People of The Great Gatsby and People of Today
The young adults in F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby are
similar to the adults of today. They show resemblance by
portraying racism, irresponsibility, and corruption. Like the young adults
of today many display integrity and are innocent. The people of
the two generations exploit violence and have gangs and gang leaders.
The generation of the 20's and the generation of the 00's exhibit
irresponsibility and corruption through many characters such as Myrtle,
Meyer Wolfshiem and Tom. After Myrtle bought the puppy she took no care of
it at all. She never took it for walks, didn't feed it continuously, and
later we find his dog leash just lying around.
Tom was irresponsible and prejudice towards other races which were
different form his in many instances. His irresponsibility was displayed
when he was having an affair with Myrtle and not staying together with
Daisy. Tom's prejudice on other races was revealed when he said, "nowadays
people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next
they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and
white,"(137). In society today many races are discriminated against because
they are thought to be inferior. In school, at work, and in anyone's
neighborhood there is discrimination because of the skin color and they are
harassed. There was violence in the 20's with gangs and mob leaders such as
Al Capone. He was a notorious racketeer who fought with other gangs. Today
there are also gang crimes like in the music business there were killings
of two rap artists. The killings took place because of animosity among the
East Coast and the West Coast rappers.
Even though there is discrimination and irresponsibility many young
adults prove their integrity and assist others in the most crucial times.
Everyone thought Gatsby was a killer and they were scared of him but he was
compassionate. When Nick says, "They're a rotten crowd, You're worth the
whole damn bunch put together,"(162), we feel the same way about him
because his love for Daisy was most valuable to him. He takes the blame of
Daisy for killing Myrtle even though he knows his life can be taken away in
jail.
Much has been written about the difference between management and leadership. In the past, competent management staffs ran effective companies. In light of our ever-changing world, however, most companies have come to realize that it is much more important to lead than to manage. In today's world the old ways of management no longer work. One reason is that the degree of environmental and competitive change we are experiencing is extreme. Although exciting, the world is also very unstable and confused. In an article entitled What’s the Difference between Your Hospital and the Other? Gary Campbell states that the difference between a manager and a leader is that the manager “finds himself quite willing to take risk, but seemingly afraid to take the risk of being different.” That being true, a manager will always be reactive instead of proactive. A true leader will be proactive. He will embrace change and will look for ways to differentiate himself and his company from the competition.
The year 1925 landed in the middle of the roaring twenties. In the 1920’s, a lot of things happened such as the prohibition of alcohol, social change where more people lived in the cities, and the overall boom of wealth as the economy grew. This change in the lifestyle of the people sparked a decade of riches. Once accumulating every dollar after dollar, millionaires bought mansions to throw extravagant parties, galas and balls to impress the rich, the richer, and the richest. Not only did money play an important part of this era, but literature also had a significant and vital role. One of the numerous writers was F. Scott Fitzgerald. Wanting to capture the twenties in its midst, Fitzgerald wrote the literary classic, The Great Gatsby. The
In the novel The Great Gatsby it is greatly seen how the roaring 20’s was a booming society after the World War One. The Roaring Twenties was a period when economic success was sustained. This was a time to rejoice as well as a time to overcome the restrictions of the Victorian era. The fashion in the 20’s was less restricting than the past years and began to wear more comfortable clothes such as short skirts or trousers, the music was all about the jazz and the alcohol and dancing this was rapidly developing in Chicago, the most popular dances during the decade the foxtrot, waltz, and American tango.
In the beginning of this novel everyone seems to know, or at least have heard, about Gatsby. He is talked about a lot and it is manly in a good way. Gatsby appears to be a very powerful person who also has a lot of respect from people. He has a very strange and kind of mysterious personality. For example when he has his party’s, usually on ever Saturday night, he seems to isolate himself from ...
The past and future to people are the most frightening thing. The past is what makes your future, or helps you fix your future and make it better. People sometimes stay in their past because they are too scared of the future and what their future is going to be like. The past is usually when all the good things happened to people, so they try and stay in the past but the point of the past is to have a plan for the future, and plan that will make your life better. The novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the film Chicago directed by Rob Marshall takes place in the 1920s and shows us how different we see life now, then how people saw life back then. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby wants to forget his past except for the fact that he still loves daisy, While Gatsby longs to re-create his past romance with Daisy and build a new future together. He tries to hide his past with non credible facts about his past in order to help his future become more successful. The Film Chicago which is very similar to The Great Gatsby because Roxie, has a bad past that puts her in a bad position, That finally put her on the new paper. Roxie only cares about fame and money and attempts to break free from her marriage to build a future for herself.
The most significant weakness for Belle Couleur would be the undifferentiated product that will be introduced to the Dutch market. Although the number of shades of hair color will be reduced to accommodate the limited retail shelf space, the colors offered will not be reformulated to cater to Dutch preferences. The colors available to the Dutch market will be those that have been specifically formulated for the French market. The problem lies in the differences in color preferences of the Dutch and French women. While the French prefer darker and conservative colors, the Dutch preferences lie at the opposite end of the color spectrum, preferring lighter shades. The market research indicated that buying intentions of the Dutch women decreased after the test-use because the color ¡§didn¡¦t cover gray¡¨ or ¡§was too dark¡¨. Moreover, competing local and international brands in the hair colorant market formulate their products to Dutch market preferences.
his poor youth kept him from being an aristocrat. Daisy only wanted to be with
The culture in the Great Gatsby and the culture now is similar in some ways. One similarity is money. In the Great Gatsby, most people had a lot of money and thought it was important. High priced and expensive items is what people liked in the Great Gatsby. Since the stock market was at a good place and many people made good money, they usually just spent all their money. For example, in the novel many people partied all the time and splurged on houses , cars, alcohol, and women bought a lot of nice clothing like dresses. In the Great Gatsby no one really thought about any negatives. Their life consisted of money,parties, and happiness. For our culture nowadays people still need money since it is important to living but people now don’t spend
MoreOver, being that Gatsby was chasing after the American Dream shows a little bit about him. People seen him as hardworking to get where he was because he was very poor at first. That did not seem to be so great about him. Although despite that, many others were envious of him because of how popular and high demand he was and also how much money and wealthy he was. He seemed to be the main attraction but made very poor decisions while living and many people tended to see who he really was and view that he was not that “great” or great at all.
The Great Gatsby is still a relevant novel today through discrimination of races, materialism, and society and class. The characters in The Great Gatsby show these type of elements throughout the novel. These types of elements are still shown around the world today but differently than the past. The Great Gatsby is still a good and relevant example of today’s modern society.
For one to be a leader, one must have followers, however; not everyone under management, follow the managers orders? That is why they question if managers are leaders. The main question is what constitutes as leadership? In order to achieve these roles, they must have influence over their subordinates, but does the level of influence fluctuate between a manager’s role and a leader’s role? What exactly are their individual roles? The purpose of this paper is to analysis these questions and to identify the differences and similarities between managers and leaders.
There have been many debates whether leadership and management are the same but every research has different output. Many researchers have said that leadership and management are closely associated with each other but the debate still goes on. In different aspects leadership and management are always linked with each other. Leadership is one part of management which every management performs for the benefit of the organization. There are many examples like Steve Jobs of Apple, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Mark Zukerburg of Facebook and Azim Premji of Wipro who are the leading examples of leadership related to management. Leadership is one of the roles performed by the management in order to attain success.
The process of their working is different but sometimes they work together. Managers are maintaining the organization structure and status. On the other hand leaders are setting goal, direction, find new ways and challenging. Manager’s activities depend on human, time, money and equipment included decision making, problem solving, planning, budgeting, controlling, discipline etc. Leader’s activities depending and leading on inspiring and empowerment included inspiration, motivation, team work, make relationships, teaching and couching etc.
Scientific management is known to be one of the most profitable theories. In this theory it is believed that working in a safe and supportive environment leads to stable work relationship and a gradual increase in cooperativeness leads to a good end result. Whereas, in comparison to administrator management where skills such as human relationship, financial stability and control. Both are very useful for modern theory as it helps improves and is beneficial to the organisation however, they are both made for very different reasons. Scientific management for instances improve the level of stability, efficiency and effectiveness in other words when the workers are happy with their working conditions then that would lead to an increase in the productivity levels (Schermerhorn et al. 2014). The downside behind this theory is that people are treated like machines as the workers will have to work harder and continue in the same pace. There is a limitation in this scientific theory, each individuals are expected to follow the task accordingly but in reality every person is different to one another so it cannot be expected that each person has the ability to do the same kind of thing. There are always going to be people that may not want to work in tough situations. If the workers have to face something more challenging than they are most likely to do well if they get an uplift from the managers and credibility for their
In conclusion you learn that leadership and management are to separate identities that work very close with each other. Leadership is the ability to lead and management is the ability to control. When you are faced with being a manager for an organization you have to use certain steps to properly fulfill your job as a manager. Properly communicating, perceiving, motivating, implementing groups, controlling stress and satisfaction are just some of the components that help you carry out leadership effectively. As you gain experience from being a manager and you see and interact with different work scenarios you will be able to deal with situations better. When you carry yourself professionally and put your best foot forward your employees follow you because they have faith in you.