Inner Thoughts

 This week we had to write a fan-fiction for The Great Gatsby. For this I decided to "continue" the story from a 3rd point of view through the actions of Henry C. Gatz.     Under the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, an old man could be seen walking into a coffee joint. Looking around, he sees a young man running the store. Gatz immediately walks upto him, asking about the recent affairs of interest. Talking about the events, the young man hesitantly mentions Wilson, intriguing the old man. "Tell me more about him" questions the old man, sliding a few coins across the table. Seeing the coins, Michael's (the young man's name) eyes lit up, "Oh that poor man, he was heartbroken at the murder of his wife and killed Gatsby before killing himself. But I'm tellin' you right now sir, it was all the Buchanans' fault." Hearing this, the old man's face suddenly tensed up. A few minutes later, much to Michael's disappointment, an unopened coffee ...

    This week while talking about the Great Gatsby, we saw countless references to wealth and how it is indicative of a person's status. For example, we saw how there was the East and West Egg, where on one side people are born into the wealth and on the other people are self-made, so to speak.     As I was reading the book, I saw how the rich somehow kept getting richer and richer while no matter how hard the poor worked. While in the book this was done through immoral means, I saw that this kind of reflected our present day and age. Even now, the rich people are the ones getting richer and more successful compared to an ordinary person. This got me thinking if being rich is really about having a lot of money or is there a different reason that makes the rich, well, rich.     To begin with the physical side of things, surprisingly, according to a study it was found that poorer people actually had a difference in the brain structure compared to rich people....

      Modernism was the time period in the twentieth century where the whole world changed. It was the age of change and innovation. Some of these innovations are so commonly used that you would not expect for them to be invented so recently. Some of these inventions include the vacuum cleaner, the television and even the band aid (I don't know how people survived without band aids before the 1900s though). Modernism was not limited to only these things though, it also had a lot of influence on the technological side as well. In fact, the first ever robot was built in the 1920s. But innovations were not limited to the age of modernism. Humanity only advanced as the years went by. Especially the post-modernism era, giving birth to a variety of technological advancements such as the invention of the first computer, mobile phone, and arguably the most significant creations of all, java and python.     Now what is the significance of these handy dandy inventions? We...