Synthesis Essay: Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby After reading Arthur Miller’s Deah of a Salesman and watching the movie of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s well known novel The Great Gatsby‚ the two works clearly demonstrate the lengths that people go to in order to achieve the American Dream‚ the stereotypical life of a rich‚ successful and happy American. Both Jay Gatsby and Willy Loman are blinded by the pursuit of their unrealistic dreams which eventually lead to their downfalls. In Death of a Salesman
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the New World” (Puritanism). Puritans actually landed in Salem and when they begin to spread out merged with the Pilgrims‚ who landed in Plymouth colony. Roger Williams leads some followers away to create an even purer group of Puritans (Puritans vs. Pilgrims Video). The Puritans in America focused on purifying the Church of England’s foundation. They saw the New World as an opportunity to have religious freedom‚
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Jihad Vs. Mcworld (1995) Benjamin R. Barber Jihad Vs. Mcworld is a book written by Benjamin Barber‚ the director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University. Jihad Vs. Mcworld is a satirical look at two opposing forces in today’s world. On one side we have the ever-growing Mcworld (globalization/capitalism) and on the other we have the slowly disintegrating Jihad (tribalism/disintegration). The author presents an paradoxical thesis; Benjamin stands
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Rexdale vs. Rosedale: we perceive one neighbourhood as negative‚ while the other a symbol of success. A girl from Rexdale is exposed to a harsh environment where the gift of life is often tenuous. She is exposed to tragedies and failures which become embedded into her life. These factors compound daily and deeply influence how she views herself. But there is something in her that holds onto hope‚ and trusts in her gifts. A few miles away‚ a boy is growing up in Rosedale‚ a wealthy neighbourhood‚
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1) Compare and contrast utilitarianism versus universalism. Utilitarianism comprises of two types of criteria which is rule based and act based. Rule-based utilitarianism argues that general principles are used as criteria for deciding the greatest benefit to be achieved from acting in a certain way. Act based utilitarians on the other hand analyze a particular action or behavior to determine whether the greatest utility or good can be achieved. Utilitarianism also includes the following tenets
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The fear of death grows inside a person that yearns to live their life to the fullest‚ though their fear is always lingering in the back of their minds and prevents the way they go about their life. Edgar Allan Poe addresses this fact in his two short stories‚ “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”. The fear of death is evident in his characters‚ causing them to live their lives based on that constant panic. “The Masque of the Red Death” includes the main character
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Hobbes vs Locke During the Enlightenment‚ or the Age of Reason of the 17th and 18th century in Europe‚ two great thinkers‚ Thomas Hobbes and John Locke‚ promoted their conflicting views on government. They stood off firmly as rivals as one respectively desired a society in which a monarch was present while the other insisted that people were capable of governing themselves. Their philosophies also contradicted each other on the nature of man. Their ideals on politics have always been of large debate
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Since the beginning of time. There has been the debate of which computer should I buy‚ Macintosh or PC? Both of these computers have various similarities as well as many difference. When shopping for a computer every person needs to look for certain factors such as the price of the computer‚ the specifications of a computer and above all else they need to look at what the computer will be used for. At first examination of both of these computers‚ they both have the same basic foundations which
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Austere Vs. Daystar Mothers are portrayed as kind‚ giving‚ and the ones making sacrifices for their children. In the poem Austere by Roland Flint the mother helps to portray what a mother should be. One example in first line of the poem‚ “How she left kettles of water; On the kitchen stove for baths”‚ this shows her love and kindness by heating up each kettle of water for the bathtub. Back in 1950’s when he was a boy they didn’t have showers with running hot water like in our modern day and age
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Chapter: 2 In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman there is a contrast between what is real and what the characters believe as real. Some of the characters put themselves in different times and places and believe that what they are thinking is real. Others on the other hand know exactly what the reality of the situation may be and think about a time and place where the situation is not occurring. Throughout this play‚ the Loman family cannot discern these two kinds of reality. They tell a lie and
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