The school
year has started again and we’re back in Pikkola from pastures green. That also
means we’re continuing with the blog with a new bunch of people.
Our
first task was to interview mum or dad and ask them what it was like to be a
teenager in the 70s or 80s. Our students came up with some really interesting
stories!
Everybody
has to look the same in 80s. Teenagers used Dallas or Micmac jeans or neon
colour gollege shirt. You couldn’t wear hat in winter, even if there was -20
degrees. If you needed to call to your friend you needed to use a landline. If
you wanted to listen music without vinyl, you needed to record from the radio
to cassette. You wanted watch music videos you needed to go to music shop and
watch there. But after the MTV came and there you could see videos more often.
My mum used to listen Mötley Crue, Twisted Sisters, Eppu Normaali and
Scorpions. John
Carrot
I interview my
mom. So mom, what was your teenage like?
- My teenage and childhood was pretty free
and safe, I travel on my own, and with my friends a lot.
Hazel
Hills I interviewed my father, what was like to be a teen in the 80s. He told me some
things: It
was so easy find something to do. Sport hobbies was popular and everything was
better than now. Everybody was listening radio more than now! Some bands and
singers was really popular and if somebody of famous persons use T-shirt, you
had to use T-shirt too if you didn´t want be different than other people. Moving
from place to place was more limited. At the time wasn’t mobile phones but
satellite phones was new thing. Anthon
Plant
Mum:” When I was
teenager, we usually just took our bikes and went to ask our friends out.We
were with our friends a lot, and had a good time. We went to the Disco. All of
my friends lived in my neighborhood. I had a lot of friends. I
lived in Länkipohja with my Dad and two little brothers. My grandmother lived
next to our house. I
listened a lot of music, and I collected music cassettes. I liked AC/DC the
most! It
was a trend to dye hair two coloured with a permanent and use leggings with
leopard spots. My
favorite TV show was definitely Dallas. I always had to watch it!” Ida
Receipt
It
was different to what we have today. Schools had groups for students, depending
how good they are. There was no extra classes, so back then you couldn’t just
choose what you want to study. People who went with motorcycles didn’t use
helmets to protect themselves. Cigarettes were sold to 16 year olds. The
clothes were a lot different to this day. Parents’ word meant a lot more than
today. There was no mobile phones, only landline telephones in homes. No microwave
or computers. There was a lot of summer jobs for everyone, when looking to
today’s place there is almost no job. Jesse
Newhill
Dad: “I lived in Tampere and I studied there too. My
hobby was ice-hockey. I and your mum travelled a lot both in Finland and all
around Europe by motorcycle. We teenagers went often to Discotheque in the
evenings. Disco music was really hot! There wasn´t mobile phones in 80´s. There was only few
car phones.”
Mum: “I lived in Kangasala with my family but I
studied in Tampere. I liked to made clothes. People wore neon colored clothes
and shoulders of the jackets were heavily topped. Trousers were loose but
trouser legs tight. Gym trousers were very popular. I spent lots of time with your dad. In summers I took
bike and drove to the beach with my friends.”
Katy
Strawberry
My
mom´s teen years in 70´s. Mom
told just about fashion and music…
Hai-boots,
flared pants and polo shirt were things which were in everyone´s wardrobe. Everyone
(in Finland) listened Finnish rock from their cassette players. Summer
When
my dad was teenager he play lots of ice hockey and they didn´t play computer
games. In fashion was boots. When
they want buy something they must to do lots of work. My
dad worked in farm. He have four brother and they play games and go swim often.
When they go swim they must go with bike. The nearest swim place was six km
away. My father’s first moped was pappatunturi. When my mother was teenager she
lived in farm. They had many animals for example bulls, cows, chickens and pigs.
In fashion was jeans called Levis. School was almost same as today. Edward
Einstein
I interviewed my dad what was it like to be a teenager in the 80s and here
are some of his thoughts about it. First he told me about that there wasn´t any mobile phones or any
personal phones. So if you wanted to meet a friend, and he lived close you probably
walked to him asked him out. That meant more walking and other physical
activity even without going to gym. You also met your friends face to face more
often. In general children and teens were with their friends more and played yard
games with neighbours. TV and music players were not so advanced. First there were only three
channels and they weren´t sending programs round-the-clock. Then came some
American channels like MTV and TV, music and styles regenerated.
In the 80s there were seasonal general styles unlike nowadays when
everybody chooses his own style. One of the most visible general styles was
neon colours. Childhood lasted longer and children were not trying to look like
adults.
If you compare 80s to nowadays you will note that many things were
harder. Today you can meet your friends and whole world trough internet and
almost everyone has a chance to be global. World has changed so much in 25 years.
John
Bush
When
my dad was teenager in 70s there weren´t any computer games and all guys did a
lot of sports. They had very much hobbies too and they were usually with
friends in outside. If they had to tell something to friend they used landline
or they wrote a letter. In
summer my dad usually went to farm where his cousins lived. There were many
things to do. When he went swimming with friends they rode with a bike to a
lake. When
my mum was teenager their family had cows and chickens. They had a tractor
called Ford super dexta. Quarts
clocks and boots were in fashion. President in our country was Urho Kekkonen. First
pizzas came to Finland. John
Potato
I’ve
asked from my mom what was like teenagers life in the 80s and this is what she
told. Teen’s had no mobile phones. All families didn’t have computer. They
listened music from radio or from c-cassette player. They recorded favorite
artist’s songs to the cassettes from the radio or they bought the official
cassette. Someone idealized about rock music someone about punk. Those who
liked punk music had the Iroquois, safety pin piercings and there were chains
hanging from their clothes. Color programmers became common on TV but there
were only few channels to watch. School classes were big and there were over a
thousand students in Pikkolan School. In school among other things there were as
an elective subject’s households, crafts and wood and forestry. Girls had lot
of crimped hair. Teen’s also tuned their mopeds and field cars and they drove
them on the ice and fields. There were also many different Nintendo’s game
consoles. Suosikki magazine appeared and there were lot of fan posters from
different bands in it. Friends who lived further sent postcards. Jim
Smith
When
my mother was a teenager, she used to listen a lot of music. Her favourite
artists back those days were Teddy Boy and Dingo. She was also into sports. As
hobbies, she had a lot of sports. At
the pastime, she was busy with her hobbies, and when she wasn’t, she used to
hang out at Hämeenkatu with her friends and listened to music. back in the
70s/80s, teenagers were really into sports and music, that’s what my mother
told me. Nick
Birch
I
interviewed my mom. She told me something about things when she was teen at
70s/80s. She told me `It was boring time´. They doesn´t have any technical
equipment and she doesn´t have very good relations with her family. Teens´
doesn´t talk straight to their parents and my mother wasn´t exception. But they
were very kind and they respect very much teachers. But the end of 80s there
was some technical things. When she and other teens were little bit older they
interested about traveling but my mom can´t travel because her parents scare
too much. My mom told me that the 80s style was very weird, they wear almost
everything.
Tom
George
In
the 80s popular tv programmes wore Dynasty and Night rider. Movies like Dirty
Dancing and Back to the future were big hits. Fashion
of the 80s was colorful with neon colors and women wore huge shoulder pads.
Popular brands to ware wore Kappa and Lacoste. If you had to wear glasses they
would be huge! Hair style for the girls was perm with long back hear and boys
had mulled hair. Sony
Walkman was a huge success it was a portable cassette player. Famous bands wore
Franky goes to Hollywood, Depeche mode and Modern talking.
I don't know if you knew already, but on April 22nd is Earth's birthday... sort of.
On that day we'll celebrate Earth Day in order to make people more aware of the problems and challenges but also the opportunities Earth and everyone on it are currently facing. That includes us people but not exclusively. We're not alone living on this planet, you know.
The BigCola students were asked to share their thoughts on an environmental topic of their choice. Have you ever wondered why it's called nuclear power plant when plants normally look like this?
A letter to all people
Everybody just think how they
use the envinronment. They can’t damage the nature. They can’t build buildings
a middle of somewhere, just that because that’s funny a ruin nature. Think
about the animals. They can’t survive without a nature. Nature is their place
to live. There is food and protection. When we are going to walk in woods,
there are fresh air. It’s good thing, so why we should ruin that? All of you
are stupid if you destroy the environment.
Marie Fields
Recycling
Everyone in this world should be recycling
different things. You may ask why? There is lot of reasons to do that. If
nobody wouldn`t recycle the world would get polluted in hours even in weeks! We
couldn´t live anymore in this unique world. Animals would die and different
plants and trees for gone forever. So you should now know more than you did two
minutes ago. It´s for your own best to recycle and do your own part of saving
the planet. Many people thanks you for helping
the environment from pollution by your recycling and help.
Eric Beach
A cry for recycling
Recycling doesn’t harm anybody,
but not doing so does. The environment is suffering from the human race’s greed
which leads to more producing of useless things and more buying of that stuff.
But buying is not the worst, but wasting the products you have bought is.
Slowly but steadily the planet is covered under bigger waste mountains, and
progressive wasting of the precious natural resources is tiring the environment
out leading to vast deserting and extinction of many different species. The
amount of clean environment and water is rapidly decreasing and the amount of
people who suffer from hunger is likewise growing steadily. The terror of waste
is enormous.
So please, don’t buy things if
you know you’re gonna throw them away sometime soon anyway. Don’t buy with
feeling but with need and reason. Aim to recycle all of your waste, at least as
much as possible, even just a little is more than nothing. You can always try
to reuse your stuff and clothes or take them to the flea market or give them in
charity. Take food on your plate only the amount you can eat, not anymore. If
you take only little at a time you can go and get some more if you’re still
hungry after eating it.
Don’t waste. Recycle. It’s your
responsibility for the nature and for the future.
Eve Baggins
What can I do to save energy?
People waste energy almost more than they produce. That is a thing to be
considered when planning your own energy consumption. If people saved more
energy there wouldn’t be so much nuclear waste and other harmful wastes such as
carbon dioxide (CO2). There are few ways to save electricity
and reduce energy consumption.
Try not to use electricity so much.
People need electricity to live and survive, but you can always save electricity
simply just by turning off the lights and other electronic devices, like
computers while not using and televisions when not watching.
Favor green energy. Like solar panels and wind power. They can sometimes be
more expensive but they are totally worth it. Many power providers have
different plans for people who want to use green energy. For example if you
live in Finland there’s Fortum which has plans for that.
Sort your rubbish. That’s the
simplest thing to do in this list and it really helps the energy consumption.
The wastelands need power too to ignite and burn their rubbish and that’s lots
of power needed to do that. So recycling and sorting your rubbish is easy to
do.
Use mass transportation vehicles like
busses and trains instead of your own car or taxi. They use more fuel which
makes them to consume more energy per unit. If we all used mass transportation
we could reduce some waste produced and we would have more energy to use with
other devices.
Turn devices on low power
consumption. That helps a lot for example if you watch a video on your
computer, turn the power consumption down, because you don’t need the computer
running at its full power while watching a video instead of working.
Prefer short shower turns instead of
long ones. Other way to save electricity through saving water is to use showers
and not things like Saunas and baths. You don’t have to stop using them but
surely you can reduce the usage.
We can save
energy together, not alone so next time you watch TV or take a baht, remember
how you could help the world by just switching power off or taking a shower
instead. There are lots of things you can try and I’ll guarantee there is a way
every one can help. We need to do something to help our planet and that time is
now or never!
Alan Richards
The Earth Has Had Just About
Enough
Our Earth. Our actions. Our
responsibility.
We can do a lot for our
environment. Recycling and using less electricity will lead to good results. Do
we really want to live on a planet full of trash? I dont think so. Its not too
late yet, but it will be some day if we dont make a change now.
Julie Hale
Nature’s
Beauty
Long trees,
darks forests, long and cold winters and lots of snow. The weather is cold and
snowing. Or it is windy and raining, or hot, but everything is green and fields
are blooming. To us this sounds ordinary, but to someone who doesn’t live here
this is beautiful and exotic.
To us small
roads and old buildings. Historical cities and rainforests and huge mountains
are beautiful and amazing. We are never happy about where we live. There is
always more place more beautiful. You should just step back and think about
things that are typical to you but something amazing and magical to someone
else.
You are never
happy with what you have. There is always some place more beautiful and
somewhere you want to go. Usually we take what we have for granted until we
don’t have it anymore. So I think we should protect and take care of what we
have because it disappear before we notice.
You can help
by doing little things, like sorting your rubbish, switching the lights off or
you can pick up a random garbage from the ground and put it in a garbage can.
By doing
those little things you really can make a difference, even if it doesn’t feel
like it at first.
Alice River
Endangered Creatures
There is many endangered
animals and insects on Earth. Some of them live in jungles and mountains and
some live in oceans and skies. There are some federations and companies who are
really trying to save these animals. WWF is an international federation which is constantly working on
spreading the word of endangered animals and environment and trying to fix the
problems humans have with nature. Many people don’t understand how serious
problem extinction is. When an animal is extinct it will not come back. Animals
like Amur Leopard, Black Rhino and Cross River Gorilla are critically
endangered. I think more people should focus more on saving the animals that
are about to disappear. Animals is legacy of the Earth and we should take care of
them.
Calvin W. Hill
Recycling
Recycling is easy way help our environment. You just
must put your trash to right basket. You can recycle for example your bike. You
can sell that bike or if you can´t sell it you must go in trash station.
But remember if you start recycling you must remember put trash right place.
Michael Hill
Our Earth
Look around
you. What do you see? Have you ever been hiking in the wiId? I have. It’s so
beautiful, pure and relaxing. You can feel the wind on your face and smell the
fresh air. It makes you feel calm and gives you strength. We have to think how
we live to give others these kind of experiences and to enjoy them ourselves in
the future, too.
Think how
extraordinary our nature is. It is so unique and wonderful. Our earth is
created for us and we have to take care of every part of it including its
animals, plants and nature. We can’t think just ourselves, business and money.
Sometimes
it’s difficult to make choices because ecological and national products are
much more expensive. And I’m really not perfect ether. If I had more money I’d
buy finish food and products. But even I’m just sixteen I can effect a bit. Of
course there is much more important things in the world, family for example. I
think we don’t have to panic or stop using airplanes or something more
radically but we can do something, we can recycle. And I think it’s worth it. Charlotta Snowhill
A letter to all people
Why shouldn’t the Earth be
taken care of?
When you put it that way, I bet you find no logical reason. And still, out
there, there’s rubbish everywhere, because people are too lazy to pick up their
own trash and take it to the recycle bin. They can’t look far enough to see the
consequences of the small things they do.
Which takes less effort: taking your own rubbish to the bin than, in a few
years, having to try and save the environment that people have already
destroyed with their selfish actions? I think we all know the answer.
Marie Cain
A Letter to
All People!!
So,
when did you last time had a good glance around you? The environment is dying,
have you noticed that? And that’s just not enough!! I’d always loved nature and
nature all around my home. But two years ago, right there where I live, the
machines came and destroyed all the beauty. The beauty of the trees and grass
and all the flowers!! They destroyed it just to make A STUPID PARKING LOT
BIGGER!! God, it made me angry. So as you now see, just harming the environment
with carbon dioxide gasses, nuclear wastes and rubbish isn’t enough for you,
you have to DESTROY IT!!?? WHY!!?? Okay, maybe the trees went to paper factory
and I use paper when I draw and I draw A LOT but still. Why do you destroy the
nature just to make some more fun and space for yourself? It annoys me.
I
like the idea that people would use electric-cars but that won’t help either.
It will just produce more rubbish everywhere. As we use electricity, we need it
more and more and that’s when nuclear power comes alive. It produces so much
power and makes so much electricity that people are happy to use more and more
electricity at home. Tv, computers, laptops, freezers, fridges, electric
saunas, chargers, more lamps, all kind of machines. I’ll tell you that I’m
guilty too, I use a charger to charge my smartphone, I use laptop and because
I’m scared to be home alone I switch on all the lights and Tv and my stereos. I
use pretty much electricity too, don’t I?
And
the rubbish, god, please. Why can’t people carry their rubbish to those stupid
trashcans!? Why do you have to throw your paper rubbish, gums etc. to the
trees? Think about this. If you someday buy a pet, a puppy and you have to take
it out for a walk and then it eats someone’s gum and papers and then chokes and
dies? How would you feel? These problems are everyday thing to the wild
animals.
And
all the waste you throw to the lakes and to the waters will pollute the water.
And maybe someday you’ll have to drink that water. Even when the waters are
cleaned, it doesn’t mean that the water is 100% clean and healthy. Just think
about it.
I
don’t mean that everybody behaves like this. There are many cities and
countries that behave and look after nature. I’m happy about that. I just want
to tell you that if you keep harming the nature you’ll someday harm yourself.
That’s the point. If there’s no trees, grass, animals or enough oxygen in the
air, we’ll disappear, you know. I hope people could understand that we need
nature to live our happy lives.
Roxie
Bluerose
The earth is doing just fine!
See, there is not nothing to
worry. Really? I do not think so. If you just think that the earth is doing
fine, you are totally wrong. The earth is not doing just fine! Not at all! And
it is because us, human. We are the reason to everything what is happened the
earth. We harm vegetation, we cut rainforest, we bur flue, we rubbish and most
of all we do not protect the nature well at all! And now we think, why wilds
animals are extinct, all in the world talk about climate change and how bad
thinks are in the world just right now. So, what have we do about it? Almost
nothing! Okay, some people are smart and star recycling thinks and sort they
waste to protect the nature, but most of us do not nothing to protect nature.
It is sad but true. We know about climate chance and we know that it is
important to protect nature, but we do not really do nothing for it. Is it so
hard to recycle thinks or sort rubbish? No, it is not so hard. It maybe take
some time and patience but it word do it. Start it now! Better later or never!
And you can feel proud of yourself! Then you know that you are not a one of
those ass holes who do not take care about the nature! You are a superhero,
because you care about the nature, the earth and the future! You make the earth
to better place to live!
Welcome to the BigCola blog! Tervetuloa BigCola blogiin!
This
blog is updated regularly by students of the 8th and 9th grade students
of Pikkola school who have chosen the optional course English in-depth.
Tätä blogia ylläpitävät säännöllisesti Pikkolan 8. ja 9. luokan oppilaat, jotka ovat englannin syventävällä valinnaiskurssilla.
On
this course, we focus on all aspects of the English language. So if you
want to learn a lot of new English words, to speak English more
fluently, to write your own texts in English and, in general, to
challenge yourself in the English, this course might be for YOU. Feel
free to browse through this blog and see some examples of the things
we've done on this course. The course is recommended to students who
have a grade of 8, 9 or 10 in English. Hope to see many of you on this
course!
Tällä
kurssilla keskitytään englannin kielen kaikkiin osa-alueisiin. Jos
haluat oppia paljon uusia englanninkielisiä sanoja, puhumaan englantia
sujuvammin, kirjoittamaan omia englanninkielisiä tekstejä ja ylipäätään
haastaa itsesi englannin saralla, tämä kurssi on tarkoitettu SINULLE.
Selaile tätä blogia nähdäksesi esimerkkejä tehtävistä, joita olemme
kurssilla tehneet. Kurssia suositellaan oppilaille, joiden englannin
arvosana on 8, 9 tai 10. Toivottavasti näemme monet teistä englannin
syventävällä kurssilla!
Mieti alleviivatuille sanoille suomennokset tai selitykset.
Twitter is an online social
networking service. It’s also called a microblog.
A Twitter message is called ‘a
tweet’. The length of one tweet is 140 characters.
The word ‘twitterature’ comes
from two words: Twitter and literature.
Here are three examples of twitterature or twitter poetry (= a poem with
140 characters or less). Think Finnish translations for the underlined words.
“He played his music / I wrote the songs / in love / we were invincible”
(64 characters)
“Love the sea / fear the tide
/ footprints and words / till none of me remains” (71 characters)
“I love thee / But I fear the sea / No longer will I fight / ‘Cos I
can’t find the light” (80 characters)
Now, write your own “Twaiku” (= Twitter poem) or piece of Twitterature about friendship or love in your notebook. If you want, you
can use the words given below.
Having spent the last few entries writing about work and jobs, it's
time for the thing that (sometimes) comes after work - money. We
discussed some very surprising facts about money. Did you know that you
have to earn 2800 euros per month to be included in the richest 1% of
the world's population? Everyone here thought that was a staggering
fact. The downside is that about 40% of the people in the world live
with less than 2,50 dollars per day (that's 75 dollars or 55 euros per
month).
But can money buy happiness? That was our topic
when we watched the interesting documentary film The Queen of
Versailles. Here's what the BigCola pupils thought.
Can money buy happiness?
Humans have used money for a long time. At first
it was squirrel skins or something alike or people simply bartered their goods.
Today we use paper bills and coins as currency. Despite the fact that we have
used all kinds of things as payment people have always liked to buy good
looking jewellery or beautiful clothes but does it make you happy when you buy
them.
I think that for poor people money can definitely
buy happiness because they haven’t been on luxurous vacations or bought things
that they’ve always wanted because they couldn’t afford it. Some people can’t
even afford to buy food to their family and if they would get a little extra
money they would be very happy to stay alive and not die of starvation. For
rich people I think it’s quite different. They’ve always gotten whatever they
want whenever they want and they have always been able to eat their stomach
full. At a later age they will not get joy from new things and their life will
sometimes be less happy than the poor people’s lives.
Some people think that money can never buy
happiness because we don’t really need fancy stuff to make us happy. Instead
interacting with people, laughing with your friends and having a good time will
make you happy. I agree with them but I also think that for someone buying
something can bring happiness.
All in all I think that it’s possible for many
who are not so rich and probably for many rich people as well to buy happiness.
Wayne Teller
In the world there’s many different kind of
people. There’s rich, poor and somewhere between them. You really can’t tell
whose are happy and whose not. Does happiness really depend on money?
I think that money can’t buy happiness. Money
can buy things what you need to stay alive or makes you happy temporary. What
really make people happy are other people and the things you do. Some rich
people who have friends and family can say that they are happy, but that
doesn’t maybe have anything to do with money. You don’t make friends with
money, but with your own personality and just being who you are. People who don’t
have a lot of money can be much happier than some really rich people. In the
end, money is just an object wich you can buy another objects.
Jane Lauper
We watched a movie last week in class. It was about a
family that had lots of money but lost almost everything because of America’s
stock market went down.
In my opinion you can be happy without money. Of
course you need money to buy food and necessary clothes and stuff. But you
don’t need like a million euros or dollars to be happy, but with that money you
are in a quite safe situation for taxes and those things.
Here in Finland there are lots of people that have average
incoming. That’s about 3200 euros per month. In Finland you are marked as
‘’poor’’ if your incoming is 1600 or lower. But, can those ‘’poor’’ people live
a happy life? I think they can. If a poor family’s children like to play
football, he can play it because it’s not such an expensive hobby.
Some of the rich people may think that poor people
can’t live a happy life because of little money. Rich children’s parents can
buy them almost everything and they can play any sport they want, expensive or
cheap.
So in my opinion being a poor in some cases doesn’t
make life bad. In those African countries that people need to almost fight for
water and food the life is not happy. But here in Finland and other countries
that don’t have starvation, the people can live a happy life even if you were
poor or rich.
Max Corvin
I think that money can’t buy happiness. It doesn’t
matter if you are rich or poor you can still be happy or sad, but rich people
don’t have to worry about money and poor people are maybe worrying about money.
I think that if you don’t have money you should think other things that are
good in your life right now. Some people think that they can’t do anything if they
don’t have that much money. If rich people would be put for a week to live in
poor people’s life maybe they would understand that they do not need everything
in the world and would start to save that use.
Iris Hill
Last week we watched a documentary in class. It
was about David Siegel’s family and company. David Siegel owns the world’s
largest timeshare company and his businesses went really good, until the stock
market crash came. He lost almost everything and his family was confused and
didn’t know how to live without all the cleaners and babysitters.
Can money buy happiness? I think that you can
have happiness without money, but you can buy those little and big things with
money, and they make you happy. But if your whole world is about money, then
you should think that what has gone wrong. Nowadays there are lots of people who
have many unpaid bills and loans because they can’t control their shopping
addict, and that’s not normal anymore.
There are also many people who think that money
can really buy happiness, except the Siegel family. They have a massive house,
lots of toys, electricity, clothes, own plane and other stuff, and they seem
quite happy with all the items. But when they lost almost everything, they
didn’t know how to live normally anymore.
So, I think that if you can live without your
own plane, 8000 m2 house and all the expensive bags, clothes and games, your
life can be much happier with a normal amount of money and items.
Nora Lakeside
We watched a movie about money and rich people.
Story told about women, who didn´t know how to spend her money. I think that movie
was quite boring. Story told us how to not spent money and how it look when you
spent money wrong way. It was fun and boring to watch rich people life.
I think the movie was boring, nut some people
can learn many things from it. They can learn that if you rich you not always
happy and you can´t always buy anything. I think that you can’t buy happiness,
but you can buy things that make you happy. Sometimes only clothes or food can
make person happy. But to me happiness is being with family and friends. You
can’t buy real friends or family.
If you watch from other point of view they can
buy anything and live happy life how they want, but they don’t always have
happy family life and many good friends. Usually they say themselves, that they
would like more to live normal life than rich life. Some people think, that
rich people think only about money and they´re stupid.
So people are different and they make their own
decisions. Everyone isn’t rich, but usually they have more quality time with
friends and family than rich. Rich have to do work all the time, but normal
person can do more things with family and friends. Other people would like to
be rich, but I think that I would like to be normal person and have family and
friends. I would never like to live in castle. Everyone make their own
decision. You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy things that make you happy
or make you closer to your happiness.
Elisabeth Jenkins
Money is very important thing if you really want to
live. Without money, you can’t eat, drink, or live under the roof. But if you
have it too much, and you don’t control it anymore, it can literally destroy
your life. It’s great if you have enough money to feed your family and buy
stuff, but everyone should keep it under control, like we saw in a documentary
called Queen of Versailles.
I think money can buy temporary happiness, because
every time I buy something nice, I become happier than usual for a moment. But
I don’t think you can buy happiness if you are a billionaire or a millionaire,
because happiness isn’t really a thing you can just buy.
If I had 1 000 000 euros, I would worry too much about
everything and be paranoid that someone just wants to be my friend because of
my money. I would become much happier, if I donated part of the money in
charity, than if I just bought everything nice to myself. But still, it doesn’t
matter if you are poor or rich, you can still be happy or sad. Money does not
define your personality.
So I think that you can’t buy enduring happiness with
your money. In the documentary I didn’t see happy faces at the end, so it was
just temporary. I think they would have better life with less money.
Ida Cole
Many people think that money CAN just buy you
happiness, but I really disagree on that. Money doesn’t just instantly make you
happy and you can’t either just buy happiness, except if what you buy gives you
the happiness. Some people can become really happy if they buy something like a
new car or a new house, but some people are also really happy if they just have
food on the table, a pleasant job and a family, in my opinion you shouldn’t
need things like a nice car or a nice house and a lot of money to be happy, I
think you can be really happy if you just have some good friends, a home, a
family and food on the table and I’m really happy to have all of those.
Oskar Gant
This is a very difficult question, is it true or
false? What do you want to do in your life? Spend a lot of money or spend
memorable time with people you love?
It’s true, that you can buy whatever you want with
money. But are you happy then? Because in the end of your life, it doesn’t
matter how much money or stuff you have. It’s much more important how much
memories you have. In my opinion I think that with money you can buy momentary
happiness, but there must be something weightier than materialism. For example
if you’re a millionaire but you live alone without friends or family, you just
have your money. Are you happy when you die? Because other people might have a
big family and lots of friends, but they don’t have as much money as you have.
I prefer to be that second one.
Other people have of course different opinions. A rich
one can think that she or he has as much as possible money to use, like in a
document called Queen of Versailles. Someone might be so dependent on shopping,
that it is impossible to start to save money.
But a millionaire can be happy with the money, and a
not rich one can be happy without so much money. It doesn’t all depend on
money, luckily there is still a lot of free things in the world!
Kathy Spoon
I’m sure that very several people think that with
money you can buy happiness. But is it true? When you have money, you can buy
all things what you need, want and you only get momentary happiness from your
purchases. You can buy expensive brand clothes for example Louis Vuitton’s bags
and Chanel’s shoes. The bare truth is: Happiness won’t last your whole life.
People can manage when they don’t have that much
money. Many people’s wage isn’t maybe that good as someone else but they can
still be happy. You don’t need houses which is worth of millions and 200 000
euro’s car to be a happy person. Of course there are people (usually
millionaires) who think that money is all what they need and they don’t even
want anything else to their lives. Even very poor people can be happy if they
have family and friends.
My opinion is that money won’t make you happy. Your
family, friends, job, hobbies and relatives should be enough to make you happy.
If you are healthy and free, you should be happy about it. If you’re not happy
at the time, figure out some different experience and make your life a little
bit different. Do something nice with your friends, decorate your house again
or just be with people who you love.
So, you don’t need money to be a happy person. Enjoy
your life as it is now and don't worry your money things. Tell your love ones
that you love them, it makes your day better. Just remember, money is not that
thing what make you happy.
Marie Rivers
Money can make your life better in some ways, but it´s
hard to say can you buy true love or happiness with money. The thing in money,
what can make you happier is financial freedom. If you don´t have to be always
worried about that you have enough money to pay bills and buy food and clothes
it´s much easier to be. Other good thing in wealth is that you don’t have to be
working so much for money if you don’t want. That gives you time and freedom to
do other things like travel or something like that. Of course it´s sometimes
nice to buy expensive luxury things too if you have money, but I don’t think
it´s the thing in money what makes you happy, if it does.
It´s got to remember that big wealth gives you big responsibility and wealth
can stress you.
It can make you materialistic and make you close your eyes for the real things,
like friends and family.
Thomas Walt
Some people think that money can buy happiness. Some
people think that money can buy momentary happiness and the others think that
money can’t buy happiness. When you have some pairs of expensive shoes or some
expensive clothes or something else expensive, does it make you happy? Of
course when you have a lot of money you can buy everything you want and need,
but many people can survive with a little less money. When you get an average
wage, you have usually money to buy everything what you need but don’t always
have everything what you want. You can be happy without money, but you have to
glad of some other things.
I think that money can’t buy happiness. I think
that money can maybe buy some momentary happiness for example when you buy some
new cloth. But I think that many people are happy some days but then they
forget it. My opinion is that happiness comes from the other things for example
family and friends. Money can never make you happy for rest of your life.
If you are millionaire you can maybe be happy.
You can carry out your dreams, if you need lots of money to carry your dream
out. Millionaires life is maybe little easier when they don’t need to worry
about the money things. But if is thought that thing from another opinion the
poor people can live easy and with no worries. Some people have maybe different
dream that the carry it out don’t need any money. Everyone can live happiness
with no money.
This thing compressed is that everybody in this
world can live happiness without money. But if you have money, you can also be
happy. You have to find happiness somewhere different thing. Love your live and
don’t worry your money things.
Paulina Rock
Very many people think that with money you can buy
happiness. But is it true? With money you can get everything what you want.
Even if you had ten pairs of Prada and Gucci shoes is it enough to make you
really happy? Some people have addiction to buy everything what they see and
they think that all that material would make them happy. But that is just part
time happiness. After a while they go and buy another pair of shoes because the
first ones didn’t make them happy enough. And this goes on and on.
In my opinion money isn’t the thing that should give
you the biggest happiness. It should be your friends, relatives, family and
other important things. When you die it isn’t important how many pairs of shoes
you own. The most important thing is the time you’ve spent with your love ones.
All the precious memories and experiences are the ones that remind people of
you. With money you can’t buy friends or good memories you have to be yourself
to have them.
If you are a millionaire you can think that money can
buy happiness. But if you get an average wage you know that you can’t have
everything what you want but you still can deal with the money you have. You
don’t have to be a millionaire to be happy. Still a millionaire can be happy
about other things too even if they have a lot of money.
With money you can’t buy true happiness. But if you
have it, enjoy it but remember to cherish it. Nothing lasts forever so remember
to concentrate on things that are important to you.
Kate Ronney
In a documentary called Queen Of Versailles we saw a
family, which was a very very rich family. They had a lot of stuff in their
home, they bought new stuff everyday, because they were use to it. Almost
everytime when they were shopping, they bought new toys for kids. Every time.
The kids were spoiled and they had a nanny. The nanny spent time with the kids
more than their mom did. Money brought some kind of happiness for this family.
They had very big dreams and one of them was the biggest house in the America.
They started to build the house and at the same time their dreams was growing
and they were so proud of the biggest house in the America.
The rooms were huge, Jacqueline Siegel has bigger room
for only her shoes that many other Americans’s have their whole house. David
Siegel has many businesses and they sold a lot of resorts and made money from
that. But when the stock market crashed, they very really in trouble. David had
borrowed money. And now we are talking about a large amount of money, millions.
They didn’t get their dream house ready, because they didn’t have enough money
for that. The bank told them to sell the house, but there wasn’t anyone who
wanted to buy it. David was very depressed because he didn’t know should he
sell a piece of his business, because the bankruptcy was very near. They sold
one of their businesses.
I think that money can make you happy for a little
while, because you can buy some awesome, lovely new things, like what ever you
want. But usually it gets out of hand if you have too much money. You can’t
think about poor people, maybe you don’t care about them anymore. If you lose
your money, how can you live without it, if you’re so hooked on it and buying
things?
Some people don’t want so much money, they don’t need
it. The most important thing is that they get their food on the table and they
can buy the bills. It’s enough for them and they are happy. They think that
it’s more important to have good relationships with their friends and family.
People are happiest when they have someone to love to and someone who loves
them.
Some people think that they can have everything, if
they have just enough money. I don’t think they’re thinking right, ‘cause this
kind of people live for only themselves, not for everyone else’s good.
So the most important thing is that you can live, you
are not starve to death, you have clothes and you can sometimes buy something
you like, you have people around you and you are a real, caring person. That
will make you happy, not money.
Mary Rabine
We watched a documentary about the life of David A.
Siegel and his wife, and I was asked to do an essay based on that documentary
of the subject “can money buy happiness? “.
David met his wife at a model competition. They have
30 years of age difference and David is filthy rich. David said that he also
helped George W. Bush to become a president. Although there is no evidence to
prove this “fact” legit because he refused to talk about it; it may have not
been fully legal.
David’s parents were well known in Las Vegas Casino.
Every time they went there they were offered front seat tickets to Elvis
Presley show etc. David was the owner of WestGate hotel and the biggest living
house in Unites States. The living house territory was huge enough to fit the
whole Disneyland center in there. It was also bigger than the White House!
On the year 2008 there was a huge economic crisis in
the US. Enormous amount of people lost their job and company leaders were
giving their best to save their company from becoming bankrupt. Even David had
to cut his budget and start saving money, although his wife was still shopping
and wasting a lot of money on stuff they didn’t actually even need. David
eventually had to fire 6000 workers and lose WestGate due to unpaid taxes. He
tried to find money to save it but it was hopeless.
I personally think that money can buy temporary
happiness which won’t last for long. I think David would have managed way
better if he would have just been less greedy and if he would have used money
in a smarter way instead of just throwing it in the air. I bet everyone that
heard of him or saw him were thinking that his some kind of a important person
but actually he’s just a silly guy with a lot of money and who ended up with a
bunch of children and no money.
Money can and will buy you happiness, but with it will
come great greed and addiction to more money.
