... given the opportunities to be highly positioned or respected regardless of their notable abilities in their performances. Since many aspects of the American culture have seemingly been built on the myths surrounding the Dream, it encourages employees to work harder in order for the employers to profit more. Although the Dream is always stressed, my opinion is that it actually serves to help the higher positioned or class individuals in protection of their power and control over others. Thus, I believe that we must acknowledge that is an idealized concept and that it simply does not serve its original purpose in our society. Considering many of the disguised fl ...

... tale now has many reasons for being told. In every telling of a folktale, a listener will be entertained, yet learn social values and history as well. Folktales allow the storyteller and the listeners to go off with their imagination into a new world. For the listener, it is pure escapism. The popularity of the folktale has existed so long for one main reason. Stith Thompson , a folklorist himself, has studied reasons in which a folktale is told. He states “Stories may differ in subject from place to place, the conditions and purposes of taletelling may change as we move from land to land or from century to century, and yet everywhere it ministers to the same b ...

... deal with legendary events that were believed to have occurred many centuries before they were written. It is said that these works where used in Ancientt Greek education. Today we see These great works put in to the curiculem of almost every school in America! The Iliad is a story of the trojen war. It begins in the “in media res” faion. That accualy trancelates to, in the middle of things, so that means Homer began his books in the middle of what was happening. The Iliad is set in the final year of the Trojan War. Ittells of an episode in the trojen war, the wrath of Archilles and its tragic consequences, including the ...

... clear writing with convincing arguments. They achieve this clarity due to their understanding and use of ethos, pathos, and logos as the foundations for creating these arguments. Before we can examine the writing on the basis of these three elements, we must first understand the meanings of each. They were conceptualized by Aristotle as the keys to persuading an audience. Ethos, directly translated, means “worthy of belief,” and deals with establishing credibility. Pathos involves “putting hearers…into the right frame of mind with regard to certain issues and the speakers persuasive intent” (Smith 83). Logos includes the argument ...

... she expected him to reciprocate her love and thus was deeply disappointed and hurt when he answered in that manner. In Act IV, Henry Higgins also got a little of his own back when he was sarcastic to Eliza. He used the phrase "You may take the whole damned houseful if you like. Will that satisfy you?". Henry Higgins said this to Eliza when Eliza asked him what she might take if she wanted leave. She said that she did not want to be accused of stealing. But Henry Higgins was very sarcastic, making Eliza appear calculating as she wanted to make sure of what she could take along with her. He was just trying to make her feel bad too. In Act V, Higgins tried to sha ...

... from the fact that she was married to Tom for about 5 years and never once did she think about leaving him. This was all for the simple fact that he had all the superficial qualities that anyone can have. He’s rich, he’s big and hulking, and he’s very offensive. Therefore, although she did not love Tom, she knew he would provide for her with both money and protection. That is why she did not live the American dream. The American dream is all about happiness. I believe that if you are happy with what has happened with you in life, then you have lived the American dream. Sure Daisy seems happy, but inside she went through 5 years of hell. My seco ...

... of Kyauktada because it was where the most respected people came to socialize. In any town in India, the European club is the place where everyone wishes to be a part of. However the exclusive club has never admitted a man of a different race into it's social club because they feel that that the other races non other than theirs is not as civilized . One man who realized that white men are not as superior as they might think, James Flory is desperate to get his black friend, Dr. Veraswami, into the social club. The docter thought of the club as "fortress impregnable" pg 150 and mr. flory will stop at nothing till he is. U Po Kyin, jealous of Veraswami's f ...

... Daisy, who is wealthy and beautiful, symbolizes a way of life which is remote from Gatsby's and therefore more attractive because it is out of reach so he changes himself. (Fitzgerald, -page 54-) Myrtle and Gatsby both want to be part of the same elite crowd. They play a reflection of each other in the book by wanting the same thing but they have different methods of achieving it. Gatsby wants Daisy, and Myrtle just wants to be higher in society. Gatsby plays the god-like character in this book so his means are good but both him and Myrtle do bad things to get higher in a crowd that will never take them in. To make themselves appear better to the other crowd, th ...

... characteristics and presumption of a culture. Mythic narratives usually are about stuff such as, how the world began, how humans and animals were created, why is the sky blue, why do someone go splat when they jump off a cliff, how certain customs work, and other such topics. Almost all cultures possess or at one time possessed and lived in terms of myths. Myths are different from fairy tales in that they refer to a time that is different from ordinary time. The time sequence of myth takes place usually in; an other time, the time before the world came into being, long before there was man, or long ago in a far away galaxy. Because myths refer to strange tim ...

... life because of a selfish refusal to reenter a life of slavery? By examining the complexities of Sethe's character it can be said that she is a woman who chooses to love her children but not herself. Sethe kills her baby because, in Sethe's mind, her children are the only good and pure part of who she is and must be protected from the cruelty and the "dirtiness" of slavery(Morrison 251). In this respect, her act is that of love for her children. The selfishness of Sethe's act lies in her refusal to accept personal responsibility for her baby's death. Sethe's motivation is dichotomous in that she displays her love by mercifully sparing her daughter from a horrific ...