We Are Young Money

Queen of England? We as bystanders only see what the media wants us to see whether it’s good or bad. In reality we know nothing about wealthy people and what their money sometimes does to people. In the book The Great Gatsby one of the ideas or themes of the book is sometimes the upper class is carelessness and shallow. As you may know Nick and Gatsby live in West Egg, where the people have been rich for a long time. Tom and Daisy however live on at East Egg, where the people are young and newly…

five kids who are not working, and don’t have the necessary requirements to get a job so they feel the easiest way out is a life of crimes. Maybe parents have to instil better values in their children. Like my mother would always tell us when we were young, “Always do with what you have, never get jealous of what you see others have, you never know how they got…

have turned into. It’s the truth though. Paul Roberts, examined and explained how our society and the way we live has changed over the last couple years. Roberts looks at how the academic fields of study have shaped the way high schoolers and college students have changed their ways of living. America, as Paul Roberts tells us, have turned ourselves into, “DIY” citizens, narcissists, and how money is changing the mindset of many high school and college students. To start off, the professions of…

Name,” Sandra Cisneros writes about a mysterious young man, who is a victim of a hit and run accident after a dance and dies heartbreakingly in the hospital at the end of the story. Cisneros left us hanging and wondering why this poor young man dies tragically, due to slow responsiveness of medical attention. In “ Geraldo No Last Name,” we can discuss the misconception of immigration and the unfair treatment of immigrants. The misconception of the young immigrant’s life is expressed in the…

feel like taking the money, and running to a new state? Have you ever wanted to be free from some of the family drama? Do you ever wonder what it’s like to live a life of luxury? What would happen if you ruined that life in a blink of an eye? In the parable The prodigal Son, there is a young man who is ready to be free and get his inheritance from his father. The down side about the whole situation, is he manages to waste it all in a short period of time. The fact is this young adult wanted…

are distributed into many different resources needed in our community, like paying the salaries for the police men, fixing the roads, etc. They also use that money to pay for our “free lunch” at school and even pay for the education teachers are providing us. Why are we paying for the education that should be free for all the children and young adults attending High school? Government is supposed to care for their citizens by paying for all this services, instead of taking…

Money can cause happiness and pain in everyday life, whether you have it or not. Take famous people for example, when they got rich and famous they didn’t bring up all their friends. They chose their happiness over their friendships. Memes today have pictures about whether or not you would slap your best friend for a million dollars and then seeing someone getting smacked in the next picture which shows how quickly money can turn your best friend into a paycheck. In “The Pardoner’s Tale” it…

Decision Making While you were in high school we all know you played around and didn’t take things serious, but as you’re growing up and now noticing real life by going into college. College can be very fearful, you can also add a lot of stress on yourself when first beginning college. As us young adults we picture the life of college and how it’s going to be. College is where young adults mature as independent men and women. We are young so we think that college is going to be filled with…

The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry, opens up with a young couple, Jim and Della Dillingham Young. Della has all of $1.87 when the story opens up. Jim is only making $20 a month which is reduced from what he used to make. Used to Jim was making $30 a week, but recently his salary has been cut back to $20 a week. Della, his wife and the hero of this journey is making $8 a week for furnishings. She is collecting spare change to save up for a Christmas present for Jim. Just as the Magi, or wise men,…

We Win Some, We Lose Some (An analysis of The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H Lawrence) Have you ever believed in a supernatural power or something that gives the ability to have an edge over others?In D.H Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner, there is a young boy named Paul that has the ability to be able to see the future somewhat and win bets for a rather sad reason. All the boy wants is for his mother to believe that he is lucky and for her show him love and affection. Sadly, Paul works very…