Marilyn Monroe Research Paper

Identify and Discuss Three People from History (Alive or Dead) that you Admire, or Identify with. Explain your Choices and Detail One Question Per Individual that, if Given the Opportunity, You Would Ask.

There are many women throughout history that one should look up to; women who have dedicated their lives to great things and who have had the courage to strive for knowledge, equality and justice. Such women would include Florence Nightingale; founder of the modern nursing system, Hypatia of Alexandria; mathematician and philosopher or Marie Curie; Nobel-laureate physicist. All of these women excelled in professions dominated by men, in times when women just didn't do such things. They endeavoured to change society for the better and they stood up for what they believed in and for what they thought just.

However, for me one woman stands out above all others throughout history. She didn’t hold the academic knowledge associated with excellence, neither did she strive to reform society or spend her life fighting for some aspect of equality. She was simply woman enough to be everything she could regardless of the prejudice, predicaments and discrimination associated with fame.

Marilyn Monroe personified Hollywood glamour with an unprecedented compassion and an energy that infatuated the world. Her alluring beauty and voluptuous curves were
Stating that “There must be thousands of girls… dreaming of becoming a movie star.” But that they didn’t matter because she was “dreaming the hardest.” Being ambitioned towards the very same career path I identify with its struggles and her untarnished determination despite her circumstances inspires me to believe that if I “dream the hardest” I too will be able to aspire to levels beyond even my own