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Jay Gatsby: Jay Gatsby grew up poor but later became wealthy through bootlegging so that he could win back his love Daisy, who had married the rich Tom Buchanan. Gatsby hosted lavish parties hoping Daisy would attend and rekindle their romance. However, their affair resulted in a death and Gatsby being murdered with only a few attending his funeral.

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Jay Gatsby: Jay Gatsby grew up poor but later became wealthy through bootlegging so that he could win back his love Daisy, who had married the rich Tom Buchanan. Gatsby hosted lavish parties hoping Daisy would attend and rekindle their romance. However, their affair resulted in a death and Gatsby being murdered with only a few attending his funeral.

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Jay Gatsby:

Jay Gatsby, the main protagonist in F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel


The Great Gatsby, is a mysterious, affluent man who hides in his
immense palace and hosts large parties for other affluent people. He
originates from a poor German American family of North Dakota. His
family was dirt poor, and Jay was not being properly provided for,
which motivates and begins a spark in his dream: to become wealthy.
He accidentally comes across a sinking yacht and saves the owner,
Dan Cody. Dan Cody sails again on his yacht with Jay Gatsby, teaching
young Gatsby the ways of the rich. Gatsby is left with Dans
inheritance, but Dans mistress cheats him of it and Gatsby is once
again dirt poor. He joins the army for World War I, in which he reaches
the rank of Major and performs heroic deeds. During WWI, he meets
Daisy Fay, a beautiful girl from a wealthy family. He is forced to leave
Daisy for the war and their communication stopped after the war.
Gatsby finds out while briefly attending Oxford that Daisy is marrying
Tom Buchanan, an extreme rich White man. Gatsby decides its time to
gain great wealth and status to woo Daisy back to his side. He
befriends influential gangsters and begins bootlegging to build up his
immense fortune, eventually becoming one of the richest men in New
York. He hosts massive parties at his place in hope that Daisy will walk
in one day. He later manages to talk to Daisy through his neighbor Nick
Caraway, who is a cousin of Daisy. The couple falls in love and Gatsby
decides its time to announce to Tom of Daisys true lover. Daisy admits
that she loved both of them and later on accidentally runs over Toms
true lover, Myrtle, with Toms car. Tom tells Myrtles husband that it
was Gatsby who committed the murder, to which Myrtles husband
responds by killing Gatsby and committing suicide himself. No one
attends Gatsbys funeral except for three people: Gatsbys party guest
Owl Eyes, Nick Caraway and Gatsbys father, Henry Gatz. Despite all
his parties and all his kindness, no one, including Daisy Fay Buchanan,
comes to say his/her last good byes.
1984:
In George Orwells 1984, Winston Smith wrestles with oppression in
Oceania, a place where the Party scrutinizes every single human
actions with the ever-watchful Big Brother. Winston Smith, after one
depressing day of working at the Ministry of Truth, comes back home
and decides to transgressed the ban on individuality and writes his
rebellious thoughts against the Party, which, if found, can be
punishable by death. Winston continues to commit these
thoughtcrimes by writing on the note and becoming more and more
obsessed with the Brotherhood, a mysterious group apparently working

to overthrow the party. He also falls in love with Julia, a brunette who
he original suspects is another though police, but later finds out has
mutual feelings. They continuously meet up and later have sex, which
are definitely against the law. Winston and Julia rent out a discreet
place in the cities to live and love, and they also go out in search for
the Brotherhood. Winston finds OBrien, a thought police pretending to
be a Brotherhood member, and gets tricked into openly rebelling
against the Party. Winston and Julia are captured in their rented house
and are sent to the Ministry of Love to be interrogated and
brainwashed. Due to Winstons unending resistance, they send him to
Room 101, a place where they interrogate by exploiting the prisoners
biggest fears. Winston finally breaks when they threaten him with rats,
screaming them to deploy the rats onto Julia. Later in the future, Julia
and Winston come across each other but are apathetic as they are
completely brainwashed to love the Party.

Beowulf:
Beowulf, a well-renowned hero of the Geats, comes to Denmark to help
Hrothgar, the King of the Danes, rid the great hall Herot of a terrible monster.
Grendel, who was jealous of ad annoyed by the merriment and vivaciousness that
resounded in Herot, takes over the great hall and kills Danish men every night.
Beowulf and his companions enter and stay the night at Herot to fight Beowulf. At
night, Grendel eats one of Beowulfs companions and attacks Beowulf and Beowulf
definitively wins by ripping off Grendel, which results in a slow death for a fleeing
Grendel. Herot is recovered and Beowulf is greatly celebrated as a hero, but only
until Grendels mother comes to avenge his sons death. Beowulf and his men trace
Grendels mother back to her home marsh and Beowulf dives in alone to kill her.
Despite many unfavorable conditions in the fight, Beowulf manages to come ahead
and kill both Grendels mother and the already-dying Grendel. He is again greatly
celebrated for saving the Danes from two adversities and promptly returns home. He
eventually becomes the King of the Geats and serves the people well by maintaining
peace. 50 years after Beowulfs fight with Grendels mother, an enraged dragon
wreaks havoc on the Geats. Old Beowulf races off to fight the dragon without
anyones help, but is heavily outmatched due to his age and the dragons ferocity.
None of his men help except for Wiglaf, and Wiglaf and Beowulf finally manage to kill
the dragon with Beowulf taking a fatal blow. Beowulf dies due to the wound and is
ritually buried by the sea.
Sergey Brin:
Sergey Brin is a Russian computer programmer and co-founder of Google
with Larry Page, revolutionizing the information and technology world. He attended
the University of Maryland to study mathematics and computer science, later
continuing his study in computer science at Stanford University. He met Larry Page
at the orientation of Stanford, eventually becoming good friends that are interested in
similar ideas. Brin became interested in data mining and with Page designed a

search engine. Search engines were very inconsistent, inaccurate and inflexible,
often not able to adequately answer the queries sent to the server. However, Sergey
Brin and Larry page created algorithms and systems such as the search-rank
algorithm that made searching for information more efficient and accurate, making
Google far more superior to the competing search engines.. He and Page collected
funds and received investments to start up their company and continuously
upgraded Google, resulting in the worlds most popular search engine. Brin is
focusing not only on Google, but also on many other technological and health related
goals such as making access to health easier, creating HMD (head mounted device)
and driverless cars. He has not only changed the way information is accessed, but
fundamentally changed the technological standards.

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