Friday, 28 November 2008

Group 6 FASHION ISN'T INDIVIDUALITY = ALL ARE THE SAME

PRO:
You don’t have to think, you just have to buy what the others wear
You don’t have to be terrified of discrimination, because all the others wear the same!
You don’t need much time in the morning!
You just have more self confidence, because when you wear, what the others wear than you’re normally not an outsider!

CON:
People buy exactly what the trend is looking for! You may loose your individuality and your identity!
It’s a general flavour and not your own style!
There are also many hanger-on’s!
With the same clothes you can still be an outsider (e.g. also in school uniforms you can see wheter someone is poor or rich)!
You can’t express yourself (your opinion)!
Lower quality (clothes)!

ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:
You can express your individuality also in other ways, for example, by the hair style…!
It`s not sure that you loose your individuality, only because you buy your clothes by “H&M”… (Character is also a part of your individuality)!
Not everyone buys his clothes by “H&M”… and some people like, for example, label clothes…
You can wear what you want; you just have to feel comfortable!
You can get attention by clothes / your style!

Angela, Anja and Sarah.M

Friday, 21 November 2008

city life vs. country life

Nowadays city life and country life are getting more and more realted, so it’s even more and more difficult to decide, where you want to live. Everyone has his own conceivabilities of living and everyone knows that neither city- nor country life has only advantages. So you have to decide which environment is “the right” for you to live.

Let’s compare a country- and a city life and look at the advantages of living in the country.
Living a little bit absent denotes the advantage of less traffic and automatically also a wonderful nature as well as good air. Therefore there are lots and lots of possibilities to make sport which leads to more healthy people. And of course, because of the fact that the people live off the beaten track, their periphery is quieter and as a result people are less stressed.
One disadvantage of a countrylife is that in the most cases public transports are rare and therefore all sorts of connections bad. Secondly you don’t have much possibilities and activities, where you can meet other people, which means, that you may easily get bored. And furthermore it’s difficult to get and also to go to work, because you’ll have to shuttle.

As can be expected also city life has on the one hand its good and on the other hand its bad aspects.To start with there I found three positive main points about city life. Firstly, living in a city means that you’re so much more flexible, because it’s quite easy and moreover fast to come “from here to there”, with the lots of possibilities a city offers you. In addition it’s much easier in a city to “see life”, to meet people and to find friends, because there are always some around you and, in “normal cases”, you would never get the feeling of being isolated from society. I think.
Finally you’ve also a lot of choices in dealings, no matter if you buy simply food or clothes.
Disadvantages are for example that based on exactly the same reasons (much choice, much people, much traffic…) especially townspeople get more and more mentally sick and out of order. The air in a city is bad, thereby the people have to go in parks, where the're with thousands of other people, when they want do be in nature or do some sport.

To sum up, as I’ve tried to show in my essay there are various factors that constitute to a city life and various that constitute to a country life. I personally have a life between a city and a country life, which is also what I prefere. I like the many possibilities of a city, and that it gives you the feeling of being a part of the community, but in almost the same manner I like to live in the country, because I love the smell of fresh air and because I love to live wherever I’m with nature and not living against nature!