This introduces another book similar to the great gatsby for possible use in the paper.

Getting It Right The Publishing Process and the Correction of Factual Errors – with Reference to The Great Gatsby by Matthew J. Bruccoli A sense of the fundamental textual decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. Editors who are otherwise sound oppose the correction of factual errors in critical editions.

This song, without directly mentioning the book, is greatly similar. Like Gatsby Dave Matthews is completely enthralled by another woman for he says "You are my obsession" . In addition the inflection in Matthews voice when singing "I Love you, Love you, love you, love you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you" is scary, it sounds as if he has a creepy obsession with some woman just as Gatsby feels about Daisy.

A good essay written about A room of one's own

This is a list of other novels dealing with women and how they are oppressed and such.

This is the only part of this article that pertains to "A Room of One's Own" but it reinforces Virginia Woolf's main point throughout her novel. "It struck me as telling that de Pizan thinks of constructing a city of one's own much as Virginia Woolf thought of constructing a room of one's own-and, in part, for the same reason: so much of what men do imposes upon and impedes women that a natural thought is simply to find a place apart, where men's presence cannot bring to bear their baleful influence."(Jeff VanderMeer)

This an interesting article, especially the second to last paragraph opposing what Woolf said with "These women "applied the cultural analysis of the feminists [before them] to words, sentences, and structures of language in the novel." However, Showalter criticizes their works for their androgynistic natures.For all its concern with sexual connotations and sexuality, the writing avoids actual contact with the body, disengaging from people into "a room of one's own." (Elizabeth lee)

"I had kept in touch with "Melissa" over the years, who was still working at Walmart, where her wages had risen from $7 to $10 an hour, but in the meantime her husband had lost his job." Based on this there is no possibility for advancement in low wage jobs no matter how long one stays commited to a company and that in the end the corporate executives only care about how much is in their pockets.

"Ehrenreich quickly finds that she'll need a second job to support herself. This seems to startle her, as if holding down two jobs is something new to America." This is startling, most people complain about having one job when some people are thankful for the $12 they make at the 2 or more jobs they have. Most shocking is the Ehrenreich, who is such a poor advocate, didn't know that she might have to work 2 jobs.

"A Florida woman wrote to tell me that, before reading it, she'd always been annoyed at the poor for what she saw as their self-inflicted obesity. Now she understood that a healthy diet wasn't always an option. And if I had a quarter for every person who's told me he or she now tipped more generously, I would be able to start my own foundation." This is interesting to read because it makes one wonder how a human could be so heartless as to pay such low wages. Also since so many people, after learning about the suffering going on, tip more generously, then why don't the big bosses human up and pay their employees reasonable salaries.

"The vow is admirable, according to Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, who, however, noted in a recent article that Yum! apparently gives higher priority to its responsibility for ensuring the welfare of the animals whose meat it buys than for that of the farm workers who pick the 40 million pounds of tomatoes it buys each year."

"In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion" This is incredibly shocking since employees are payed minimum wage meaning most of the profits end up in the pockets of the executives.

"Jurgis Rudkus and his bride Ona are crushed by a series of blows that suggest parallels between the treatment of the livestock and the workers employed to process them." This alludes to the fact that the workers were treated no better then animals by those whose only goal was to make as much money as possible.

"The Joads are very real people, which allows the reader to sympathize with their plight. As one critic states: "In the fate of one such family - the Joads of Oklahoma - Steinbeck has told the fate of all" (Kronenberger, 24). Certainly, the tale of the Joads parallels countless numbers of migrant peoples during the depression." This illustrates that the Joads weren't the only ones to suffer during this time and that it was in fact most of the country.

"The most evident and substantial theme that Steinbeck employs in The Grapes of Wrath is simply an outcry against the ill treatment of all migrant workers. The Joads function as a symbol of the migrant working family, their horrific existence, and the effects that poverty has upon them. In penning The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck is generally calling for an end of man's inhumanity towards his fellow man, while he is specifically calling for a more humane treatment of the migrant worker."

"...Scarcely mentions the Mexican and Filipino migrant workers who dominated the California fields and orchards into the late thirties, instead implying that Anglo-Saxon whites were the only subjects worthy of treatment." This brings together both The Grapes of Wrath and The Jungle. The quote refers directly to The Grapes of Wrath saying that it focused only on the Anglo-Saxons and that they weren't the only ones being poorly treated; tying in The Jungle since it was solely about Lithuanian immigrants and their mistreatment.

"a four-week strike in October 1933 that involved 12,000 to 18,000 workers. Workers refused to pick the 1933 crop for the $0.60 per hundred pounds offered by growers" This quote describes the workers banding together in a strike attempting to do away with the poor treatment they are receiving from the large farm owners.

this article is a general overview of The Jungle and what its purpose is.