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- 131: The Great Gatsby 6
- Conflicts and affairs often reflect the unhappiness and reveal the other sides of person's character, which sometimes lead to depression and the complete change of ones life. F. Scott Fitzgerald in his book The Great Gatsby describes conflicts between many dynamic and round characters which are well chosen and play a big part of the story's theme. One fo ... show her arround. " To hide his feelings for her, he also invitesTom, in hope of him not noticing Gatsby's feelings for Daisy. This kind of situation reveals the meaning Fitzgerald tries to pass to the reader as he slowly discovers Gatsby''s feelings towards Daisy. The next theme is that everything is not as it appears to be. Daisy looks ... being sweet, intelligent and innocent. Yet she proves rude and is showing off just to get attention and attract people to her. This particular theme is described and displayed by Fitzgerald in almost every character in the story, as everyone appears to be someone they're not. This kind of gehavior is showed in Gatsby who is involved in some ...
- 132: Welafre
- ... Family President Kennedy's great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1858. They settled in Boston, Mass. His grandfathers, Patrick J. Kennedy and John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, were born there. Both men became influential in state politics. "Honey Fitz" served several terms as Boston's mayor and as a member of the United States House of Representatives ... fortune continued to grow, and he was one of the few financiers to sense the stock market crash of 1929. He made hundreds of millions of dollars. Joseph married Rose Fitzgerald, daughter of Honey Fitz, on Oct. 7, 1914. Their first child, Joseph, Jr., was born in 1915. John was born on May 29, 1917. Seven other children followed: Rosemary, Kathleen ... photographer and a pen-and-ink artist for a Washington, D.C., newspaper. They were married on Sept. 12, 1953. Their daughter, Caroline, was born in 1957. Their son, John Fitzgerald, was born on Nov. 25, 1960, 17 days after Kennedy was elected president of the United States. As wife of the president, Jackie became one of the most gracious ...
- 133: Bernice Bobs Her Hair (F. Scot
- "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald teaches a very important lesson about superficial popularity, and the cruel pressures which demand that individuals conform to the standards of a social set. It was interesting to watch the ... Marjorie's vengeance. Warren's cold reaction to Bernice's bobbed hair represented Bernice's lost popularity. The story takes place in the superficial world of the country club set. Fitzgerald's description of the Saturday night dance creates the mood at the beginning of the story. "The couples exchange artificial, effortless smiles," "filling the lantern-hung night with vague words ... was described in similes. Marjorie, braiding her hair, "looked like a delicate painting of some Saxon princess." Her braids "moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes" suggest her treachery. Fitzgerald also uses foreshadowing when Marjorie called Bernice's bluff about wanting to leave. Later Marjorie called her bluff about bobbing her hair. As Bernice's hair was being cut, " ...
- 134: Incorporation Of The American
- Incorporation of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author incorporates the aspect of the American Dream to develop the story. The American Dream’s goals embody the story to show how one can attempt to put effort into accomplishing one’s aspirations in life. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald gives various examples of different characters so called American Dream. Some characters are able to achieve their goal and others are not able to accomplish their goal. From beginning to end Fitzgerald shows how this concept of the American Dream is accomplished and failed by the characters in the story line. Daisy and Tom are two characters whose dreams portray to ...
- 135: Character Analysis Of Jordan B
- In The Great Gatsby, written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jordan Baker was portrayed as being reckless and dishonest, having the arrogant attitude of many of the people of her time, but also having the characteristics of modern-day women ... herself. (59). Jordan Baker is also a very blunt woman. She stated her opinions rather openly. She was the first to tell Nick of Tom's mistress (15). F. Scott Fitzgerald often emphasized the recklessness of the American people and used Jordan Baker as a prime example to do so. Although Jordan Baker was characterized by many bogus traits, she did ... Great Gatsby. She depicted the recklessness, dishonesty, and arrogance of many people of the East Egg; on the other hand, Jordan Baker represented the independence and self-sufficience of women. Fitzgerald gave Jordan a crucial role in his masterpiece The Great Gatsby because of her characteristics of the bad things were in light during the Jazz Age and also of ...
- 136: A Moveable Feast
- ... the tale of his early career and life in Paris. He tells of his meetings with famous writers, poets, and the times that they had. He spoke especially of Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound. He did have a tendency to portray them a little bit unfairly. He was a little critical of them because of the fact that he ... the many writers he met. He probably liked him so much because of how generous and helpful he was to him. The last big writer Hemingway talked about was Scott Fitzgerald. He talks to him just after The Great Gadsby was released. He was rather impressed at how smart Scott was. But, it seemed he was annoyed with him at times ... flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless. In conclusion, Ernest Hemingway met many writers and was impacted by Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and Scott Fitzgerald the most. He liked them all but he had a tendency to portray them better if he liked them and worse if there were things about them he didn ...
- 137: American Dream In Great Gatsby
- ... Dream of personal material success. It is, however, Gatsby's car that kills Myrtle Wilson when Daisy runs her over. This indirectly leads to Gatsby's own death and portrays Fitzgerald's theme that basing the Dream on materialism alone is undoubtedly destructive. Fitzgerald presents clearly that a life based on materialism alone is a corruption rather than a fulfillment of the American Dream. Gatsby's destruction shows that those who try to maintain a lifestyle based purely on materialistic values are doomed by their self-delusion. Thus, by analyzing Fitzgerald's presentation, Gatsby's dream, the novel suggests, is also that of America, with its emphasis on the inherent goodness within nature, on healthy living, youth, vitality, romance, a ...
- 138: Great Gatsby & Scarlet Letter
- Jason Bello AP English March 22, 2000 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are two novels, which address similar themes with completely opposite resolves. The authors use their main characters, Hester, Dimmesdale, Gatsby, and Daisy, in their respective works to present these themes ... occurrence in The Scarlet Letter. It would appear that this would make adultery a more powerful force in The Great Gatsby. On the contrary, it is seen as insignificant in Fitzgerald’s novel and definitive in The Scarlet Letter. Whether it is Tom and Myrtle, or Gatsby and Daisy, the fact that these people are wed appears irrelevant to them. Meanwhile ... which involves returning to an unfaithful husband who will indubitable stray again. Although the novels have different interpretations of the same themes, a similar conclusion is reached. Both Hawthorne and Fitzgerald present worlds in which their main characters must deal with unfaithfulness. A common theme is reached in that adultery can prove to make people stronger when it is acknowledged ...
- 139: Network Security
- ... mine of fraud opportunities.[2] so this justifies the need for security. Many definitions say that security means ..unauthorised access, such as preventing a hacker from breaking into your computer (Fitzgerald and Dennis, 1996, pp426). This statement shows the importance of the computer security, because the computer data storage device such as hard drive and other computer storage devices, which contain ... security can also be the physical control of the information that should be prevented from loosing and to be prevented from natural disasters which is called traditional security according to Fitzgerald and Dennis (1996). 2.2 Why Organisations need security? As discussed above, the organisations in this century more increasingly depend on data communication for the daily business communication, database information ... them. In fact, organisations then considered that .many potential hazards such as fraud, errors, lost data, breaches of privacy and the disastrous events that can occur in a data communication (Fitzgerald, 1984, pp620). The above consideration statement was considered about fifteen years ago but still holds valid reasons. Computer and network address three requirements [1] Securecy Requires that the information ...
- 140: Joseph Patrick 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 ...
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