A Moment With Murryum

          Today I am going to talk about something that has already been talked about many times before: the world's obsession with perfection. I chose this topic, because even with all of the dialogue that has begun in regards to perfection, more specifically why we expect so much of it from women and the way they look, the world still has a long way to go. I'm not saying men don't ever feel like they have to look perfect, but I do believe that women are pressured and bothered about it much more than men, at least right now.         In America, this pressuring for perfection is everywhere. In Barbie dolls, Disney princesses, movies, T.V. shows, and make up adds, women and little girls are influenced every day to think that perfection only matters on the outside. Movies and T.V shows hardly ever included strong female leads that could be admired for more than their form and facial features until very recently.        Our...

        It is no exaggeration to say that by the ending of  The Great Gatsby  by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I was very invested into the story and its characters, and that it was by far one of the saddest endings I have ever read. What happens when Gatsby dies is what I think is everyone's, (or at least my own), worst nightmare. Dying unremembered.          But then I realized that it's not really fair to say that Gatsby actually did die unremembered, because he did have Nick and his dad (thank God) come to remember him. But just the fact that someone like Gatsby, with his status, and wealth, not to mention his raging parties, was remembered by hardly anyone is still enough for it to make it on my list of all time saddest endings ever.                       Throughout the book, we saw how Gatsby lived, free from the constraints of government authority and a 9 to 5 with all the ...

        I have heard so many great things about The Great Gatsby , everyone just seems to be in love with it. If I didn't already know that I'd eventually have to read it for school I would've tried reading it on my own.          Anyways, because of all the excitement around The Great Gatsby , I had some very high expectations for this book. Usually a good book for me has some great plot twists, maybe some double crossing, life or death situations, and a depiction of a horrible version (realistic or not) of what the world could be. If The Great Gatsby was such a great book, I thought that it better have at least one of those things, while being very classy and glamorous all at the same time. I mean, the title is very proper sounding, and the cover of the edition I am reading has a drawing of what seems to be a flappers face morphed with a lit up city (like- the definition of glamour).          I was in love with ...