Michelle Jung Mrs. Bellizzi English V 05 October 2012 Money: the source of corruption After World War I, the economy in America thrived changing many aspects of American life. d in the United States during this time period. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the corrupt society in the East during the Roaring Twenties. During this period, everyone seems to be happy and enjoying their lives. However, Fitzgerald demonstrates that economic prosperity can be easily misunderstood by suggesting that money is a source of corruption.
A college education is an important part of a students education. They are all taught at a young age to go to college and to get a good education so that they can get a well paying job. They can’t do that if they can’t afford the prices of the college and so then they have no choice but to not go to college. The prices of college are a big increase and the government needs to see how important it is to students and lower the cost. It is causing students to to have higher student debts, dropout rate to increase, and more stress and
The novel, published in 1925, explores life in the early- to mid-1920s. Politically speaking, this was a time of growth and prosperity, as well as a time of corruption. World War I, the first war of its kind anyone had ever known, had ended in 1919. When Warren G. Harding assumed the presidency in 1920, one of his goals was to bring the country back to business as usual. However, this proved to be a difficult task because Harding's administration was plagued by scandal and corruption, as well as opposition mounted by both unions and organised crime.
“The Great Gatsby” The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, focuses on America in the 1920’s and an American dream based on wealth and material excess. Fitzgerald shows that in the 1920’s social and moral values were decaying because so many people were indulging in vain and unrealistic pleasures of the world. Through the mindset of conspicuous consumption among Americans, people were overly concerned about wealth and social status. All three characters are examples of this mind set and it is why Daisy is unable to sacrifice her privileged social status with Tom to be with Gatsby. Her relationship with Gatsby was defiantly closer to the definition of love, but because of where her heart really is, she’s better suited for Tom.
People began using money to strengthen their power. The original focus of money stats eyed deteriorating fast. Gatsby decided to retrieve money illegally all for one purpose. His focus was not on wealth, social class and the finer things in life but how all of his wealth intrigued Daisy. Daisy took advantage of Gatsby, led him on and in the end she showed her true colors.
With this in mind, without a college education makes it hard to compete for a high-paying job in the world that we live in today. A higher education comes with a price, and that price is high tuitions. Many high school graduates are discouraged from going to college because of their fear of going into debt like my brother. But a higher education is an investment that if done right, will pay off in the future like my sister. The growing economy makes not having a college education no longer an option to be taking lightly.
So both the novel The Great Gatsby and the story “Babylon Revisited” are products of the time, products of 1920s. Narrating just about the lives of the several characters F.Scott Fitzgerald skillfully depicts the whole society, introduces us closely to the history of America at that decades, shows reader’s how the American Dream was changing throughout that time period : how suddenly pursuit of wealth and materialism became the main goal of most people, how after that thousands of people lost everything in the market crash and how the whole generation of flappers and pleasure-seekers was eventually lost. While comparing two works The Great Gatsby and “Babylon Revisited” one can’t not to notice the central role of the past in them. As both books begin narrating about the present events and gradually deep into the past. Present is impossible without the past, and F.Scott Fitzgerald was fully aware of this essential fact.
Consumption skyrocketed as Americans relished in the heyday of western capitalism. The environment that emerged from this climate helped to bring about an “orgy of speculation” sending Americans scrambling for easy profits in the bull market of the 1920s. However through excessive leveraging, borrowing on margin, and a restrictive economic policy, the boom soon turned to bust. The belief that high price levels could be maintained indefinitely was proved drastically wrong in what will forever be remembered as one of the worst economic disasters in the annals of American History. What was set in motion in late October 1929 can be traced back to the brewing market conditions and economic environment of the very decade it which the crash took place.
The pursuit of educational value impacts individuals differently as it a personal journey and sometimes a personal struggle but as I matured I realize that society places high importance on earning degrees and being successful without always providing the effective foundations to do so. The rate of high school drop outs alone is at a
This play focuses on hopes, ambitions, dreams and the American Dream as I will discuss in the following essay. In a sense, through his main character Willy Loman, Miller examines the myth of the American Dream and the shallow promise of happiness through material wealth. During the 1920’s a euphoric period came about when people dreamed of becoming wealthy and invested heavily in the stock market. This term was dubbed The Roaring Twenties. In 1929, the Wall Street Crash brings the Roaring Twenties to an end and in 1930 came the American depression, which created mass unemployment, homelessness and starvation.