Treasure of Lemon Brown It is said in the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown. That everyone has a treasure. I oppose this claim because not everyone actually has a treasure. I believe that not everyone actually has something that they value. I know some people might disagree with my allegation and say everyone has a treasure. You can say anything you want but I don’t agree with this. I don’t agree at all. Not everyone has something in their family to value. You could be the richest family in the world and still have nothing to value at all. You Might have 1 Million & 1 things and not value anything. Most rich people don’t get that you can value something whether or not it has monetary value, or the way it looks. Basically the way I look at
If one is deemed rich, they are usually labeled as a snob or arrogant. Not every rich person is mean, selfish or cruel; it’s just the way they are portrayed nowadays. Just because one is rich does not mean that one does not care for
In society, often our perspective of people is shaped by their socioeconomic status. People center their values based upon various other origins, such as money or other material things, as opposed to personality to grasp a more authentic understanding of a person.
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan recounts the events of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lives of two individuals: Dalia, a Bulgarian jew, and Bashir, a Palestinian muslim. The Lemon Tree is a story of persecution , its consequences, and of human nature. In the 1940s the Nazis began the holocaust, a mass extermination of the jewish people and others that the Nazis deemed as “undesirable”, prompting many Jews to flee and seek refuge. Jewish emigration from countries in eastern Europe was met with anti semitic immigration policies in the west, thus leading to the mass migration of Jews to Palestine. The tensions between the jewish and arab Palestinians eventually evolved into the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. Citizens of Palestine were
There are many things that affect how people see each other. Judging others on their looks, personalities, and lifestyles is as natural as sleeping. A common subject of judgement has always been social class; each class has judged one another for centuries. Looking at another class is like looking into the window of another world that is shrouded in mystery; especially the upper class. The idea of being wealthy is surrounded by a stereotype that life is easy and everything is perfect. F. Scott Fitzgerald teaches in The Great Gatsby that this is not true through three different social classes in the 1920s: old money, new money, and no money. Although status makes life easier it can negatively affect the personalities of people with old money, new money, and no money.
Not everything that is expensive is better. Rich people can get everything they want, but middle class people need to think if they need it, or they can find the same thing cheaper. Most people try to find cheaper things, but some buy expensive things, because they think that it will help them to feel that they are rich. First, people buy those expensive things, and after that they are in debt. Expensive things need a lot of money, but people don’t have them, so they use credit cards to buy for that. According to the article “All That Glitters Is Not Gold” 32% of attendees who were at the auto exhibition bought a car and 56% of attendees reported they were going to buy a car in the near future. It shows that that people don’t have money, but they saw that other people bought the car, and they want it also. For example, my parents just last week bought a new car, because our old one broke. My dad said that everyone has big and new cars, so we need to buy a costly car like other people have. I thought that it was a stupid idea to look at expensive car, but anyway he found a good car, nor costly, nor a cheap car. The cost is in the middle, and it is a wonderful car. Indeed, running after expensive things people forget to look at prices. They forget that they will need to pay for that thing for many years after they buy
wanting more. more than that. They prefer a mansion to a house, money over family
society. Much of the world today is based on materialism and the worth of one’s
because their family is so poor but just be grateful for what your able to get and that the people
Most people would be ecstatic if they had the kind of money that these kids inherit. In listening to them talk about their wealth, it almost seems as if some of them are lost. Could it be because they can’t fail or don’t have the pressure of succeeding to survive and thrive?
What are family values? One hundred years ago I feel this would have been an easier question to answer than it is today. Changing family structures and social norms have created a more fluid form of what we envision as a family. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines a family as both “a group of persons with common ancestry” and as “a group of individuals living under one roof.” As we have discussed in class, a family is not simply nuclear anymore. In the stories we have read we have examined nuclear, single-parent, extended, and community-based families. All of which held the same feeling of importance and love for the people in it. With every family being unique, each holds their own set of beliefs or values which poses the question, what
Once they have attained that wealth, murderers would kill more people for more money. People die at the cost of several dollars or a few pieces of jewelry. Back to the Clutter family murder, Dick and Perry killed four innocent people for “between forty and fifty dollars” (CFM). They just kept on stealing since “Dick loves to steal. It’s an emotional thing with him-a sickness” (CFM). If people die over material wealth in this present day and age, then the world is a crueler place than it once was.
The main characters from “The Treasure of Lemons Brown” and “The Moustache” resemble and contradict each other.
One Reason is that wealthy people believe that they create their lives by positive thinking and
... everything is available to them for a price and society standards require them to buy those things for whatever price. We love the idea of buying the new stuff about buying the best and that is a sign of a society where goods determine self-worth. But we accept that and because we accept it is why we are referred to as an overly materialistic country. Worse of all, the details that back up the argument are all true. But we also have our standards. We are not overly materialistic, there are limits after all we just came out of a recession. People in American society take money very seriously because it can either make or destroy your life and what choices you make. America is a very materialistic society and it has to with how successful we are and that success with the country want of money, the country’s need of things give us our title as materialistic country.
..., a person who earns $25,000 is happier than a person who makes $125,000 and an employee who makes $500,000 is only slightly happier than someone who makes $55,000. Lastly, there are more important things in life that and make you happy, for example, friends. They don’t come with a price tag, and if they do, you definitely need new friends. Money won’t make you happy since good times can’t be bought. You don’t need a fancy vacation to have a good time; it’s just a matter of who you spend it with. Over the years, humans have blown the value of money way out of proportion. People make it seem like if you’re not filthy rich, then you won’t live a good life but it’s not true. You can lack money and yet still live a perfect, happy life.