Makeovers

          Makeovers can range from something as simple as a new haircut or new clothes to the use of cosmetic surgery, implants, eye-color changing contact lenses and so on. However, in most cases people only change their hairstyle and clothes. We read about Colin, who changed his style from sloppy to smart and well-groomed. He cut his hair off, got rid of his beloved leather jacket and even sold his motorbike. He did it because he knew that if he stays the way he is, it will be really hard for him to find a job because nobody sees him as a serious employee. His friends and colleagues had very different opinions about his change. Some thought it was a good thing and Colin looks much nicer now, and others thought the new look doesn’t suit him and that he looks really self-conscious in his professional clothes. However, I think Colin did the right thing. He didn’t just change his appearance, but he also changed his personality. If he had stayed the same, he would have never achieved anything in life because he didn’t care about anything – he loved partying with his friends and nothing else really mattered. Now he has become more ambitious and he might have a promising career.

                However, getting a new job is not the only reason for having a makeover. Some people change because they hate the way they look and they have no confidence because of that. People also change as they get older, because they can’t always stay the way they were in their teens. You don’t see grown-ups dressed as punks or emos that often. Another reason can be trying to get your girlfriend or boyfriend to like you more. But I don’t think that’s a good reason to have a makeover because if they really love you, they won’t ask you to change.

                I would change my image for a job if I had to but I don’t think that I’d have to change a lot – I think getting new clothes and maybe changing my hairstyle a little bit  would be enough.

People's first jobs

                I am going to talk about young people and their first jobs.  As you have probably noticed, young people nowadays start their first job at much later age than their parents did. For example, if you asked any older person when they had their first job, they would probably say it was before they were 18 years old. Today, most of the people start their first jobs only after they finish university, in their mid-twenties. I think the main reason for this is that our standard of life is higher. Young people get everything they need to live from their parents, so they don't have to go to work. One of the reasons can be laziness, as well. Why work if you can spend your day lying on the sofa and watching TV? In my opinion this kind of behavior doesn’t have many advantages.

                Those people have more time for themselves and that’s good. But on the other hand, they don’t get the chance to try themselves in different situations before their first serious job. Another thing is that those people depend on their parents’ money, so they can’t do or buy everything they want. It’s also harder for them to find a job later, because they’ve never had one and they don’t have any kind of experience.

                In conclusion, being an active worker means being independent. So I think the sooner you start your first job, the better it is. Because the experience in work is really important and valuable ant it’s never too soon to get it.

Generation gap

To start with, all of us can see that there is a great lack of understanding between teenagers and adults and it's reason would be the genetarion gap. That is because we, younger people tend to adapt to the new evinrovment, than it was like 20 years ago. And here I am going to give you fine examples of these situations happening with my family members.

Moving on that, i'd like to begin with about what I argue with my parents. I usually argue with them about the things I like, and they dislike, a good example of this would be luxurious cars. They tend to think that luxurious cars are just for showing off and speeding, where I disagree with them, because we all know it's up to the person who drives it how he wants to use it. However, I do not argue with my parents about what clothes I wear, where I spend my free time, about my school amars, friends, or what time I should be at home, because they trust me and I do not let them down, most of the times. Unfortunately, that's where my grandparents kick in. I always argue with them about what time I should be at home, especially with grandmother, because she's out of touch and totally out of date, sometimes it feels like she's still living in 1980's. Always watching television about how bad things happen to young people when they get out of home and don't come back, I totally hate that and try to ignore it.

What is more, it's that most parents personal life experience might help understand teenagers, due to that they, sometime ago were aswell teenagers. Personally I didn't have problems with my parents about understanding me about any problems I had. Moreover, there is a mistake that most teenagers do quite often, they are thinking that they know better than their parents, there might be true about some of the things, but we must admit, that our parents know a lot more then us due to their life, and i'm not talking about computers and stuff, but about  , how to handle the life.

However, there is a quite a major problem in this social world where parents think they know better on what we want, but this is a complete non-sense. Of course by growing us, they saw the things we like to do, but the only person of what we truly want is yourself and noone else.

Moreover, there could be some actions that might help to understanding between teenagers and adults or elders. For example doing sports, watching TV, talk about how did your day go at school or work, however teenagers shouldn't do everything with their parents. A good example of this would be, hanging out with girlfriend or going to school, well the obvious things. That would just seperate the bond. Moving on, talking about you think and trying it to explain it, always helps, because as I stated earlier due to their personal experience they can always give advice, and you can confide in them.

Taking all things in consideration, there are quite a lot of problems in society between the teenagers and adults aswell as elders, but there always quite a lot of ways to get past them. You should always respect your family, maybe follow in one of your family footsteps aswell. Despite the age difference, they can always share something that you don't know and lend a hand.

Presentation: Rihanna

My presentation about: Rihanna

The reason I chose Rihanna is, that I didn’t know about whom I should do this presentation and my girlfriend suggested to do it about her. Rihanna is a Barbadian recording artist, actress, and a fashion designer. She started her career in Hollywood in August 2005, when her debut single, "Pon de Replay" was released. It charted successfully worldwide, peaking in the top five in fifteen countries.

So, to begin with, I’m going to talk about how Rihanna looked before her big makeover. From 2005 to 2007 she had long curly brown hair and she wasalso wearing beautiful dresses, when she was in Hollywood parties.Moreover, Rihanna’s song lyrics had a deeper meaning. For example, her big hits like S.O.S  and Unfaithful. Rihanna was singing about love, passion and betray. Furthermore, her music videos were more appropriate for younger audience. Rihanna didn’t do any inappropriate things in her music videos, like dancing half naked, singing about drugs or alcohol. All in all, she was, how music critics say, a good girl.

After release of album calledGood Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna’s style turned upside down, she became a “bad girl”. Rihanna cut her hair short, and started to change hairstyles like socks. Furthermore, she is now wearing revealing outfits. And she says: It has become more about taking a risk, so that’s why I’m always looking for something that's a little off. Also now, Rihanna’s song lyrics are about rapes, domestic violence, dollar bills and strip clubs. A good example is song called Pour It Up. In this music video she is wearing just a bikini, dancing inappropriate dances on a chair and in the background girls are dancing on a strip pole. One of her music videos was even banned in eleven countries for its sexual content.

In conclusion, Rihanna before her big makeover was a good girl, which liked smart clothes and made songs with the deeper meaning. And now she is a bad girl, who wears revealing clothes and sings songs about money and violence. But it is up to you to decide if it’s a bad or a good makeover.

Essay: Google Inc

My work about: Google Inc

Google Inc.

                As you can see, I am going to talk about Google. I chose this topic, because I think we all use Google services everyday but we don’t know that much about the company itself. So I am going to tell you more about it.

Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software, and online advertising technologies. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They met at Stanford University in 1995 and by 1996, they had built a search engine (initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of individual web pages. Google Inc. was born two years later, in 1998.

Today, Google’s headquarters are in Mountain View, California and they are referred to as “the Googleplex”. It doesn’t really look like a place where people actually work. The lobby is decorated with a piano and lava lamps and the hallways are full of exercise balls and bicycles.  Each employee has access to the corporate recreation center. Recreational amenities are scattered throughout the campus and include a workout room with weights and rowing machines, locker rooms, washers and dryers, a massage room, assorted video games, table football, a billiard table and ping pong. In addition to the recreation room, there are snack rooms stocked with various foods and drinks. Free food is available to employees 24/7.

Google employees not only get amazing benefits and work conditions, but they also make a lot of money. A survey revealed that Google’s 26.000 employees earn a median salary of $141.000 a year. However, that isn’t so much compared to how much money the company makes a day: about $104.000.000.

Here are some interesting facts about Google:

·         Larry and Sergey named the search engine they built “Google” after the word “googol”, which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.

·         New employees are called "Nooglers," and are given a propeller beanie cap to wear on their first Friday.

·         Bicycles painted in the corporate color scheme are available for free use by any employee travelling around the Googleplex.

·         The team has created over 1000 doodles for their homepages all around the world. Doodles are fun, spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries and other special days.

·         And, of course, I found all this information using Google.

                In conclusion, working for Google is a dream job. It’s fun, well-paid and employers really care for their workers. However, if you ever want to get a job at Google you’ll have to be not only smart, educated and team-oriented, but also very ambitious and full of new ideas. And, of course, lucky, as there are so many people who want to get that job.

Essay: It’s natural for humans to use animals for food and clothing

My work about: It’s natural for humans to use animals for food and clothing. Do you agree?

Although more and more people are against using animals for food and so on, we are  still using other living creatures to please our needs. People are arguing about this question for a long time, but in my opinion it’s natural for people to use animals for food and clothing.

First of all, it’s humans lifestyle to use animals to please their needs, we have done this since we started to walk on this planet. Furthermore, humans are more intelligent and superior than animals, and in the nature  only the strongest survives, so it’s natural for us to use other species to survive. Above all, human’s organism needs vitamins and other chemical elements which are in the meat to survive, so we must use meat for food if we want to stay alive.

Opponents of people who uses animals for food and clothing, also called “Greens”, say that it’s wrong to use living creatures for our needs. Firstly, they ask us to imagine if animals started to use humans for their needs, what we would do and so on. Secondly, they say that it’s kinder to animals, cheaper and healthier to live as a vegetarian. “Greens” also say that modern man can choose what to eat because it’s not a prehistoric times.

All in all, although some people are against that humans are using animals for their needs, people won’t stop doing this, because it’s natural for us to use animals for food and clothing. Above all, everyone has rights to choose what to eat.

Essay: Generation gap

My speech about: Generation gap

There  have been lots of different generations of people in the world. And all of them had one thing in common: The generation gap, which usually emerges between teenagers and their parents or grandparents. So let’s talk about why it happens.

So, to begin with, generation gap appears, because there is a difference of age between teenagers and their parents. Sometimes because of this parents are a little bit out of touch and because they are older and have more experience in life they tend to think that they know better what is good for their children. They start constantly telling their kids what they should and what they shouldn’t do or how everything was different in their days. And this kind of behavior is very annoying for the teenagers.

Moving on, not only age difference but also teenagers are guilty for the generation gap because they want to be independent. Teenagers start arguing about almost everything with their parents. For example, clothes they want to wear, marks they get or even why they should decide when to come back home from parties or friends. A good example is my cousin, he used to come home late and act as if nothing was wrong. Because of this, it’s very difficult to deal with teenagers and the generation gap gets bigger and bigger.

Even if this sounds very bad for you, it’s not too late to close this gap between generations. All both sides need to do is just to create a closer bond. Teenagers should keep their parents up-to-date by introducing them with today’s fashions, life theories and new technologies. And parents should discuss with their kids like equals instead of saying what they have to do in their lives. When this goal is reached, both sides will gain each other’s respect and the generation gap will be closed.

All in all, generation gap is between teenagers and their parents, because of age difference and teenagers aim to be independent. But this problem could be solved by both sides working with each other like equal with equal and a little bit of tolerants.

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