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- 291: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- ... period in which he lived known as the Jazz Age. During this era people were either rich or dreamt of great wealth. Fitzgerald fell into the trap of wanting to be wealthy, and suffered great personal anguish because of these driving forces. I have chosen to write a term paper on F.Scott Fitzgerald. The goal of this presentation is to show F. Scott Fitzgerald's life through his defeats and ... his parents. These inner conflicts in his early life could have contributed to his inability to manage his finances, along with his constant obsession of gaining extreme wealth. Fitzgerald later went to Princeton University, where writing and football were his main interests. It was there that he met friends Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. Fitzgerald was too small to play football so he joined a fraternity called the triangle club ... the army and prepared to fight in World War I. It was soon after his mobilization that he sold his first story to the Smart Set. This was the beginning of Fitzgerald's passion for writing, and at this time Fitzgerald also met his future wife Zelda while serving in the army. Unable to make sufficient money to win the love of Zelda and not being sent away to war ...
- 292: Creative Writing: Dogs and Cats
- Creative Writing: Dogs and Cats The cursed cat. He was grinning at them, that insolent face just grinning and staring, those disgusting whiskers twitching, the disgusting muddy fur, the disgusting hole in his ear. Scampi and Mustard ... sitting dejectedly back in his yard. "Why didn't I see it?" he kept muttering. The two were a sorry sight. Mustard, however, was very much eager to continue. He considered this latest defeat a personal attack; first the hairball in the face, then poor Scampi's accident. That was a cold-blooded move, Mustard had no doubt. The cat could have knocked over the ladder as soon as they put ...
- 293: James Baldwin
- ... during 1924 in Harlem. His father, David, was a clergyman and a factory worker, and was the source of all of James Baldwin's fears. Baldwin's mother, Berdis, was a homemaker. Baldwin first started writing around age fourteen as a way of seeking the love which he was missing from his family life. During this time Baldwin attended Frederick Douglas Junior High School and DeWitt Clinton High School. During his school years, Baldwin won several awards for his writings. The joy that he felt from having others praise his work was overshadowed, however, by his father's disapproval of his non-Christian-oriented writing. James Baldwin's father was a very religious Christian who forced the church on young James. For a few years (from ages fourteen through seventeen), Baldwin was even a preacher. It was the bittersweet beauty ... was another grueling and spiteful account of racism in the United States. Baldwin would end up making France his home for over ten years. James Baldwin's time in France was very important for his writing career and his personal life. He would write all day and party all night. Baldwin had several relationships while in France. While many people in the United States frowned upon both homosexuality and interracial ...
- 294: Writing.......It's Not Just For Fun Anymore!
- Writing.......It's Not Just For Fun Anymore! I am writing to support the new writing class being discussed for the Junors' and Seniors' curriculum. I bielive that these classes will help them not only in the work force, but will give them a better education. In the world today, ...
- 295: Creative Writing: Heroz
- Creative Writing: Heroz Once upon a time in a land called Lamron, there was a castle called Lamron Castle. The town was always threatened by dragons that would appear out of the sky and for no apparent ... wanted it to continue. They wanted to feel important. In reviewing with the Boss the Spell Book, they came upon a section marked "Warning: People in an organization have two kinds of needs. They have personal needs. That is, people need to think of themselves as being valued. They need to have their feelings respected. And each important member of the group.However, people in an organization also have practical needs ...
- 296: Managing Service Delivery
- ... together in a common cause" in order to meet a common goal. "A vision is little more than an empty dream until it is widely shared and accepted" (Nanus, 1992). Many leaders begin with a personal vision realising that it ultimately will be implemented by others in the organisation. Whether the vision begins with a leader's personal concept or a group's consensual image of a programs picture of the future, it is important that there be a sense of ownership of the vision. "Studies indicate that it is the presence of this personal vision on the part of a leader, shared with members of the organisation, that may differentiate true leaders from mere managers" (Manasse, 1986,). A leader's vision needs to be shared by those who ...
- 297: Email What Is It Good For
- ... If someone reads your E-mail and get information about you they can get into your life without you even knowing, they can steal your credit card accounts and most importantly they can take your personal possession away that you store in your computer. Telling a businessman not to use E-mail is like telling Romeo to stay away from Juliet, it's a need, and it is like a drug ... on your point of view. To some people E-mail is efficient and to others its annoying. Whatever your take is its simple to say E-mail beats snail mail in efficiency but loses the personal touch. People's fears of computer cause them to make hasty generalization about E-mail. They hate E-mail because of little things, one of them being SPAM mail. SPAM mail is bulk mail in ... are other things that can be done to avoid being hit by spammers; Don't respond to SPAM, doing that just encourages the spammers by verifying your E-mail address, stay mysterious by not creating personal profiles with your online services and lie on on-line forms. Lying on forms, staying mysterious, does that sound like a spy movie to you? No, it is just the "Internet". The Internet is ...
- 298: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... life of F. Scott Fitzgerald is marked by as much, if not more, romanticism and tragedy than his novels. Throughout Fitzgerald’s life, he unsuccessfully battled alcoholism, depression, and himself, in a quest for both personal and literary identity. At the age of twenty-three, Fitzgerald published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, to critical raves and unimaginable economic success. Shortly after the publishing of this novel, Fitzgerald was able to coerce Zelda Sayre into marriage. This marriage is manifestly the most significant event of his life—eventually, Zelda would not only expedite, but essentially, cause the personal and literary downfall of Fitzgerald. Upon marriage, and also coinciding with the pinnacle of Fitzgerald’s fame, Scott and Zelda began living a life of wasteful extravagance that was often characterized by recklessly drunken behavior ... novels, and focus his creative efforts on penning lucrative, but by no means extraordinary, short stories. Throughout their marriage, Zelda put constant economic, as well as, emotional strains on Fitzgerald. She encouraged his short story writing, as well as his drinking, and was continually swaying his focus from writing to socializing. Also, Zelda’s eventual mental breakdown triggered Scott’s own series of nervous breakdowns. Because of these factors, Zelda ...
- 299: Conformity And Obedience
- ... as the instrument... and no longer regards himself as responsible for his action” (p. 354). Milgram’s experiment proved that when doing a job as instructed by an authority figure the feelings of duty and personal emotion are separated. Responsibility shifts in the minds of the subordinate from himself/herself to the authority figure. There is a purpose for the actions or goals of the authority, and the subordinate is depended ... subjects were fully aware of the nature of the experiment, given the authority, the guards transgressed the boundaries of norms that are considered acceptable. Zimbardo’s experiment demonstrated the power of social situations to distort personal identity. What social value did this test serve? Zimbardo proved that social roles might affect behavior more than personality in certain situation. Zimbardo writes, “abnormal social and personal reactions are best seen as a product of... an environment that supported the behavior” (p.374). Like Milgram, Zimbardo determined that almost all humans would do what they are told if they believe the ...
- 300: The Devil and Tom Walker: Human Intent and the Aftermath of It
- The Devil and Tom Walker: Human Intent and the Aftermath of It Washington Irving, in writing "The Devil and Tom Walker", and Stephen Vincent Benet, in writing "The Devil and Daniel Webster" illustrate to the reader the consequences of man's desire for material wealth and how a person's motivation for a relationship with the devil affects the outcome of the ... they even conspired to cheat each other" (128). In the story, one sees a man make a deal with the devil, who in the story is known as "Old Scratch", for the sole purpose of personal gain. Tom Walker, seeing only the possible wealth that he could achieve, bargains with the devil and finally reaches an agreement which he sees to be fair. Tom does not see the danger present ...
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