The Great Gatsby!

5. Evaluate The Great Gatsby as a criticism of the corruption of the American Dream.

In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the American dream is portrayed by Gatsby. Jay Gatsby falls in love with Daisy Buchanan but Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan. However Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson. But Myrtle is married to George Wilson. The story of The Great Gatsby is told by Nick Carraway who is in love with Jordan baker. The American dream is portrait by Gatsby because of the amount of money he owns and likes to throw parties when even he wants. There are affairs happening a lot with Gatsby. He seems like this perfect person, he is always throwing parties that people go to from different places far away. Tom is an alcoholic and abuses his mistress, Myrtle, and Daisy married the wrong person, and she loves someone else now. The Great Gatsby is not the American dream.

In the second chapter of the book there is dinner party in which Tom, Myrtle, Nick, Catherine, Jordan, and Mr. McKee partake in at Catherine’s apartment. At first it starts out well and everything is going fine. Until things turn violent and they start drinking. Myrtle starts yelling Daisy’s name many times; tom reacts to this by slapping her face and breaking her nose. This party starts as an ideal American party and it is perfect in everyway. But soon after wards the party is not a good party because of the over drinking and violence. This does not portray the American dream because no one would want to go to a party where people are fighting and there is violence.

Gatsby is the ideal idol for the American Dream because he is perfect in everyway. Gatsby has a lot of money and is always having huge parties that everyone in town goes to. In the beginning of the book Gatsby starts out as a mysterious and questionable person. But as you get deeper in to the book you start doubting him. Everything Gatsby does is fake; his entire identity was created when he turned the age of 18. He starts out by changing his name from Jimmy Gatz to Jay Gatsby and lied about were his family was from. Gatsby’s was rumored as a bootlegger. In the end they find out that is was really a bootlegger.

Gatsby as you know has a lot of money and is popular. But the reason why Gatsby was doing this was to impress Daisy. He throws a lot of wild parties just for Daisy. Gatsby has a big obsession over Daisy. He spends most of his nights looking at the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock which is just across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby wants nick to arrange a reunion between him and Daisy. So that Gatsby can be with Daisy. Daisy comes to nicks house were Gatsby is also there. Shortly after Gatsby and Daisy’s love rekindled they begin an affair together. Gatsby takes the blame for the car that killed myrtle thinking that he will not get in trouble for it. But George got all the facts straight and found out. Gatsby was swimming in the pool at his mansion when George finds him and shoots him. Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted because he was not honest to anyone and because of his money. The American dream of happiness was ruined and over for the Great Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby started off as a book that everything and everybody is person and Gatsby has a lot of money. He has a lot of elaborate parties to try and get Daisy back. Tom is violent and breaks myrtles nose. Gatsby is fake ad has lied about this entire identity Gatsby tryes to woe daisy and get her back so that he can be happy with her again. The Great Gatsby does not represent the american dream and can never reach it.

More Current Events

Post an organized archive of current events that relate to your MSB project. Here's how you do it:

1.The Obama Administration wants to look closer at the Pacific Ocean for various problems. Overfishing, habitat destruction and global warming.

http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/10578-1

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3. This website is a high and professional website that i can use as an example. The topic is also related to what I am writing about.

http://www.farallones.org/e_newsletter/2006-04/LaJollaSeals.htm

4. This article talks about pollution. Which is the main point in my writing about the TJ river.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/nov/17/led-by-china-carbon-pollution-up-despite-economy/

5. This article is about how birds and boats are getting effected by trash and garbage in the ocean. This is related because i am writing about the TJ river and that river is very polluted with this.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-11-16-plastiki16_VA_N.htm

Your MSB Organizations

1.Orange County Coastkeeper

2. The Mission of Orange County Coastkeeper is to protect and preserve the region's marine habitats and watersheds through education, advocacy, restoration, research and enforcement.


"Orange County Coastkeeper works with Federal, State, County and City agencies on our projects."
For all of their projects they work with the Federal, State, County and City.

Gatsby! Chapter 1-4

Nick is from an average household. He does not fit in with the popular crowd. For example when Nick goes to Gatsby's party her does not hang around with the popular people he is just by him self. Nick does not have the kind of money Gatsby has so he feels like an outsider.

Gatsby is a very wealthy man who everybody knows who he is but however he is all alone and does not have "friends." He has lots of money that he spends on party's, and girls.

Beginning The Great Gatsby

1. Who is the narrator? Describe his perspective, biases, character traits, etc.

Nick is the narrator of the story. He was able to show his perspective on what happened and was happening in side of the story. He comes from an avgerage household and is living in the east egg.

2. What do you think F. Scott Fiitzgerald accomplishes by chooses this specific narrator versus another choice, such as a different character or 3rd person?

He is able to tell in a perspective of him and he was there when everything happened. Its not an overall summary about the story it is what Nick saw in his eyes.

Critique a professinal example

1. What is the most successful element of this work sample? Why do you believe this?

I think the use of the evidence they have about pollution that ends up in the beaches is really good. It is strong and learn new things about pollution. Their voice over was good because they showed the evidence and talked about it.

2. What is the message of the work? How do you know?

The message shows that why the beaches in San Diego are being closed and how the water goes to the Tijuana polluting water.

3. Who or what is the intended audience for this work? How do you know?

This video is intended for everybody that lives close to Tijuana and live in San Diego. Because all of their facts is based in San Diego and Tijuana.

4. How do specific elements of the work sample come together to deliver the message?

In the beginning he show you what he is going to talk about in the movie. Then he shows you the 5 ways why the beaches are getting closed down in different sections of the movie.

5. Describe one technique the creator of this work used. Why do you think this technique was used for this specific piece of work?

Ben McCue the guy in the video he stands behind the evidence of why the beaches are being closed. It show that you are able to see the evidence of pollution in the beaches.

6. Why did you choose this work sample?

I choose this because it had a lot of good information videos and pictures. The video quality is not the best but the information is really good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sboyx3sKsWw

Newspapers & MSB

What lessons did you learn from the Industrialization Newspaper that you carry forward into the MSB project?

I learned a lot from this newspaper project that will really help me for the MSB project. One thing that I learned is time management. I did not use all the time we had wisely and all the resources that we were able to use. Resulting that my article was not good and could be a lot better and our group had to rush at the end to get everything done on time. Ask questions. I learned that I need to ask questions. If I were to ask questions my article and final newspaper would have been a lot better.

Write a reflective piece in which you identify specific things, content, skills, or habits that you will address in MSB as a response to your experience with the newspaper project.

The one big skill i brought to my group had to be organize the actual newspaper to make it look professional. So I will try my best to make sure that my final product for MSB is organized and professional.