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Hughes

Malcolm Campbell

English 1103

April 13th, 2015

I.

Marginal Outline: Does money affect a persons emotional stability?


Does the amount of money a person makes effect their happiness.
a. Pew Research Centers research on the correlation between wealthy
countries and countries who consider themselves among the happiest
in the world.
b. States the topic sentence as a question in order to open up the
research paper.

II.

Relating to the reader and showing how money is a big part of their lives.
a. States that people come into contact with money throughout their
lives even at an early age and also shows how the amount of money
they are spending grows in relation to where one is in their life.
b. Shows that people choose their career path and college path based on
the amount of money they will receive in the future.

III.

money has been proven to bring stress, affect relationships, and cause
clinical depression in millions of Americans.
a. Duke University article on how money negatively affects individuals.
b. In the article, people become more emotional stressed when dealing
with money and it can start to effect relationships.

c. Introduces Jeffery Dews research on how divorce rates climb based

on the amount of arguments couples have based on financial
instability or problems.
d. Talks about divorce during the Great Depression and how husbands
would abandon families because they couldnt afford to get a divorce.
e. Transition sentence: introduces the topic on how money and
depression are related.
IV.

Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness

and loss of interest.
a. One of leading causes of depression is money
b. The movie Its a Wonderful Life talks of the main character
contemplating suicide in order for family to receive his insurance
money.
c. BBC article on how suicide rates have went up 5%-17% since the
recession hit in 2008.
d. Same article speaks on how Prozac prescriptions and other
depression drugs have rose 40% in the past several years.

V.

Other professionals believe that people corrupt their money situation and
it becomes a cycle of people corrupting money and that same money
corrupting the individual.
a. Jennifer Lerners podcast explaining that people spend money
irrationally when they find themselves in emotional depression.

b. When they lose this money and go into debt they become more
depressed and it can be a fatal cycle.
VI.

Emotions not only play into your financial life when you are a in a lower
social class but also when you consider yourself in the top tier social
class.
a. Children who are born into a lower class dream of getting to these
higher classes, but when they achieve this goal they dont want to look
back from where they have came from.
b. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is introduced into the paper in
order to talk about how Pip views his previous social status when he
makes it to the top tier of London money.
c. Pip looks down upon the man who raised him because he is of a lower
monetary status.
d. Ties how social class and money can affect the way we view people
and the way money decides who we associate ourselves with, where
we live, and the lifestyles we are living.

VII.

Money affecting peoples emotions can even be proven on a scientific

level.
a. Cognition and Emotions is a journal entry that explains how people
feel biologically in certain situations.
b. Dopamine is released into a person body when people are typically
rewarded which improves decision making, and makes a person
overall happier.

c. When people get a large sum of cash this biological hormone can be
released.
d. When people go into debt are have money taken from them the
opposite effect happens and they tend to be more depressed and
make extremely poor decisions that can be tied back into the cycle
problem from a few paragraphs earlier.
VIII.

People who receive large amounts of money can be classified as the most
depressed humans in the world.
a. Happinomics by Angela Herring is a newspaper article the interviewed
several highly thought of psychologist and business professors
(Michael Norton, Robert Frank, Daniel Gilbert) who all speak on how
America is considered one of the richest but not the happiest.
b. The more money someone has can lead to more stress because of
things like managing this money.
c. Shows a different side of the argument on how not only having a lack
of money imposes problems, but that having a lot of money does the
same thing.

IX.

Through the research it is evidently clear that money and emotions

collide every time they come in contact with one another
a. Recaps the point of the article in a very hostile way. ( Trying to put the
reader in the mindset that money is in many ways evil to our
emotions.)

b. Capitalism is the reason our world focuses on money the way people
do and how this is unhealthy for our well-being.
c. Capitalism leaves people never satisfied with what they have because
they always want more and this obsession begins to wreck our minds
and emotions.
d. Parents and schools wire our brains in a way that makes kids strive to
always have more money and never really want to think of others.
(Not every parent or kid)
e. Concludes the paper with how money is only an object and people let
this piece of paper run their lives and our world needs to change their
mindset in order to bring happiness into peoples lives.
f. I rambled a lot through this paragraph and need to add research in
order to back up my personal viewpoints, however I felt it was
necessary in an argumentative paper to show the reader where me
(the writer) was coming from. This is an issue I feel strongly about
because it has reached me and my family personally so it can be seen
in my writing that there is a lot of anger and emotion in what I am
trying to get across. I took a risk with this last paragraph and in the
end I am glad I put it in the paper but I do need to back it up with
research and quotes.