MCI WorldCom Scandal Essay

Introduction MCI WorldCom was one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. Bernie Ebbers founded WorldCom in 1983, after that WorldCom began as a re-seller of long-distance telephone services. WorldCom is located at Mississippi. After Ebbers bought around 50 other small long-distance firms, he set his sight on MCI. Thus MCI WorldCom would have become the second biggest telecom service provider in 1997. MCI WorldCom was formed on September-15-1998. WorldCom merged with the $37 billion MCI Communications Corporations, the company’s operations were organized around three divisions: * MCI WorldCom * U.S. telecommunications * WorldCom International The MCI WorldCom division is the second largest long distance company in the United States (after AT&T). It has fibre optic network of 45,000-mile long, which provides local phone service in more than 100 markets and offers services such as data, Internet, and other communications services. UUNET WorldCom has a highly trusted & reliable backbone network which provides local access to the Internet to a reach of more than 1,000 locations in and around the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. WorldCom International is not only a local but also facilities-based competitor in 15 countries outside the United States, connecting to the company’s overall global network to more than 5,000 buildings in Australia, Ireland, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico Belgium, Brazil, France, The Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Company – Timeline: Corporate founding 1983: Businessmen Murray Waldron and William Rector devise a plan to create a discount long distance provider called LDDS (Long-Distance Discount Service). 1985: Early investor Bernard Ebbers becomes the first chief executive officer of LDDS. 1989: LDDS becomes public through its first acquisition of Advantage Companies Inc. 1992: LDDS merges in an all-stock deal with discount long distance service provider Advanced Telecommunications Corp. MCI acquisition 1993: LDDS acquires long distance providers Resurgens Communications Group Inc and Metromedia Communications Corp. in a three-way stock. This creates cash transaction that becomes the fourth-largest long-distance network in the United States. 1994: LDDS continues its acquisition spree acquiring domestic and international communications network IDB Communications Group Inc. in an all-stock deal. 1995: LDDS acquires voice and data transmission company Williams Telecommunications Group Inc. for $2.5 billion and changes its name to WorldCom Inc. 1996: WorldCom merges with MFS Communications Company Inc. and UUNet Technologies Inc. 1998: WorldCom completes three mergers: with MCI Communications Corp. ($40 billion)—the largest in history at that time—Brooks Fiber Properties Inc. ($1.2 billion) and CompuServe Corp ($1.3 billion). Proposed Sprint merger 1 999: WorldCom and Sprint Corp. agree to merge. 2000: U.S. and European regulators block proposed merger with Sprint; WorldCom and Sprint terminate agreement. Accounting scandals & Bankruptcy 2002: A small team of internal auditors worked together secretly at WorldCom. During the night time, the auditors’ secret investigations revealed a $3.8 billion worth of fraud. WorldCom files for bankruptcy protection, listing some $107 billion in assets and $41 billion in debt, on a consolidated basis as of March 31. It was the largest such filing in U.S. history. 2003: The Company’s total assets had been inflated by about $11 billion. Creditors had lost faith in the organization. 2004: MCI officially emerges from bankruptcy, 21 months after filing the largest Chapter 11 case in history. 2005: Verizon Communications Inc. announces a $6.75 billion deal to buy MCI Inc. Former WorldCom Inc. chief executive Bernard J. Ebbers is found guilty of conspiracy, securities fraud and making false filings with regulators. Worldcom Top Management Team during Scandal: CEO – Bernard Ebbers CFO – Scott Sullivan Comptroller – David Myers Director of General Accounting – Buford â€Å"Buddy† Yates Pre-Scam Days At WorldCom LDDS changed its name to WorldCom in 1995. WorldCom was the second largest benchmarked long distance telecom provider in the USA and the biggest internet traffic carrier in the world, with a network stretching over 150,000km, and business presence in more than 65 countries. WorldCom faced explosive growth, at a scorching pace over the 15 years of its existence by acquiring many companies like MFS Communications Inc. and UUNet Technologies Inc. in 1996, MCI Communication Corp, Brooks Fiber Properties Inc., CompuServe Comp in 1998. In 2001, it made the largest merger with Intermedia Communication Inc., an internet and data services provider. With the acquisitions of UUNet and MCi, WorldCom had control over more than 50% of the Internet backbone infrastructure. Every acquisition led to higher stock price which in turn made way to finance another acquisition. The share price of WorldCom was at an all time high of $63.50, on June 18, 1999, with market value of $125 billion. Its value rose to $180 billion during the peak of the telecom boom. As long as the stock market was booming and the dot com bubble was expanding, no one cared to look into the fundamental stability of the company. Auditors also failed to perform thorough due diligence. WorldCom, in the late 1990’s was also an attractive takeover target for Nextel Communications, before the scandal. Scam – How it all happened? WorldCom, the second biggest long-distance telecom company in US and also the biggest carrier of Internet traffic in the world was the new economy company when it was launched. In its operation of 15 years, the company grew at a very rapid pace, majorly due to the ambition of its former chief executive officer (CEO) Bernard J. Ebbers. It majorly expanded by acquiring other smaller companies who had a potential to be their future competitors. The stock market supported them and the company growth was exorbitant and no one cared about the fundamentals of the company as it was giving high return year on year. Below mentioned is the chronological order of occurrence of events and the exposure of fraud. * March 2002 – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) questioned WorldCom about its accounting procedures and about loans it had extended to its officers as it was curious about the rationale behind the offers. * April 2002 – The first sign of weakness came when company announced job cuts, the number was 3,700. Following the even, Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch downgraded WorldCom’s credit rating and it was the beginning of the Justice department launching a probe into the scandal. * April 2002 – This month itself J. Ebbers resigned as CEO after the shocking revelation of lending of $339.7 million to Ebbers to cover loans that he took to buy his own shares. * June 25 – The Company revealed that improper accounting of $3.8 billion in expenses had covered up a net loss for 2001 and the first quarter of 2002. The company also announced that it planned to shed more than 20% of its workforce counting to be around 17,000 jobs. * June 26 – The case was filed by SEC against WorldCom alleging them for a securities fraud. It alleged that WorldCom’s top management â€Å"disguised its true operating performance† and â€Å"misled inve stors about its reported earnings†. Method that WorldCom adopted is been classified as an accounting scandal, the company used its balance sheet to boost revenues and profits while hiding expenditures. It did so by * Classifying ordinary day-to-day expenses and long-term expenses associated with the acquisition of capital assets as investments which led to WorldCom having a significant tax advantages. * WorldCom also tried to hide expenses to the amount of nearly $4 billion and instead showed them as profits in their account books. * Another ploy it employed was using WorldCom’s major operating expenses related to its â€Å"line costs†, the fees that it pays to third party telecom network providers for the right to access their networks. WorldCom capitalised these fees, terming them as investments, when, in fact, they were one of the most important day-to-day expenses. Financial experts pointed out that WorldCom’s accounting practices, made it impossible for investors to gauge the performance of the company. They not only overstated profitability they also misled the investors by the opaque nature of its regular operating performance. The shock for the people accentuated with revelation of Arthur Andersen, the disgraced auditing and consulting major as WorldCom’s auditor too. The WorldCom’s own internal audit department was the first one who unearthed the fraud of approximately $3.8 billion in June 2002. The company’s audit committee and board of directors were notified of the fraud and acted swiftly: Sullivan was fired, Myers resigned. By the end of 2003, it was estimated that the company’s total assets had been inflated by around $11 billion (WorldCom, 2005). Post-Scam Days At WorldCom Around 17,000 jobs were cut in order to save $1 billion. The company had yet to pay many of its creditors. Many of the small creditors included former employees, primarily those who were dismissed during June 2002. On August 7, 2002, the exWorldCom 5100 group was formed. It included former WorldCom employees with a common goal of seeking the benefits and full payment of severance pay under the WorldCom Severance Plan. The â€Å"5100† signifies the number of WorldCom employees dismissed in June 2002 before WorldCom filed for bankruptcy. In 2004, the company emerged from bankruptcy, with $5.7 billion in debt and $6 billion in cash. It was renamed MCI. About half of the cash was intended to pay various claims and settlements. Previous bondholders were paid 35.7 cents on the dollar, in bonds and stock in the new MCI company. The previous stockholders’ stock was cancelled, causing huge loss to stockholders. On February 14, 2005, Verizon Communications acquired MCI for $7.6 billion. On March 15, 2005 the CEO , Bernard Ebbers, was found guilty of all charges and convicted of fraud. He was accounted for the $11 billion accounting scandal, conspiracy and filing false documents with regulator. Many other officials were also charged with criminal penalties in relation to the company’s financial misstatements. These included former CFO Scott Sullivan (entered a guilty plea on March 2, 2004 to one count each of securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and filing false statements), former comptroller David Myers (pleaded guilty to securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and filing false statements on September 27, 2002), former accounting director Buford Yates (pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges on October 7, 2002), and former accounting managers Betty Vinson and Troy Normand (both pleading guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud on October 10, 2002). On July 13, 2005 Bernard Ebbers received a sentence of imprisonment for 25 years. At that time, Ebbers was 63 years old. On September 26, 2006, Ebbers surrendered himself to the Federal Bureau of Prisons prison at Oakdale, Louisiana, the Oakdale Federal Corrections Institution to begin serving his sentence. During March 2005, 16 of WorldCom’s 17 former underwriters reached settlements with the investors. During December 2005, MCI joined Microsoft Corporation by providing Windows Live Messenger customers â€Å"Voice Over Internet Protocol† (VoIP) service to make telephone calls. This was MCI’s last new product—- called â€Å"MCI Web Calling†. This product was renamed â€Å"Verizon Web Calling†, after the merger. Corporate governance Failure In 2002, when world’s second largest telecom giant WorldCom filed for bankruptcy at federal court in Manhattan, United States witnessed one of the largest accounting frauds in history. Former CEO of WorldCom, Mr. Bernie Ebbers was held responsible for orchestrating the USD 11 billion accounting fraud and sentenced to 25 years in federal prison on July 13, 2005. WorldCom fiasco is a clear case of corporate governance failure. How could a fraud of such enormity go unnoticed by the Board of Directors at WorldCom? What happened to industry watchdogs? In WorldCom’s case, most of the deviations from proper corporate behaviour resulted from the failure of Board of Directors to recognize and effectively deal with the aftermaths of â€Å"greed culture†. WorldCom’s former CEO Bernie Ebbers’ desire to build and protect his personal wealth was the driving factor behind the fraud. For this reason, he had to show continually growing net worth in order to avoid margin calls on his own WorldCom stock that he had pledged to secure loans [1]. While probing this enormous failure in corporate governance and what could have been done to evade it, we came across an interesting document entitled â€Å"Report of Investigation† dated March 31, 2003. This Report was prepared for, among others, the Federal Bankruptcy Court overseeing WorldCom case [1]. From the report, we have drawn various points to understand the corporate governance failure at WorldCom. Accounting Misstatements WorldCom made major accounting misstatements that hid the increasingly perilous financial condition of the company. The Report described the accounting tomfoolery as follows: â€Å"†¦ As enormous as the fraud was, it was accomplished in a relatively mundane way: more than $9 billion in false or unsupported accounting entries were made in WorldCom’s financial systems in order to achieve desired reported financial results.† Drivers of the fraud The motivating factor behind this fraud was the business strategy (personal) of WorldCom’s CEO, Bernie Ebbers. Here was a man who put his personal gain above organization’s growth. In the 1990s, Ebbers wanted to achieve spectacular growth through a series of acquisitions. But, there was a catch – He did NOT have the necessary resources to fund his acquisition binge. So, he used WorldCom stocks to accomplish his shopping (acquisition) spree. But, the most important thing was, WorldCom stock had to continually increase in value to be of any use to Ebbers personal agenda. He felt the need to prove ever-growing revenue and income. His only option to accomplish this end was financial gimmickry. However, he faced the age-old problem which all conmen face – It is difficult to sustain deception in the long run! Complicating Ebbers’ circumstances was an industry-wide slump in telecommunications. During this time, Wall Street had continuing expectations of double-digit growth for WorldCom. After all, they had accomplished so much in such a relatively short period of time. But, WorldCom needed time to learn managing the new businesses it had acquired. To continue on the path of double digit growth, WorldCom had to consolidate the acquired businesses and turn them into money minting machines. However, Ebbers did not have the backbone to stand up and accept that WorldCom needed time. Instead he went ahead and presented Wall Street what it expected from WorldCom – Ever-growing revenues and income even when in reality none existed. He fudged the company books and met Wall Street’s expectations. Another major reason motivating this fraud was Ebbers’ very obvious aspiration to build and guard his personal financial situation. For this reason, he had to show continually growing net worth in order to avoid margin calls on his own WorldCom stock that he had pledged to secure loans [1]. He did that. While most of the reports blame Ebbers for the entire episode, the Board of Directors are not blameless. WorldCom supported revisionist model of Corporate Governance – though the Board reigns (de jure), the imperial CEO rules (de facto). WorldCom’s corporate governance failure resulted in the following: * Company filed for bankruptcy * CEO was sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment * Shareholders saw their shares become useless * Lenders were strained to take losses on their loans * Employees lost jobs Court Ordered Fix The Bankruptcy Court directed the newly constituted Board of Directors and the newly appointed Corporate Monitor to fix this horrible example of corporate failure. The measures suggested.., * A corporate culture of openness, in which ethical conduct is encouraged and expected, as exemplified by the ethics pledge that the Company and the Corporate Monitor have developed and that senior management has signed * A corporate culture in which the counsel of lawyers is sought and valued; * Formalized and well-documented policies and procedures, including a clear and effective channel through which employees can raise concerns or report acts of misconduct References: 1. http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/10/MCI-WorldCom-Inc.html#ixzz2IriwULfD 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Inc. 3. http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/mci-worldcom-inc-history/ 4. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49156-2002Jun26.html 5. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/45542.html 6. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723527/000093176303001862/dex991.htm 7. http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1915/19150810.htm 8. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2002/aug/09/corporatefraud.worldcom2 9. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/us/worldcom-s-collapse-the-overview-worldcom-files-for-bankruptcy-largest-us-case.html 10. http://voices.yahoo.com/worldcom-scandal-look-back-one-biggest-225686.html?cat=3 11. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/us/worldcom-s-collapse-the-overview-worldcom-files-for-bankruptcy-largest-us-case.html 12. http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CDkQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2F2005%2F03%2F15%2Fnews%2Fnewsmakers%2Febbers%2F&ei=yOkAUZbcKcbirAeVwIC4BA&usg=AFQjCNHSfWmXHV-ryl3POQ1NU_MMYLmvjA&bvm=bv.41524429,d.bmk 13. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/us/worldcom-s-collapse-the-overview-worldcom-files-for-bankruptcy-largest-us-case.html 14. http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CDkQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2F2005%2F03%2F15%2Fnews%2Fnewsmakers%2Febbers%2F&ei=yOkAUZbcKcbirAeVwIC4 BA&usg=AFQjCNHSfWmXHV-ryl3POQ1NU_MMYLmvjA&bvm=bv.41524429,d.bmk

Coronary Artery Disease Essay

Coronary heart disease (CHD), also called coronary artery disease, is a condition in which plaque builds up inside the coronary arteries. These arteries supply oxygen-rich blood to your heart muscle. This plaque is made up of fat, cholesterol, calcium, and other substances found in the blood. When plaque builds up in the arteries, the condition is called atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaque occurs over many years. Over time, the plaque hardens which causes your coronary arteries to narrow, which limits the amount of oxygen and blood your muscles are supposed to get to function properly. Coronary Artery Disease is the leading cause of death in the United States because of the people’s not so healthy diet, lack of exercise, and tendency to smoke, which are the leading causes of Coronary artery disease. The symptoms might be very noticeable, or you might not experience anything when having CHD, one of the main symptoms is Angina which causes major chest pain or at least some discomfort or abnormal feeling on your chest. Also, you may feel like your chest is closing up and it will become harder for you to breathe, also may experience pain on your neck, lower back, and extremities, oh and not less important, fatigue and weakness are also symptoms. For treatment, your doctor will give you specific medications based on how severe your case is, eating habits will need to change, start exercising, and if a smoker, to quit smoking. Oh, very important to know, DO NOT under any circumstances, stop your medication, it will come back and probably worse than before it was treated. In very extreme cases, an angioplasty and stent placement, coronary artery bypass surgery, or a minimally invasive heart surgery will be needed in order to survive. Although everyone is different, early detection of CHD generally results in a better outcome. But after treatment, it’s not all gone; you might be stuck with some long-term effects. One of them being Unstable Angina, which I said was a severe chest pain due to not enough oxygen going to the lungs. Heart failure could also happen, due to the lack of blood and oxygen being transported to the heart, it weakens which makes everything much difficult than before, this is a heart failure. A long- term coronary artery disease could lead to suffering heart attacks, which happens when the artery is completely blocked, so no oxygen or blood flowing through whatsoever. Coronary artery disease is a very harmful disease when not treated, but being healthy could prevent it References: * http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/coronary-heart-disease/overview.html * http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/cad/

The Great Gatsby

Overview: Your team will create  one PowerPoint presentation according to the instructions below. Each member of your team will contribute information and help the leader compile the information into  one final presentation. Team assignment: * Your team will select one of the following characters from  The Great Gatsby: * Nick Carraway * Jay Gatsby * Daisy Buchanan * Tom Buchanan * Jordan Baker * Myrtle Wilson * George Wilson * As a team, create a profile for that character as if he /she is a member of a modern day social networking site, such as Facebook or MySpace. Your team's final presentation should be a PowerPoint presentation of 5-7 slides. Include at least three visuals and at least four of the following items: * A quotation that expresses the character's philosophy of life * A brief description of the character's family or friends. * A brief description of the time in which the character lives. * A brief description of the world in which the character lives. * A brief description of the character's conflicts or struggles. * Something interesting about the character.As the week begins, join your team and do the following: * Each team should select a leader. * Each team member should participate fully. Points will be based on both the amount of material posted and the quality of the work posted. * Remember that short comments, such as â€Å"I will go along with what everyone wants to do,† may earn no points. Offer significant material that advances the project. * Instead of listing websites, offer the information from that site along with the reference. Do not just offer material that was cut-and-pasted from websites; instead, write the information in your own words, and cite your sources. Note about visuals: Your team  can create your own visuals, use clip art, or use items from the Internet. If you use Internet images in your presentation, cite the sources on your final slide. Post your team's final presentation in Doc Sharing. At the en d of the week, you may download the other team projects posted in Doc sharing and enjoy viewing them.Daisy is the center of the story, and the character who originates the vast majority of events within the book. The life and fortune of Gatsby are built on the hope that someday he may revive his love with Daisy. Daisy has something that makes her special, and she is different from Jordan, and the rest of the women in the work, and this is seen through the narrations of Nick and Gatsby, and even in the way in which Tom defends her image in front of his lover.She is woman native of Louisville, Kentucky and through the stories told by Jordan, we know that she was the center of attention and the soul of the party, and is a beautiful woman who likes to have fun and flirt through cheeky and extremely frivolous conversations, and this is so inevitable that even her cousin is a victim of her gadgets, she did it at her first party at Gatsby’s house: â€Å"These things excite me so,â €  she whispered. â€Å"If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I’ll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my name.Or present a green card. I’m giving out green†. Nick describes the voice of Daisy as beautiful, mysterious, flirtatious, intriguing, exciting, sensual, and famous, and Gatsby includes that it is full of money; on several occasions, the characters comment that it is a magical instrument used by her, which is full of promises and beautiful things on the distance, and Daisy uses her seductive voice to drag people towards her, especially to Gatsby since the voice of Daisy speaks of everything he want of it, wealth, social status, true happiness and he cannot refuse to this attraction.Besides her seductive and alluring voice, she is a dreamy woman and she sees her past with melancholy and idealizes her first love affair, presenting her present as boring and stuffy and she struggles daily with the pressures of society which forced her to marry an aggressive, overbearing and arrogant man who woke her up from her childhood dreams and made her realize that very often dreams don't become reality, although in her deep insight, she keeps the hope that hers can become a reality. But Daisy's biggest problem is that he is not a mythical goddess, but she is an ordinary person with strengths and weaknesses, and she is used to live her life in a certain way, following the rules and by this obedience, she hopes some rewards. When Gatsby comes back to her life, moving its foundations and challenging her to leave behind these ties and conventionalisms, she frightens, and decides to return to her safe harbor, which is Tom, and prefers to be unhappy that to have to sacrifice her live to escape with Gatsby, and leave everything behind. She is selfish and only thinks about her, unlike Gatsby who made his life according to his unconditional love towards her. The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby, born James Gatz, the son of poor farmers, â€Å"sprang from his platonic conception of himself† (Fitzgerald 98). Thanks to a job on millionaire Dan Cody’s yacht, Jay was inspired to change his way of life. Despite his mysterious past, including rumours that he killed a man, Gatsby was in every way a tragic hero. After meeting a beautiful girl named Daisy in Louisville, Gatsby spent his whole life fighting to be with her. He was too poor to ever be seen with her, so he got in deep with some gangsters just trying to earn enough money to be with her. When he finally had enough cash, he found out that she was married. The instance comes up where he had to lie for her, and she wasn’t even grateful. After trying so hard for all those years to impress her, she ended up being the death of him – literally. Trying to recapture the past, nothing ends up going right for Gatsby, and he dies because of it. That, in it of itself, is the definition of a tragic hero. Daisy Fay was everything a guy could dream of – fun, slender, and extremely beautiful. If you had the best summer romance of your life with an amazing person, only to have them tell you that you were too poor to be with them, what would you do? Would you give up, or would you fight for them? Jay Gatsby chose the latter. After Daisy told him he wasn’t rich enough, he was devastated. Tragically, when he was finally rich enough to be with the girl of his dreams he found out she’d moved on. The only thing that Gatsby could do was admire her from afar, which is kind of creepy but apparently some girls find that romantic. â€Å"‘Gatsby bought that house so that he could be just across the bay. ’ Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor. † (Fitzgerald 78). Gatsby was so in love with Daisy after all those years that he moved right across the bay from her. He was so obsessed with her that he didn’t stop to think about the consequences. Daisy was married, and pining after a married woman just screams ‘bad idea’. If her husband ever found out†¦ watch out Gatsby. He was so overwhelmed when he finally saw Daisy again, he thought it was unreal, surely thinking back to when they were initially together. He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs. † (Fitzgerald 91) Gatsby spent a vast amount of h is life trying to be with Daisy, and now that she was actually in his house the whole situation felt surreal. Being so dedicated to the smallest things, like her presence in his house, was bad judgement. At that point Daisy could have manipulated him into doing whatever she wanted. Getting so involved with a woman in general is usually a bad idea, especially a married one. Going back to when Daisy told Gatsby he didn’t have enough money to be with her, Gatsby must have been desperate. At that point he probably would have done anything to get Daisy back, including getting involved with some very bad people. †Ã¢â‚¬â„¢Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he’s a gambler. ’ Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly, ‘He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919. † (Fitzgerald 73) Meyer Wolfsheim was a very bad person with molars for cuff links, and young Gatsby must have thought that getting involved with his ‘business’ would help him earn enough money to be good enough for Daisy. You would think that someone with teeth for accessories would be a person to generally avoid. Wolfsheim helped Gatsby get the money he needed by selling alco hol during the time of prohibition and selling him some drug-stores. Earning all that money in such an awful way must have been a story Gatsby didn’t share very often. ’It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it. ’ ‘I thought you inherited your money. ’ ‘I did old sport,’ he said automatically. ‘But I lost most of it in the big panic. The panic of war. ’ I think he hardly knew what he was saying for when I asked him what business he was in he answered, ‘That’s my affair,’ before he realized that wasn’t the appropriate reply. ‘Oh, I’ve been in several things,’ he corrected himself. ‘I was in the drug business and then I Was in the oil business. But I’m not in either one now. † (Fitzgerald 90) Gatsby was so used to lying about how he actually received all his money that when Nick, one of his closest friends, asked him he immediately lied. Having the instinct to lie, especially to his friends, was only going to c ome back and bite him in the butt, especially since he was involved with gangsters in the first place. ‘When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious. ’ – John Grisham. This quote is applicable to Gatsby because agreeing to lie for Daisy, he missed Nick’s warnings for him to get away due to Wilson’s inevitable repercussions. If a girl is cheating on her husband, she probably isn’t very trustworthy in the first place, so Gatsby agreeing to lie for Daisy and say he killed Myrtle was probably a bad idea. †Ã¢â‚¬â„¢Yes,’ he said after a moment, ‘but of course I’ll say I was. ’†(Fitzgerald 143) Agreeing to lie was the first step towards his demise. Daisy couldn’t risk Gatsby accidentally letting it slip that she was the one driving, and she had to tell Tom something†¦ after everything that went on between the three of them, Tom and Daisy realized that they were still in love with each other and they just wanted everything to go back to normal. ‘What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s, but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car. ’† (Fitzgerald 178). Daisy turned on Gatsby just as quick as he had agreed to lie for her; she told Tom that Gatsby had agreed to lie for her and that they needed to get rid of him in case he told. Tom told Wilson that it was Gatsby and Wilson was so enraged that he shot Gatsby and then killed himself. Lying for Daisy only led to more trouble for Gatsby. The rash decision to lie ended his life as soon as he agreed to it. A tragic hero is a person who, through his or her own actions, leads to their own demise. Gatsby, through yearning for a girl he could never really have, working with convicts to get his money, and lying for aforementioned girl who only cared about herself unambiguously lead to his own murder, making him fit the description of a tragic hero to a tee. Gatsby did everything for a girl who turned on him like it was nothing. Was it worth it? Would you have done the same? The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby, born James Gatz, the son of poor farmers, â€Å"sprang from his platonic conception of himself† (Fitzgerald 98). Thanks to a job on millionaire Dan Cody’s yacht, Jay was inspired to change his way of life. Despite his mysterious past, including rumours that he killed a man, Gatsby was in every way a tragic hero. After meeting a beautiful girl named Daisy in Louisville, Gatsby spent his whole life fighting to be with her. He was too poor to ever be seen with her, so he got in deep with some gangsters just trying to earn enough money to be with her. When he finally had enough cash, he found out that she was married. The instance comes up where he had to lie for her, and she wasn’t even grateful. After trying so hard for all those years to impress her, she ended up being the death of him – literally. Trying to recapture the past, nothing ends up going right for Gatsby, and he dies because of it. That, in it of itself, is the definition of a tragic hero. Daisy Fay was everything a guy could dream of – fun, slender, and extremely beautiful. If you had the best summer romance of your life with an amazing person, only to have them tell you that you were too poor to be with them, what would you do? Would you give up, or would you fight for them? Jay Gatsby chose the latter. After Daisy told him he wasn’t rich enough, he was devastated. Tragically, when he was finally rich enough to be with the girl of his dreams he found out she’d moved on. The only thing that Gatsby could do was admire her from afar, which is kind of creepy but apparently some girls find that romantic. â€Å"‘Gatsby bought that house so that he could be just across the bay. ’ Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor. † (Fitzgerald 78). Gatsby was so in love with Daisy after all those years that he moved right across the bay from her. He was so obsessed with her that he didn’t stop to think about the consequences. Daisy was married, and pining after a married woman just screams ‘bad idea’. If her husband ever found out†¦ watch out Gatsby. He was so overwhelmed when he finally saw Daisy again, he thought it was unreal, surely thinking back to when they were initially together. He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs. † (Fitzgerald 91) Gatsby spent a vast amount of h is life trying to be with Daisy, and now that she was actually in his house the whole situation felt surreal. Being so dedicated to the smallest things, like her presence in his house, was bad judgement. At that point Daisy could have manipulated him into doing whatever she wanted. Getting so involved with a woman in general is usually a bad idea, especially a married one. Going back to when Daisy told Gatsby he didn’t have enough money to be with her, Gatsby must have been desperate. At that point he probably would have done anything to get Daisy back, including getting involved with some very bad people. †Ã¢â‚¬â„¢Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he’s a gambler. ’ Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly, ‘He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919. † (Fitzgerald 73) Meyer Wolfsheim was a very bad person with molars for cuff links, and young Gatsby must have thought that getting involved with his ‘business’ would help him earn enough money to be good enough for Daisy. You would think that someone with teeth for accessories would be a person to generally avoid. Wolfsheim helped Gatsby get the money he needed by selling alco hol during the time of prohibition and selling him some drug-stores. Earning all that money in such an awful way must have been a story Gatsby didn’t share very often. ’It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it. ’ ‘I thought you inherited your money. ’ ‘I did old sport,’ he said automatically. ‘But I lost most of it in the big panic. The panic of war. ’ I think he hardly knew what he was saying for when I asked him what business he was in he answered, ‘That’s my affair,’ before he realized that wasn’t the appropriate reply. ‘Oh, I’ve been in several things,’ he corrected himself. ‘I was in the drug business and then I Was in the oil business. But I’m not in either one now. † (Fitzgerald 90) Gatsby was so used to lying about how he actually received all his money that when Nick, one of his closest friends, asked him he immediately lied. Having the instinct to lie, especially to his friends, was only going to c ome back and bite him in the butt, especially since he was involved with gangsters in the first place. ‘When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious. ’ – John Grisham. This quote is applicable to Gatsby because agreeing to lie for Daisy, he missed Nick’s warnings for him to get away due to Wilson’s inevitable repercussions. If a girl is cheating on her husband, she probably isn’t very trustworthy in the first place, so Gatsby agreeing to lie for Daisy and say he killed Myrtle was probably a bad idea. †Ã¢â‚¬â„¢Yes,’ he said after a moment, ‘but of course I’ll say I was. ’†(Fitzgerald 143) Agreeing to lie was the first step towards his demise. Daisy couldn’t risk Gatsby accidentally letting it slip that she was the one driving, and she had to tell Tom something†¦ after everything that went on between the three of them, Tom and Daisy realized that they were still in love with each other and they just wanted everything to go back to normal. ‘What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s, but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car. ’† (Fitzgerald 178). Daisy turned on Gatsby just as quick as he had agreed to lie for her; she told Tom that Gatsby had agreed to lie for her and that they needed to get rid of him in case he told. Tom told Wilson that it was Gatsby and Wilson was so enraged that he shot Gatsby and then killed himself. Lying for Daisy only led to more trouble for Gatsby. The rash decision to lie ended his life as soon as he agreed to it. A tragic hero is a person who, through his or her own actions, leads to their own demise. Gatsby, through yearning for a girl he could never really have, working with convicts to get his money, and lying for aforementioned girl who only cared about herself unambiguously lead to his own murder, making him fit the description of a tragic hero to a tee. Gatsby did everything for a girl who turned on him like it was nothing. Was it worth it? Would you have done the same? The Great Gatsby Every man wants to be considered great in the eyes of his peers, but it is important to remember what greatness truly means. There are thousands of ways to define the word â€Å"great,† but I have my own definition of the word. A great man is selfless, honest, and trustworthy. He is sincere, has strong values, and he does things for the benefit of others. Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s main character in the novel The Great Gatsby, is a charismatic man who throws elaborate parties for the wealthy people of Long Island. To those around him, Gatsby appears to be a great man, however, the reader can see through this facade and understands that he is not as great as he appears. Because he is stubbornly narrow-minded, selfishly uses people for his benefit, and seeks to destroy a family, Jay Gatsby is not a great man by any means. Jay Gatsby is stubbornly narrow-minded, and refuses to accept the reality that he cannot be with Daisy Buchanan. Jay Gatsby is unable to let go of the few moments he shared with Daisy years ago, before he was shipped off to Europe to fight in the Great War. While he is away, Daisy marries Tom Buchanan, yet Gatsby still tries to win her hand. Instead of moving away from Daisy and starting a new life, Gatsby moves across the bay from her and insists he will meet her again. At one of Gatsby’s parties, Nick urges Gatsby not to ask too much from Daisy. Nick realizes that Daisy has moved on with her life and reminds Gatsby that he cannot repeat the past. Gatsby replies in shock saying â€Å"Can’t repeat the past? †¦Why of course you can† (110)! Gatsby, who has everything luxury imaginable, refuses to believe that he cannot relive his past with Daisy. A great man would get around such an obstacle in life, and would find another way to fulfill his heart’s desire. Because Gatsby put all of his â€Å"eggs in one basket,† he was left with nothing when his only love refused to be with him. Nick Carraway knew that Gatsby was narrow-minded and said that he â€Å"paid a high price for living too long with a single dream† (161). Unfortunately for Gatsby, that high price was his life. Jay Gatsby cannot be considered a great man because he selfishly uses people for his own benefit. Gatsby does not have any friends until Nick moves in next door; however this friendship is not genuine. Gatsby is simply using Nick in order to meet Daisy. Gatsby also uses Jordan to get closer to Daisy. Once he finds out that Jordan knows Daisy, he begins to make his clandestine arrangements. Acting as Gatsby’s pawn, Jordan relays a message to Nick saying, â€Å"He wants to know†¦if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over† (78). Gatsby is quick to ask for favors from Nick, even though he barely knows him. Gatsby pretends to be Nick’s friend; however, friendship works both ways and Gatsby never delivers on his end. Gatsby’s selfish use of people who care about him prevents him from being great. A great man does things for the benefit of others, expecting nothing in return. If Gatsby were a great man, he would not use innocent people as part of his plan to destroy a family. Gatsby actively tries to break up a marriage and family by trying to take Daisy away from her husband and daughter. Gatsby is not content with his current relationship because Daisy is still married to Tom, and he does not have her to himself. Gatsby takes drastic measures in an attempt to win back Daisy, which includes confronting her husband, Tom Buchanan. Gatsby becomes so bold as to tell Tom that Daisy never loved him. When arguing with Tom, Gatsby says, â€Å"Daisy, that’s all over now†¦it doesn’t matter any more. Just tell him the truth- that you never loved him- and it’s all wiped out forever† (132). Gatsby is only concerned with himself and does not consider how he would tear apart a family if Daisy were to run away with him. Marriage is a sacred union, in which individuals commit themselves to one another for the remainder of their lives. Gatsby gives no consideration to Daisy’s young daughter who would have to live the rest of her life without her mother. Gatsby’s inconsiderate actions make it clear that he is not great. A great man would never do anything to harm a family because a great man has values. If Gatsby was a great man, he would accept that Daisy married Tom, and look for love elsewhere. Jay Gatsby is not a great man because he uses people for his own benefit, very stubborn, and attempts to break up a marriage. Great men look to help better the lives of others around them. Everything that Gatsby does is selfish and nobody else besides him benefits from his actions. Gatsby uses his wealth to make it appear to others that he is a great man, however the reader knows that even the parties that Gatsby throws are for his own benefit. Gatsby cannot be considered a great man because of his selfishness and indifference to the feelings of others. The Great Gatsby RADHA KRISHNA FUSED Hosts  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ NARAD MUNI – N REPORTER – R R – good evening, namashkaar. Satsriakaal, vannakumm aur jinhe ye sab lage kumm unko mera pyaar bharaa sweet saa welcome doston aaj hum aapko ek bahut hee aiti haasik flight per†¦ ek historical love story sunanae waale hain – a story about a bhola bhala chori ,and cute si anjani chori, jee haan aapne sahi suna – aaj hum aapko swarag lok ki sair karvaane waale hain†¦ – and wahaan ki latest gossips se roobaroo karvaane waale hain†¦ yeh kahani kuch hai suni . uch ansuni. kuch anjani ,kuch jani kuch pechani. but isse pehle hum show ko aage badhaaye pehle – jaisa ki customary hai – kyun naa ganesh ji mahaaraaj ki vandana ho jaaye – GANESH VANDANA (song: jaidev) (welcome song: kesaria balam) R – Haan to friends aaj 21st  century ke pehle dashak me it’s possible to travel to swarg lok from dharti lok – Aur aaj iss journey ko h um devlok se live telecast karne waale hai – sirf aur sirf aapke liye – so are you ready –I am†¦ here we go†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ (walks to the shuttle/exit/gate/wing) /o – welcome to swarg loke.. swarg loke me aap sabhi kaa swagat hai†¦ next scene – swarglok Narad Intro –BACHNA EH HASINO R interrupts N. M – R – Excuse me!!! Ye narad muni jii kahaan milenge N – Narad muniiiiii Main hee Narad Muni – aur pyaar se log mujhe N. M. bulaate hain – R – tum aur narad muni – IMPOSSIBLE – I mean khud ko dekho – aapki veena kahaan hai – gherua vastra – wo mountain jaisa jooda – tum to suit me ho – N – hey hey hey!!! Ye sab uss Ramanand Sagar ki galti hai†¦ ill date woh hume every Saturday Sunday wahi old fashioned vesh bhoosa me wahi pooraane avatar me dikhata hai – R – poorane avatar me N – aur nahi to kya – this is our new version – infact yahaan swarag lok me sab cheezen change ho chuki hai – anyways ab ye sab chorro and temme aap yahaan kyun aaye ho†¦ R – oh! narad muni ji! Wo actually kya hai naa main neeche dharti lok me ek bahut hee famous gossip show ka host hun and main yahaan khaas aapse milne aaya hun†¦Ã¢â‚¬â€œ aap gossip king ho naa isiliye – and I want to know ki swarg lok ki latest gossip kya haiN – arre pehle bolnaa thaa naa –maine to apne makeup ka touch up bhi nahi kiya – latest gossip me hai  R-K  kaa affair†¦ R – SRK SR-K  kaun N – arre   tum RK ko nahi janti R – nahi†¦ Kaun RK N – uff!!! Tum sabko her ek cheez samjhaani padti hai –  Rmatlab rads and Ks matlab krish†¦ tumhe unse milna hai – ruko abhi milwaata hun – R – arre arre ek sec N. M. Ji†¦ mujhe milwaane dijiye naa – kisna se – afterall main show ki host hun aa p nahi†¦ Wo kisna hai N – dekhiye mr. reporter ji – apne krishna ka intro thik diya but†¦ R – but kya†¦N – but aapne krish kaa intro wrong diya†¦ you know krish ekdum must hai – usse sone kaa bahut shaukh hai†¦ din bhar buss phone per lagaa rehta hai†¦ hamesha har ek jagah late pahunchta hai†¦ aur haan uski planning ki timing ke baare me kyaa kehna – always in the last minute†¦ krish ko cheezen bhoolne kaa bhi bada shaukh hai†¦ and last but not the least uske highly logical logics hamesha illogical hote hain.. in short ab tum mujhe milwaane do humare kisna se humaare ishhhtyle me Desi boys+ Munda kukad kamal ka+ Aadat se majboorR – arre waah ye naya version o kafi dhin chaak thaa – ab NM ji please mujhe rads ke baare me bhi kuch bataiye naa N – o rads ke bare me – wo bahut hee sweet hai – hamesha hansti rehti hai – infact krish to rads ke issi smile per fi daa hai†¦ wo apne dosto ke liye kuch bhi kar sakti hai†¦ and unlike kisna she’s very planned†¦ usse romantic novels padhne kaa bhi bahut shaukh hai.. aur you won’t find her without her lip balm†¦ jab dekho tab apna lip balm lagati rehti hai†¦ trekking kaa bhi rads ko bahut hee shaukh hai†¦ all in all she’s a perfect match for our kisna..Rads intro- BANNA RE + OH PIYA+ RADHA ON THE DANCE FLOOR N – (comes talking on phone) – haan kya king kaa three of a kind hai and ikka top card hai – arre abhi raise kar de.. river khulte hee all-in kar dena†¦ okay.. okay†¦ R – N. M. Ji, aap abhi poker ki baat kar rahe thhe naa.. I just love poker.. kyaa aapko bhi poker pasand hai†¦ N – hahaha! Arre mujhe kyaa even Rad and krish are die hard poker fans†¦ R – that is soo interesting – ab NM ji plz mujhe Rad and krish ke ched chaad ke baareme kuch bataaiye naa – you know kisna to famous thaa radho ko chedne ke liyeN – arre waah kya point diya hai†¦ well now a days chedna is very simple – pehle kisna matka phod ke radha ko cheda karta thaa – aur aajkal krish rads ko miscall aur messgaes se chedta hai R – mobile To dhiru bhai yahan pe bhi famous hai, Karlo swarlog muthi meh N – hahaha!!! Ab hume bhi to timepass ke liye kuch chahiye†¦ R –can I add u in mah contact N – nahi main whts app karta hun†¦ R – then I will whtsapp u†¦ neways ab aap aur kuch bataaiye naa inke ched chaad ke baare me – N – ab bataana kyaa hai yaar – khud hee dekh lo – – – CHED CHAAD SEGMENT Maiya yashodha+ natkat natkat+ chod do Aanchal+kyon aage peeche+ Saiyan Ji baiya chudake nahin jana) R – sirji†¦ N. M. Ji inka chedne kaa style to ekdum bollywood se inspired lagta hai†¦ N- excuse me!!! chahe ched chaad ho yaa romance – hum bollwood se nahi b alki bollywood humse inspired hota hai†¦ R – N. Muni ji ab jab aapne romance ki baat chedd hee di hai to thodi aur gossips dijiye naa†¦ rads and krish ke romance ke bare me†¦ ye bataaiye naa ki pehle kisne propose kiya thaa†¦ N – kiss ne propose kiya thaa R – arre wohi to main pooch rahaa hun kiss ne propose kiya thaaN – arre wahi to main bhi keh raha hun†¦ Kiss ne proposae kiya thaa†¦ R – †¦ †¦ †¦ N – ruko tumhe poori story samjhaane do – jab college me pehli baar krish ne rads ko dekha he was totally bowled over.. wo brahmand metro rail me ek stop pehle utarne laga†¦ unhone apne telephone numbers exchange kiye†¦ R – aur fir sms aur calls kaa silsilaa shuru ho gaya†¦ N – right†¦ and then dheere dheere long walks bhi shuru ho gaye†¦ aur jab ek baar rads kaa accident hua and she was in bed rest – ussi beech humaare rads  Ã‚  ki tubelight jali k i krish usse kitna pyaar karta hai.. and rest as they say is history†¦R – wow NM ji soooo romantic†¦ muhe kuch aur gossips dijiye naa N – ab dekho main jyaada kisi ke personal life me interfere nahi karta.. main ek kaam karta hoon – tumhe inn dono ke romance ki ek jhalki dikhaa deta hoon†¦ ROMANTIC SEGMENT- TUM MILE + SALAME ISHQ+ISHQ WALA+ SACHI SACHI+ EK MEIN AUR EK TU+ LONG DA LASHKARA R – achcha N. M. Ji what about gopiyan†¦ krish AAJ BHI UNKE SANG NAIN MATAKA KARTA HAI KYAA N – gopiyan to tab bhi thi and aaj bhi hai†¦ fark sirf itna hai ki ab gopiyon ki jagah saaliyon ne le lee hai†¦ R – AUR RAAS LILA raas lila kaa kyaa†¦N – arre pehle raas lila vrindavan gardens me hoti thii aur aajkal wo disco me hoti hai†¦ R – to NM ji meri bhi ek apsara ke saath disco me couple entry karwaaiye naa – N – naarayan naarayan.. tathaastu†¦ Disco segment-AAEVEIN AAEVEIN+DISCO DEEWAN E+ VELLE+YAAD AA RAHA HAI N enters talking / blabbering on phone – N – haan aap venue book kar do.. aur mujhe sabse achche caterers chahiye – iss shaadi me koi kami nahi honi chahiye†¦ R – enters†¦ R – N. M ji †¦ ye aap kisike shaadi ki baat kar rahe hai †¦ N – arre ye looo†¦ tumhe nahi pataa – rad and krish ki shaadi fix ho gayi hai†¦ aur mujhe event manager appoint kiya gaya hai†¦R – but Rad aur krish ki shaadi – how is it possible – N – .. naarayan naarayan!!! In this yug anything is possible!!! Aur waise bhi hum devtaaon ki bhi to kuch wishes hoti hai†¦ itne yugon se hum tumhaari wishes poori karte aa rahe the – ab humaari baari hai†¦ R – to n. m. ji meri bhi ek choti see wish poori kar dijiye naa – mujhe bhi inki shaadi me shaamil hona hai – kuch chakkar chalaiye naa – plzzz plzzz plzzz N – narayan narayan – m ain aaj bade achche mood me hun†¦ tathaastu†¦ WEDDING SEGMENT- SONIVE + GUNJE+BADHAI HO BADHAI+ PYARA BHAIYA MERA+SONI BANNO+ NAVRAI MAJHI+TUMHI HO BANDHUR – WAISE nm JI YE APSAARAYEIN KAHIN PER DIKHAAI NAHI DE RAHI N – saari apsaraayein mehendi lagaane me busy hai†¦ R – to hum yahaan kya kar rahein hai .. chaliye hum bhi mehendi lagaane me busy ho jaate hai†¦ N – hahahaha†¦ chalo†¦ Mehendi segment – MEHENDI RACHAN/ MEHENDI HAI RACHNE + MEHENDI KI RAAT R – so NM ji mehendi ke function me to mujhe mazza hee aa gaya – but then wht abt krish ke friends.. unka kyaa kehna hai†¦ N – ok let me not tell it .. tum khud hee dekh lo†¦ Zorr kaa jhatka – kids N – well ye to buss ek chota version thaa.. krish ke gwaal baalon kaa.. ow lemme show you what the full fledged version of it is like †¦ hit the music Zor kaa jhatka+ ek kuwara (elders) R – NM ji doston kaa to thik hai.. but swarg loke ke baaki nivasiyon kaa kya kehna hai.. you knw brahma ji Vishnu ji.. etc etc†¦ N – naarayan naarayan.. sabhi ati prasann hai.. sab bahut hee khush hai.. aur aaj yahaan kuch log aaye bhi hai iss yugal jode ko aashirwaad dene ke liye†¦ Pyaar mill jaaye+ jab koi baat+ hum saath saath hai+ kya kehna R – waah aaj to mujhe mazaa hee aa gaya†¦ N. M. Ji thank you aapne mere saaath aaj bahut saaari gossips share kari†¦ thank you so so much..N – hahaha†¦ welcome welcome†¦ ab jaate jaate main tumhe ek bahut hee top ki secret bataane waala hun†¦ and ye kisi se bhi matt kehnaa†¦ R – (excited) haan haan pakka†¦ N – kalyug me dharti per ek baar fir kisna aur radhaa kaa janam hua hai.. R – _______ N – haan aur ye secret kisi ko bhi nahi pata†¦ do you want to meet them†¦ R – off course†¦ N – theek hai chalo main tumhaari ye wish bhi poori kar deta hun†¦ fir matt kehna bhagwaan wish poora nahi karte†¦ tathaastu!!! Ladies and gentlemen can we have a huge round of applause for our very own Jodi of rads nd krish , i. , rohit nd shikha Bride + Groom Tenu leke(rohit) + dhime dhime(shikha) + tune jo pal bhar mein-dabang(together) As soon as the bride n groom segment gets over – N – doston aaj ke show me hume bahut hee mazza aaya – I hope aap logon ko bhi utna hee mazaa aaya hoga.. per picture abhi baki hai mere dost – its time to celebrate – let the music play – – – Finaale – sadi gali + jhoom barabar + gal mithi mithi ———————–THE BEGINNING——————— Also add brides brothers segment : songs- phoolon ka taaro ka + taaron Ka chamakta gehna ho. The Great Gatsby RADHA KRISHNA FUSED Hosts  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ NARAD MUNI – N REPORTER – R R – good evening, namashkaar. Satsriakaal, vannakumm aur jinhe ye sab lage kumm unko mera pyaar bharaa sweet saa welcome doston aaj hum aapko ek bahut hee aiti haasik flight per†¦ ek historical love story sunanae waale hain – a story about a bhola bhala chori ,and cute si anjani chori, jee haan aapne sahi suna – aaj hum aapko swarag lok ki sair karvaane waale hain†¦ – and wahaan ki latest gossips se roobaroo karvaane waale hain†¦ yeh kahani kuch hai suni . uch ansuni. kuch anjani ,kuch jani kuch pechani. but isse pehle hum show ko aage badhaaye pehle – jaisa ki customary hai – kyun naa ganesh ji mahaaraaj ki vandana ho jaaye – GANESH VANDANA (song: jaidev) (welcome song: kesaria balam) R – Haan to friends aaj 21st  century ke pehle dashak me it’s possible to travel to swarg lok from dharti lok – Aur aaj iss journey ko h um devlok se live telecast karne waale hai – sirf aur sirf aapke liye – so are you ready –I am†¦ here we go†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ (walks to the shuttle/exit/gate/wing) /o – welcome to swarg loke.. swarg loke me aap sabhi kaa swagat hai†¦ next scene – swarglok Narad Intro –BACHNA EH HASINO R interrupts N. M – R – Excuse me!!! Ye narad muni jii kahaan milenge N – Narad muniiiiii Main hee Narad Muni – aur pyaar se log mujhe N. M. bulaate hain – R – tum aur narad muni – IMPOSSIBLE – I mean khud ko dekho – aapki veena kahaan hai – gherua vastra – wo mountain jaisa jooda – tum to suit me ho – N – hey hey hey!!! Ye sab uss Ramanand Sagar ki galti hai†¦ ill date woh hume every Saturday Sunday wahi old fashioned vesh bhoosa me wahi pooraane avatar me dikhata hai – R – poorane avatar me N – aur nahi to kya – this is our new version – infact yahaan swarag lok me sab cheezen change ho chuki hai – anyways ab ye sab chorro and temme aap yahaan kyun aaye ho†¦ R – oh! narad muni ji! Wo actually kya hai naa main neeche dharti lok me ek bahut hee famous gossip show ka host hun and main yahaan khaas aapse milne aaya hun†¦Ã¢â‚¬â€œ aap gossip king ho naa isiliye – and I want to know ki swarg lok ki latest gossip kya haiN – arre pehle bolnaa thaa naa –maine to apne makeup ka touch up bhi nahi kiya – latest gossip me hai  R-K  kaa affair†¦ R – SRK SR-K  kaun N – arre   tum RK ko nahi janti R – nahi†¦ Kaun RK N – uff!!! Tum sabko her ek cheez samjhaani padti hai –  Rmatlab rads and Ks matlab krish†¦ tumhe unse milna hai – ruko abhi milwaata hun – R – arre arre ek sec N. M. Ji†¦ mujhe milwaane dijiye naa – kisna se – afterall main show ki host hun aa p nahi†¦ Wo kisna hai N – dekhiye mr. reporter ji – apne krishna ka intro thik diya but†¦ R – but kya†¦N – but aapne krish kaa intro wrong diya†¦ you know krish ekdum must hai – usse sone kaa bahut shaukh hai†¦ din bhar buss phone per lagaa rehta hai†¦ hamesha har ek jagah late pahunchta hai†¦ aur haan uski planning ki timing ke baare me kyaa kehna – always in the last minute†¦ krish ko cheezen bhoolne kaa bhi bada shaukh hai†¦ and last but not the least uske highly logical logics hamesha illogical hote hain.. in short ab tum mujhe milwaane do humare kisna se humaare ishhhtyle me Desi boys+ Munda kukad kamal ka+ Aadat se majboorR – arre waah ye naya version o kafi dhin chaak thaa – ab NM ji please mujhe rads ke baare me bhi kuch bataiye naa N – o rads ke bare me – wo bahut hee sweet hai – hamesha hansti rehti hai – infact krish to rads ke issi smile per fi daa hai†¦ wo apne dosto ke liye kuch bhi kar sakti hai†¦ and unlike kisna she’s very planned†¦ usse romantic novels padhne kaa bhi bahut shaukh hai.. aur you won’t find her without her lip balm†¦ jab dekho tab apna lip balm lagati rehti hai†¦ trekking kaa bhi rads ko bahut hee shaukh hai†¦ all in all she’s a perfect match for our kisna..Rads intro- BANNA RE + OH PIYA+ RADHA ON THE DANCE FLOOR N – (comes talking on phone) – haan kya king kaa three of a kind hai and ikka top card hai – arre abhi raise kar de.. river khulte hee all-in kar dena†¦ okay.. okay†¦ R – N. M. Ji, aap abhi poker ki baat kar rahe thhe naa.. I just love poker.. kyaa aapko bhi poker pasand hai†¦ N – hahaha! Arre mujhe kyaa even Rad and krish are die hard poker fans†¦ R – that is soo interesting – ab NM ji plz mujhe Rad and krish ke ched chaad ke baareme kuch bataaiye naa – you know kisna to famous thaa radho ko chedne ke liyeN – arre waah kya point diya hai†¦ well now a days chedna is very simple – pehle kisna matka phod ke radha ko cheda karta thaa – aur aajkal krish rads ko miscall aur messgaes se chedta hai R – mobile To dhiru bhai yahan pe bhi famous hai, Karlo swarlog muthi meh N – hahaha!!! Ab hume bhi to timepass ke liye kuch chahiye†¦ R –can I add u in mah contact N – nahi main whts app karta hun†¦ R – then I will whtsapp u†¦ neways ab aap aur kuch bataaiye naa inke ched chaad ke baare me – N – ab bataana kyaa hai yaar – khud hee dekh lo – – – CHED CHAAD SEGMENT Maiya yashodha+ natkat natkat+ chod do Aanchal+kyon aage peeche+ Saiyan Ji baiya chudake nahin jana) R – sirji†¦ N. M. Ji inka chedne kaa style to ekdum bollywood se inspired lagta hai†¦ N- excuse me!!! chahe ched chaad ho yaa romance – hum bollwood se nahi b alki bollywood humse inspired hota hai†¦ R – N. Muni ji ab jab aapne romance ki baat chedd hee di hai to thodi aur gossips dijiye naa†¦ rads and krish ke romance ke bare me†¦ ye bataaiye naa ki pehle kisne propose kiya thaa†¦ N – kiss ne propose kiya thaa R – arre wohi to main pooch rahaa hun kiss ne propose kiya thaaN – arre wahi to main bhi keh raha hun†¦ Kiss ne proposae kiya thaa†¦ R – †¦ †¦ †¦ N – ruko tumhe poori story samjhaane do – jab college me pehli baar krish ne rads ko dekha he was totally bowled over.. wo brahmand metro rail me ek stop pehle utarne laga†¦ unhone apne telephone numbers exchange kiye†¦ R – aur fir sms aur calls kaa silsilaa shuru ho gaya†¦ N – right†¦ and then dheere dheere long walks bhi shuru ho gaye†¦ aur jab ek baar rads kaa accident hua and she was in bed rest – ussi beech humaare rads  Ã‚  ki tubelight jali k i krish usse kitna pyaar karta hai.. and rest as they say is history†¦R – wow NM ji soooo romantic†¦ muhe kuch aur gossips dijiye naa N – ab dekho main jyaada kisi ke personal life me interfere nahi karta.. main ek kaam karta hoon – tumhe inn dono ke romance ki ek jhalki dikhaa deta hoon†¦ ROMANTIC SEGMENT- TUM MILE + SALAME ISHQ+ISHQ WALA+ SACHI SACHI+ EK MEIN AUR EK TU+ LONG DA LASHKARA R – achcha N. M. Ji what about gopiyan†¦ krish AAJ BHI UNKE SANG NAIN MATAKA KARTA HAI KYAA N – gopiyan to tab bhi thi and aaj bhi hai†¦ fark sirf itna hai ki ab gopiyon ki jagah saaliyon ne le lee hai†¦ R – AUR RAAS LILA raas lila kaa kyaa†¦N – arre pehle raas lila vrindavan gardens me hoti thii aur aajkal wo disco me hoti hai†¦ R – to NM ji meri bhi ek apsara ke saath disco me couple entry karwaaiye naa – N – naarayan naarayan.. tathaastu†¦ Disco segment-AAEVEIN AAEVEIN+DISCO DEEWAN E+ VELLE+YAAD AA RAHA HAI N enters talking / blabbering on phone – N – haan aap venue book kar do.. aur mujhe sabse achche caterers chahiye – iss shaadi me koi kami nahi honi chahiye†¦ R – enters†¦ R – N. M ji †¦ ye aap kisike shaadi ki baat kar rahe hai †¦ N – arre ye looo†¦ tumhe nahi pataa – rad and krish ki shaadi fix ho gayi hai†¦ aur mujhe event manager appoint kiya gaya hai†¦R – but Rad aur krish ki shaadi – how is it possible – N – .. naarayan naarayan!!! In this yug anything is possible!!! Aur waise bhi hum devtaaon ki bhi to kuch wishes hoti hai†¦ itne yugon se hum tumhaari wishes poori karte aa rahe the – ab humaari baari hai†¦ R – to n. m. ji meri bhi ek choti see wish poori kar dijiye naa – mujhe bhi inki shaadi me shaamil hona hai – kuch chakkar chalaiye naa – plzzz plzzz plzzz N – narayan narayan – m ain aaj bade achche mood me hun†¦ tathaastu†¦ WEDDING SEGMENT- SONIVE + GUNJE+BADHAI HO BADHAI+ PYARA BHAIYA MERA+SONI BANNO+ NAVRAI MAJHI+TUMHI HO BANDHUR – WAISE nm JI YE APSAARAYEIN KAHIN PER DIKHAAI NAHI DE RAHI N – saari apsaraayein mehendi lagaane me busy hai†¦ R – to hum yahaan kya kar rahein hai .. chaliye hum bhi mehendi lagaane me busy ho jaate hai†¦ N – hahahaha†¦ chalo†¦ Mehendi segment – MEHENDI RACHAN/ MEHENDI HAI RACHNE + MEHENDI KI RAAT R – so NM ji mehendi ke function me to mujhe mazza hee aa gaya – but then wht abt krish ke friends.. unka kyaa kehna hai†¦ N – ok let me not tell it .. tum khud hee dekh lo†¦ Zorr kaa jhatka – kids N – well ye to buss ek chota version thaa.. krish ke gwaal baalon kaa.. ow lemme show you what the full fledged version of it is like †¦ hit the music Zor kaa jhatka+ ek kuwara (elders) R – NM ji doston kaa to thik hai.. but swarg loke ke baaki nivasiyon kaa kya kehna hai.. you knw brahma ji Vishnu ji.. etc etc†¦ N – naarayan naarayan.. sabhi ati prasann hai.. sab bahut hee khush hai.. aur aaj yahaan kuch log aaye bhi hai iss yugal jode ko aashirwaad dene ke liye†¦ Pyaar mill jaaye+ jab koi baat+ hum saath saath hai+ kya kehna R – waah aaj to mujhe mazaa hee aa gaya†¦ N. M. Ji thank you aapne mere saaath aaj bahut saaari gossips share kari†¦ thank you so so much..N – hahaha†¦ welcome welcome†¦ ab jaate jaate main tumhe ek bahut hee top ki secret bataane waala hun†¦ and ye kisi se bhi matt kehnaa†¦ R – (excited) haan haan pakka†¦ N – kalyug me dharti per ek baar fir kisna aur radhaa kaa janam hua hai.. R – _______ N – haan aur ye secret kisi ko bhi nahi pata†¦ do you want to meet them†¦ R – off course†¦ N – theek hai chalo main tumhaari ye wish bhi poori kar deta hun†¦ fir matt kehna bhagwaan wish poora nahi karte†¦ tathaastu!!! 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Team assignment: * Your team will select one of the following characters from  The Great Gatsby: * Nick Carraway * Jay Gatsby * Daisy Buchanan * Tom Buchanan * Jordan Baker * Myrtle Wilson * George Wilson * As a team, create a profile for that character as if he /she is a member of a modern day social networking site, such as Facebook or MySpace. Your team's final presentation should be a PowerPoint presentation of 5-7 slides. Include at least three visuals and at least four of the following items: * A quotation that expresses the character's philosophy of life * A brief description of the character's family or friends. * A brief description of the time in which the character lives. * A brief description of the world in which the character lives. * A brief description of the character's conflicts or struggles. * Something interesting about the character.As the week begins, join your team and do the following: * Each team should select a leader. * Each team member should participate fully. Points will be based on both the amount of material posted and the quality of the work posted. * Remember that short comments, such as â€Å"I will go along with what everyone wants to do,† may earn no points. Offer significant material that advances the project. * Instead of listing websites, offer the information from that site along with the reference. Do not just offer material that was cut-and-pasted from websites; instead, write the information in your own words, and cite your sources. Note about visuals: Your team  can create your own visuals, use clip art, or use items from the Internet. If you use Internet images in your presentation, cite the sources on your final slide. Post your team's final presentation in Doc Sharing. At the en d of the week, you may download the other team projects posted in Doc sharing and enjoy viewing them.Daisy is the center of the story, and the character who originates the vast majority of events within the book. The life and fortune of Gatsby are built on the hope that someday he may revive his love with Daisy. Daisy has something that makes her special, and she is different from Jordan, and the rest of the women in the work, and this is seen through the narrations of Nick and Gatsby, and even in the way in which Tom defends her image in front of his lover.She is woman native of Louisville, Kentucky and through the stories told by Jordan, we know that she was the center of attention and the soul of the party, and is a beautiful woman who likes to have fun and flirt through cheeky and extremely frivolous conversations, and this is so inevitable that even her cousin is a victim of her gadgets, she did it at her first party at Gatsby’s house: â€Å"These things excite me so,â €  she whispered. â€Å"If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I’ll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my name.Or present a green card. I’m giving out green†. Nick describes the voice of Daisy as beautiful, mysterious, flirtatious, intriguing, exciting, sensual, and famous, and Gatsby includes that it is full of money; on several occasions, the characters comment that it is a magical instrument used by her, which is full of promises and beautiful things on the distance, and Daisy uses her seductive voice to drag people towards her, especially to Gatsby since the voice of Daisy speaks of everything he want of it, wealth, social status, true happiness and he cannot refuse to this attraction.Besides her seductive and alluring voice, she is a dreamy woman and she sees her past with melancholy and idealizes her first love affair, presenting her present as boring and stuffy and she struggles daily with the pressures of society which forced her to marry an aggressive, overbearing and arrogant man who woke her up from her childhood dreams and made her realize that very often dreams don't become reality, although in her deep insight, she keeps the hope that hers can become a reality. But Daisy's biggest problem is that he is not a mythical goddess, but she is an ordinary person with strengths and weaknesses, and she is used to live her life in a certain way, following the rules and by this obedience, she hopes some rewards. When Gatsby comes back to her life, moving its foundations and challenging her to leave behind these ties and conventionalisms, she frightens, and decides to return to her safe harbor, which is Tom, and prefers to be unhappy that to have to sacrifice her live to escape with Gatsby, and leave everything behind. She is selfish and only thinks about her, unlike Gatsby who made his life according to his unconditional love towards her. The Great Gatsby Overview: Your team will create  one PowerPoint presentation according to the instructions below. Each member of your team will contribute information and help the leader compile the information into  one final presentation. Team assignment: * Your team will select one of the following characters from  The Great Gatsby: * Nick Carraway * Jay Gatsby * Daisy Buchanan * Tom Buchanan * Jordan Baker * Myrtle Wilson * George Wilson * As a team, create a profile for that character as if he /she is a member of a modern day social networking site, such as Facebook or MySpace. Your team's final presentation should be a PowerPoint presentation of 5-7 slides. 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Do not just offer material that was cut-and-pasted from websites; instead, write the information in your own words, and cite your sources. Note about visuals: Your team  can create your own visuals, use clip art, or use items from the Internet. If you use Internet images in your presentation, cite the sources on your final slide. Post your team's final presentation in Doc Sharing. At the en d of the week, you may download the other team projects posted in Doc sharing and enjoy viewing them.Daisy is the center of the story, and the character who originates the vast majority of events within the book. The life and fortune of Gatsby are built on the hope that someday he may revive his love with Daisy. Daisy has something that makes her special, and she is different from Jordan, and the rest of the women in the work, and this is seen through the narrations of Nick and Gatsby, and even in the way in which Tom defends her image in front of his lover.She is woman native of Louisville, Kentucky and through the stories told by Jordan, we know that she was the center of attention and the soul of the party, and is a beautiful woman who likes to have fun and flirt through cheeky and extremely frivolous conversations, and this is so inevitable that even her cousin is a victim of her gadgets, she did it at her first party at Gatsby’s house: â€Å"These things excite me so,â €  she whispered. â€Å"If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I’ll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my name.Or present a green card. I’m giving out green†. Nick describes the voice of Daisy as beautiful, mysterious, flirtatious, intriguing, exciting, sensual, and famous, and Gatsby includes that it is full of money; on several occasions, the characters comment that it is a magical instrument used by her, which is full of promises and beautiful things on the distance, and Daisy uses her seductive voice to drag people towards her, especially to Gatsby since the voice of Daisy speaks of everything he want of it, wealth, social status, true happiness and he cannot refuse to this attraction.Besides her seductive and alluring voice, she is a dreamy woman and she sees her past with melancholy and idealizes her first love affair, presenting her present as boring and stuffy and she struggles daily with the pressures of society which forced her to marry an aggressive, overbearing and arrogant man who woke her up from her childhood dreams and made her realize that very often dreams don't become reality, although in her deep insight, she keeps the hope that hers can become a reality. But Daisy's biggest problem is that he is not a mythical goddess, but she is an ordinary person with strengths and weaknesses, and she is used to live her life in a certain way, following the rules and by this obedience, she hopes some rewards. When Gatsby comes back to her life, moving its foundations and challenging her to leave behind these ties and conventionalisms, she frightens, and decides to return to her safe harbor, which is Tom, and prefers to be unhappy that to have to sacrifice her live to escape with Gatsby, and leave everything behind. She is selfish and only thinks about her, unlike Gatsby who made his life according to his unconditional love towards her.

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