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- 251: Luciano
- ... Friddi, Sicily, the third child in the Luciana family, little Charles had a penchant for hanging around older kids that contributed to his mischievous behavior. The Lucianas set out for a better life in the great land of America in 1906, where they soon found it to be not so great. He logged his first arrest just a few months after his arrival for shoplifting in 1907, and started his first racket during that same year. For a penny or two a day, he offered younger ... would forever live by: The winner will be the one who gets his enemy to trust him (Mobsters). The strengths of Luciano stood out above everything else, loyalty being just one of them. Luciano showed great compassion towards his friends, and always seemed to be one step ahead of everyone else. He possessed the ability to be able to see around the next corner. This helped him tremendously during the ...
- 252: Title Of The Great Gatsby
- Gatsby s Greatness There is much controversy on why F. Scott Fitzgerald chose his masterpiece to be title The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald chose The Great Gatsby as the title to show the duality of how the central character of Jay Gatsby is great in trying determinedly to achieve his goal of Daisy, but how his greatness brings about his own downfall. Gatsby is, at first glance, truly great, for he pursues his dream of Daisy relentlessly. Jordan ...
- 253: The Great Gatsby
- The Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald, embodies many themes; the most salient one relates to the corruption of the American Dream. The American Dream has always been based on the idea that each person no matter who ... he or she is can become successful in life by his or her own hard work. The dream also embodies the idea of a self-sufficient man, an entrepreneur making it successful for himself. The Great Gatsby is about what happens to the American dream in the 1920s, a time period when the dream has been corrupted by the avaricious pursuit of wealth. The pursuit of the American dream is ...
- 254: Europe's The Great War for Empire
- Europe's The Great War for Empire The Great War for Empire was one of the most important factors in shaping the economic and political futures for all of Europe in the eighteenth century and for all time to come. In this essay I ... just eight years previously. King Frederick invaded another province, Saxony, and this triggered another alliance between Austria and France with the goal to totally destroy Prussia. There was also a growing conflict facing France and Great Britain that would continue to increase in momentum. This war was the prelude to what American would call "The French and Indian War" in which these two European countries would fight for land in ...
- 255: The Key To Greatness (great Ga
- ... the business world only to gain vast sums of money an die rich and unhappy. Why are these people wasting away their time only to gain material belongings and not love? In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, mistress, marriage, and true love were the different kinds of love that existed. Tom Buchanan was married to a woman named Daisy, but had a mistress who lived in ... very magical, but Gatsby was sent off to war and by the time he got back, Daisy had found a new love with Tom. Yet Gatsby will never forget his love with Daisy. Gatsby became great in wealth and popularity, but despite this greatness, he struggled to gain the same greatness in his love life. Gatsby could never receive the love he wanted from the one he truly loved. Daisy is ... of gaining the love he once had with Daisy. He only wanted Daisy. He did not seem to care if Daisy loved him for the real Jay Gatsby he was or for the famous millionaire "Great Gatsby." " He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 92). Gatsby ...
- 256: Great Expectations
- Great Expectations - Context Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, and spent the first nine years of his life living in Kent, a marshy region by the sea in the west of England. Dickens' father ... a huge popular success when Dickens was only twenty-five, and he was a literary celebrity throughout England for the rest of his life. Many of the events from Dickens' early childhood are mirrored in Great Expectations, which, apart from David Copperfield, is his most autobiographical novel. Pip, the novel's protagonist, lives in the marsh country, works at a job he hates, considers himself too good for his surroundings, and ... at a very early age. In addition, one of the novel's most appealing characters is a law clerk named Wemmick, and the law, justice, and the courts are all important components of the story. Great Expectations is set in early Victorian England, a time when great social changes were sweeping the nation. The Industrial Revolution had transformed the social landscape, enabling capitalists and manufacturers to amass huge fortunes. Although ...
- 257: Great Expectations
- ... time, the processes are artistically concealed. We follow the movement of a logic of passion and character, the real premises of which we detect only when we are startled by the conclusions. The plot of Great Expectations is also noticeable as indicating, better than any of his previous stories, the individuality of Dickens's genius. Everybody must have discerned in the action of his mind two diverging tendencies, which in this ... romantic unreality. Richard Swiveller and Little Nell refuse to combine. There is abundant evidence of genius both in the humorous and pathetic parts, but the artistic impression is one of anarchy rather than unity. In Great Expectations, on the contrary, Dickens seems to have attained the mastery of powers which formerly more or less mastered him. He has fairly discovered that he cannot, like Thackeray, narrate a story as if he ... and The Newcomes, we are impressed with the actuality of the persons and incidents. There is an absence of both directing ideas and disturbing idealizations. Everything drifts to its end, as in real life. In Great Expectations there is shown a power of external observation finer and deeper even than Thackeray's; and yet, owing to the presence of other qualities, the general impression is not one of objective reality. ...
- 258: Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will: A Work of Art
- ... direction, glorified and mysticized the Nazi party. The film was used to legitimize the Third Reich, thus garnering support for action by the German people. Triumph of the Will poses difficult questions on what constitutes great art more than sixty years after its completion. When evaluating Triumph of the Will, should we separate the films creator, Riefenstahl, from her film and its consequences? When judging a work as great art, should we separate content from form? Can Nazi art be considered great art although we know their message is against humanity? With reference to Ben Shahns book, The Shape of Content, I will examine these questions in an attempt to show that great art like ...
- 259: Great Expectations 3
- ... time, the processes are artistically concealed. We follow the movement of a logic of passion and character, the real premises of which we detect only when we are startled by the conclusions. The plot of Great Expectations is also noticeable as indicating, better than any of his previous stories, the individuality of Dickens's genius. Everybody must have discerned in the action of his mind two diverging tendencies, which in this ... romantic unreality. Richard Swiveller and Little Nell refuse to combine. There is abundant evidence of genius both in the humorous and pathetic parts, but the artistic impression is one of anarchy rather than unity. In Great Expectations, on the contrary, Dickens seems to have attained the mastery of powers which formerly more or less mastered him. He has fairly discovered that he cannot, like Thackeray, narrate a story as if he ... and The Newcomes, we are impressed with the actuality of the persons and incidents. There is an absence of both directing ideas and disturbing idealizations. Everything drifts to its end, as in real life. In Great Expectations there is shown a power of external observation finer and deeper even than Thackeray's; and yet, owing to the presence of other qualities, the general impression is not one of objective reality. ...
- 260: Great Expectations
- ... time, the processes are artistically concealed. We follow the movement of a logic of passion and character, the real premises of which we detect only when we are startled by the conclusions. The plot of Great Expectations is also noticeable as indicating, better than any of his previous stories, the individuality of Dickens's genius. Everybody must have discerned in the action of his mind two diverging tendencies, which in this ... romantic unreality. Richard Swiveller and Little Nell refuse to combine. There is abundant evidence of genius both in the humorous and pathetic parts, but the artistic impression is one of anarchy rather than unity. In Great Expectations, on the contrary, Dickens seems to have attained the mastery of powers which formerly more or less mastered him. He has fairly discovered that he cannot, like Thackeray, narrate a story as if he ... and The Newcomes, we are impressed with the actuality of the persons and incidents. There is an absence of both directing ideas and disturbing idealizations. Everything drifts to its end, as in real life. In Great Expectations there is shown a power of external observation finer and deeper even than Thackeray's; and yet, owing to the presence of other qualities, the general impression is not one of objective reality. ...
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