Monday, February 22, 2010

Gatsby's character changes from a character of mystery and awe-inspiring. He was a man that everyone talked about or at least guessed about. Until the narrator became his close friend, no one knew his whole story. He was the talk of the town but that was before Nick actually became good friends with him. Nick saw that Gatsby was a man who is mysterious at first but really is kind of a fake. He has connections with the New York mob which where he got a lot of his money. This is somewhat of a adventurous way of getting money, but the honesty in him had distance from him.
He later became a shallow person who really only cared about how he was going to win back Daisy and his past. Even though both Daisy and himself loved each other, they did not know what was best for them and their friends when they decided for Daisy to leave her husband, Tom, for Gatsby. They just wanted themselves to be happy and not the others that they had become friends with. We already knew that Daisy was a fool but now Gatsby joins the picture in that same way as Daisy has come. He now only cares about how he can get Daisy away without Tom getting in the way. Gatsby turned into a self- centered pig who has deserved to die.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Dr. Pepper or Coke

In today's culture, you can be expresses by two amazingly popular soft drinks, Dr. Pepper or Coke. In the South, we drink Dr. Pepper alot because we know what we want and DP fulfills that urge for greatness. In the North or in other countries, they don't serve DP but only Coke because it has been around for such a long time and has become famous. But in my opinion, you don't get the amazingly smooth taste with coke, which makes it less appealing. Coke makes better commericals than DP does but what people really want is a drink that they can love. This is why America loves Dr. Pepper. You can drink it with every kind of food, formal or casual, and wherever you are at, you can have a familiar taste. They also have the alcoholic beverages with Dr. Pepper in them to encourage the adventurous adults. The DP industry knows how the Ameican mind works so they know that everyone who is in the right mind set love DP, more than Coke. Dr. Pepper is better and you know it!
Trust me, I'm a doctor!
Luke Smith

Monday, February 1, 2010

Everybody has a green light that they look for at the end of a stressful week. For some they finally get the hope they need to help them with their school work. But with the green light of your life comes with a mysteious story of what you want. This is where gossip comes into play. Gossip has made people become gods in their own mind and others as well. But it also can tear people down, especially if the rumor that someone started is not true. Gatsby knows about the rumors that go around about him bu the doesnt want to explain himself so he just lets them keep thinking this or just keep making up differnet things. Rumors can hurt someone very badly which is why they should not be spread around. Rumors are usually started by an enemy of the person it is about and then spread around really quickly. This mean that the rumor can travel around the community much faster than anyone could have predicted. The community will figure the rumor out eventually and the person that the rumor is about will feel terrible about it. People can never guarntee that they will come back from this feeling the same way as they did before.