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- 121: Joseph Kennedy
- ... the top job. At 25 he had become the youngest bank president in the country. In 1914, now the successful bank president married the love of his life, Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Rose was the daughter of the Mayor of Boston, John Francis Fitzgerald, a leading Irish figure in Boston. Together they had 9 children, Joseph Patrick Jr., John Fitzgerald, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice Mary, Patricia, Robert Francis, Jean Ann, and Edward Moore. By the age of 30 he had amassed a great fortune through business ventures that included motion ...
- 122: John F Kenendy
- John F Kenendy John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th,1917 in Brookline Massachuttes.He was one of the youngest Presidents in the U.S politics and was the 35th President.He was greatly ... sleazy Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby.Many people believe that Jack Ruby shot Oswald so he wouldn’t give out information and that Oswald didn’t work alone.John Fitzgerald Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on November 25th 1963.Leaders from 92 countries attended his funeral and millions of people lined the streets to pay there respects. No one will ever know the truth about the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy,maybe some day we will...
- 123: The Great Gatsby And The Ameri
- In The Great Gatsby, one of the predominant themes is the death of thee American dream. In this, F. Scott Fitzgerald is showing how the American dream has become corrupt and that the dream is dead.. The Great Gatsby took place in the roaring twenties. A time when man no longer ... a hard life or struggled for freedom. So the dream itself got left behind. We idealized it and later in the roaring twenties, that idealization was recognized by F Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby was Fitzgerald s cry out to the American people. A metaphor intended to make people aware that they had forgotten about the true pleasures in life and that they were wrapped ...
- 124: Video Games: The High Tech Threat to Our Younger Generation
- ... in a battle with computer technology and other reason is that some parents apparently feel they are losing the battle (691). In the April 1994 issue of Marketing Age , Kate Fitzgerald reports that the growing angry to the public outcry during 1993 forced the Nintendo to reduce the most violent scenes from Mortal Kombat's home version. But Sega, and the ... hard earned lessons and its past 'mistakes' and compromise with the moral responsibilities and expected to pick up significantly but to become its old position to No 1 remains questionable.(Fitzgerald 3) One latest development , as part of a new industry policy urged by congress and by the arm twisting tactics , both the companies have voluntarily' added on package messages warning some content may not be suitable for players under 17. In reality, despite evidence that such warning some times increase sales of violent video games. (Fitzgerald 3] It is a good sign and relief that is the past few months, the ever growing violence of the videogame has swept over even congress. Herbert H. Kohl, ...
- 125: Gatsby 2
- ... not notice the values of life.² The theme proclaimed in the quote reflects literature in the abundance that it is used in throughout the history of writing. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, spokesman of the Jazz Age, illustrates the shallow emptiness, careless recklessness, and materialistic concerns of the rich in his novel The Great Gatsby. First and foremost of all are the ... morally right. Within the minds and lives of the people of this text lies a source of shallowness that cannot be broken. In his novel The Great Gatsby., F. Scott Fitzgerald displays the careless recklessness, shallow emptiness, and materialistic concerns of the rich. This novel also translates over to everyday life in the way that if people are too reckless, they ... who spoke the great words of audaciousness saw the true meaning of life and not to take it for granted. Works Cited Comptons Multimedia Electronic Encyclopedia. Seattle: Western Software, 1994. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Colier Books, 1992. - - -. ³Winter Dreams.² The United States in Literature Reads. Ed. James E. Miller, Jr., et al. Classic ed. Glenview, IL: ...
- 126: The Great Gatsby's Theme
- ... corruption of values and the decline of spiritual life - a condition which is ultimately related to the American Dream. For the novel recalls the early idealism of the first settlers. Fitzgerald himself relates Gatsby's dream to that of the early Americans for, at the end of the novel, Nick recalls the former Dutch sailors and compares their sense of wonder ... this condition. Daisy's lament is especially indicative of this: 'What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' Fitzgerald stresses the need for hope and dreams to give meaning and purpose to man's efforts. Striving towards some ideal is the way by which man can feel a sense ... involvement, a sense of his own identity. Certainly, Gatsby, with 'his extraordinary gift of hope', set against the empty existence of Tom and Daisy, seems to achieve a heroic greatness. [...] Fitzgerald goes on to state that the failure of hopes and dreams, the failure of the American Dream itself, is unavoidable, not only because reality cannot keep up with ideals, ...
- 127: Depiction Of The American Drea
- ... death. Both the noble intentions and the resulting failures of the American Dream resemble the intentions and corruption of Jay Gatsby in the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald included many examples of the American Dream in the novel. Myrtle Wilson is an example of this. Myrtle, who was married to George Wilson, a low income mechanic, desired money ... Wilson. This downfall is comparable to the noble intentions and resulting failures of the American Dream, in which class and greed usually overtake the success of becoming rich. F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed Jay Gatsby s dream as a resemblance to the American Dream in The Great Gatsby.
- 128: Great Gatsby
- ... not notice the values of life.² The theme proclaimed in the quote reflects literature in the abundance that it is used in throughout the history of writing. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, spokesman of the Jazz Age, illustrates the shallow emptiness, careless recklessness, and materialistic concerns of the rich in his novel The Great Gatsby. First and foremost of all are the ... morally right. Within the minds and lives of the people of this text lies a source of shallowness that cannot be broken. In his novel The Great Gatsby., F. Scott Fitzgerald displays the careless recklessness, shallow emptiness, and materialistic concerns of the rich. This novel also translates over to everyday life in the way that if people are too reckless, they ... who spoke the great words of audaciousness saw the true meaning of life and not to take it for granted. Works Cited Comptons Multimedia Electronic Encyclopedia. Seattle: Western Software, 1994. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Colier Books, 1992. - - -. ³Winter Dreams.² The United States in Literature Reads. Ed. James E. Miller, Jr., et al. Classic ed. Glenview, IL: ...
- 129: The Great Gatsby(symbolism)
- ... his goal. In his time everyone had this AAmerican Dream@ but only those few who took the time to do the work were rewarded with the fulfillment of their dream(Fitzgerald 181). The acquisition of his wealth and material possessions was only the first step in his two-part dream. The second goal was winning back his first love Daisy Fay ... he died lonely without even the dream to keep him company. On the flip side, The Great Gatsby can also represent the corruption of AThe American Dream@. In a sense Fitzgerald portrayed America as having Alost its standards and its sense of the moral fitness of things@ (Taylor 156). The story is told about AThe American Dream@ at a corrupt time ... looking at the reality of the situation(Bewley 235). They were living in a world made of money and failed to see the crumbling of their world around them. Whether Fitzgerald intended to depict AThe American Dream@ or the corruption of the dream, there is no doubt that the characters were working for or already had the fulfillment of a ...
- 130: The Great Gatsby Character Dev
- ... he plays an important and active part in the development of the plot. Traditionally the narrator is usually outside of the story, but in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway (the narrator) is much more than that. Nick in this novel is an active member of the story, being only second in importance to the main character Jay Gatsby. This novel takes a very different approach in its development of the characters. Having the narrator change more than any of the other characters, this thesis will explain Fitzgerald s unusual development of the characters and their greater significance through the novel. For although we would expect a certain, standard technique in telling a story, Fitzgerald uses a much different method. The first person to discuss is the main character of the story Jay Gatsby. A self made man, who amasses a great amount of ...
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