The father-son relationship and betrayal between Jay Gatsby and his father‚ Mr. Gatz‚ was quite different compared to that of Biff and Willy Loman. However‚ both relationships improved immensely when each character realized the amount of love they actually had for the other. Jay Gatsby had reinvented himself as a wealthy person instead of poor. In Gatsby’s youth “his parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people--his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all‚” (Fitzgerald
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Jay Gatsby‚ born James Gatz‚ the son of poor farmers‚ “sprang from his platonic conception of himself” (Fitzgerald 98). Thanks to a job on millionaire Dan Cody’s yacht‚ Jay was inspired to change his way of life. Despite his mysterious past‚ including rumours that he killed a man‚ Gatsby was in every way a tragic hero. After meeting a beautiful girl named Daisy in Louisville‚ Gatsby spent his whole life fighting to be with her. He was too poor to ever be seen with her‚ so he got in deep with some
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The respect exhibited by Nick Caraway towards Jay Gatsby shows that Fitzgerald’s attitude towards respecting others was to become acquaintances before deciding whether they deserved respect or not. The mysterious Jay Gatsby has only been met by a few‚ and a stranger to Nick until he attends Gatsby’s party. Many characters wonder the nature of Gatsby‚ drawing conclusion and spreading rumors that he has killed a man and was a German spy during World War I. Gatsby knew of these rumors but decided to
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John J January 20‚ 2012 Gender Studies Mockingjay “Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can’t survive without” (Collins 329). In this passage Gale and Peeta are talking to each other while Katniss over hears them. They are in the middle of their mission on capturing president Snow. They think that Katniss is asleep‚ while Gale says Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can’t survive without. Katniss conforms to gender stereotypes by being confusing‚ indecisive‚ flirty and playing
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novel I had certain beliefs about certain characters. Jay was someone I sympathized highly with at the start‚ as he was attempting his uttermost finest to get Daisy back. I likewise‚ sympathized with Daisy as I felt she had been forced to abandon Jay and that she was not happy with Tom. Then slowly‚ but surely my views began to change. I began to dislike Daisy and began to loathe Jay. Daisy I felt was helpless in the start‚ but after she allows Jay to take the culpability for Mertle’s death‚ it showed
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up in a small town we often ignore the fact that‚ even in a small community‚ there are vast differences between each individual. For example‚ my classmate Jay Pearcy and I‚ while sharing a lot of the same interest‚ have very different backgrounds and futures. Each person has a different story that all lead up to the way their lives are now. Jay was born in Wadley Regional Medical Center‚ much like many kids in the Texarkana area. Jay’s family consist of a mom‚ dad‚ and his two sisters. His mom has
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Comparison of Meyer Wolfstein to Jay Gatsby So far in the novel you see Gatsby as this mysterious fellow‚ but in Chapter 6 it seems like he spills his life story to Nick‚ anyway Gatsby still doesn’t reveal whether if he’s part of a mob of some sort. His character always seems to take turns‚ first it with all of the medals‚ and pictures‚ and Christmas letters from the commissioner‚ along with oxford. Then in Chapter 6 comes the “real truth” of Gatsby so…which one is the real truth. As for Meyer
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12 Part IV: Review of Relevant Competitors The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is a federation of 37 separate health insurance organizations and companies in the United States. Combined‚ they directly or indirectly provide health insurance to over 100 million Americans. The history of Blue Cross dates back to 1929‚ while the history of Blue Shield dates to 1939. The Blue Cross Association dates back to 1960‚ while its Blue Shield counterpart was created in 1948. The two organizations
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Jay MacLeod claims that “families at the top of the social structure can use their superior status and resources to stay there‚ while other families‚ low on options‚ languish at the bottom” (MacLeod 2009: 240). MacLeod (2009: 240) proposes the idea that not many individuals obtain the social mobility that popular American ideology promises to offer. This achievement ideology‚ popularly known as the “American Dream” gives citizens of American society an individualistic approach in regards to success
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY‚ VOL. 54‚ NO. 4‚ APRIL 2008 1735 [31] V. Vovk‚ “Competitive on-line statistics‚” Int. Stat. Rev.‚ vol. 69‚ pp. 213–248‚ 2001. [32] M. H. Wegkamp‚ “Model selection in nonparametric regression‚” Ann. Statist.‚ vol. 31‚ pp. 252–273‚ 2003. [33] K. Yamanishi‚ “Minimax relative loss analysis for sequential prediction algorithms using parametric hypotheses‚” in Proc. COLT 98‚ 1998‚ pp. 32–43‚ ACM Press. [34] Y. Yang‚ “Adaptive estimation in pattern recognition
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