Abstract
This book analyzes the character Lady Brett Ashley from "The Sun Also Rises", a novel by Ernest Hemingway. The paper describes her as a strong and independent female that is comfortable with her sexuality. The author considers Brett an early feminist and describes her flighty behavior and relationships with men. The paper also explains why, despite her questionable behavior in the novel, Lady Brett Ashley can still be considered a sympathetic character.

From the Paper
"She is the dominant figure in her relationships and she does not permit herself to be pressured into a relationship. Brett also has a soft side that is displayed by the way that she shows kindness to the men in her life by breaking things off early on. If she married them, they would certainly be miserable because of her flighty behavior. She is unhappy with her circumstances and frustrated that she is unable to be with the one man that could possibly bring her contentment. Despite her questionable behavior in the novel, Lady Brett Ashley can still be considered a sympathetic character."

Tags:feminist, relationships

Abstract
This paper discusses how even though Lady Brett Ashley could be thought of as an independent, strong, modern woman, she is more accurately described as a woman of the Lost Generation of Hemingway's time. It looks at how she has been trying since the war to find some meaning in her life and how she found Jake, with whom she feels a connection stronger than any other, but who unfortunately is impotent. The writer describes how even when she finds something real in Pedro Romero, she cannot make it happen, because she knows that she will ruin him and his career. The paper concludes that Brett never finds her "truth", so she is doomed to go about life numbing her pain and trying to temporarily find love wherever she can.

From the Paper
''After World War I many men came home wounded. Wounded mentally, from seeing death and confronting fear first hand, and many wounded physically, these men returned less naive. Society as a whole was less naive. It cast off the simple views of Romanticism and became Modernist. People questioned their romantic religious beliefs, as new truths were uncovered by Freud and Darwin. They did, however, begin to look to the past for any truth that could be found. In art, they explored the ancient myths that defied time. This "mythic method'' allowed many works to be written in present day setting, but retelling ancient myths of truth, such as epoch quests, myths of initiation, myths of the scapegoat, and more. The writer explored a fragmented voice. Writers like Hemingway and Faulkner wrote stories using fewer words, but saying more.
''Many writers fled America for Europe, to explore life and art there. These expatriates were pessimists largely. They clung to the cities, drinking heavily to forget their wounds.''

Tags:Pedro, Romero, Jake

Abstract
The paper examines how Hemingway, in his novel "The Sun Also Rises," draws a parallel between the bulls and the steers, and Jake and Brett Ashley, providing insight to the meaning of masculinity. The paper goes on to illustrate how this imagery is particularly poignant for the novel's historical context, and shows the crippling effect of WWI on the young.

From the Paper
"Brett Ashley, a woman who anticipates a divorce from her separated husband, in contrast, is flirtatious and provocative. Her feminine traits are represented in the bull/steer metaphor as the cape. The cape is red and entices the bull. However, in a role-reversal, she displays bull like characteristic. In some ways she is tom-boyish. Her hair is short and her nick-name, "Brett," is masculine.She displays more self-confidence and independence than her counterpart, Jake. Her sexual appetite is bullish. She toys with the many men who fall for her beauty and she drinks like a sailor but in the end all of these activities are exposed as shallow and meaningless."

Tags:masculinity, imagery, strength, insecurities

Abstract
This paper provides an analysis of Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises". The analysis focuses on how Lady Brett Ashley is portrayed as a Circe-like figure but one whose behaviors and attitudes make her more akin to a woman of the 2000s, than a woman from the early part of the twentieth century.

From the Paper
"In "The Sun Also Rises", the character of Lady Brett Ashley is compared to that of a mythological enchantress known as Circe in Greek literature. Circe, just like Lady Ashley, turns men into swine. In the novel, Lady Ashley is portrayed as superficial, selfish and careless. Despite this portrayal, she possesses great charm and beauty which are alluring to men. Yet, even though the novel was written long before the Women's Movement originated in U.S. society, Lady Brett Ashley is..."

Tags:career, sexuality, gender, norms, values, marriage, commitment, desire, Hemingway

Abstract
This paper looks briefly at the background of the Spanish painter Salvador Dali and the Australian painter Brett Whiteley, two extraordinary artists from the surrealist movement. It details their artistic influences, views on life and makes an attempt at finding method in their madness. It discusses how it was an 'insatiable craving for sex', money and fame that drove Dali to artistic genius, while for Whiteley, it was alcohol and narcotics. It compares and contrasts some of their famous works, their styles and their perceived meanings.

From the Paper
"Dali was a Spanish painter and writer who played a very significant part in the surrealist movement. From youth onwards, he was a very talented and recognized artist, with many of his works being displayed and published. He was an artist whose life was dominated largely by an 'insatiable craving for sex', money and fame. Dali was also fascinated with the aspect of death, combined with the popular beliefs of society. Much of his work was based on influences gained from other artists as well as both contemporary philosophy and science. His role models were Goya, El Greco, Durer, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Velaquez. In all, this represented the characteristically wide-ranging nature of Dali's way of thinking: the comic and the diabolic rub shoulders with serious classicism, with levity and gravity reflected to an equal degree. It was written that "Dali uses realistic items to reveal his dream-like ideas. His paintings are executed with infinite care and sometimes depict minute detail... The imaginary things depicted are presented in startling, distorted and fantastic ways, or else in natural, incredible combinations of parts of the human figure in tortured, writhing gestures." "

Tags:australian, contemporary, memory, presistence, spanish, surrealist, genius

Abstract
The paper looks at the leadership style of Brett Favre and compares his leadership skills to those of medieval leaders. The paper explains how Favre embodies many of the essential qualities of a medieval leader. The writer relates that he chose to focus on Favre because he is brave, a risk taker, an inspiration and a person who gives back to his society.

From the Paper
"I chose Brett Favre because I admire him on and off the football field. I believe he is a strong and vibrant person, and that he has leadership qualities that help him with his football career and in life. I also admire him because although he is highly paid, he has started many charities with some of his money to help people that need it, and I think that it is an important quality of a good leader to give back to the community and to use some of their wealth to help others.
"I know that leadership is an important quality in anyone who hopes to lead others and reach the top of their chosen field. I think that Brett Favre embodies this, but the literatures we have studied indicate this is not a new idea. In medieval times, leaders had to lead their men into battle to keep their castles and lands together, and they had to be shrewd and noble leaders to get the men to follow and support them."

Tags:bravery, qualities, charity, knight

From the Paper
"The novel American Psycho, by Brett Easton Ellis, has raised a great deal of controversy because of its graphic depictions of violence. The story is about an investment banker named Patrick Bateman who is secretly a psychotic murderer. Using the techniques of "black humor," Ellis describes many of Bateman's tortures and slayings in intricate detail. Despite Bateman's daring escapades, he is never caught. In fact, some of the black humor of the novel centers around Bateman's frequent confessions which are utterly ignored by his friends. In one passage, for example, Bateman looks an acquaintance right in the face and admits that he has killed and tortured many people.. However, perhaps because the confession is shockingly unbelievable, the information goes unacknowledged. "

Abstract
This paper analyzes the character of Lady Brett Ashley and, in contrast to some analyses, which hold that Brett is a positive character trapped in a bad situation, concludes that her character is a negative one. The paper highlights Brett's negative qualities to support this conclusion.

From the Paper
"The next negative characteristic of Brett is her dislike for other people and her ability to hurt them. This is made especially clear when Brett speaks of Jake, who she does seem to have some emotional connection to. At one point Brett describes herself laughing at Jake's wound. At another point, she refers to the time she tried to have sex with him saying, "I don't want to go through that hell again" (Hemingway 26). This statement is harsh and cruel and shows a complete lack of regard for Jake's feelings. This shows Brett to be the kind of person who is able to knowingly hurt people and feel no guilt for doing so. This also shows that Brett has no sympathy for the very real struggles that other people are going through. One author describes Brett's role in the novel as partly being to force him to relive the war wound, specifically the emotional aspect of it (Adair 74)."

Tags:jake, disregard, rejecting, relationship, drinks, harm, understanding, cruel, harsh

Abstract
The paper describes the character, Lady Brett Ashley, in Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" as having an aimless and unsatisfying life. The novel has a post WWI setting and the paper shows how Brett's search for love and the general aimless mood of the characters in this novel are said to be symbolic of the entire Lost Generation's search for the values of love and romance before the war shattered their belief in justice, morality and manhood.

From the Paper
"Brett is viewed as an apprentice, rather than an exemplar or anti-exemplar, it is not because of her aimlessness, but due to her obsessive need of companionship. While Jake may wander from bar to bar, he knows himself, and is coming to terms no matter how painful with his lot in life. Brett, on the other hand fears her own self, her own strength. She knows the power she has over others but she is afraid. She is not comfortable with who she is even though she plays the part excellently. She is still searching for the part of herself that will allow her enough peace to be alone. Brett is studying human nature. She is an apprentice of life and her own powers and strengths. She is an expert only at playing the part she has come to play so well."

Tags:Gertrude, Stein, Jake, Pedro, Romero

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This paper discusses Brett Pulley's book, "The Billion Dollar BET," a rags-to-riches biographical story of Robert Louis Johnson. The paper takes the reader on a journey along with Robert Johnson from Mississippi and the little that he had to 'Black Entertainment Television' and the success that came about with it, along with the controversies that made Johnson a billionaire.

From the Paper
"Brett Pulley is a Senior Editor at Forbes magazine and has written the book titled The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television. The Billion Dollar BET is an unauthorized biography of the founder of Black Entertainment Television, Robert Louis Johnson. The author traces the blazing path of Robert Johnson through social and economic barriers with his charm and intelligence to firmly ensconce himself into the politics of Washington and the media business. This rag to riches story should have been inspiring, but then the author has painted the methods employed by Robert Johnson as anything but noble. The sale of Black Entertainment Television to Viacom in 1999 made Robert Johnson a billionaire and many consider him the first black billionaire. (Editorial Review: The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television)"

Tags:black, entertainment, television, johnson