The Great Depression was the worst period of money drought of all time. The Great Depression changed lives through jobs‚ health‚ and living conditions. The stock market crash took people into a bad world with no jobs what so ever. So what caused the stock market crash was when all the banks failed. When the banks went down almost everyone lost their jobs‚ they lost everything (history.com) . No one knew what to do since they had no money. They had no way to pay the people to work so they just
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The American dream is to achieve greatness; to make greatness from nothing. Fitzgerald knows this dream and how it can lead to destruction. He explores this in his book The Great Gatsby. His characters build masks to try to project their ideas into reality‚ but their dreams pull them too far from the real world and lead to their downfall. Tom‚ Myrtle and Gatsby construct masks to reach their dreams but these fantasies drag to a breakdown. Myrtle wilson changed everything. Her goal was to wedge herself
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During the late-nineteenth century‚ American cities grew drastically and rapidly. The introduction of technologies like the elevator and steel frame of skyscrapers blended together in a perfect recipe for expansion. Major cities beginning to develop and flourish during this time‚ including Chicago‚ New York City‚ and Boston‚ not only influenced the development of American society‚ but were also influenced by several factors of American life. The key areas of immigration‚ transportation‚ and popular
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plethora of American literature. Hope can be both a positive and negative quality. Hope is threaded into the following three pieces of literature: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou‚ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. In the preceding literature hope plays a strong role in improving characters’ lives. Hope helps some people and is useless to others. Langston Hughes writes‚ “Hold fast to dreams‚/ For if dreams die‚/ Life is a broken-winged
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The ‘American Dream’ in The Great Gatsby It has been said that “people are so busy dreaming the American Dream‚ fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be‚ that they’re all asleep at the switch‚ [the American man has lost his focus]” <www.thinkexist.com>. What exists behind the vision of the American Dream is a paralleled unreality. Humans are dreamers‚ and desires often create beliefs in people’s minds that lead them to strongly believe in a successful outcome. Unfortunately
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Hidden Life of an Indian American Student By:Kavya Bomma When someone says the word Indian‚ their minds go straight to at least these three words: curry‚ light bulb twisting‚ and spicy food. Though is that all there is to being an Indian American? What are people not seeing that makes them think this. Indian American kids have a double life in most cases. Their dressing‚ activities‚ music‚ food‚ and dancing are very different from the traditional American music. While Indian American kids are
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The American Dream: The Great Gatsby The American Dream is ready to enjoy everything the world has to offer in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby. However‚ enjoying these things comes at a high price. The American dream according to a few people in the novel is all about finding a life less ordinary and reaching the top. It’s about finding fortune or true love. The readers see this in the novel which shows what the people back in the day strived for. How empty their lives have become.
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URBS 310 CLASS 13968 The role of immigration in shaping American cities The United States of America is correctly defined as a melting pot of cultures‚ and a people because it is not a homogenous nation. People from all over the world can be found living closely together‚ some even harmoniously live together despite their different ethnicities. This has not always been the case because America’s initial habitants were Native Americans‚ who were then invaded by and conquered by Europeans mostly
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THE BIRTH‚ LIFE AND DEATH STARS..!! I still remember my chilhood when i was tought a rhyme "twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder what you are‚ up above the world so high‚ like a diamond in the sky." so now my curiosity lead me to really wonder what they actually are? As per definition Stars are giant ball plasma held together by gravity. stars also have their birth‚ their own life‚ and death too. so now the question arrives in mind how it all works by the way? the answer lies far away
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What does the American Dream mean? Is it this perfect life? Who is able to obtain this dream? The American Dream was debauched back in the 1920’s and it really made this concept of the American dream very elusive and a bit illogical. It was viewed as too perfect in a sense. In The Great Gatsby we can see how there is a major flaw in this once grand idea of the perfect or closest thing to a perfect life. Once the idolization of your own way of life comes into floriation you end up wanting more and
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