Katie McGuckin
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     Today in class, we began to research and work on our "Does Money Buy Happiness?" assignment, which now due on December 18 (next Monday). All work done on the project should be included in the power-point supplied to each student and contain multiple quotes and evidence to support their claim on whether or not money can make people happy. The first slide should be filled out, in sentence form, stating if money can or can't buy happiness and then giving three reasons why. After the first slide, the next two rely on finding two articles, from reliable sources, supporting your claim and have their links posted somewhere on the slides. Once an article is found, you need to select a quote and incorporate it into a sentence through leading into your point, write the quote, cite it, and  explain its meaning and how it helps prove your claim. Next, you need to search through The Great Gatsby for two quotes that also support the claim and repeat the motions that were followed in the previous two slide for the articles. The final slide asks you include a song/video that expresses how money may or may not give a person joy, quote a line and describe how this is shown, then paste a link on the slide.
     For my power-point, I came to the conclusion that money cannot buy people happiness because it will run out eventually, lead to unseen problems (like corruption, strain relationships, warped views on the world and others, etc.), and will never be able to replicate certain things that are not bought. I chose two articles that gave evidence showing money cannot improve a person's state of enjoyment because it causes people to put their interests into material things that are seemingly nice but unable to solve or improve specific problems in their lives, leading them to pay less attention to things or people they used to find fulfillment in. The song I selected to show that money can't buy joy, was "Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles because it's one of my favorite songs by the band due to its catchy tune and lyrics and how it is probably one of the clearest songs I know of that easily expresses that money isn't everything and that some of the best things in life cannot be bought. An example of a quote that says the song's message, is in the chorus, when the words, "Can't buy me love" are sung, which are repeated multiple times in the song to emphasize its importance (even shown in the the song's title). To summarize, in class we started working on this power-point revolving around the opinion of money bringing or not bringing happiness to people, finding evidence in different forms of literature/media and connecting them back into your main claim.