I went and hanged out with greg today, I met some new people… nick, jenny, and xena. Nick was cool, jenny was cool too, xena was cool and cute. We chilled and went to see superman. Suprisingly enough it was a pretty kick ass movie. i just hate how he didnt die at the end. Other than that is was a pretty good day.
Blogged with Flock
using Flock for the first time…pretty l337, whale sucks zonelabs eats him
Blogged with Flock
well today was alright, i set up a wireless network for my grandma. Got printer sharing over the network to work. Hooked up her Fax machine, and got her laptop connected to her 42″ LCD tv. Been playing WoW on it so that has been l337. Got to do a lot of shit i love to do but for some reason im depressed as hell and that is giving me tons of anger becuase i do not understand. Of course first thing my brain says is “becuase you dont understand your choice.” some dumbass matrix quote that actually makes sense…sorry if i lost you. but ya w00ters and no w00ters
…well for all you playstation fanboys out there…im sorry it sucks. yell at me curse at me w/e i dont care… Plz watch the link below
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If freaking PSM is showing how PS3 stuff is a gimmick then kk the proof is out there, have fun paying $600 for you ps3 kk imma gonna stick around and play my xbox 360 and wii.
well fil,zhao, whalen, and i. We were running around and were gonna pick uup mahoney, of course he was doing something and he wont talk about it. So w/e um finally we got him drove up the crest to this food place then we ate and hauled ASS down the crest, w00tage
whitecave was supposed to have a bbq today…well ken got sick but we still went and got food and stuff. greg, christian, sean, and mark are not part of the whitecave but they might as well be. We managed to start a fire even though it took a while, then i guess whalen and mahoney were feeling weird or something so they jsut left and lied about it…for that i must say that was super pussy wimp on their part but w/e. had a ton of fun at the whitecave bbq even though the whitecave wasnt present. We cooked like 10 hotdogs cuz no one was hungry, drank 14 rootbeers and sparred some. Then we burnt all of our school papers, lets jsut say the whole bbq thing was filled with ashes we burned so much stuff. then mark went home and i chilled with greg,christian,and sean. They kicked my ass at star wars episode 3, then we took over the galaxy which is always a must. watched some bruce lee…thats about it. Got my DVD from stroup today, no i can watch my xbox 360 commercial in all is w00tage.
well clark had enough of my shit after 3 years…so hello daily here i come… The essay posted below triggered the kicking me out. Note *no personal pronouns were allowed and professional language was to be used*
Disillusionment with the World
Disillusioned, but happy. Is it worth being ignorant of everything. Is money, social status (being cool), and fitting in the whole point of life? Is it love? Is there even a point to life? For Gatsby it was love. He held many parties and spent a lot of money hoping that his love might just stroll in one day. He has attatchment issues. No one should ever believe themselves to be in love with someone so much that they become lost and almost fail to function as a human being. If one is that attatched to someone they have serious issues. Gatsby is very guilty of this. Hence the spending of much money. When Gatsby is finally given the opportunity to finally reunite with the one he cannot live without, he jumps on it. The only reason he even befriends Nick is so that he can meet Daisy. Otherwise he would not have even given a damn about Nick (that sentence would not hold up in the class debates, for it is an illogical assumption). Gatsby, being the insecure man he is, puts himself down after reuniting with Daisy. He believes himself to be inadequate, despite all his riches and fame. So not only can he not live without Daisy, he believes himself not worthy of her. “’This is a terrible mistake,’ he said, shaking his head from side to side, ‘a terrible, terrible mistake.’” 92. A walking paradox. Much was the attitude of the masses during the 1920’s. Everyone was spending, spending, spending. The economy was falling but everyone was having too much of a good damn time to notice (much like today’s society). Gatsby, having a little more fame than other, was also the “talk of the town,” everyone gossiped about him. Instead of asking Gatsby his past, everyone would just gossip like little children. They loved the drama (BS). Then finally someone, a reporter, asks him some questions. But because of the social attitude of the time, instead of asking Gatsby some real questions about his past they just ask which rumors are true. Overall no one ever learned anything. So one could come to the illogical conclusion that the 1920’s were full of adults who acted like children and didn’t know anything about what was really going on. This explains the crash of the stock market.
The women’s rights movements at the time were greatly picking up speed at this time in history. This probably explains why everything was in such a mess. Women were starting to express sexual freedom. Women hadn’t experienced this really ever so most of them were probably a little scared at first. So women, being in superb control of everything, built a huge charade of junk to confuse the men. So basically men were totally blind and excited about all the women they were getting to “do” and the women were exploring new freedom. This theme is very prominent in the book. Most of the married couples in the book are cheating on each other. “..’I want you to meet my girl.’” 28. The man who said that happens to be married to Daisy…and the girl he is talking about isn’t Daisy. So if everyone is cheating on each other and partying… who is doing all the work? Surely not the rich people. They couldn’t give a damn less about anything. They just want to smoke their “healthy” cigarettes and drink booze. Everything is about having a good time. If anything seems slightly uncomfortable then no one wants to do it. Though if anything uncomfortable happens to someone else, everyone is all over it because it is a source of something to make drama over. (the next 3 pages will most likely be BS, since you were crazy enough to ask a very unmotivated student for a 5 page essay and gave him a topic that sucked. That is my opinion, deal with it.) So everyone is partying and having a good time. No work is getting done. Everyone is cheating on each other. Everyone is participating in unhealthy activities. No one wants to be uncomfortable. The rich people are just loving it (Were those all assumption?). Maybe The Great Gatsby is over exaggeration the attitudes of people during the 20’s… (oh wait I am a stupid high school student I am not supposed to know that). Let us assume though that The Great Gatsby depicts life in the 20’s perfectly.
Gatsby is a prime example of a rich man with the usual American relationship issues. Daisy is a superb example of a little girl trapped in a woman’s body who only sees’ the sentimental parts of life. Tom is the usual jock/brute of a man who just needs attention. Jordan is the crazy party girl. Nick… probably the only person being himself. He just lets himself get dragged into the usual drama/bs. He tries to help people out regardless of whether he likes them or not. Nick is just trying to live life and survive but gets dragged into this fake and considerably messed up group of people (reminds me of me, uh oh I said me… 3 times!!! How many points is that?). So considering that the book is from his perspective we could then derive that the book is biased. Nick experienced things and interpreted them in his own way. So the whole book is biased from his perspective, but nick didn’t write the book so it is Fitzgerald’s bias on life. Which then will be read by many people and then his story will get altered slightly and reinterpreted by other people in existence (existence is an opinion). So if we take the fact that everyone experiences the same things but interprets them differently then we can come to the conclusion that this paper could be graded poorly simply because you do not interpret it the same way as the person who wrote it did (I wonder who wrote the paper… oh I just said who did twice..). This is true for every character in the book. For they all react differently to situations. For instance, “Then I heard footsteps on a stairs and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the door. She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can. Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet of gleam or beauty but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering. She smiled slowly and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye.” 30 (long quote I know…). Well I am sure that Tom was happy, Myrtle was excited, Nick was bored, and Myrtle’s husband was slightly confused. The same thing happened to them all though, so why did they all experience different feelings. Such is the human plight, no one experiences something exactly the same as someone else, but everyone can agree that the great depression was bad. So doesn’t that mean that everyone agrees? Oh my, I think that might just slightly be a paradox. So if the this book was full of paradox, and the person who reads it interprets it in their own way… this leads a certain person writing this essay that the essay topic he was assigned is an absolute matter of opinion (notice how I didn’t say I, me, you, or we). This also means that when someone reads this essay they will interpret it in their own way. So how could anyone possibly get their original point across? Obviously the point of this paper so far is to give a teacher what they asked for, not what they want. Kind of how Gatsby got what he asked for, though not what he wanted.
He died as the result of a huge miscommunication, kind of how this paper is probably going to come across and how everyone communicated in the story. Though people shouldn’t just go around trying to steal other people’s wives and expect to live. Men are known to be very territorial animals (yes I believe humans are animals, spare me -_-). Kind of weird how Gatsby died from miscommunication, this also happens to be his whole relationship with Daisy and everyone else. Since he hides so much and his past and present personal life is very unclear it kind of explains his place of death. He dies on a mattress in a pool. Mattresses are places where people feel comfortable and sleep, and a pool is where they relax. So if illegal actions are being taken by a person, that person should not relax because they will get shot when they are all “comfy.” Gatsby’s life is like the lives of everyone alive in this day and age. Consume, consume, consume is all America’s youth does.
If the youth continues on this route… how long until another stock market crash, how long until America opens its eyes again? The Great Gatsby seems to be a great book on the future (if my assumption is right that is). Another paradox, actually this paper is full of paradox and so it is one, The Great Gatsby is a fiction book yet it seems to depict real life in the 1920’s and 2000’s perfectly. Rich people think they are better, and racism is rampant. As Nate Newberry said once, “You may not hear it but I get called white boy, whitey, and Nazi at least a couple times a day.” (I said that just for this paperJ, that’s called effort!). A real example in a book, that happens to be fiction so it is fake, “’Civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out Tom violently. ‘I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read ‘The Rise of the Coloured Empires’ by this man Goddard?’.” 17. If that isn’t racism then please show the person who wrote this paper what is. The 1920’s seem to be much like the 2000’s. So where is the real life Gatsby? Look at any celebrity, they make sex videos and throw huge parties to get attention. None of them may do it for love, same principle though. The person who wrote this paper think he would be like Nick. He hates drama and just about everyone and everything (LOVIN TO HATE IT! *gasp* paradox).
Didn’t someone say that history repeats itself? The reason History is supposedly taught in school though is so that humans will learn from their mistakes. Though most kids believe history is boring and can’t seem to remember that Napoleon was defeated at the waterloo, this sounds familiar… So people seem to be misinformed, miscommunication ensues. People are to busy partying. They tell the person who wrote this not to take everything so seriously. When history repeats itself and the real life Gatsby’s are dead in their comfortable spot, the Daisy’s are with an abusive husband, and the Tom’s are going on animalistic rampages. The author of this paper will be sitting back saying he told you so (maybe I am right maybe I am wrong we shall see). The Great Gatsby is a book about destruction; relationships, money, and even life are decimated in this book. Unlike most stories, The Great Gatsby, this one did not have a happy ending. Since people in general have been known to fear death, an “unhappy” ending seems more realistic. So this book is a very realistic but fake book about reality. Another paradox to tack on to the list (aren’t you making one?).
Life the great paradox we all live in. It is and it isn’t no getting around it (but if it is paradox then their must be someway to get around it…). The Great Gatsby is full of balance, it has all the qualifications (oh my, another opinion XD, ß supposed to turn that 90 degrees clockwise). It has happiness, sadness, love, hate, life, death, a front cover, and a back cover. All of it very simple yet very deep from a morale point of view. Maybe this explains why children in Mrs. McGrath’s seventh period class say they dislike this book so much. The balance angers them; they don’t read books to remind them of reality. Books are meant to be entertaining in their minds. So then they don’t read at all. That goes back to not being informed, the first step in a series that leads to failure. Fitzgerald seems to have read the future with his fictional book. He not only shows how not caring can lead to great destruction, but shows how dangerous love can be. Love hurts, someone said that once. Fitzgerald took this phrase literally, whether he did it knowingly or unknowingly it is true. Myrtle gets run over by a car because she loves Tom (who knows if she really did…again my opinion and I can’t read myrtle’s mind). Now as the author of this essay said earlier, women’s rights were swinging into full boom. Usually sex was something two people did when they were in love, but with women and men starting to explore this whole idea of sex without marriage thing. People got confused. People had to learn to disassociate the two with the new decade. So how many people died? Even in the movie Chicago main character shoots her husband, she is also cheating on him. It took at least all of the 1920’s before people got scared. Everyone was having a great time and then the stock market crashed. What were the attitudes after that though? American women were supposed to be stay at home mom’s who cooked. Society was depicted as this almost automaton force. American’s were not quite ready for the whole sex without true love thing. In the 1960’s though it all went insane (ask anyone who lived through it). This slightly reminds the author, of this essay, of the matrix when neo touches the source before he is ready to. So the 1920’s could be represented by a scene made in the year 2003. Same story it just looks different. So The Great Gatsby can be seen as any other story, if you can see that is. The Great Gatsby is also The Matrix and every other movie, book you have ever read. Each story has its own characters and slightly different angles, perspectives, and ideas. But every story is exactly the same, yet different. Paradox.
So not only is it impossible to compare The Great Gatsby to anything, it is being compared to the post world war one society in this paper. Though all this paper said was that it didn’t get compared because you are living the story right now (…wait is that another opinion?). This paper is also the story of The Great Gatsby, it is balanced. This paper is exactly what The Great Gatsby Essay Topics handout asked for, but not what the person who gave it to the author of this paper wanted. This paper is all truth but opinion. All opinion is truth. The Great Gatsby, balanced fiction books that has depicted the future, past and present (opinion, opinion). The question is, was The Great Gatsby written to piss people off, depict the future, make people think, or was it just a fiction story with no meaning? If the reader of this essay has been paying attention at all they would probably realize that the answer is all of those and more. For The Great Gatsby is a paradox not to me taken lightly, just like life.
Bibliography
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995
The National Women’s History Project. “Timeline of the Legal History of Women in the
United States.” 1997-2002. The National Women’s History Project. 30 May, 2006.
http://www.legacy98.org/timeline.html
“Paradox.” 2005. Wikipedia. 30 May, 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox
For those that have the patience to read all that, consider yourself better than the average american.
well today i had a debate in english…i basically went up there, gave a beautiful speech, and looked every single person in the eye… lol the girl tried to run but i said "hey hey come back here im not done with you." i really said that in front of everyone. It was awsome i love it and i owned w00terzs
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