The Great Gatsby Memes

Hi everyone, these are just some memes that relate to the Great Gatsby, I thought you would all appreciate.

Social Norms makeup

I know I'm really late posting this, but I just got the pictures to upload, so... for my social norms experiment I did some colorful makeup a few times. One Saturday I did this makeup and then sent two pictures to everyone in my Snapchat contacts:

I also wore it to synagogue for a hebrew school event that night:

Then I wore it  to school which you all saw because I did it on a day with English: 

And this was by the end of the day (I had to reapply the lipstick a few times):

Overall I got lots of compliments and I had a good time working with the makeup.

Social Norms Project

Jogger Social Norms Project

Hey everyone! This afternoon I went to a shopping outlet in my town and wore rainbow leg warmers, a sweatband, and ran around singing really loudly.

Then my brother and I went into Dick's Sporting Goods and played some golf...

You can see towards the end of the golf video, I was making a lot of racket so an employee came over & I got slightly nervous...

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely: Macbeth's addiction to power leads to his downfall

Here is the link to an article about the correlation between an individual’s position in society and their neurochemical makeup.  Research has shown that power can be just as addictive as a drug, making itself apparent through certain mannerisms that range from a greater level of intelligence to lack of good judgement.  These neurological changes in the brain are associated primarily with dopamine, a chemical messenger that allows one to feel pleasure.  Not only does one’s levels of dopamine rise when in a position of power, it makes this individual much less likely to willingly give up their social or political standing.  Macbeth undergoes a shift in his behavior when he is crowned king.  His apprehension to kill Duncan after being advised to do so by Lady Macbeth is a feeling that comes much easier due to the fact that he hasn’t tasted absolute and unchecked power.  As soon as he is in the position of power, Macbeth harvests internal greed and a satisfaction with his seating on the throne.  Addiction is linked to an increased lack of empathy towards others, especially of a lower position of dominance.  Macbeth’s decreased empathy allows him to feel less internal conflict when condemning others to death who threaten his reign.  A symptom of high levels of dopamine is paranoia, something Macbeth clearly exhibits in his overwhelming concern that Banquo’s lineage with take the throne from him.  His constant paranoia around the prophecy is what leads him to make irrational and impulsive decisions that catapult him to his ultimate demise.  

LMB=LFB (Wicked + Macbeth)

Wicked is a musical that tells the story of the witches in The Wizard of Oz before Dorothy shows up. There are a few similarities in characters in Wicked and Macbeth that I noticed.
**Wicked spoilers**

Lady Macbeth is like Elphaba. Elphaba is very smart and starts out just trying to make her family proud; however, she ends up getting in trouble with the law and turns against the government because she thinks they are doing the wrong thing. She also tries to help her sister save Boq when a spell goes wrong, but ends up turning him into the Tin Man. She has a great line "let all Oz be agreed, I'm wicked through and through" and she later becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and at the end of the show pretends to die when Dorothy dumps water on her. Likewise, Lady Macbeth is clever and bold, and tries to be faithful to Macbeth by helping him become king. Then she ends up going too far and, after the pair has murdered two men and a family, she feels the regret (and obviously, like Elphaba, what she did was treasonous). However, she actually does end up dying at the end, having become so corrupted that she is haunted every moment.

Macbeth is like Nessarose (Elphaba's sister). Nessa starts out as simply a frail girl attending school, often given more privileges than her sister. However, her sister enchants her shoes to make her able to walk (she was in a wheelchair) and she works with magic. She gets carried away thinking that she can perform any spell correctly, and ends up almost killing her love interest Boq. Similarly, Macbeth at first helps his country fight against the Norwegians, but later he works with Lady Macbeth against the king, and then he turns against anyone who would obstruct him from keeping the throne, without hesitation.

Connections between Macbeth and Mendez Brothers

Here is the link to a New York Times article on the Mendez brothers, who were sentenced to life in prison for killing their wealthy parents in order to gain their inheritance from them.  According to the article, Lyle and Erik Mendez strategically planed to murder both their parents, and managed to carry out such a horrible plan in their Beverly hills home on August 20, 1989. 
In Macbeth, we see a theme of greed throughout the book once the three witches tell Macbeth his prophecy.  In order to fulfill the prophecy, Macbeth kills king Duncan so he could rule over Scotland.  The Mendez brothers new that they could receive the wealth from their parents and were eager to speed up the process.  Both incidents show an incredible amount of greed, but they were soon punished for their awful acts of selfishness.