Ella Fitzgerald Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born in Newport News‚ Virginia in 1917 and moved to Younkers‚ New York with her mother shortly after her birth. In 1932‚ Fitzgerald’s mother died and she moved in with her aunt. She was eventually sent to a reform school‚ but ran away at the age of fifteen and was homeless for a while. She found work wherever she could‚ but it was a struggle. Looking back on those days‚ she chose to use the memories as inspiration to bring emotion to her singing. Growing
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In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ he expresses the American Dream: the search for love and money. There is a rich‚ handsome‚ young man‚ Jay Gatsby‚ who lusts after the wealthy and beautiful woman‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ whom Gatsby lost when he was drafted into the war. The novel is also known for its critique of the Jazz Age. Gatsby comes from a poor family; growing up‚ he became a bootlegger to earn all of his money. Throughout the book‚ Gatsby has extravagant parties to
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Similar Triangles Project February 12‚ 2013 Introduction: In this project‚ I found the height of an object I chose based on how tall one of my partners is‚ how far away she is from the mirror‚ and how far the mirror was from the base of one of the objects. From there I set up a proportion and solved for X. X represented the unknown height of the chosen object. Once I figured this out I then converted to feet and compared that to my partners height to see if it
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald is an enduring American author of the 19th century; he was incredibly influenced by many aspects and significant periods of his life. Fitzgerald’s literary masterpieces included The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. Fitzgerald had a few dominant influences that clearly inspired majority of his works‚ his wife‚ Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald‚ his lavish expenses and his Princeton education. Fitzgerald uses simile and imagery in his novels to introduce characters and settings that
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How does Fitzgerald tell the story in Chapter 4? In the Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses various aspects of narrative to bring the story alive and help the reader become immersed in it. In the duration of the first few chapters the reader is introduced to each of the main characters needed for the story and by Chapter 4 almost all of the plotlines have been opened‚ ready to be explored. Nick is the first-person narrator‚ telling the story in retrospective and we continue to learn more information
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How does Fitzgerald tell the story in chapter 7? Chapter 7 starts by Gatsby firing all his servants and then shows up at the Buchanan’s house with Nick and Jordan there. They all decide to go into town‚ and hire a suite of the Plaza hotel‚ where there is an intense argument between Gatsby and Tom about Daisy and who she’s in love with. On the journey home Myrtle Wilson gets hit by the motorcar in which Daisy is driving. Prior to the climactic moment of the Plaza suite scene‚ Fitzgerald uses heat
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states that ‘I don’t know whether or not Gatsby went to Coney island’ yet he speculates what Wilson is thinking at the end of Chapter 8 exposing his narration to be fallible as it shows that a lot of the narrative could be speculative and therefore unreliable. Nick also speculates at the end of the chapter‚ ‘there must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams’‚ however due to the sense desperation that starts to oose out of Gatsby as he states with ‘automatic quality’
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How Does Fitzgerald Tell The Story In Chapter 8 Of The Great Gatsby? In the beginning of the chapter‚ we are made aware of Nick’s discomfort and anxious attitude regarding Gatsby and what is to become of him‚ suggesting that he should get away for a week‚ but naturally‚ Gatsby refuses. He then goes onto describe the way that he and Daisy had first met and their relationship that had ensued‚ before Gatsby proposes he and Nick use the swimming pool for the first and last time that summer; Nick has
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One of the ways in which Fitzgerald tells the story in Chapter 1 is through the characterisation aspect of narrative‚ using symbolism in order to better exenterate character features. One of the ways Fitzgerald uses characterisation is through description of character appearance‚ as seen with the description of Daisy whom wears a white dress. Fitzgerald has perhaps selected the colour white due to the connotations during this era‚ with the colour white indicating wealth and so immediately we are
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According to Gertrude Stein‚ the literary figures of the 1920’s “drank themselves to death”‚ especially two of the greatest writers of the 20th century‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Although both authors use alcohol as a “mask” or an escape to try and fill the void of hopelessness‚ Hemingway has a stronger emphasis on alcohol than Fitzgerald and also uses it as a means of communion. The life of Ernest Hemingway is a perfect example of turning to alcohol to escape the hopelessness and aimlessness
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