Should he have instead, as Beck suggests, just moved on?.Is nostalgia, in essence, what Jay Gatsby suffered from?.But advice on treatment from French doctor Hippolyte Petit is as relevant to someone clinging to the past today as it was to a soldier driven mad by a milking song hundreds of years ago: ‘Create new loves for the person suffering from love sickness find new joys to erase the domination of the old.’ Or, just let it go.” from When Nostalgia Was a Disease by Julie Beck in The Atlantic “Obviously the prevailing view on nostalgia has changed over the years, to the point where we now actively cultivate it with GIF-laden lists and VH1 specials, and rarely, if ever, die from it. In my experience, nostalgia will be a new word to most students, even though they will likely think of their childhoods with nostalgia.Īfter talking about what the word means (author Beck breaks down the etymology), I think I’ll connect it to Gatsby himself. I also required students to discuss the various allusions to The Great Gatsby the writer Streitfeld incorporated in the piece. I used this assignment as a weekly Article of the Week assignment, where I asked students to simply reflect on the article in general. The article draws more parallels between Gatsby and Holmes, also invoking connections between the Jazz Age’s Wall Street and our Internet Age’s Silicon Valley. Scott Fitzgerald’s creation of Jay Gatsby, the mysterious, alluring, handsome millionaire who also ran a few swindles.” The Epic Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes

Her self-improvement plan dated back to Ben Franklin but found its most indelible expression in F. Holmes’s actions were rooted in tradition. “Hiding fraud behind the imperatives of secrecy wasn’t the only way Ms. The article draws parallels between Jay Gatsby and Holmes, citing the daily routines each practiced as they reached for self-improvement and prosperity through their ill-gotten wealth. A full nation-wide rollout was in the works. The device had even begun to appear in a few Walgreen’s stores Wellness Centers. Holmes was found guilty of four counts of fraud that each carry a possible 20-year prison sentence for creating, producing, and marketing a portable blood testing service that ultimately, according to investigators and prosecutors, was inaccurate and unreliable. 3, 2022 New York Times story by writer David Streitfeld documents the recent conclusion of the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, a Silicon Valley medical technology company. Photo by Max Morse for TechCrunch TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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