Materialistic Delusion: How artificial social norms confine people to live past their means to achieve the illusion of social status. MORPHEUS: “It’s that feeling you have had all your life. That feeling that something was wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is but it’s there‚ like a splinter in your mind‚ driving you mad‚ driving you to me. But what is it? [Consumerism] is everywhere‚ it’s all around us‚ here even in this room. You can see it out your window‚ or on your television.
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Harper Lee Jordan English 101: Composition Professor C. Anderson 02/22/12 A Materialistic Society A happy life is more important than anything someone can buy in a store. It’s not a physical thing nor is it materialistic. Society has come to orbit around the quality of things they can buy to impress the neighbors and to show off how much money they have invested. They want the shinier‚ the bigger house‚ and the greener lawn. It doesn’t matter how expensive your car is or how big of a house
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Nowadays people are influence by social media. They define beauty such as have big eyes‚ nose should be aquiline‚ oval face‚ chin pointed and etc. Some people want their figure become more neat and graceful‚ they will accept augment breasts and liposuctions. This is also a kind of plastic surgery. From my opinion‚ I think that plastic surgery got benefits and disadvantages. The benefits of plastic surgery are: -Improve self-confidence Some people they have not enough confident of their appearance
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work fields. Not by just getting our work done‚ technologies are also used for recreational purposes. Television‚ music players‚ computer games‚ internet browsing are few of the recreational sources we get through technology and are used heavily by people throughout the world. Secondly‚ technologies of modern age have always helped us by
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The Causes of Young People Smoking The Causes of Young People Smoking One of the most common problems today that are affecting young people worldwide is smoking. Smoking is such a strong addiction. One cigarette can result in smoking a bigger quantity‚ which can lead to major addiction. There are many people who like to smoke and they start at a young age. There are three main reasons why people start smoking at a young age; it might be because they try to imitate their friends‚ there are
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Young people and the Internet Nowadays‚ technology and the Internet have become a really important part of our daily life. We use it everywhere for everything‚ we are surrounded by all kinds of electronic gadgets‚ and it makes our life easier. However‚ a serious problem of this great invention it’s how it can influence on young people. It’s a well-known fact that the Internet has experienced an enormous development during the last years‚ and now it has become a really powerful and necessary
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the part of our life and very important component in the spheres of the life is leisure. And nowadays majority of young people spend their leisure time playing computer games‚ surfing through the internet. Computer games have become one of the favorite time-spending of young people in all ages‚ and even some adults and the students. With permanent development of computer technology the quality of people using computer either for working purposes or entertainment purposes is increasing speedily.
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who suffers from Narcissism is a boy from Bumfuck‚ Tennessee called Chris Crocker. He became famous from one day to another‚ only by uploading a film on the internet. In this film he cries and screams “leave Britney alone!”‚ because he believes that people have been too hard on her and don’t think of what she has been through. The strange thing is that he has filmed all this and even‚ vain enough‚ uploaded it on YouTube. Maybe Chris Crocker didn’t do all this only to express his strong opinion‚ but
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2‚ line.28-29)‚ which tells us that the narcissism is on the increase. Many young people nowadays feel they can do anything‚ and a good example could be the series of The X Factor‚ where more than 150‚000 people participated in the hope of success. The participants were convinced that they deserved success despite their transparent lack of talent‚ which they not could see themselves. In brief‚ narcissists are the people who choose a mirror if they are allowed to take a personal belonging to a desert
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to survive or stay alive is by being aware of your surrounding. As Klosterman states‚ “ From a creative standpoint these fear projections are narrative linchpins; they turn creatures into ideas‚ and that the piont” (387). As long as we look to the future and turn away from the materialistic culture‚ then‚ we are able to escape the zombie way of living. The only way we could sustain our humanity is by being aware of our need to survive. And vowing not to be persuaded into thinking these worldly matters have some of value‚ or raise our status
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