Particularly vulnerable groups were the old, who had no means of acquiring money. The young, were dependant on their parents’ financial status and good will, if they were not orphans. Seasonal workers were vulnerable due to the cyclical nature of their employment. Anyone who suffered from illness either long or short term fell into poverty because there were no sickness benefits. Women were another vulnerable group because they were always paid at a lower rate than men.
Daisy had been raised to marry for money and keep her family’s name involved in old money and lavish events. Doing otherwise was socially unacceptable. When Daisy met Tom she may have once loved or still was in love with Gatsby, however Tom’s old money and social status was all that mattered to her. I don’t think social status and money are as important to Daisy as maintaining her reputation
This shows that although Daisy loved him she chose her family over him even though she wasn’t very happy with the decision. For many people money is an important aspect of life. Daisy found money and social status very important in order to keep her somewhat ‘happy’ by getting anything she wanted. Tom Buchanan gave Daisy lots of material things in order to do this. For example of page 74, it quotes that Daisy receives ‘a string on pearls’ the day before her wedding to Tom but also on the same say she also get a letter from her former lover Gatsby, gets drunk after reading it and has a moment where she hesitates about marrying Tom but after she sobers up she ‘squeezed it up in a wet ball……And walked out of the room, the pearls around her neck and the incident was over’ as it also quotes on pages 74 and 75.
Matt now has a son, a good wife, and an ordinary life; he still has a good family life without going to university. In contrast with Kate, although she has good education and job, she doesn’t have her own family and in fact, she says, “I had never thought I would really love anyone.” (89) From another perspective, she seems to be the one that is going to have a sad life. Similar with Luke, when he rejects Sally it is due to his responsibility as a caregiver. He is happy with his decision since it is for his family. If Matt chooses to go to university instead and leaves Marie, he will most likely lose his happiness and truly be an emotionless “nerd” and suffers like Kate who does not truly knows the meaning of love.
Esperanza Rising Esperanza came from a wealthy family; they lived in El Rancho de Las Rosas. She lived on a large ranch were family and servants. Tragically her father died leaving her family very poor. While Esperanza was wealthy she was very uncompassionate to the poor, she found them to be dirty and below her. When she became poor Esperanza still felt that she was above all of the poor people she was now living and working with.
It is due to her god power that she is able to manipulate people for personal gain. An example of this is the conversation with King Creon and Medea; 'I'll go. I am not begging to stay. … Just one day! Let me stay and make plans for exile.’[4] Despite Creon telling Medea that he does see her as a threat to his daughter, she was still able to manipulate Creon into allowing her to stay for one more day to “get her affairs together”.
She says because I was on’y fifteen. But the guy says I coulda. If I’d went, I wouldn’t be livin like Hurley 2 this, you bet.” (Steinbeck 88) Daisy from the Great Gatsby dream was to be married to her husband because she lost the chance of becoming famous. Daisy was only married to her husband, because he was rich and he could provide for her. Both Daisy and Curley’s wife didn’t really truly love their husbands.
Such other influences such as their family’s poverty and lack of opportunities has made him realize that he didn’t want to live such a life, as he got older. He wanted to live the life of luxury and to be able to make it to the top of whatever industry he pursued in. Due to those thoughts, he was highly influenced by his mother’s daily dreams of making it to the top, and see that her family also lives a life of luxury, one day. His father’s fail of being able to keep the money in their lives stable and be able to work in a well job, truly made Carnegie see in his eyes, that he wanted to surpass his father. He was going to surpass
Antigone is justified in burying her brother because no person should have to rot in the sun and be eaten by animals. Antigone is staying loyal to her family and the gods. Some people may believe that Creon did the right thing by sentencing Antigone to be buried alive. Furthermore, he is the king and his laws should be followed no matter what. However, Creon makes all of his decisions on his own and in pursuit of his professional goal of strengthening his power.
Another interesting was ghost writing that was discovered by officers during mail search. The gang members used codes in the mail to communicate that no one else could have comprehended besides them. After lot of hard work investigators were able to crack down the code, which ordered gang members to kill the correction officers. These methods just amazed me. It seems like it’s almost impossible to stop these gang members from communicating once the officers and investigator find one means of their communication they find a new one by that time.