Behold, the power of pressure...

Yes, my friends, I'm talking about pressure. Not the pressure that pushes down on us all, but that great thing called peer pressure. We are all affected by it, but no one tries to stop it. There are those who resist it, but they are mocked and ridiculed until they finally give in.
I can't believe what has happened to our community, when if you don't have an iPod you are not cool. But there are the few who don't give in... They usually don't have all the cool clothes and newest gear, and they usually don't look the best everyday. Everyone makes fun of them, but nobody knows why they don't conform. Some people don't even know that they are "sticking it to the man" by not dressing the best. They don't get it, but I guess ignorance is bliss. The other people just can't afford those new clothes, or the iPod video. So they pretend to not want those things, and sometimes they are mocked and called weird. But I say go for it, if you don't like them, ignore them.
All in all, this whole peer pressure thing usually makes people do stuff that they do not want to do. Peer pressure usually makes kids do drugs or buy stuff that they don't like, and the kids don't want to.
"People buy stuff they don't want,
with money they don't have,
to impress people they don't like."
--Will Smith

Hollywood

Why are people so famous if they are in a movie once or twice? They play a good part, work a couple months and BAM! Rich for life. Usually rich for life, some of them can't handle their money and end up needing more. How do they do it? Why do we let them? A lot of the money wasted on very few people could be helping others, but nobody seems to care at all. Then there's the tabloids, the action figures, the whole package. It just doesn't seem fair-but for some reason life goes on. I guess in one case it's justifiable, but in another it isn't. That is where the big money is nowadays-Hollywood.

Respond in form of Essay:

Usually, I hate to write essays at school because we are given the topic. This I cannot stand at all, it just kills my imagination. For instance, when I was in eight grade I was told to write an essay on my opinion of the government. What kind of essay question is that!?!?! Not only did that kill my imagination, it slowly tortured it first, then dragged it out onto the highway and taped it down in the middle of the road. I like writing essays about what I want, especially when writing persuasive essays. But Most of all, I love writing short stories when I can. Maybe someday I'll become a writer. HAH! I really had you going there, huh? Wide-scale writing is way too much to hope for, but the short stories I can handle. I like doing horror stories and a little bit of sci-fi. My most recent piece I wrote was a horror story that I wrote solely for the purpose of showing my competency with commas. It was a pretty good story, let me tell you, maybe I'll post it sometime. Now that I'm older and I try to write stories myself, I have a much greater appreciation for those great writers of old. I won't list them, you all know who I'm talking about. What worries me today is, if we've been collecting books and have millions of writers across the world, how do we come up with new ideas?