changes occur in organisational as organic changes gradually and naturally, if it were change tha...

we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...

about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...