Norman Mailer, in his article “The Death of Benny Paret,” uses simile to show a comparison between the fight and a commonly known example. He says, “Griffith was in like a cat ready to rip the life out of a huge boxed rat.” This simile is meaningful because it shows the way Griffith was attacking Paret. It shows that Paret was helpless as he was stuck in the rope. The simile adds to the work by giving the reader a visual of what was taking place at that time.
Dana Gioia's poem “Money” grabs hold of the subject that is constantly on everyone’s mind, even those people who have a lot of it. Gioia’s approach is clever and humorous. His language involves almost every cliché and phrase that has ever been said or written about money. The poem is about the importance money has over people.
Herbert Hoover’s presidency is associated with the Great Depression seeing that eight months into his term, the stock market collapsed starting an economic depression that would leave 23% of Americans unemployed by 1932. Hoover failed to take the actions needed to help the country initially, however in his annual speech to Congress in 1932, Hoover discusses three directions in which the government can take to aid the rebuilding of the economy. When the United States Stock Market crashed in October 1929 and the country began its ten year Depression, businesses and banks began closing left and right. This caused many Americans to lose their jobs and created massive amounts of poverty throughout the country. Prices became inflated and simple,
“The Gospel of Wealth” is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in the June of 1889. It describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. We are studying about the Guiled age which was the last few decades of the nineteenth. It was a period of transformation in the economy, technology, government, and social customs of America.
The method in which Robert Thornton of East Newton, the likely author of Sir Perceval of Galles, portrays Sir Perceval shows that this young hero is a parody of the Chivalric knight described in The Book of the Order of Chivalry. Specifically, the poem appoints an arbitrary positive value of moderation, especially considering the amount of food consumed and how Perceval obtains it. Sir Perceval of Galles parodies the Chivalric knight through absurdity, rhetorical questioning, and irony, turning Sir Perceval into a caricature of the ideal knight. The scene in which Sir Perceval enters the Black Knight’s abode and steals half of the fodder in the manger and half of the food in the hall provides an excellent example of how absurdity functions
In William Hazlitt’s essay, “On the Want of Money” (1827), he claims that man cannot live comfortably without money. Hazlitt supports this claim by illustrating the social and economic burden of poverty and by describing the aftermath of success. Hazlitt writes to expose the dehumanization of man through the reliance on money. The author produces this piece to everyone because money impacts everyone.
Instead of wasting money on unnecessary objects or luxurious items, the rich should use it for public good. Carnegie was a “Scottish immigrant” (Roark 524) who worked hard to become an influential figure in the Industrial era where competition meant everything. Since Carnegie knew the value of hardship and money, he could relate to those who were victims of big private corporations. According to Carnegie, “whether the change be for good or ill, it is upon us, beyond our power to alter, and therefore, to be accepted and made the best of it” (Carnegie 53). Again, Carnegie here advices other wealthy individuals to wisely spend their money on public, even though many imperialist at the time did not agree with Carnegie.
In the excerpt from “On the Want of Money” by William Hazlitt, the writer demands that in order to be considered important in this society one needs to have money. The intended purpose of the text is to persuade people into believing that money is a necessity. Through the use of diction, empathetic examples, and punctuation Hazlitt degrading those who don’t have money in order to exemplify the belief that in order to be successful you must have money. Hazlitt’s use of diction is well planned throughout the entire essay.
People in the United States take money for granted like no other country in the world. We don’t seem to understand that people across the world are starving to death, and making less money in a day than a casual American will spend on a soda. America is only the 3rd most giving country in the world! Which I find astonishing, one might think that’s pretty good, however with all the resources we have in this country, I feel that is an embarrassing statistic. Throughout this reading I will be talking about two well-known philosophers Emmanuel Kant, and Peter Singer and their distinctions on the way people are spending their money, and how we can save life’s by maximizing possessions.
His opposition to “new money” and “old money” teaches me that stereotyping based on money and matter of residence—East Egg and West Egg—is undoubtedly amoral. If someone is wealthy, what difference does it matter where they inherited their wealth from, whether it be through their own hard work or through heritage? These unnecessary labels may be horrendous in the story, but they teach me to analyze why people are labeled in the first place. It forces me to decide for myself whether I will lead myself down the cold, dark path, or find the pot of morality at the end of the rainbow. Nick accounts the quote his father gave him that developed his conscience and intellect into what he writes his story based from: “’Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had’”
The ideas which most interested me was how society was more focused on wealth and how they are socially perceived. The creative is set in the early 1920’s in West Egg Long Island, exploring the idea of success and wealth encountering the pretensions people.” It is the 1920’s, a time of tremendous change.
In The Ascent of Money Niall Ferguson discusses the evolution of finance and how it impacted human progression. The book provides a historical look at money from the earliest coin used in modern-day Turkey that dates back as long as 600 BC (p.24) to how money is used today and how it will be used in the future. Ferguson discusses the rise of money and credit, the bond market, the stock market, insurance, real estate and international finance. Ferguson discusses the origins of money and credit and how it helped shape the modern economy.
“It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in awhile and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy” (George Horace Lorimer). This quote from George Horace Lorimer gives an example of how people should really be spending their lives, instead of some way people usually do. It is important to enjoy the things in life that money can’t buy, including friends, family, natural beauty, etc. It is important to recognize or a person will lose their sense of reality, and instead, focus only on themselves and their money. As seen in the criticism, McAdams argues that wealth classes makes everyone separate and shows readers that money really does rule the world.
Throughout the novel the meaning of money to Lily seldom changes. As can be observed her lust for money grows in intensity as she becomes poorer. In her novel Edith Wharton emphasize that money are closely related to ideas like freedom and slavery or dependence and independence: every time Lily comes across money, she feels free. Whenever she falls into debt, she feels enslaved. Her emotional life depends on her material matters.
Contrary to the common lesson that money can’t buy happiness and one would be happier without the burden of it, those living in reality know that it certainly can. It’s a shallow though phrased in this manner; its more fitting wording to the lesson should be that money can’t buy everything. In William Hazlitt’s passage, he writes about the lifetime of hardship one lives with the lack of money. His sarcastic, convincing, and overemphasized diction and syntax can leave a bitter taste at the end.
