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- 1501: Such A Good Boy: How A Pampered Son's Greed Led to Murder: Summary
- ... to a large fashion warehouse with four stores. Next explained in the book is Sharon Doreen Leatherbarrow. She grew up under a mother that was always working, and a father that was usually away on business excursions. She learned how to manipulate her mother using guilt to receive what her young heart desired. She married three times: the second wedding yielding a son named Darren Charles, and the third wedding to ... Darren and Amanda picked them up after their ferry ride, and Darren drove his friends home, then returned to his house to "wait for his mother's return". The police had other suspects, such as business associates, but Darren had the motive of greed and so they asked around in his circle of friends, including Lords, Muir and Cousins. Darren hired lawyers for the three youths, which fueled the suspicions. Then ...
- 1502: The Great Gatsby: Realism
- ... just ended and the United States was becoming as dominant world power. The novel takes place during the summer in New York as Nick Carraway has just moved to persue a career in the bond business. This is a very realistic setting because just after World War 1 the eastern United States were flourishing with people and business. As depicted in The Great Gatsby, during the 1920's jazz music was all the rage. Large, fancy homes and big parties (such as Gatsby's) were also quite popular. Fitzgerald realistically demonstrates the inexistence ...
- 1503: Stephen Leasock's "Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich": Satire
- ... have worn a garbage bag in public, and probably received the same review. Leacock exaggerates the obsession of money to a humorous point that not even religion is spared. Religion is a social event and business opportunity for Plutonians. Rather than spiritual worth, St. Asaph and St. Osoph churches are humorously described by mortgages, dollars per square feet, and Bible give away debits. Priests work for the church that offers them ... Hymnal Supply Corporation, have an idea for bringing out an entirely new Bible." / "A new Bible!" he gasped. "Precisely!" said his father, "a new Bible! This one - and we find it every day in our business - is all wrong." "All wrong!" said the rector with horror on his face. / "For the market of to-day this Bible" - and he poised it again on his hand, as to test its weight, "is ...
- 1504: Analysis of "A Raisin in the Sun"
- ... white neighborhoods. The Prejudice white people were the modern Gestapo of America. The Black American blue collar workers also believe that they are being held down by the white collar workers who are the white business men. The Youngers, specifically Walter believe no matter how hard black folks work they can't get ahead in this world. He also believes it is so much harder for black people to get anywhere ... are trying to keep it predominately white. The Black Americans are predominately the most prejudice ethnic group in the story. They are not only prejudice against each other, they discriminate against each other's gender, business affiliation, and beliefs. Walter also talks about Bennie becoming a doctor, and being a woman. Bennie is Prejudice against her rich boy friend. Mama talks about the black folks who won't work for there ...
- 1505: Summary of "The Death of Woman Wang" and "The Classic Slum"
- ... home and raise the children. It also refers to how men often rented out their wives for money. On page sixty three it tells of how a man let his wife take over the family business for six months, and when the tax collector came to gather the tax he told here that a smart woman was no match for a stupid man. On page eighty two it tells a story ... them had committed suicide to save face. About only right that I found in this book that women have is on page seventy two and seventy three, If the husband dies and he has a business she may inherit it only if she has a son but when the son is old enough to run it she must hand it over to him. This book also tells of how families acted ...
- 1506: Summary of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- ... meets Jack Duane, an experienced criminal. After being freed from jail, Jurgis and Duane team up in a luxurious, but risky life of crime. Jurgis learns about the connections between criminals, police, politics, and big business. He becomes a member of this complex network and moves into politics. He runs into Connor again, and beats him up again. Connor's political connections cause Jurgis to lose all his aquired profits. Jurgis ... election are being recieved. The novel concludes on a positive note, showing that the Socialist party made significant progress all across the country. The Jungle is a novel that casts an evil light on America, business, and politics. It promotes the concept of Socialism, emphasizes corruption in our society, and makes wage-earners look like slaves. Jurgis and his family moved from Lithuania to America, expecting a better life. Instead of ...
- 1507: A Christmas Carol
- ... no feelings or compassion for Scrooge in the future. For example, the thieves are able to steal Scrooge's possessions because no body cares about Scrooge or his things. Also, the businessmen that Scrooge does business with regularly show no feelings about his death and go to his funeral simply for food. Dicken's shows a way to resolve the problem by simply treating others how you want them to treat ... example, Scrooge gives up a chance at having a loving family when he chooses money over his girlfriend Belle, who turns out to have a happy family with another loving husband. Also, Scrooge's old business partner, Marley, put his life to waste because of money and suffers pain in his afterlife which could have been easily avoided. A Christmas Carol also shows that people can be happy without money, just ...
- 1508: A Doll's House: Role of Women as the Comforter
- ... in society; but it is her actions that provide the insight to this position. It can be suggested that women have the power to choose which rules to follow at home, but not in the business world, thus again indicating her subordinateness. Nora does not at first realize that the rules outside the household apply to her. This is evident in Nora's meeting with Krogstad regarding her borrowed money. In ... her crime is out in the open. After she reveals the "dastardly deed" to her husband, he becomes understandably agitated; in his frustration he shares the outside world with her, the ignorance of the serious business world, and destroys her innocence and self-esteem. This disillusion marks the final destructive blow to her doll's house. Their ideal home including their marriage and parenting has been a fabrication for the sake ...
- 1509: The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
- ... 1922. In the book, people went from west to east because something they desired was in the east; unfortunatly in the end those 'somethings' were unattainable. ...I decided to go east and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I supposed it could support one more single man. All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep school for me... Nick went to the east to make ...
- 1510: A Critical Analysis of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- ... on his wife's bother Peter Gansevoort. (Humford 33) Allan Melville's sons may have found a more substantial father experience with their maternal uncle Peter Gansevoort. (Edinger 8) Hermans father was to busy with business causing his children to find their uncle as the father figure. This was the start for the financial collapse that later happened Allan Melville was unrealistic and had a lot of wishful optimism. He seems to have been a man who constantly lived beyond his means, continually expecting a great windfall to be around the corner. (Humford 35) When Allan Melville was borrowing money for his business, he was trying to fulfill his wife's social ambitions by moving into larger homes. Eventually that bubble burst and Allan Melville had fallen into a total financial and psychological collapse. Although Allan Melville meant ...
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