Essay 9

Some say that the internet is making the world smaller by bringing people together. To what extend do you agree that the internet is making it easier for people to communicate with another.

There is nothing that has changed more radical  the humankind and the way people interact than the internet. In present days, almost everything is done with or through internet. People from around the globe have found in it a replacer for any activity that we can imagine, there are even imaginary worlds there.

It is quite true that the internet is making the world smaller, because now everything is just to one click away. In my opinion there is no other better way to communicate with other people, because it have all  the advantages on its side: it is cheaper, easy to use, and most important of all the network is widely spread. Moreover, it isn’t necessary to have a PC because now there are many gadgets which could connect on the internet such as smartphones or televisions.

Another consequence of the internet is the social networks like facebook, twitter or my space.  Those had brake any physical borders, persons from totally different countries, religions or color are come together to share an idea or a belief. Through internet it is easy to find matching friends, because now, everyone is a member of a community and each of it has own characteristics. For example if it is someone who like country music, can easily find people who like it too, by becoming a member of a such kind of group.

In conclusion, it is obviously that the internet is bringing people together, and has totally changed the way we communicate with each other.

Essay 8

In many countries children are engaged in some kind of paid work. Some people regard this as completely wrong, while others consider it as valuable work experience, important for learning and taking responsibility. What is your opinion on this?

A century  ago, it was a usual thing for children to work for money, even on an earlier age. Most of the time they were abused, underpaid, and puted on exhausting tasks. Nowadays, many countries have regulations who strictly forbid  this, but even so, many youngster from around the globe are forced to do it.

  Generally speaking, poverty is the mainly reason in children labor, and is very common among countries of The Third World. In many of those nations is just the only way to survive, and even they are obliged by hunger, or by other people (including their parents) the result is the same: children are badly affected, and psychically destroy.  This cannot be consider in any case valuable for children and by all means humanity should take a serious stand against it.

On the other hand, excepting cases mentioned before, the work can be used in learning process as long as this will not disturb child development. Therefore, working should not overcome all the other activity who help  youngsters becoming an adults, such as playing or studying. Moreover, it is important to not forget that the work is not the only  way to teach someone about responsibility, and for this reasons, parents or tutors must choose wisely, and only in the best interest of the children.

Having in mind that, I believe the work can be an instrument in education, and if it is used with precaution could bring many benefits. However, it is very important to remember that the majority of children who work are victim of circumstances, and from this point of view I believe it is everyone’s responsibility to eradicate this issue. 

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Essay 7

We are becoming increasingly dependent on computers. They are used in business, crime and even to fly planes. What things will they be used in the future? Is this dependence a good thing or should be more suspicious of their benefits?

Today’s life cannot be imagine without the presence of computers, and everything we do is linked in some way with it, even for the insignificant activities. It has become a part of our life, and now, our new generation cannot imagine humankind otherwise.

In the future, computers will become even more present in any field, especially in medicine and health care. It is my believe that those are the domains with a lot of unused potential. Although robots are used in hospitals (e.g. in surgeries or body exploration), there is a lot of expectation from modern technology. More and more scientists talk about the idea of creating nanorobots, which are very small robots (about the size of a cell) who can fight, from inside of the body, against viruses or infected cells.  

However, there is a price that we have to pay for all our earned benefits. The dependency seems to be the price. It is obviously that we rely on computers, and this is not quite a very bad thing as long as we take care of the downside. Just thinking what a disaster will be to lose all the electronic data stored in the world and it is enough to understand the risk we put on. Therefore, we should act responsible and prevent any predictable threat such as magnetic storm or computer viruses.

In my opinion, computer era is only another step in our evolution, and it is normal to have some disadvantages. After all, it isn’t very different from other step that humanity made. 

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Essay 6

Some people think that students who don’t take a break in studies between a high school and a university are at disadvantage compared to students that travel and work after high school before furthering their education. Do you agree or disagree?

Education is a very important process in everyone’s life and future. Therefore is quite important how those studies are made, and how students are planning their life. The idea  of having a very long pause between high school and university proved to be, in many cases, not a inspired one.

Usually, at the end of the high school pupils are used with a learning program, and their mind and habits are set for study. If this routine is interrupted many of those will find very difficult to start learning again. Of course a break is always necessary but a long one will do more harm than good.

Another false idea is that the working should give some independence to students, and in this way receive proper information about living in a society and gain knowledge about the real world. Not only this will take away a very important portion of their free time, but also could place them in a vicious circle of responsibility. For example, renting a place to live, and moving from home after getting a job, put students in the situation of choosing between earned freedom and study again.

On the other hand, a long break but not combined with work could be taken, as long as is no risk of becoming a habit. In this way, pupils could enjoy their brake, and even more, to learn or understand new things by traveling, reading or any other activity who could develop their knowledge.

                To sum up, in my opinion, is a mistake to take a pause for such a long period between years of study, because it doesn’t bring any benefits and put the student in the risk of giving up on learning.

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Essay 5

With all the troubles in the world today, money spent on space exploration is a complete waste. The money could better spent on other things.

It is in a human nature to be curious, to discover or to invent things. This is the base of our today’s evolution, and it is impossible to put a price on benefits, or on knowledge achieved. No matter in what field of study we invest, every one of it is contributing to our development and space exploration is no exception.

Firstly, it’s my believe that we don’t spend enough money and effort for understanding outer space. Of course, this is a very expensive field, and only few developed country has actually invest in it, but as long as, so much money are spend on unnecessary and harmful things like wars, it could be possible to invest more on it. As a result, our knowledge about Universe seemed trivial by comparison, and even so our little discovers had bring us many benefits. For example the researchers could predict if any asteroid would collide with the earth.

Secondly, the most important disapproving argument is that we don’t have the technology to travel through Universe on very long distance. However it is important to say that space exploration it’s not reduced to send people in space. Actually many of the discovers are made here on  Earth. For example, in present day scientists try to obtain antimatter through laboratory experiment. Although there are many voices who believe that those experiments could destroy the Earth itself, it has been scientific proved that this could bring us huge benefits.

In conclusion, researching in any field, especially in this new one,  is not at all a waste of time or money. Knowledge of the universe should bring us incommensurable advantages, and in consequence we should invest much more on it. 

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Essay 4

As computers are being used more and more in education, there will be soon no role for the teachers in the classroom.

It is very clear that modern world depend on computers, but it will take a long time until a human teacher could be replaced by a machine. Of course this doesn’t mean that computer’s presences in learning process is not important or not helpful, but a “human touch” it will always be necessary in education.

To begin with, people are not the same, everybody have his own rhythm on understanding and learning, and from this point of view a computer cannot answer to student’s needs. A non human tutor it is incapable to notice that a child is bored by the lesson or when he only memorize but not understand it. On the other hand, teachers would permanently adapt their methods, and will know how to motivate, attract and arouse children’s desire for knowledge.  

Moreover, under the guise of affordable education many people praise the idea of virtual teacher but they forgot about the downside of this matter. Many of those courses (mail or online) doesn’t require to be in a classroom and this can remove the chance of learner to socialize, and interact with the others. Often they are not prepared for world challenges.

To summarize, I believe, with today technology, it is impossible to imagine that computers could take full responsibility of teaching a human at any level. Although a computer could do many things like analyze an essay from the point of view of spelling, it will never be able to “understand” the esthetic part of an essay, and, as long as we don’t create an Artificial Intelligence with “feelings” we cannot talk about replacing teachers with computers.

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Essay 3

Popular events like football world cup and other international sporting occasions are essential in easing international tensions and releasing patriotic emotions in a safe way. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

                From ancient time, sport competitions have been considered as the best way to prove supremacy of any kind. And when the players of those contests are representing nations, it is understandable why people have a lot of emphasis on it. Therefore, it is normal that such international sport events, like world cup or Olympic Games, to have an emotional impact on the people.

                Of course it is true that world cup can nurture our patriotic emotions, and maybe release some of it, in a “safe way”, but I believe this is the only  good part of the story. For the teams who win and its supporters it’s simple, because they will fill “revenged” and satisfied, and their supremacy will be uncontestable. However, it is a different story if it is looked from the eyes of the losers. They could get frustrated and this will certainly born a negative fillings, and will probably raise their hate against the other teams. There are many examples of heavy fighting between supporters or even worst: peoples who turn against their own players.

                On the other hand there are many other international sporting competition who doesn’t let so many marks in the heart of the spectators such as Olympic Games. They can truly bring nation together, and make them better understand each other. From this point of view I believe it is possible to influence some of international tensions by moderating them.

                In other words, popular sporting events could have a natural minor good influence on latent hostility between nations, but it cannot be consider as an instrument of conciliation.  

P.S. This was a very hard topic for me, and I believe it still doesn't have a good coherency.