Thursday, May 27, 2010





































Jealousy
What is jealousy?It is an emotion that can have at any time.The kinds of emotions it can have is angry,sadness,bitterness,and envyness.It typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity fear,and anixety.Also jealousy is called the "green eyed monster".
Jealousy can be over a family members ,silibings,partners,friendship,and realtionships.
Jealousy can happen to anyone it has been obsevered that it happens to a five month baby to older.But it is human nature to be jealousy of someone or something .
How can you deal with jealousy?The way to stop jealousy is just to stop comparing yourself to what you and that other have.Because jealousy is not a healthly thing for a person .So all you have to do is just not envy people and to just be grateful for you have.








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Tuesday, May 25, 2010







The Men of Gatsby



Nick Carraway is the novel's narrrator.Nick is a young man from Minnesota who ,after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I,goes to New York City .He is a bond salesman .And nick quickly meets his neighbor named Gastby.



Gatsby is a very wealth young man living in a mansion in Westegg.He is also Nick's neighbor.



And he also is in love in Daisy .Gatsby is a mysterious man that no one knows of his past.



Tom Buchanan is Daisy's wealth husband .He is a arrongant he has a an affair with Myrtle Wilson.



George Wilson is Myrtle husband .His an owner of a rundown autoshop at the edge of the a valley of ashes .



Thursday, May 20, 2010




Gatsby and Daisy





Women from Gatsby
In the novel, The Great Gatsby, there are two main women.They names are Daisy Buchana and Myrtle Wilson .Daisy and Myrtle are showed as the real image of women in the 1920’s and seem to have major characteristics of the American dream: wealth, power, materialism, love affairs and their dilemmas.Which means that all women care about in those times.
Daisy is Nick's cousin and Gatsby dream girl.To Gatsby she is the perfect person to be with,she has grace ,and she's sophisticated .Myrtle is Tom's Buchana's mistress.Myrtle is a superficial woman who's just into lies ,wealth, and luxury.

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010



























































F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul ,Minnesota September 24, 1896.he was known as the American Authors of the 1920's and 1930's.Fitzgerald started writing at an early age in high school the stories he would write would be published in the school newspaper.He dropped out of Princeton University to go join the army and he continued to pursue his obsession ,writing magazine articles and even lyric.He wrote novels and short stories and became a screen writer in hollywood.He fell in love with Zelda a southern bell.She met him at the age of 18 .Zelda went to all the parties he would go to and they get had a bond.After Fitzgerald first novel Zelda and Fitzgerald got married.But they got alot of gossip in the 1930's because Fitzgerald was addicted to alcohol and Zelda was suffering a mental disorder called schzophrenia .Which lead her to stay at lot of mental hospitals. Fitzgerald died in his apartment ,from a heart attack in December 21,1940 .He was working on a other novel called The Last Tycoon when he died and never finished it .Zelda died in March 1948 ,when the mental hospital she was in caught on fire and died.





F. Scott Fitzgerald was best known for his novel The Great Gastby ,which captured the spirt of the "age of jazz"decade or the "roaring twenties".Some of his other book were:The Side of Paradise(1920),The Beautiful and Damned (1920),and Tender Is the Night(1934).And Zelda only wrote a novel named Save Me The Watz while staying at the John's Hopkins mental hospital.




















Sunday, May 16, 2010









1920's Gangsters
One of the most famous gangster of the 1920's is Alphonsen Gabriel "Al" Copone a.k.a Scarface.He was born in January 17,1899.He was an american gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime.Known then as the "capones"dedicated to smugging and bootlegging liquor and other illegal activities in chicago.He was inovled in the italian mafia.Then he was sentenced to federal prison,including a stay at the Alcatraz federal prison for tax evasion ,his business card reportedly described him as a used-furniture dealer . Then shortly after he was released from prison he started to lose alot of weight, his physical ,mental health ,and deteriorated under the effects of neurosyphilis.On January 21,1947 Capone had an stroke a day after he regained consciousness.Then he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest. Al Capone died in January 25,1947.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010



























WHAT IS PROHIBITION ?

Prohibition came around the 1920's. It started in January 16,1920 .Prohibition was a period of nerarly fourteen year of U.S history in which the manufacture ,sale , and transportion ,of liquor was made illegal.
Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and reduce social problems.To also was supposed to lower taxes needed to support prisons, poor house,and to improve health.But instead liquor became a huge problem.Courts and prisons systems became overloaded.So after the result of prohibition ,prohibition end in 1933.


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Monday, May 10, 2010











What are flappers?
The word flapper means "new breed".Which means these women came with new stlyes and behavior that wasn't really seen until the 1920's.And in the 1920's flappers were young women who wore short skirts.They had short bobbed hair,wore alot of makeup and listen to jazz.These women were consider to rebels around this time period.They were also smokers and drinkers.In the 1920s flappers were always clubing ,smoking,drinking .And they were also involed with drugs,and sex .So around this time flappers were young women who were very rebelious.