The caverns were a minor tourist attraction during that time, but since they opened to the general public in 1867, they became quite popular with tourists from all over the world. This is how it all started. Before, Paris used to bury its dead on the outskirts of the city, but that habit changed with the rise of Christianity since they believed they should be buried under or around its churches. By the 10th century, many of Paris’s parish cemeteries were within the city, but As the population of Paris grew, the number of the dead started to increase. Initially, all the churches had their own cemeteries, but the growth of the city and the dead didn’t leave any more space for other people to be buried.
While in the military Gatsby meets Daisy Fay, who is “the most popular of all young girls in Louisville” (Gatsby 74). He becomes enamored immediately. Gatsby leaves for the war, but he comes back to find her married to “Tom Buchanan of Chicago”; Gatsby is grief stricken (Gatsby 78). He is determined to impress Daisy and win her back. To do this, he needs to become wealthy to suit her East Egg lifestyle.
This increase in power made many countries and governments hungry for more power and would do anything to find it. The only thing that stood between Europe and the East were the Muslims. Europeans had been searching for a cheaper and easier route to the East for quite some time but when Marco Polo came back from his almost twenty year journey to China, their desire to find this new route became even more intense. Marco Polo brought back with him tales of luxurious items like rose-tinted pearls and golden pagodas. they realized more than ever that they needed to find this new route to the East.
• In 1948 the ‘Empire Windrush’ ship bought many people from Kingston, Jamaica to England so that they could find work. • The majority were young males but there were also a number of old men and families, when they first got to England they were welcomed with open arms. • The law was written so that these new immigrants had the same full rights as current English residents this also encouraged them to move along with filling vacancies in the hospital and transport services that had been a problem since after the war. • The immigration was then made more widespread which meant many North England and London textiles firms took on people from India and Pakistan. • In the late 1950s people started to react to the sudden influx of immigration with ‘no
The Great Gatsby Nick lived on the west egg and across from him stood a mansion, it was Jay Gatsby’s mansion. From his house he could see all the big parties, which Gatsby threw. Gatsby rarely attended any of his own parties, so many people who attended these parties did not even know who Gatsby was. Two of Nick’s old friends Tom and Daisy, moved into East Egg, into an elaborate, cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, over-looking the bay. Daisy had a history with Gatsby, she and Gatsby had been in love five years ago.
For this tea party, Gatsby sent workers over to cut Nick’s lawn, set up flowers around his house, and bring a fine silver tea set. This was all for trying to impress Daisy so that she would come to his house, and it worked. When Daisy came to Nick’s house, she saw Gatsby’s in a distance and asked if they could all go and take a tour. She was shocked at the amount of wealth that Gatsby had, but she realized that he was considered “new money,” which would be a problem. She could tell that he had “new money,” first because of their past and her knowing his wealth did not come from his family, and second, because of where he lived.
In the story it said that rich girls don’t marry poor men, and that is shown in both Gatsby and fitzgerald. “the publication of this side of paradise on march 26, 1920, made the twenty-four year old fitzgerald famous almost over night, and a week later he married Zelda sayre in new york. Zelda married fitzgerald when he became famous and had a lot of money. Daisy married Gatsby when he impressed her with his big parties. “daisy is won over, oddly, by the amount of shirts that Gatsby owns” (www.geocities.com).
The new production of The Great Gatsby portrayed the 1920’s with decent historical accuracy. After coming out of WWI Americans searched for pleasure and entertainment. This was evident in the movie with the numerous extravagant parties that were thrown and was shown through the lifestyles the characters lived. During this time period everyone was after the American Dream of wealth and freedom. Many people in America had hopes of attaining this dream but many were stuck in poverty working in the cities factories, or ash valley as seen in the movie.
Al Capone Until the 1920’s organized crime was not so organized. When the 1920s came, the American lifestyle changed drastically. Many people started investing money into their home appliances and new automobiles, ladies became flirtier, and started wearing shorter skirts, and drinking became very popular. Also, organized crime came to a rise in the1920's. And in the high ranks of organized crime and violence was Al Capone.
Globalization and commercialization influence lifestyle and taste, especially for the middle class. Golfing is such a result and a desire to show off prestige, delicacy, wealth and taste. According to Chen (2006, as cited in Zhang, Deng, Majumbar & Zheng, 2009) the consumption of luxury goods such as tourism, houses, cars and insurances has rapidly increased among the middle-class Chinese population in the last two decades. The anti-capitalism ideology does not longer exists and the saying “getting rich is glorious” is replacing the old one “money is rusty”. Also adventurous and active western leisure activities such as tennis, camping golfing and rock climbing have been introduced to China.