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Ellen L

The Great Gatsby And The American Dream - Discuss Anything - 0 views

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The Great Gatsby american dream

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  • On the surface of The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald portrays a romantic love between a man and a woman, but inside the real meaning is much deeper. Fitzgerald depicts the 1920’s as a time of decay social and moral values, evidence of this is the greed and the pursuit of pleasure. Jay Gatsby’s constant parties epitomized the corruption of the American Dream as the desire for money and worldly pleasures overshadowed the true values of the American Dream.
  • It’s written in the American Constitution that every individual has the right to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. This right it seems has taken a twisted turn in the early 1920’s.
  • . These materialistic values consequently led the decay of the American Dream. The new American Dream described by Fitzgerald portrays a world where greed, the pursuit of money and pleasure are above all else. Fitzgerald portrays a world that has lost its way in the corruption of the American Dream.
  • Ellen L on 24 Oct 11
     
    "The pursuit of happiness soon turned into the pursuit of wealth and ultimately to greed" This relates to the capitalist business model seen in FFN, GOW, TJ and NaD in which all the business owners work to gain a profit, despite the situation they place their employees. Material wealth is seen taking over the ideals of society, a concept that the members of the Eggs exhibit through their ostentatious parties and affluence. 
Evan G

SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Themes, Motifs & Symbols - 0 views

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great gatsby

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  • era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties
  • newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste.
  • Evan G on 24 Oct 11
     
    Discusses the impact of setting on the plot and purpose of the novel, and how the various rich groups have corrupted the American dream from an innocent, ambitious hope for fortune into greed, debauchery, and misbehavior
Connor P

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#4 jungle poor treatment workers corruption

shared by Connor P on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • To these men, any money spent on employees—whether in terms of wages, benefits, or sanitary and safe working conditions—meant less money for their own pockets. The connection between healthy, happy workers and high levels of productivity was not obvious in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote does a great job of bringing in the time period of the Gilded Age. This time peroid is symbolic of corruption and greed which proves people would do whatever it takes to get ahead. By doing this, they forget the universal theme of helping others which led to the horrid conditions for the poor workers
Connor P

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#2 fast food nation poor treatment workers

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  • Such cutthroat business practices ultimately have the twofold effect of hurting workers while also poisoning the meat with the cow’s own feces, which leads to the outbreak of E. coli bacteria illnesses.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This is the "kill to birds with one stone" philosphoy but in a negative way. By the greed that pursues the corporations, it not only gives the workers poor conditions but endangers the lives of the consumers also. the lack of ethics which hurt the people are not important to making profits
  • Ben R on 04 Oct 11
     
    It seems that no matter who the corporations had to degrade to make a profit they are willing to do it. They have absolutely no problem endangering anyone, whether its the workers with the inhumane conditions they are pressured into because of their economic circumstances or consumer because of their ignorance, the underlining message to the reader is that there is nothing they would not do.
Ellen L

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As I Lay Dying greed dependancy

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  • Ellen L on 28 Feb 12
     
    "When we are born we are conscious only of ourselves, we are the universe. We perceive little  other than our basic needs, and if these needs are met we are content. As our consciousness  expands we become aware of a world outside ourselves. We discover that there are people,  places, and things around us, and that they fulfill our needs" "Most children, through experiences over a period of time, come to realize that the outside  world cannot provide all their wants and needs. They begin to supplement what is given to  them with their own efforts." This article discusses how children grow to self sufficiency when they realize their is more to the world than their own selfish needs. We see, however, that in AILD almost none of the characters grow out of this childish ideology.
Evan G

SparkNotes: The Grapes of Wrath: Themes, Motifs & Symbols - 3 views

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Grapes of Wrath

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  • Steinbeck consistently and woefully points to the fact that the migrants’ great suffering is caused not by bad weather or mere misfortune but by their fellow human beings. Historical, social, and economic circumstances separate people into rich and poor, landowner and tenant, and the people in the dominant roles struggle viciously to preserve their positions.
  • In order to protect themselves from such danger, the landowners create a system in which the migrants are treated like animals, shuffled from one filthy roadside camp to the next, denied livable wages, and forced to turn against their brethren simply to survive.
  • ” In the face of adversity, the livelihood of the migrants depends upon their union. As Tom eventually realizes, “his” people are all people.
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  • . Simple self-interest motivates the landowners and businessmen to sustain a system that sinks thousands of families into poverty.
  • Evan G on 28 Sep 11
     
    Although Sparknotes is a very stereotypcial website on novels, it's still a very effective source of information. It makes blatantly clear the fact that the rich, aristocratic upper class is mainly responsible for the poverty and economic devastation in the country. The rich get richer at the cost of the destruction of the lower class. The workers are treated poorly in an effort to keep them desperate, which in turn keeps the rich people rich. Selfishness and greed, key themes in practically every novel read so far, is clarified and pointed out. The condition of the migrants is no accident, it's an intentional, deliberate plot to oppress them. Their only hope is through unity.
Connor P

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#5 jungle poor treatment workers helping others

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  • He witnesses the greed and corruption in the industry and the deterioration of the lives of many workers. He is also shocked by the unhealthy handling of the meat. The novel presents graphic descriptions of diseased animals and rotting meat being sold to the American public.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote displays the images of the poor treatment of the workers and the consumers during the early 20th century. Not only were the workers repressed, but the bosses did not care about their consumers. As long as they bought the product the bosses did not worry and the lack of the universal theme of helping others is left out
Evan G

GRAPES OF WRATH - 2011 « The Burning Platform - 3 views

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Grapes of Wrath

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  • “It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” – John Steinbeck
  • By 1929, the richest 1% owned 40% of the nation’s wealth
  • The have-nots can dream about becoming a have, but the chances of achieving that dream today are miniscule. Steinbeck pointedly distinguishes between the selfishness of the moneyed class and the altruism of the working poor. In contrast to and in conflict with this policy of selfishness stands the migrants’ behavior toward one another. Aware that their livelihood and survival depend upon their devotion to the collective good, the migrants unite—sharing their dreams as well as their burdens—in order to survive. 
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    An overall summary of the depression/GOW. It especially hits on the selifshness of the rich, who seek to keep the poor divided, as well as on the unity of the poor, who die and sacrifice for each other. It contains an EXCELLENT quote from Steinbeck which cynically describes human nature, basically saying that nice guys are admired, but they never get ahead. Greedy, mean guys are hated, but they are admired for their success.  Again, later  it ties into crushing the migrants' dreams in order to keep them down and divided.
Ben R

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the jungle

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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    "He told how dead rats were shoveled into sausage-grinding machines; how bribed inspectors looked the other way when diseased cows were slaughtered for beef, and how filth and guts were swept off the floor and packaged as "potted ham."
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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source also shows how Sinclair wrote this book only to highlight the horrors of the meatpacking industry and how the world reacted to it.
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    gives more information about how unsanitary the meat the consumer was eating.
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    The article tells how Sinclair intended to help bring down the meat packing trusts. "It seemed to me that the walls of the mighty fortress of greed were on the point of cracking," he later wrote. "It needed only one rush, and then another, and another." He tried to do his part, and eventually helped lead to the formation of the FDA
Vivas T

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american dream Great Gatsby ethics

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  • Part of Fitzgerald was realistic, aware of the rot festering beneath the glittering surface of his era.
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      Vivas T on 24 Oct 11
       
      This article reflects the reality of the time period which the author describes as rotting beneath the "glittering surface". This portrays the theme of apperance versus reality in the novel which symbolizes the corruption and greed which lie under the surface of the beutiful city.
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