...Lane Hossum Mr. Latham MUS 005 12 November 2013 Jay-Z Shawn Corey Carter, born December 4, 1969, started his life off as a regular kid, just like every other kid. He was born and raised in a part of New York City known as Marcy, also known as the projects. Shawn was one of four children belonging to Gloria Carter and Adnis Reeves. Early on, his friends game him the nickname of Jay-Z or Jay for short. Who knew he was going to become the man he is today? Jay-Z was a former drug dealer, but is now known for being one of the most successful rappers and entrepreneur alive. According to Saddleback Educational PublishingJay-Z’s net worth is over $450 Million, he has over fourteen Grammy Awards, owns two 40/40 clubs, created his own clothing line [Rocawear], owns Def Jam Recordings, Roc-A Fella Records, and owns a minority share of the Brooklyn Nets. His rap career started early on when he came upon a group circled up, clapping their hands to make a beat, with a kid named slate in the middle of the circle spitting out rhymes. Jay-Z was very intrigued, he had never seen anything like it. Jay remembered, “It was like watching some kind of combat, but he was alone in the center. All he had were his eyes, taking in everything, and the words inside him. I was dazzled.” (Saddleback) Jay-Z started writing down his own rhymes, he wrote at every opportunity, and stated by Saddleback, when he ran out of paper, he would go down to the store and buy a soda just to use the paper bag to write...
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...Jay Gatsby A Case Study by Principles of Psychology Lindsey Wilson College Jay Gatsby is a man from the book and the movie “ The Great Gatsby.” Gatsby is a male in his mid to late thirties and is of an average height, probably between five feet seven and six feet. He has brown hair with a little bit of blonde. He has green eyes that often change to having a hazel tint. Jay Gatsby is a man thinks that everything could be fixed if you had a little bit of money, he thinks that whatever good things happened in the past can resurface and be perfectly fine. He’s a dreamer. He’s an optimistic person. Jay Gatsby was a man who loved, and he loved hard. He believed that once you fell in love with someone you loved them forever. He made his money illegally just so he could give the girl of his dreams, the girl he loved since he was young, everything she could ever dream of. He was a bootlegger, during the prohibition period, so he made a fortune from that and also being in with some of the biggest gangsters. Gatsby loved everything daisy. In his mind she could do nothing wrong, ever. However, she was married to a no-good, two-timing man who would ruin her life. That was the thing he hated the most. He hated where he was from, and that’s why he tried so hard to hide that from everyone, that’s why he created a whole new life. He earned his money illegally, but he only did it so that he could get the one thing that made him happy in life back, Daisy. He loved her until he took...
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...4, 1969), known by his stage name Jay-Z (sometimes stylized as Jay Z or JAY Z),[2][3][4] is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is one of the most financially successful hip-hop artists and entrepreneurs in America. In 2012, Forbes estimated Carter's net worth at nearly $500 million.[1][5] He is one of the world's best-selling artists of all time having sold more than 75 million records, while receiving 17 Grammy Awards for his musical work, and numerous additional nominations.[6][7][8] Consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers of all time, he was ranked number one by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006.[9] Three of his albums, Reasonable Doubt (1996), The Blueprint (2001), and The Black Album (2003), are considered landmarks in the genre with all of them featured in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[10][11][12] As an entrepreneur and investor, Jay-Z co-owns the 40/40 Club, and is the co-creator of the clothing line Rocawear.[13] He is the former president of Def Jam Recordings, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records, and the founder of Roc Nation. He also founded the sports agency Roc Nation Sports and is a certified NBA and MLB sports agent.[14] As an artist, he holds the record for most number one albums by a solo artist on the Billboard 200 with 13.[15][16] Jay-Z also has had four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, one as lead artist. On December 11, 2009, Jay-Z was ranked as the tenth-most successful...
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..."John Jay." Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 2 Dec. 2012<http://www.encyclopedia.com>. John Jay's tenacity helped him survive the sectional battles and placed him in the inner councils of the Federalist party. As chief justice, he gave the Supreme Court a national approach under the new Constitution. John Jay was born on Dec. 12, 1745, in New York; he was the eighth child in a wealthy merchant family. Descended from French-Dutch stock and reared in the Huguenot tradition, Jay had few of the sentimental ties with England that made some Americans ambivalent in their allegiance after 1765. He graduated from King's College (later Columbia University) and trained in the law by a 5-year apprenticeship. In 1778 he was chosen president of the Continental Congress. Jay explained the commercial treaty to Congress in August but did not mention the military alliance Gardoqui also sought. Congress, voting along sectional lines, approved the pact, but by less than the required two-thirds majority. Tempers on both sides were heated, and the matter was unresolved when the Constitution was sent to the states for ratification. He joined Alexander Hamilton and James Madison in supplying articles for New York newspapers in support of the Constitution under the pen name "Publius." Of these Federalist papers, Jay wrote Publius 2, 3, 4, 5, and 63. Meanwhile, George Washington had prevailed on Jay to accept the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court. Jay...
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...and is said to have been shot three times. Shawn would rap under the name Jay-Z and sell CDs out of his car after shows. Jay Z says his early musical influences were soulful artist like Marvin Gaye, and Donny Hathaway. With no record label to give him a deal, Jay Z started his own independent record label with Daman Dash and Kareem Biggs, called Roc-A-Fella Records. After getting a distribution deal with Priority Records, Jay Z released his debut album, Reasonable Doubt, which received critical...
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...In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s dream is to make all his imaginations become a reality. He dreams a life filled with wealth, success, acceptance and most importantly, Daisy. Fitzgerald, the author, uses a green light at the end of the Dock to symbolize Gatsby’s love and his desire to be with Daisy and recreate the past. Gatsby is ashamed of his past, one of the main reasons he changes his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby, he doesn’t want to remember that he used to be the son of farmers, instead he considers himself “the son of god.” The ideal aspects of Gatsby's dream come from his belief that if he becomes wealthy, both in money and socially, then he will be happy. This also relates to the American Dream where happiness holds two different...
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...Nick Carraway was a young man from Minnesota who moves to New York in 1922 and turns 30, in the book Nick is one of Jay Gatsby’s Closest friends. Gatsby is there for him in his times of need, and since Nick is also Daisy’s cousin he can help him with Daisy the love of his life. Nick is also a great narrator because he can keep his temper down in almost any situation, but he doesn’t do it in a dull monotone way. Nick is always there for Jay, and he said he has many issues inside and he's not very good with money. He blows it all and spends it on very extravagant things like gorgeous parties, but Nick does his best to give him good advice and that does help Jay in very good ways. For example when the innocent woman was hit by a car Nick was...
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...Camille Warden Mrs. Cole 4/9/13 PDP English II Gatsby Final Essay “’Her voice is full of money,’ He said suddenly.” (120) The Design of Jay Gatsby If you were to ask someone about the character Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, they will probably describe him similarly to the fashion that the book’s narrator Nick does. He is perceived as a kind, generous, and down to earth man amongst the cutthroat wealthy elite. They may criticize Daisy portraying her as being the cruel temptress who brought him to his doom, or they might see Gatsby and Daisy’s love as immortal comparing the two to Romeo and Juliet. Gatsby on the other hand you will rarely ever hear being demonized. He is seen as mysterious, sad, romantic, and strange, but never overbearing or sexist. He is far from the worst character in the novel and may still be the most generous one in spite of his ambition tainted love, but he shouldn’t be impervious to critique since his mindset is widely prevalent in society and quite harmful if not checked. Through the chosen quote, Fitzgerald reveals the inherent materialism of Gatsby’s love for Daisy, illustrating the dehumanizing effect of female objectification by men. When all five main characters swarm frenetically around Tom’s house then decide to go to town in a desperate attempt to break the unspoken stalemate between Daisy’s husband and lover, Nick postulates that her husband Tom already knows about the affair because Daisy has “got an...
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...There are many characteristics that identify Jay Gatsby as a tragic hero. Some of the characteristics of that a tragic hero must have; include greatness, a weakness or a flaw, an undeserved fate and a fates’ that are not deserved and the punishment exceeding they get exceeds the crime. they committed. Jay Gatsby encompasses has all of these the characteristics of a tragic hero. Although, the author tries to portray Gatsby as a perfect person, there are still some flaws that are still noticeable. Gatsby's great life unwinds with the death of the Furthermore, even Gatsby’s ending shows that he was tragic hero. We know that Jay Gatsby was esteemed has greatness by the way others spoke of him. Nick describes him as a . He was very well mannered person and everyone who knew knows him looked up to him (pg. 53-54). He wasn’t one of the rubbish people who got recklessly get drunk, and he also didn’t doesn’t act careless like the rich (pg. 54, 188). Meyer Wolfshiem said of him, “fine fellow isn’t he”,” which shows that even Wolfshiem liked Jay Gatsby (pg. 76). In addition, even the title of the book is called, “The “Great Gatsby”,” which shows that the author Nick thought that Gatsby was a great person. Also, when Nick was leaving for his train, he told Gatsby that he's “worth he worth’s the whole bunch”, which includes Daisy, Tom and Jordan, and that shows, that Nick thought that he is exceptionally extremely great as a person and is better than most ((pg. 162)...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, The Great Gatsby, is a rags to riches story of a man named Jay Gatsby, born in 1892. Raised in North Dakota as a squandering farmer’s son, Gatsby later became a millionaire living in West Egg, where all the new money lived. Jay Gatsby was an iconic figure of a tragic hero because he came from great mental stature, endured great physical and emotional suffering, and had a tragic flaw that inevitably resulted in his downfall. Jay Gatsby had many attributes of a tragic hero including being born into a family of high stature. He felt as if he was born a son of God. When he was a young child, his parents were poor farm workers in North Dakota, but Gatsby knew he was destined for greatness. As he grew, he received his...
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...The world changed for Jay Z on June 25, 1996. That's the day his debut album "Reasonable Doubt" was released, dropping the needle on the start of what has been one of the most epic careers in the music industry. But he didn't stop there. In the past 20 years the man who was born Shawn Corey Carter and who grew up in Brooklyn's Marcy Projects at a time when they were plagued by crime and drugs has gone from slinging drugs to taking over corporations. In May, Forbes estimated his net worth at $610 million, placing him at number three behind Sean"Diddy" Combs ($750 million) and Andre "Dr. Dre" Young ($710 million) on the list of Hip Hop's Wealthiest Artists 2016. And now there are reports that Apple is in talks to buy his streaming service Tidal....
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...162). The ‘I’ in this quote is Nick Carraway, and the ‘You’ is Jay Gatsby. The ‘whole damn bunch’ that Nick was comparing Gatsby to was the crowd of too wealthy people that inhabited New York, including the woman Gatsby loved and ultimately gave his life for. Gatsby was a man who was a projection of the hopes and dreams of his younger self. Jay Gatsby wasn’t always Jay Gatsby. He came from the humble beginnings of North Dakota as James Gatz. He had next to nothing; no money, no education, and no connections. But he was determined to make something of himself. His father said, “Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something. Do you notice what he's got about improving his mind? He was always great for that. He told me I et like a hog once, and I beat him for it” (Fitzgerald 182). This showed that young Jimmy Gatz believed in the American Dream. However, all his hard work to change himself was ultimately for nothing because the American Dream is only a dream, and would lead to a path of dishonest gains and his own demise. Shrouded by rumors and secrets, Jay Gatsby is a man made from James Gatz’s imagination and dreams. He keeps his life secret to his many party goers and keeps very few friends. He is trying to escape his past the best he can, but he cannot because his entire persona is a projection of his younger self’s ambitions. Nick proves this by saying, “The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception...
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...Falls and Rises of Jay Gatsby Having read a genuine masterpiece by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald titled “The Great Gatsby”, I am obliged to state that this great book reminds me of another, not in the least minor, work of Jack London titled “Martin Eden”. They are both about great falls and great rises of a men pursuing happiness; lonely, struggling against Destiny and following their Dream. But what are the falls and rises in these two books that I call great? First of all, I would like to present you the London’s book. The story runs about a 21-year-old sailor who by a sheer coincidence finds himself in an apartment of a wealthy man whose son he had protected from ruffians. In the home, he is enthralled by the college-age daughter, Ruth Morse, having never encountered such a vision of feminine purity before. Spurred by his growing affection, Martin determines to live by his brain rather than his back: he will be an author. He gets to reading loads of books in public libraries, educates himself, gives up sailing and starts writing stories and sends them to different magazines to be published. But he is ignored by the publishers and is forced to live from hand to mouth. But he is inspired , enchanted by the purity, brightness of Ruth, thinks her ideal. In order to enable himself to match on her, he must upward crawl diligently. The more books he reads, the less attractive his own circle seems to him – the circle of working people, people of routine, people...
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...The True Killer of Jay Gatsby Jay Gatsby lies dead, sprawled across the floatie in his pool. But whose fault is it when the question question of responsibility comes up? At the end of the story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, formerly known as James Gatz, is murdered. George Wilson is the gunman who took Gatsby's and his own life at the end of the story. However, is Wilson really to blame for Gatsby's death? With many people in the story who affect his life and his decisions, there is greater texture to the original question then noticed at first. There are many elements that contribute to the murder of Gatsby. It is clear that someone other than Mr. Wilson bears greater responsibility for this crime. Daisy Buchanan, eyes shaded with love, possesses the hand that took down the great Gatsby. Mr. Wilson, who held the gun that shot Gatsby, might not be the first person one might mention as his killer. George Wilson may have pulled the trigger, but he is merely a pawn in Myrtle and Tom’s game of love and affairs.In the end of chapter 7, Tom tells George that the yellow car isn’t his. Although this is true, George just accepts the information so easily. A minor character who never appears again, Michaelis, is a keen observer who witnesses the accident. He says that [George] “he was one of those worn-out men...He was his wife's man and not his own”(Fitzgerald,136). Fitzgerald makes it clear that George is a weak man who becomes a pawn in a big game of the American...
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...Jay Gatsby the main character in Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby represents the self improvement that embodied America in all of its grit and glory during the 1920’s. It is this aspect of Gatsby that F. Scott Fitzegerald created which allows the reader to connect on a personal level making him one of the world’s most cherished and memorable fictional characters. Gatsby is a mere image of Fitzegerlds wildest imaginations and dreams. Fitzgerld always wanted wealth and notirity and he lives through is character to accomplish his goals. Fitsgerald also lives out his own inner complexity and confusions through Gasby as he himself hates the shallow thoughts and actions of the rich and famous while at the same time he despertaly wants to be a part...
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