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    Positive impacts of Social Media In this century‚ you can not go anywhere without there being around social media‚ with 98% of U.S. adults ages 18-24‚ (Statisticbrain) social media is pretty hard to avoid. Social media is a website or application that enables users to connect with one another and share ideas. Social media is very innovative‚ there are plentiful positive impacts of social media‚ that many people do not even come to realize‚ because they usually just see the negative impacts. Social

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    Gatsby’s American Dream In The Great GatsbyJay Gatsby‚ lives out the American Dream by cheating‚ lying‚ and using his personal belongings to flaunt as trophies. Gatsby’s main goal is to have Daisy in his life and shows his financial worth in order to achieve this. The American Dream is thought to be freedom‚ equality‚ and opportunity. Jay Gatsby takes these ideals and modifies them to how he wants to live them. Gatsby is extremely flashy in his lifestyle just so people believe that he was born

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    The characters is this story are jay Gatsby and walter chrysler the founder of Chrysler automotive company.This story takes place in New York City.The action begins when I meet Jay Gatsby and I realized how interested he is in car and the automotive industry.Then‚I tell Jay that I’m the inventor of chrysler. Next we started speaking about cars. Gatsby started telling me about his amazing car collection he has in west egg where he currently lives. Gatsby told me he has never owned a Chrysler car

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    James Gatz is motivated to become Jay Gatsby through his ambition to be rich. Because of his greedy aspirations‚ James Gatz believes he can find happiness through money‚ so he creates an alternate ego to obtain his goals. Gatsby believes a name change is the first step to obtain the image he wishes to portray. In Gatsby’s teenage years‚ he notices a yacht‚ and on the way there‚ he “was already Jay Gatsby” (Fitzgerald 98). Gatsby wants to live the American Dream‚ and he will do whatever it takes to

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    life Reflected in the Character of Jay Gatsby? After conducting a through investigation on the author of the Great Gatsby‚ Scott Fitzgerald‚ one may say that the protagonist of this novel is a very clore representation of the author‚ himself. There are numerous and meaningful similarities between Jay Gatsby and Scott Fitzgerald’s life‚ and all of them are far from being coincidence. Their similarities begin in their background. Scott Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby are from middle class families and

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    events after knowing what they lead to. While telling the story‚ Nick realizes that he is responsible for Gatsby’s death. Nick blames himself for facilitating the events that led to the end result of Gatsby getting shot‚ and ultimately assumes responsibility for Gatsby’s death.. By reintroducing Daisy and Gatsby‚ Nick realizes that he sparked the fire that leads to Gatsby’s death. When Gatsby is over at Nick’s house‚ Nick says‚ “‘I talked with Miss Baker‚’ I said after a moment. ‘I’m going to call up

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    The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald conveys a strong message about how some people want to reach their dreams so badly that they don’t think of the consequences that could occur. Fitzgerald indicates how Gatsby believes excessively in his dreams with Daisy that it leads him to his death. This is shown when Nick is at Gatsby’s house and they’re talking about Daisy but then all of a sudden Gatsby starts looking around and acting different‚ “He looked around him wildly‚ as if the past were lurking here

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    Comparing Death of a Salesman to The Great Gatsby In the search for the American dream many things can be lost‚ this is reflected in the novel The Great Gatsby and the movie Death of a Salesman. Both of these works demonstrate the lengths that some people will go to in order to achieve the stereotypical life of a rich‚ successful and powerful American‚ which is often referred to as the American dream. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller illustrates how the character Willy will stop at nothing to

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    of hope is present in a plethora of American literature. Hope can be both a positive and negative quality. Hope is threaded into the following three pieces of literature: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou‚ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. In the preceding literature hope plays a strong role in improving characters’ lives. Hope helps some people and is useless to others. Langston Hughes writes‚ “Hold fast to dreams‚/ For if dreams die

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    Synthesis Essay: Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby After reading Arthur Miller’s Deah of a Salesman and watching the movie of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s well known novel The Great Gatsby‚ the two works clearly demonstrate the lengths that people go to in order to achieve the American Dream‚ the stereotypical life of a rich‚ successful and happy American. Both Jay Gatsby and Willy Loman are blinded by the pursuit of their unrealistic dreams which eventually lead to their downfalls. In Death of a Salesman

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