Great Gasby notes chapter 1-3

Epigraph: A quote at the beginning of a book or a chapter to give a clue to the chapter.

The narrator does criticize people because his father taught him not to.
 King Midas turned eve he touched into gold
JP Morgan American financer
Supercilious: Crabby
Gay: Happy
Tom is a racist while daisy is not but sarcastic
Daisy finally is talking like a normal person, emotions set in for her
Tom is going out with his mistress Mrs.Wilson and bought a dog of an unknown breed for ten dollars
Catherine looks like a cashiers at Rite Aid
Fiction: is the lie that tells the truth
Displacement: A character who is out of place
Anachronism: Aperson who is out of time
Sometimes quotations are used for sarcasm and irony

John Steinbeck notes

Temporal:Time of history
Consecrate: Loyalty
Perspective: how we look at things
Transcend: To go above and above
Irony: When the author uses something that you think is good but is the exact opposite.

 Naturalism,Realism,Modernism
    Genre: is a category of creative work that is unique to a time or place
Industrial revolution: the bringing of automation
WW1: up close and personal not like now
Modernism: was new and confusing
Naturalism:a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail
Realism:the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.

Everything is a remix

This explain if it's worth living through the bad things of life
The mystery of the afterlife keeps us from killing our selves
     Hip hop was the first type of music to be remixed and influenced everything around to be remixed as well. In a remix can be the arrangement and transformation of samples.
Stories and myths lead us astray from making something new.
     Behind creation it's a lot of random things until insight hits.
     Domain knowledge: learning from other by copying Or mimicry
      With domain knowledge it help create your own variation of what you learned

Graceland notes

Music brings  people and culture together in a peaceful and harmonious way.
People gather and listen having fun with each other in a positive location with no worry of a negative vibe. People listen to forget all negativity from outside problems and to be more social with others

American Literature Notes

Common sense: the sense we hold in common
Heterogeneity: different backgrounds, genes, identity
Literature: imaginative or creative writing especially of recognized artistic value, collective ideas of culture
Arguments: to get closer to the truth
Allusion: the reference that the author wants us to show
Collaboration: Working with someone to produce or create
Creativity: the ability to create
Social Learning: To learn from a group or someone who knows more than you do
Communication:
Critical Thinking:
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Responsible
Time