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Jay-Z: The American Dream While Jay-Z is known for his incredible abilities as a lyricist, few recognize his remarkable abilities as a business tycoon. Shawn Corey Carter has changed the business industry forever. He has made a top-of-the-line brand for himself, and created opportunities to churn out more and more revenue at each and every turn of his career. While rappers are known to blow money as quickly as they make it, Jay-Z has certainly distanced himself from that stereotype.…

In “Decoded”, Jay-Z discusses his life in hip-hop. He connects his career to past artists and events in history. Jay-Z has become one of the most influential people in hip-hop. He has been a prominent figure for decades in music. Jay-Z’s influence on other artists has changed hip-hop’s history itself. The stories of his past, which he shares in “Decoded”, are a part of history because they all shaped his career and made hip-hop what it is today. In “Decoded”, Jay-Z shares a few moments…

Jay Gatsby never truly existed. Jay Gatsby, the character for the which the book “The Great Gatsby” is named for, is merely an image or idea created by the mind of a young James “Jimmy” Gatz. James Gatz came from an extremely poor family of farmers in North Dakota. He wanted so badly to escape his roots and become another person entirely that he created a way out of it through Jay Gatsby. The transformation from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby can be seen clearly in chapter 6 of “The Great Gatsby”.…

To Jimmy Gats aka Jay Gatsby everything is an object to be acquired. Throughout jimmy’s life he wanted to be wealthy and of a high social class. It was because of his desire to be rich that he started seeing things as objects, he began to obsess over acquiring what he needed to be “Gatsby.” After the war Jay started to become wealthy but even when he started to get everything he wanted, there was a prize he had let slip through his fingers many years before, Daisy Fay or Daisy Buchanan as she…

Morality of Jay Gatsby Unravelling the realities of the Jazz age, the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald unveils the limitless measures taken by Jay Gatsby to rekindle the dormant love between him and the archetype 1920’s golden girl Daisy Buchanan. The romantic tragedy, The Great Gatsby, delves into the lavish customs of the Roaring Twenties, while strategically exposing the lack of sound ethics and moral development. Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory on Moral Development compartmentalizes Jay…

Jay-z grew up in Brooklyn's drug-infested Marcy Projects. During a rough childhood detailed in many of his life songs. Jay-z dealt cocaine and messing with gun violence. So he used his music to escape all the drugs and violence. As Jay-Z later he said in one of his songs "I went to school, got good grades, could behave when I wanted But I had demons deep inside that would raise when confronted." He went to many schools such as George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School in…

Caraway has a high opinion of Jay Gatsby. Nick sees how far Jay Gatsby has came. He started life poor. Yet, Gatsby sculpted an identity for himself. One who everyone knows , admires , and respects. When Nick first saw Jay Gatsby he talked about his smile and how gorgeous it was and that it was one of a kind. Nick thinks so high-minded of Jay Gatsby because of his background stories , all the rumors Nick hears from the people , and all Jay did for love. There was a girl Jay Gatsby met before he…

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald , Nick Carraway’s artistic conscience narrates the extravagant existence of the wealthy in the 1920’s. He resides next door to the fabulously rich Jay Gatsby who is a self-made man struggling to enter the social sphere of old wealthy families. Much of Jay Gatsby’s time is spent trying to impress, and become accepted by the rich. Through illegal means he has gained enormous wealth; however, neither wealth nor love can dissolve the physical and moral…

novel The Great Gatsby tells the story of mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby. Taking place in Long Island in the summer of 1922, Gatsby’s neighbor, Nick Carraway recounts the tale of Gatsby, from his service in the Great War, to his extravagant parties thrown in his lavish mansion. The focal point of this essay will be Jay Gatsby -- where did he come from? How did he become so rich? Lastly, what makes Gatsby so great? James Gatz, or Jay Gatsby, as he would later go by, was born to a dirt poor…

The early life of Jay Gatsby I didn't know Gatsby very long, only about a half a year, but I considered him one of my best friends and I hope he thought the same about me. He took me under his wing, showed me his ways and told me his story. James Gatz he was born to “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people — his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all… He was a son of God” (104). As he grew he dreamed of greater things. These dreams convinced him to leave at age 16. At…