Explain why Myrtle Wilson’s dream to marry Tom Buchanan is unrealistic? Valley of ashes- broken dream 1) Tom and Nick are going to New York‚ going through valley of Ashes‚ a big board the eye of doctor t f eckleburg‚ eyes of god. knows everything and sees everything‚ garages is blind to their relation‚ he thinks he will live with Myrtle forever. 2) Tom is insisting Nick to meet his girl‚ but Tom only cares his fun‚ that shows his mean and selfishness‚ he doesn’t care that Nick doesn’t want to
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How does Tom Buchanan represent 1920’s society? Tom Buchanan plays a large role in the great Gatsby and is greatly representative of the rich “old money” part of society‚ and‚ in many ways what was wrong with it. F. Scott Fitzgerald may have made Tom a villain because of their rejection of him in his earlier life. Fitzgerald has used Tom in The Great Gatsby‚ to demonstrate the power that men had during the 1920s. In order to understand Tom’s purpose in the book‚ it must be known that he has been
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Jan 2012: “Tom Buchanan reflects important attitudes and values in real-life American society in the 1920s.” Tom Buchanan is arguably the least likeable character in Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’; misogynistic‚ cavalier in his attitude to his wife and characteristically purposeless as part of the ‘Lost Generation’‚ as a representative of a society he repels the reader. Is he‚ however‚ an accurate emblem of the Jazz Age? Tom himself never claims to be entirely comfortable with the new hedonistic
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How do you respond to the view that it is very difficult for readers to feel anything other than contempt for Tom Buchanan? It is very difficult for readers to feel anything other than contempt for Tom Buchanan throughout the novel. Fitzgerald uses Tom’s behaviour and attitude from the first time we are introduced to his character in chapter 1 to present him as a bully through his racist and unpleasant language assisted with his tough appearance. Daisy uses animalistic language to describe Tom
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two of these views. The views I have chosen to compare and contrast are those of the Buchanan report and Monderman’s thesis. These are two different views of how social order is produced in relation to traffic management. I will look at the areas these views share in common‚ as well as their differences and I will analyse the strengths and weaknesses of both views. The Buchanan report was created by Colin Buchanan‚ an engineer in the early 1960’s when he was commissioned by the UK government to work
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chapter 7 of “Making Social Lives”‚ written by Elizabeth B. Silva. The two different approaches to the ordering of traffic are the Buchanan Report‚ a modernist approach‚ and the Monderman thesis‚ a flexible approach. Both Buchanan and Monderman address similar questions but advocate very different solutions to the issue of traffic management. In 1961 Colin Buchanan‚ an engineer‚ was commissioned by the UK Government to start work on traffic problems. This was because the amount of motor vehicles
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engineers Colin Buchanan; and Hans Monderman. Colin Buchanan was commissioned by the UK government in 1961 to start work on the report! Traffic in towns for the Ministry of transport [chapter 7 p. 327] the report was aimed to produce a new design for urban space in order to engineer the efficient distribution and access of a large numbers of vehicles” to a large number of buildings. Achieving a satisfactory standard in our environment for life in towns. [Chapter 7 P. 327] Buchanan had visions of
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Compare and contrast two views of how the relationship between people and traffic is ordered. This essay will compare and contrast Buchanan‚ an engineer who reproduced a report on ’traffic in towns’ and the Dutch engineer Monderman’s ideas of ’shared space’ by looking at the strengths and weaknesses of their research and what differences and similarities they have to each other using examples to reinforce the information. The relationship between people and traffic is down to how people behave
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A social order involves a sense of how individuals all fit together in shared spaces. Social order could not be made and repaired unless individuals were able to make sense of‚ and make use of‚ shared norms which govern our behaviour in shared spaces. The ordinariness of these shared norms and expectations means that we often take social order for granted because it is so much a part of our ordinary everyday actions. In fact‚ we only tend to become aware of the complexity of social ordering when
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The statement is false. This is a tricky question! Although the Buchanan Report and the Monderman thesis do offer visions of how to manage traffic they also offer us two competing visions of social order. The Buchanan Report is underpinned by a social order which privileges the segregation of humans and motors through an array of measures in urban design and the regulation of the conduct of both drivers and pedestrians. This social order emphasises the value of a social environment delivering the
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