Ania Wilczewska

    In my opinion teenagers nowadays are less happy than their parents at the same age, because of hate that we can see in internet and because of social media influence. In these days we can notice that a lot of teenagers struggle with their mental health. Mainly because of the influence and pressure that social media put on them. It’s much easier to write hateful comment, because we think that we are anonymous. Also social media create beauty standards and by that, pressure teenagers to fit into them. It makes them anxious and less happy when they can’t fit into these beauty standards or when their read hate comments. To sum up, I think that teenagers are less happy than their parents at the same age, because social media and hate in internet influence them more.

       I think that animal rights aren’t respected in Poland, because people treat animals like objects. According to polish animal protection act, animal as a live creature, capable of suffering, is not a thing and shouldn’t be threat as such. I’ve seen many situations when people broke this law. For example my cousins had a hamster when they were little. One day they picked up the hamster and let it fall to the ground. Then they wanted to do this one more time, but fortunately I managed to stop them. Another day I went to the zoo. I saw many animals that looked starved. Some of them looked almost dead. There were many cages without animals, for example lion’s cage. I can only assume that he died, because of the hunger. To sum up, my opinion is that animal rights are not respected in Poland, because people treat animals like things, not living creatures.

       Conspiracy theories are so popular, because people believe that everything has an explanation and they are scared of unexplainable things, because by that they lose their control over everything. We can notice that, looking for example at photos in internet, that are showing something, closer unidentified, in the sky. Many people believe that it is an UFO. By that they try to explain something, even in irrational way, just to feel that that have control over it. Because unexplainable things make us feel scared and anxious. Conspiracy theories by explaining, even in irrational way, things make us feel calm, because we feel, that we have control over everything.