Nowadays we live in a democratic society, according to some people. Modern democracy allows 18-year-olds to vote in the general election or the elections for local government, the EU or for the president of the Republic. However, some people polemicize - should eighteen-year-olds be given the chance to vote at this age or not?
      On one side, some people think that it's too early to vote at the age of eighteen. Their most commonly used argument is that young people are not able to make a rational decision about voting, as well as the pretense that they are not mature enough to accept the responsibility of exercising their democratic right. Many psychologists say that people are, generally, far more mature at their twenties. Also, 18-year-olds tend to choose non-serious parties which promise, for example, the legalisation of drugs. Lastly, the young are preoccupied with their own problems at home and school and so do not take their society problems so seriously.
      On the other hand, there are also a number of arguments for letting 18-year-olds to vote. Firstly, young people today are far better equipped to make a good decision in voting than the past generations of youth were. Modern youth are extremely well informed on all the crucial issues of our time, foreign and domestic, national and local, urban and rural due to the enormous impact of modern communications, especially television and internet. Secondly, 18-year-olds already have many rights and responsibilities in our society comparable to voting. For instance, they rely upon public services in the same way other people do – they use public transportation, some pay taxes, drive cars and so on.
      To sum up, although some people and some psychologists think 18-year-olds aren’t mature enough to vote I believe there is no difference between 18 and 88 year-old voters. Furthermore, the maturity of 18 year-olds varies from person to person, just as it varies for all age groups in our population. Therefore, it only means that sometimes young people can make better decisions than adults can. In my opinion, both of them deserve the right to vote and by doing so to give their contribution to the society.

Lovro P.

Every summer I go on my holidays in Povjana. It's beautiful there but the most annoying thing is the price of the beer. One bottle costs 16 kunas. But one day I saw poster " Beck's party! Special offer, one Beck's 10 kunas! " I couldn't resist attending that party so I went there with my friends. It was awesome because we won bluetooth speaker because I drank 8 bottles of beer so we could finally listen to some music on the beach. Next day we decided to organize our own Beck's party but we named it BREX PARTY®. We named it like that because of the nickname of our friend Ante Brekalo Brex. We decided not to spend our money in bars so we had Brex party every day spending only 50 kunas for 6 liters of bambus ( coca cola + red wine ). Spending only 10 kunas per day my boring summer turned into the best summer ever.

L.Srebacic

A year ago my friend Karla and I went on Maja's B-day party. It was in her cottage in Začretje. My mom was driving us there. We had never been there before so she gave as detailed instructions how to get there. While we were still in Oroslavje, we bumped into a stopper. It was a young boy we knew. My mom never stops to stoppers but this time she did because we knew who he is. While we were driving to Zabok we asked him why does he hitchhike because it can be very dangerous. He said that he usually doesn't hitchhike but he had no choice. He was going to a friends B-day party and he missed the bus for Zabok and he doesn't have time to wait for other bus because he need to catch the train in Zabok. He was very polite and he talked all the time. After we left him in Zabok, we continued our journey to Maja's B-day party. To get there we should go through many streets and woods. We kept to the instructions but we still managed to get lost. Luckily, Maja was very generous to explain us one more time via cell phone. Finally, we successfully found the way and had a really good time at Maja's B-day party.

L.S.

Citizens of Zabok will always remember May 14th as a life-changing day. It seemed to them just like another ordinary day. Early in the morning, I came to Zabok, along with my companions, with our luxurious, fancy, huge and most important of all newly purchased vehicle.

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Oznake: povijesna borba

Hello everyone!
The story I am writing about happened two years ago, to be more precise it happened on 26th of September 2015. My friend Karla from 3rd b (just to be clear I am talking about Karla Ruk so do not get confused because there are 3 girls in 3rd b named Karla) had her 16th birthday so she decided to celebrate it by inviting Klaudija and me to a pizza. This is the part where it got complicated because this was that period when most of the teachers in our school were striking. As I said most, but not all so Karla some classes but Klaudija and I did not. So there was a problem because Karla had only first four classes and if you are familiar with HŽ you would know that trains are not that regular.

Hello my dear friends!

I'm sure you're all exhausted from school and can't wait the end (just like myself). However, before we go on our summer vacation, I want to tell you an adventure that happened to me and my friends when we were sophomores.

Do you remember when we were on excursion in Zagreb? We went there to watch the opera „Nikola Šubić Zrinski“ in the Croatian National Theatre, which was starting at 7.30pm. After we had come there at about 6.30pm, the teachers told us that we have 40 minutes of free time:visiting the sights, going somewhere to drink or eat, etc. That meant that we needed to be in front of the theatre at 7.10pm. Me and my friends (Sara, Iva, Anamarija & Patricija) decided to go to McDonald's, because, you know, it doesn't exist in Zagorje so that's a really „big attraction“ for us.

The journey took us 10 minutes and there, like every single time I was there, was a long line. When we had bought what we wanted and when we ate everything, the clock showed 7pm. We realised we must hurry up if we want to come on time. I was sureIy knew where the theatre was, so I offered myself to direct my girls. I told them: „We just need to go left. I'm 100% sure.“ And of course, I was wrong. After 10 minutes wandering through town, we asked one woman what the shortest way to come to the theatre was. She gave us directions but told us it was faster to use the tram to get there. Great! We didn't buy a tram ticket, so we decided to run through Zagreb to come on time to the theatre. People were looking at us weirdly, but who cared, nobody knew us there. We succeeded. At 7.29pm, we were elegantly walking into a full theatre. The opera was great as you can see from the smile on our faces.

I'd like to introduce you to my favorite movie of all times. It was brought to us by the DreamWorks Company on April 22nd in 2001. Do you have any idea which one it is?

Of course it’s Shrek. I mean, Shrek is love and Shrek is life, and it’s been a part of me since I was a kid. Although everyone should have seen this movie by now, I’m going to talk about the plot a bit. Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is a big green ogre who lives in a swamp. After Lord Farquaad (voiced by John Lithgow) banished fairy tale creatures, they found themselves occupying Shrek’s private paradise. In order to get his home back, Shrek makes a deal with Farquaad to bring him a princess in exchange for the deed for his swamp. His companion is a talking Donkey (voiced by Eddie Murphy) on a journey to find Princess Fiona (voiced by Cameron Diaz). She lives in a castle tower guarded by lava and a dragon. Shrek successfully saves Fiona and brings her to Farquaad, but when he witnessed Fiona kicking ass of sexy men in tights lead by singing Robin Hood, he could not help but fall in love with her, but he didn’t know that he and Fiona have a lot in common – for example, they both enjoy eating roasted rats, or that they are both ogres (kind of…she is only an ogre during nighttime). Yeah, and then little “dwarf” Farquaad ruins everything and makes Fiona marry him or whatever… Remember the dragon from the castle? She is a lady dragon and she comes to save the day. She did fall in love with Donkey (I mean, who wouldn’t, he’s such a charm) and was so nice to offer Shrek & Donkey a ride to the church where they interrupted the wedding. Fiona then turns to her night-self, Shrek is amazed, they kiss, they marry in his swamp and they go to their honeymoon (you can see some clips of their honeymoon in this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0tmIx_kZNY ).
The end.

Of course this movie wouldn’t be so famous if it wasn’t for the best soundtrack. This is probably my favorite song of the entire movie – please do listen to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aErDTrWZkTU

For those of you who don't know, 9gag is a social media website on which anonymous people post funny or interesting content in form of pictures or gifs. That content is generally called "memes". If you don't want to post memes, you can scroll through the site and enjoy other people's work. But if you want to post them and become successful, I will teach you some basics to do so.
Success on 9gag isn't about the money (because you can't earn any) or fame (because you're anonymous). It's about having fun and bragging rights. It's about proving to your friends that you can make it to the "hot page", even though they told you that it was impossible. It's about proving to your mom that you're actually good at something... Anyways, there are three pages which your meme has to go trough to become popular. There are "fresh page", "trending page" and previously mentioned "hot page". Let me explain how those three work. When you first post your meme, it appears on the "fresh page". There you must collect certain amount of points for it to appear on the "trending page". If in a small amount of time it collects even more points (no one knows how much) it will be featured on the "hot page". That's the place where you want your meme to be.

(Hot, trending and fresh page)