Megan’s Mind

            Sometimes when you scroll on social media platforms such as TikTok or Instagram, you often see influencers tagging brands or giving viewers their discount codes to these brands. Some very common brands that do this type of sponsorship are clothing brands. Notably, fast fashion brands such as SHEIN, ZARA, H&M, and many more well known clothing brands. Fast fashion is a type of business model that produces trendy clothes fast, but low quality. When you hear this ay first you might think, "oh wait this is great. I can get cute and trendy clothes for such a low price!" Well this is too good to be true. The reason why fast fashion is so bad is because of the labor it takes to create these clothes at such as fast pace and the resources that these companies use to make these pieces. Many of these companies use cheap materials such as virgin polyester and require large amounts of oil churns to produce their products. This is equivalent to the c...

 Dear Gatsby, As a reader that is looking at your “love story” from an outside and futuristic perspective, I hope you take this advice with a grain of salt. I mean at first I really thought you were loving Daisy with good intentions, but after reading further it seems as though you’re loving the wrong version of Daisy. If I’m gonna be honest, the Daisy that you love was the sweet innocent Daisy from the past. Clinging onto the past version of people isn’t very — how do I say this, good for you. It’s sweet that you’re willing to throw away everything you’ve built for her, but please be realistic. Do you really love her for her? Or do you just desire something that isn’t yours anymore. Although her and Tom didn’t marry out of love, they have been through many things that you guys haven’t. By forcing her to leave Tom, do you think it really benefits her? Do you really think your wealth is that alluring that she would sacrifice almost 5 years of her life to an uncertain man who she has...

The Valley of Ashes in the Great Gatsby represent the poor being taken advantage of by the rich. Doctor T.J. Eckleburg in this situation is the rich, taking advantage of the “ashy-gray men” whom reside in the valley of ashes. Not only this though, but the valley of ashes is the perfect place to hide your secrets (affairs). As nobody can see through the “impenetrable clouds” that are hovering over this baron land. Today, we could make sense of this valley of ashes in a place like Hollywood. But instead of having ashy gray men and some impenetrable clouds hiding secrets, we have glamour and masks that are hiding these secrets in plain sight. Now I could beat around the bush and talk about something like how Kylie Jenner got her bbl removed, but that would be silly! What I really want to discuss though, is how recently one of Hollywoods biggest secrets has been brought to our attention.  Celebrities such as Beyoncé, Jay Z, Michael Jackson, and the man Diddy himself were involved in th...