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Alan Hopgood’s “And the Big Men Fly” is a written comedic play about a country farmer named Achilles Jones, who is recruited to play for the West Melbourne Football Club. His character’s development allows Achilles to be a key player for the football team, though he never has any passion for the VFL. In the novel, Achilles has represented Australian stereotypes of a typical country person almost exactly through never traveling far from his farm and by always appearing dumb and uneducated. In addition to the stereotypes, his character only tends to enjoy the simple aspects of life.

Earning money in modern economic is a expression of proficiency and virtue it helps deal with his ethics. His argument is that “more and more money” is not happiness and ultimately it is “absolutely irrational.” Olaudah Equianos and Benjamin Franklin both use their arguments to express their point, however Olaudah uses facts and Benjamin uses his intellect.

Sing Down the Moon, a book written by Scott O’Dell is about a young Navajo girl named Bright Morning who is tending her flock of sheep with her friend, Running Bird, when they spot Spanish slavers coming toward them. They are both captured and taken to a village. There they are sold to different families as servants. Running Bird and Bright Morning later escape with another Native American servant, Nehana. Soon after returning home to their tribe, the Long Knives make everyone leave their homes, and take almost nothing other than water and food. Suddenly the Navajo tribe is ambushed by the Long Knives and forced to walk to an Apache/Navajo reservation.

Louis L’Amour, in “Trap of Gold”, uses John Wetherton, and the Mountain to develop the theme, “Don't get to greedy because it can all disappear in a blink of an eye”. This story is about a man named John Wetherton who hikes up into the mountains in search of gold, but when he does this he is risking his life by almost getting killed by the mountain.

Money— sweeter than honey but oh so destructive. It facilitates a man’s life, while a lack of it imprisons him in the streets of penury. It raises his social status, while an absence of it leaves him unnoticed. It gives him an aura of superiority and importance among others, while a deficiency of it makes him worthless in society’s eyes. Considering these two roads, most do not take more than a second to decide to chase riches.

In the book, “a raisin in the sun”, by Lorraine Hansberry, one main theme is that Money is both good and bad.

In Voltaire’s novella Candide, the main character’s newly found wealth from an idealized Eldorado is exploited by the world’s fixation of greed that ultimately effects himself and others as he learns that money cannot buy happiness.

There are people in this world who think that money can give them anything. This can be food to water to ease and joy. Consequently, they comprehend that money will have a life filled with ease and happiness. But what you don’t visualize is that building these thoughts will lead to an obsessive, joyless, person going the extra mile to get that cash. Why this is unacceptable I might add is where is the ease and the joy you endured obsessively to have? Suffering long hours so you have ease but have no time to rest. Tolerating days of labor to find happiness, but find yourself empty when you have nothing to show yourself for it. D.H. Lawrence demonstrates this perfectly in his short story by including foreshadowing and symbolism, “The Rocking

The newcomers changed by their experience in California with different expectations. First, the gold-seekers only thought about money in their mind. They tried to use different way to gain the profit as fast as they could. Even though the gold-seekers lost their

The flow of silver created an obsession for luxury goods as well as greed. In document 1,

Next is McCandless, in Krakauer’s Wild, whom is an actual person that existed: which means that this is a real life society being interpreted. Now, he had everything you could have imagined, money, and a social life: still he dreamed of going to Alaska, a place for “dreamers and misfits” in his mind. (Krakauer 4) His search for happiness is because he’s dissatisfied with his life, even with money life is not perfect. His journey revolves around suspense, abandonment, and overall, survival skills. He does stay in touch after he escapes, sending small postcards every now and then, but ultimately he decides to go his own way to “live amongst the wild” (69). He leaves his mother, Billie, father, Samuel, and his sister, Carine behind, and even with the postcards he sends, they all go through his pseudonym, Alex. His love for the outdoors in his early life pays off for early survival, and throughout the journey he is quite pleased with his new life. Yes, he threw away scholarships, sports, and other activities for basically, a journey to death all because of his “undisciplined imagination” and his drive to pursue it “ with a zeal bordering on obsession” (134). He loved nature, mountain climbing, and overall the dangers of it, even if he was

“...my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all my belongings…(Creech 1).” Conflict can help a person grow throughout a journey, it can help them grow internally and externally throughout it. In Walk Two Moons, the character ,Sal, grows throughout the journey from sad to excited, or hopeful to feeling guilty.

I found that the impression of things; especially, things that are foreign to a person can be misleading. As shown in "The Gilded Six-Bits", by Zora Neale Hurston, Slemmons tricks Missie May into thinking he had gold and would share it with her, but the gold was actually a gilded coin. I found that the gilded coin to be a metaphor for many of life's aspects, that they are desirable at first glance, but after inspection they are gilded. It is interesting that Hurston used money and gold to represent this because money is something everyone needs and uses, though can't allows obtain. While the first impression of the gold or money is of glamor, stability, and happiness, the cost and realities of obtaining the goal may not be up to par. Money

Wealth has both benefits and dangers. Extreme wealth has the power to allow someone almost unlimited potential, however wealth can easily corrupt and change a person for the worse. Once someone has a taste of wealth they always want more. A prime example of this is the Wilsons, Myrtle and George. They both die because they truly believed money could buy them happiness. “[Tom] What do you want money for, all of a sudden?’ ‘[George] I’ve been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go west.’ ‘Your wife does!’ exclaimed Tom, startled. ‘[George]She’s been talking about it for ten years.’ He rested for a moment against the pump, shading his eyes. ‘And now she’s going whether she wants to or not. I’m going to get her away” (pg 131).

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," said by Neil Armstrong as he took his first steps on the moon during the NASA Apollo 11 expedition to the moon. No man has ever been to the moon before and NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was the first to get someone to land on the moon. NASA has had many great accomplishments in exploring the "new frontier" that have affected the United States ever since it was first created in July 1958. The idea for NASA first started when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite on October 4, 1957. United States started up its own space travel program and started to work on its own projects that would be better in than the Soviet Union's. This all started the great