Essay 202 Topic 26 Should a new movie theater be built in your neighborhood?

It has been announced that a new movie theater may be built in my neighborhood. After pondering this plan from several aspects, I totally support this plan. The reasons are presented below.

There is no denying that a new movie theater gives me more options to see movies. I am a movie fan. Watching movies is one of my favorite hobbies. Movies cover stories happening among all kinds of people everywhere in the world. Movies offer great variety of contents to satisfy different needs and tastes. I can learn a lot about life while enjoying nice music and beautiful views. I at least go to theater once a week. So a new movie theater is a new choice for me. Since there is no good theater in my neighborhood, I have to drive to the nearby town to watch movies. A new movie theater will enhance the living conditions in my neighborhood. With the new built theater, I could enjoy my movies more conveniently.

Another reason why I support this plan is that a new movie theater is helpful to the local economy. For one thing, a new movie theater is supposed to pay taxes to the local government. The local government may use the money to improve the local economic climate. Besides, a new movie theater will attract more businessmen and investments.

Finally, a new movie theater can create more employment opportunities. A new movie theater and the following new enterprises need more employees. Most of the positions

can be obtained by the local people, which can directly enhance the living levels in my neighborhood.

Based on the above discussion, I support the plan to build a new movie theater in my neighborhood. I expect the day when I can enjoy more wonderful movies in my neighborhood.

Essay 203 Topic 26 Should a new movie theater be built in your neighborhood?

It has recently been announced that a new movie theatre may be built in my neighborhood. However, as far as I am concerned, I do not support this plan. The argument of my view goes as follows:

To begin with, people seldom go out to watch movie nowadays. With the development of science and technology, people have a lot of methods to enjoy themselves. They can watch TV at home, go to watch the soccer game, play basketball and so on. In my hometown, fewer and fewer choose to watch movie in a theater. They prefer to watch movie on TV at home, which is more comfortable.

In addition, I think there are enough theatres now. As I know, it is only fifteen minutes' walk between the two theaters in my community. As a result, it is obvious unnecessary to build the third one. If we do build another theatre, the average persons per theater will decrease, which makes every theater earns less money.

Last but not least, it is, to some degree, a waste of money. Nowadays, we must use money in quite a number of fields. For instance, there is only one primary school here. It takes some children half an hour to go to school from their home. If we can build another school instead of the theatre, students will spend less time on their way, which is safer because there are many buses and cars on the road.

In conclusion, it must be explained that these three reasons sometimes intertwine to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive than any one of them. Then any thinking person must agree that it is not necessary to build a movie theatre.

Essay 204 Topic 26 Should a new movie theater be built in your neighborhood?

If it was announced that a new movie theater may be built in my neighborhood, I would support the plan. Although, there, of course, would be some points to give consideration, there should be a lot of advantages for both adults and children, for reasons I state below.

Firstly, a suitable type of movie theater for my neighborhood should be discussed will. A 'movie theater' may be associated with a big cinema complex and thus, thought it destroys the scenery of the town or brings noisy young people. As my neighborhood is just an ordinary residential area, a huge cinema complex with a twenty-four-hour fast food shop will not suit there. However I still would not disagree with the idea of building

a movie theater because I do know a local movie theater perfectly matched its neighborhood, where I once lived.

The local movie theater's external appearance was in harmony with other buildings in the town. It had a cafe instead of a fast food shop and the number of seats were fewer but much more spacious than the ones of a cinema complex in a city. While I was living in the town, I often heard that people who have regular work said they had preferred the local theater rather than ones in a city. Those people would not like to hang out in a busy city in their free time but still wanted to have some fun. The local theater was giving nice and quiet mature pleasure for the residents.

The local movie theater was also ideal place to take very young children. Children sometimes become nervous in a city movie theater because of being in an unfamiliar place and a lot of high teenagers and couples. It is true that just being in a familiar area plays a great role in putting very young children at their ease. Taking very young children to a city movie theater may be too much trouble for their parents but if it is in their neighborhood, parents will feel easier to do so.

As I mentioned first, if a new movie theater was build in my neighborhood, there would have to be detailed discussion between the residents and the planner but I believe that the theater would benefit for the residents a lot.

Essay 205 Topic 26

If it was announced that a new movie theater may be built in my neighborhood, I would support the plan. Although, there, of course, would be some points to give consideration, there should be a lot of advantages for both adults and children, for reasons I state below. Firstly, a suitable type of movie theater for my neighborhood should be discussed will. A 'movie theater' may be associated with a big cinema complex and thus, thought it destroys the scenery of the town or brings noisy young people. As my neighborhood is just an ordinary residential area, a huge cinema complex with a twenty-four-hour fast food shop will not suit there. However I still would not disagree with the idea of building a movie theater because I do know a local movie theater perfectly matched its neighborhood, where I once lived. The local movie theater's external appearance was in harmony with other buildings in the town. It had a cafe instead of a fast food shop and the number of seats were fewer but much more spacious than the ones of a cinema complex in a city. While I was living in the town, I often heard that people who have regular work said they had proffered the local theater rather than ones in a city. Those people would not like to hang out in a busy city in their free time but still wanted to have some fun. The local theater was giving nice and quiet mature pleasure for the residents. The local movie theater was also ideal place to take very young children. Children sometimes become nervous in a city movie theater because of being in an unfamiliar place and a lot of high teenagers and couples. It is true that just being in a familiar area plays a great role in

putting very young children at their ease. Taking very young children to a city movie theater may be too much trouble for their parents but if it is in their neighborhood, parents will feel more easy to do so. As I mentioned first, if a new movie theater was build in my neighborhood, there would have to be detailed discussion between the residents and the planner but I believe that the theater would benefit for the residents a lot.

Essay 206 Topic 26

If it was announced that a new movie theater may be built in my neighborhood, I would support the plan. Although, there, of course, would be some points to give consideration, there should be a lot of advantages for both adults and children, for reasons I state below. Firstly, a suitable type of movie theater for my neighborhood should be discussed will. A 'movie theater' may be associated with a big cinema complex and thus, thought it destroys the scenery of the town or brings noisy young people. As my neighborhood is just an ordinary residential area, a huge cinema complex with a twenty-four-hour fast food shop will not suit there. However I still would not disagree with the idea of building a movie theater because I do know a local movie theater perfectly matched its neighborhood, where I once lived. The local movie theater's external appearance was in harmony with other buildings in the town. It had a cafe instead of a fast food shop and the number of seats were fewer but much more spacious than the ones of a cinema complex in a city. While I was living in the town, I often heard that people who have regular work said they had proffered the local theater rather than ones in a city. Those people would not like to hang out in a busy city in their free time but still wanted to have some fun. The local theater was giving nice and quiet mature pleasure for the residents. The local movie theater was also ideal place to take very young children. Children sometimes become nervous in a city movie theater because of being in an unfamiliar place and a lot of high teenagers and couples. It is true that just being in a familiar area plays a great role in putting very young children at their ease. Taking very young children to a city movie theater may be too much trouble for their parents but if it is in their neighborhood, parents will feel more easy to do so. As I mentioned first, if a new movie theater was build in my neighborhood, there would have to be detailed discussion between the residents and the planner but I believe that the theater would benefit for the residents a lot.

Essay 207 Topic 27 Should people do things that they do not like?

In my primary schooling, my teacher always taught us to be honest, partially ourselves. However, our lives are full of regretting and compromising, we often need to do something that we do not enjoy.

Many people think that we should be true to ourselves, so that we should choose what we enjoy most, regardless of what other people think. For example, if we do not want to study anymore, just give up and try to do what we really want to such as being an artist or a dance. It is meaningless for us to continue studying if we have no talents and no interest

in it.

Somebody consider health as an excuse for not doing anything that they do not enjoy. For a person who wants to be a teacher or an accountant this occupation may not he likes because of some reasons. Every day he needs to face the numbers and calculators. He is under stress because he does not enjoy what he is doing. Few years later, maybe he will get some serious diseases or even so mad. Therefore, doing things that we do not want be very dangerous.

However, although most of us do not enjoy studying we know that we can gain from that. The most obvious is that we can obtain a high education level and have a better career prospect. Maybe many people oppose this view especially during the economic downturn, but they should realize that there are some potential benefits that we have forgotten for a long time. That is through studying, your knowledge can be strengthened. Besides, we will think that our knowledge is not enough when we have the chance to make use of it.

In spite of the importance of health, self-discipline is very essential and so we cannot do whatever we want to. Otherwise, marriage between relatives, cloning of my murders, burglaries... all the bad things you can think of may happen from time to tome. All these are immoral and many other people will be effectual if you do them.

Moreover, one's interest in one thing may not exist when he was born. Taking part in that activity, Yundi Li, a Chinese pianist, did not like playing piano when he was small, but now he is an excellent and well-known pianist in the world can develop interest. Primary school teachers teach us to be honest; it is true to look into a thing on different aspects. We will try to love what we are doing if we try to find out the lovely things of it.

To conclude with, everyone wants to do what he or she enjoys most, but because of the above reasons, we should learn how to live in the real lives in a happier way.

Essay 208 Topic 27 Should people do things that they do not like?

Human by nature is very selfish. Before doing anything he asks himself what am I going to get out of it. However, beneath this hard core which is very pragmatic, there is a soft corner full of feeling and emotions which laughs and cries with others. Therefore, sometimes people do things which they really do not enjoy but I assume it is only preferable to do it occasionally.

Everyone in this world try to work hard to earn his bread and butter for himself and his family. Moreover, in this world of modernization they have very less time to think of others but sometimes doing things for others gives so much satisfaction that you feel your life to be worth living. A very small example is to help a needy and hungry person when you find him in your way. Also giving donations in charities or in orphanages means directly helping those who has lost the sight out of their life.

However, working for others sake gives satisfaction and happiness but one should always beware of offenders and sycophants. They might take undue advantage of your innocence and of helping nature. For e. g in profession these sycophants make their ways to get their work done either by hook or by crook.

In sum up, apart from doing things for ourselves, one should occasionally do things for others sake because it give satisfaction and happiness. On the other hand, one should also keep an eye on people who are in hope to take advantage of their helping nature.

Essay 209 Topic 27 Should people do things that they do not like?

There is no denying that every person tends to do things that he or she enjoys doing, because they could obtain happiness, relaxation, and satisfaction. On the other hand, when we retrospect the process of growing up, nobody could doubt that under some circumstance, we must do something that we dislike. For my part, to a large extend, trying to do something which we are not interested in is necessary and beneficial for us. Among countless reasons which can be identified as contributing to my point, some major ones are listed as follows:

First and foremost, many things that people dislike can help persons to broad the horizon and get access to some unfamiliar things and fields. For instance, we usually do not prefer to communicate with other persons whose views contradict our own, which are easier cause stress and enmity. However, every person has his or her merits and disadvantages. Discussing with different kinds of people, we could acknowledge the new ways that other people apply to and understand comprehensively the views which we share. Sometimes, just these dissenters assist us to avoid some serious mistakes. Furthermore, in the process we are easier to touch new fields of knowledge and arouse our interests and innovation, which are essential for us in the ever-changing society.

In addition, facing the controversy between the interests of the whole communities and individual, every qualified citizen is responsible to sacrifice interests of our own, even though which may be act against our views. Only in this way, could human being eliminate some serious problems, such as pollution, crime, and so on, which can contribute to lead and create prosperity of the whole society.

Admittedly, certain things which people usually are interested in are not beneficial to us. A case in point is some bad habits of people, such as smoking, laziness and the like. Furthermore, common experiences inform us that some enjoyable things may not be

concrete and fixed conceptions. Ages and more experience can exert crucial influence on our interests.

All in all, making some reasonable attempts and struggling more challenges can benefit both individual and society. In the ever-increasing world, people should do things that they are like and adapt well to new environment and society.

Essay 210 Topic 27 Doing things we do not like

Currently, some people hold the opinion that people should sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing. In my opinion, this statement is true. Generally, people tend to do things they enjoy doing. As a child, most people spend all their time playing things they enjoy. Boys go climbing, play fight games, and play football; girls play with their Barbie dolls or enjoy wearing their beautiful clothes. No parents would force the kids to do things they do not like, because there is no need to do so. However, the children may the only exception who do nothing they do not like. Virtually, even the children, as they grow up, will be required to go to school. In children's eyes, this is obviously not a job as interesting as playing all day, so most of them do not like going to school at the very beginning. But their parents will force them to do so, because attending school is the formal way one get systematic education and prepare himself well for future career. Since no one can spend all his whole lifetime in just playing, all of us should do something we do not enjoy doing, such as attending school. When one becomes an adult, he will find that there are more and more things he has to do, even if he does not enjoy. Being an grownup, one has responsibility to his family as well as the country. For example, one will have to get up early every day to go to his office, where there will be a lot of things waiting for his care. Or he may have to deal with some affairs between his colleagues. Even if one is doing a job he likes, he may be frustrated by the boring trifles in his job. And in order to do his job well, one has no choice but to bear and try to handle such kind of trifles. It seems disappointing that one should sometimes do things they do not like. However, this does not mean that we can only bear things. On the contrary, we should always make ourselves ready to do things we enjoy doing, although this may mean that we will have to do something we do not enjoy doing. In sum, people should sometimes do things we do not enjoy doing. But keep it in mind that all this is to guarantee that we can do things we enjoy better.

Essay 211 Topic 27 27 Do you agree or disagree w

Should people sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing? I personally think that this has its good side. Sometimes people totally underestimate or even make fun of other people and what they are doing at work or during their free time. Recently I had to be a clerk at my unit instead of my regular job as a nurse. I was not very happy that I had to do something I never imagined of doing. I had a very hard time and did not nearly accomplish as much work as our clerks do. At the end of the day I recognized that being a clerk can be as challenging as my regular job. Another example is the garbage man. Everybody belittles this job and makes fun of it. I am sure if everybody would have to

empty trash bins for only half a day that would make all the difference in belittling garbage people. If a man tells that he likes to dance and do ballet as hobby, many people laugh at him but do they know that this is very hard work and needs a lot of concentration and endurance? No, they have never tried it. They do not think they would enjoy it probably because they do not want to be the ones who are being laughed at for doing something different. I totally agree with the statement that people should sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing. It opens their mind and it gives them a different view and thinking about certain things. Maybe our world would be a little different if people more often would do things that they do not like!

Essay 212 Topic 28 Has the media paid too much attention to celebrities?

It is a popular argument that Television, newspapers, magazines, and other media pay too much attention to the personal lives of famous people. Personally, I totally disagree with this statement. The medias just offer the good connection between mass and the famous people.

The main reason for my propensity is that the medias meet what the mass need. Since A famous people always have some good characteristics, his thought and behavior have great positive influences on the mass. People worshiping him intend to imitate him. . They want to know how the famous people do when he encounter a difficulty in his life, and get his thought from his behavior. Then it is necessary for the medias to pay attention to the personal lives of famous people.

Another reason why I disagree with this statement is that the famous need the media to pay attention to them. A famous person always needs to attract the notice of the mass. For example, a famous person always tell some little stories about his life, his childhood. Obviously they are really some interesting things for him, But it is most important that they want people to know what kind of person he is.

Though medias build a bridge between famous people and the mass by paying attention to the personal lives of famous people, it is undeniable that they bring the negative influence. They make it hard for famous people to enjoy their private life, and bring them more pressure. Sometimes the stories told by the medias are even boring. But I think by using the correct methods these aspects can be improved.

From all we have discussed above, medias help the mass know more about famous people. So it is necessary that television, newspapers, magazines, and other media pay attention to the personal lives of famous people.

Essay 213 Topic 28 Has the media paid too much attention to celebrities?

Nowadays, there are many kinds of media, such as Television, newspapers, magazines. All of them include various information. Among them the personal lives of famous people are almost the highlights. Do we need so much attention on those pubic figures

and celebrities? I do not think it should be so for a number of reasons.

Firstly, I do not believe their personal lives deserve so much of our attention. We have our lives which need us to be more devoted. Students should pay more attention on their study; adults should concentrated more on their work ;all the family members should care for each other. So I do not think knowing clearly the personal lives of the public figures may help us with our own lives in the aspects above mentioned.

Secondly, keeping eyes on public figures is also an interference to them. Living under the attention of the society members may cause many conveniences for the pubic figures. Because they cannot have their privacy which damage their lives and it is also unfair for them. They have no freedom to shopping, walking, meeting friends in public as what we usually do at leisure time and surely this circumscribes their private space.

Thirdly, the media are enthusiastic about the celebrities' private lives and this can lead to a kind of social disease. All the media fall into a crazy status to get the information with all means they could conceive which in some situations, may cause tragedy and the princess of Diana is just the example.

Through above arguments, I think you may agree with the conclusion that the whole society, especially the various kinds of media should not pay much attention on the pubic figures. Because doing so is not only advantageous for the citizens, but also unfair for the celebrities.

Essay 214 Topic 28 Has the media paid too much attention to celebrities?

It is easy to recognize that among popular topics on televisions, in newspapers, magazines and other media is detailed information of famous people's personal lives. In my opinion, the media nowadays are paying too much attention to such kinds of thing. There are numerous reasons for viewpoint and I would like to address hereinafter some main ones.

First of all, personal lives of famous people are becoming attractive and popular in the media such as television, newspaper and magazines. It is very commonplace when you turn on the television and catch the news updating you with detailed information of private lives of a famous pop star, an outstanding politician or a prestige king. For example, when there is a rumor that David Beckham may divorce from his wife, televisions and newspapers have provided series of prediction about their problems. Finally this couple had to announce officially that their marriage was still happy as ever.

Last but not the least, the media is now becoming commercialized. In order to attract a large number of viewers, it is ready to please their taste. Understanding clearly about the curiosity of the public towards the private matters of famous persons, they have produced programs which concentrate on such topic as the family relationships, personal behaviors of outstanding singers, actors, politicians, etc. For example, they tried to photographs

Michael Jackson when he was having a vacation with his girlfriend then publicize them on the newspaper.

From the discussion above, it is easy to recognize that the media is now paying too much attention to the personal lives of famous persons since their private matters attract public's attention and the media now is becoming commercialized.

Essay 215 Topic 28 Has the media paid too much attention to celebrities?

The personal lives of famous people known also as celebrities, have always been the most alluring part for the media. Regular people are always eager to know some interesting information about their favorite celebrities, especially about their personal lives. The media is a very efficient resource of gathering the juiciest facts about personal lives of our beloved celebrities.

I totally agree that the media pays too much attention to the personal lives of famous people in order to get as much information as possible. I think, all people, including celebrities, have a right to live a normal life.

Unfortunately, celebrities are the victims of their own popularity. Once, they have been noticed by famous newspapers, magazines, and so on, celebrities would be in the center of the people's attention. For example, gaining the popularity, a new TV-show, called "Celebrities Uncensored", could show regular tv-watchers the most intriguing facts about personal lives of celebrities. Everyone could see his favorite celebrity in the most private moments and then running from numerous paparazzi. In my opinion, TV and radio medias could provide for once unknown persons an immediate fame, but after a certain amount of time, being already celebrities, it would become very annoying for them. Their personal lives could be destroyed by the constant appearance of paparazzi from nowhere.

Everyone has his own right for life privacy. Celebrities should also have this right. Even though some very wealthy celebrities try to "defend" themselves from annoying visiting of media agents by living a secret and very private life, the media would never leave them, because the more secret is the celebrities' life, the more eager are people to know about it. But on the other hand, if celebrities were out of the media's sights for a long time, regular people would probably forget about them.

Essay 216 Topic 28 Has the media paid too much attention to celebrities?

Some people think that television, newspapers, magazines, and other media pay too much attention to the personal lives of famous people such as public figures and celebrities. I share the common view with them. I can pick out examples that verify my idea here and there and I would explore a few of them in the following paragraphs.

First, I think most of us have read such news as one film star divorces with his wife, one singer has fall in love with another and so on from newspapers or magazines. Famous people have no secrets for them because I hear reporters track them day and night to seek news about them. Often, these kinds of news take up too much space in the magazines or in the newspapers. Sometimes, I could not bear it.

As the network connected to everywhere, the articles about personal lives of famous people are online too. They are always on top of one page to attract people's attention. And we can find a link after one about the topic. The contents of them include such topics as one sports star is going to marry a rich merchant, a famous singer's father is a thief and so on. This type of news is too personal and we could find a great variety of news about each of the famous public figures on the net. At the meantime, some real news is on the corner or in the margins and is paid less attention.

Television is also a main source of the news about famous figures' personal lives. The compares always take great efforts to collect that news and tell all the audience what they have got. Thus, we could see nearly every aspects of a famous person from TV.

From above examples, we may reach the conclusion that television, newspapers, magazines, and other media pay too much attention to the personal lives of famous people.

Essay 217 Topic 28

Though we know about famous people's lives through television, newspaper, magazines, and other media for our interests, what would the famous people feel about it? I believe that the media have a responsibility to present a balanced view of the world, as well as respect the lives of public figures. Therefore, I agree with that the media pay too much attention to the personal lives of famous people. For people who like to have a hand in the lives of public figures there are some forms of media devoted exclusively to this topic. They can satisfy their curiosity by buying fan magazines and watching TV shows devoted to entertainment news. However, the media should respect the privacy of every individual, including public figures; otherwise the individuals would be harmed by the media, for instance, John Lennon and Princess Diana, were hounded out of the country and met violent deaths abroad. Thus, they may have chosen to be in the public eye, but that does not give the public the right to know everything about them. Moreover, many stories about celebrities are untrue therefore those are unfair to the famous and mislead the public. Fame does not trump privacy completely. Yes, however, imply many in the media, who cite a public "right to know" or, less grandly, claim that, having invited publicity to achieve fame, the famous trade privacy for fame's benefits. A more nuance discussion is surely required. A first step would be for the media to consider and articulate more precisely the justifications for intruding into the privacy of certain famous people at particular times for specified reasons. I think there are at least five types of fame, and in particular circumstances you may get varying responses to the question: "Does the public interest in disclosure outweigh the privacy interest of the people

involved?" First, fame by election or appointment is acquired by politicians, judges and others in public office that trade privacy for power. In a democratic system, accountability justifies some privacy loss. Second, fame by achievement comes to film stars, musicians, TV presenters, sporting heroes and prominent businesspeople. Many invite publicity, earn money in exchange for privacy, and then use wealth to some extent to protect their privacy. A variant is the infamy acquired by wrongdoers because of the seriousness of their acts. They do not trade privacy; they forfeit it. Third, fame by chance happens to previously anonymous people randomly caught in tragedy, disaster or, less often, good fortune. Australian examples include Lindy Chamberlain, Stuart Diver and contestants chosen for Big Brother. Many victims of misfortune do not trade their privacy, but rather have it taken from them, at least initially. Journalists wielding cheque books may follow, and the trading begins. Fourth, fame by association is enjoyed /endured by those close to the famous, such as a politician's spouse, a sports champion's children or the parents of a criminal. It is reflected fame, but not always glory. Privacy may be traded, for example, by James Hewitt, former lover of Princess Diana, or it may be breached justifiably because of the kind of fame with which the person is associated, for example, disclosure of particular share dealings of the spouse of a political leader. Finally, royal fame is a category on its own. It is much more difficult to decide where to separate the public from the private in the lives of those who are born into, or marry into, the royal family. This is because the royals exist to be in the media. For all those in other categories of fame, what makes them famous is one aspect of their lives - they sing popular songs, they act in heavily promoted movies, they play tennis better than anyone else in the world, they run the government, their baby has disappeared, they won Tattslotto. For all these people we can fairly readily draw a "private zone" for, say, their sexual practices, parenting style or health problems. Consciously applying these categories of fame to particular circumstances is not the only path to greater precision by journalists in their balancing of privacy with disclosure. But the categories help to show that fame need not mean the same degree of privacy loss for all.

Essay 218 Topic 28

Though we know about famous people's lives through television, newspaper, magazines, and other media for our interests, what would the famous people feel about it? I believe that the media have a responsibility to present a balanced view of the world, as well as respect the lives of public figures. Therefore, I agree with that the media pay too much attention to the personal lives of famous people. For people who like to have a hand in the lives of public figures there are some forms of media devoted exclusively to this topic. They can satisfy their curiosity by buying fan magazines and watching TV shows devoted to entertainment news. However, the media should respect the privacy of every individual, including public figures; otherwise the individuals would be harmed by the media, for instance, John Lennon and Princess Diana, were hounded out of the country and met violent deaths abroad. Thus, they may have chosen to be in the public eye, but that does not give the public the right to know everything about them. Moreover, many stories about celebrities are untrue therefore those are unfair to the famous and mislead the public. Fame does not trump privacy completely. Yes, however, imply many in the

media, who cite a public "right to know" or, less grandly, claim that, having invited publicity to achieve fame, the famous trade privacy for fame's benefits. A more nuance discussion is surely required. A first step would be for the media to consider and articulate more precisely the justifications for intruding into the privacy of certain famous people at particular times for specified reasons. I think there are at least five types of fame, and in particular circumstances you may get varying responses to the question: "Does the public interest in disclosure outweigh the privacy interest of the people involved?" First, fame by election or appointment is acquired by politicians, judges and others in public office that trade privacy for power. In a democratic system, accountability justifies some privacy loss. Second, fame by achievement comes to film stars, musicians, TV presenters, sporting heroes and prominent businesspeople. Many invite publicity, earn money in exchange for privacy, and then use wealth to some extent to protect their privacy. A variant is the infamy acquired by wrongdoers because of the seriousness of their acts. They do not trade privacy; they forfeit it. Third, fame by chance happens to previously anonymous people randomly caught in tragedy, disaster or, less often, good fortune. Australian examples include Lindy Chamberlain, Stuart Diver and contestants chosen for Big Brother. Many victims of misfortune do not trade their privacy, but rather have it taken from them, at least initially. Journalists wielding cheque books may follow, and the trading begins. Fourth, fame by association is enjoyed /endured by those close to the famous, such as a politician's spouse, a sports champion's children or the parents of a criminal. It is reflected fame, but not always glory. Privacy may be traded, for example, by James Hewitt, former lover of Princess Diana, or it may be breached justifiably because of the kind of fame with which the person is associated, for example, disclosure of particular share dealings of the spouse of a political leader. Finally, royal fame is a category on its own. It is much more difficult to decide where to separate the public from the private in the lives of those who are born into, or marry into, the royal family. This is because the royals exist to be in the media. For all those in other categories of fame, what makes them famous is one aspect of their lives - they sing popular songs, they act in heavily promoted movies, they play tennis better than anyone else in the world, they run the government, their baby has disappeared, they won Tattslotto. For all these people we can fairly readily draw a "private zone" for, say, their sexual practices, parenting style or health problems. Consciously applying these categories of fame to particular circumstances is not the only path to greater precision by journalists in their balancing of privacy with disclosure. But the categories help to show that fame need not mean the same degree of privacy loss for all.

Essay 219 Topic 29 Does human harmed the Earth or make it a better place to live?

People have been living on the Earth for thousands of years. Human activity influences the Earth. Some people believe that the Earth is being harmed by human activity. Others feel that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live. In my opinion, the earth is being damaged by human activity. There are many statements supporting my opinion.

Human activity has damaged natural environment and almost exhausted natural resources. Modern industries need more and more resources, including minerals, fuels

and water. So we are facing the serious problems such as the lack of fuels and water. Ecological balance is being damaged because factories occupy many places where animals and plants live. More and more buildings are constructed and forests are becoming less and less. If we cannot recognize these problems and solve them soon, we would finally lose the environment suitable for us to live in.

Another serious problem is "the greenhouse effect." Human activities decrease forests and increase the usage of fuels so that carbon dioxide is being output more and more and there are not enough plants to absorb it. The greenhouse effect is more obvious in recent years. Due to the effect, icebergs in the South and North Pole is melting and the ocean level becomes higher than before. I am worried about the cities nearby the oceans and hope scientists can find an effective method to eliminate the greenhouse effect.

Although we have advanced machines and our life seems to be more comfortable than before, we have less chances to approach the nature and limited space to live in. The cities are becoming bigger and bigger. If we want to have a picnic with our friends, we have to drive a long distance to find an open space. In fact, the skyscrapers and factories are damaging the spaces for human activities.

From the above statements, we can conclude that human activities bring the Earth many damages. Fortunately people have recognized the problem and I believe that the Earth will become a better place to live with our ceaseless efforts to protect the environment.

Essay 220 Topic 29 Does human harmed the Earth or make it a better place to live?

When it comes to the issue of the relationship between human beings and the Earth, some people suggest that the Earth is being impaired by humans, while others maintain that men have made the Earth to be a better place to live. As far as I am concerned, the latter point of view carries more weight.

In the first place, in the modern society, we usually do not have to worry about how to survive, or in other words, to continue our lives. However, in ancient times when there was virtually no man- made equipment, life was much harder than what it is now. If creatures in the world did not know how to build houses, or did not know how to obtain fire, it would be very hard to survive in the arduous environment. With the inventions of men, we can now have lives of much high quality. For instance, most people are not able to acquire enough food to survive, but also can have almost any food they want at different times of year because of man-made greenhouses and refrigerators. In short, human creations have provided plentiful recourses for living things so that we now can live much better.

In the second place, creations of men enable people to go to most places in the world, thus making peoples' lives much more interesting. A case in point is that, with the inventing of automobiles and airplanes, people now travel to most places to experience more things in their lives, although it was substantially impossible for anyone to travel

this long distance before the advent of these inventions. Because of a variety of inventions by humans, the Earth is becoming a more and more interesting place to live because we can go a lot of places in a much shorter time.

In the third place, although human activity may have caused some problems for the Earth, the environmental problem, for example, but humans are trying to looking for effective solutions to these problems.

In conclusion, although human activity may have some drawbacks, its advantages far outweigh its disadvantages, because human technology allows us to acquire many things we want, and our lives is of more and more interest and convenience with the use human technology.

Essay 221 Topic 29 Does human harmed the Earth or make it a better place to live?

Some people believe that the Earth is being harmed by human activity. Others feel that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live. Which ones are right? After pondering it from several aspects, personally, I totally agree that the Earth is being harmed by human activity.

From wood to iron, from coal to petroleum, human need more and more resource to support their development. Our planet gives us everything we need, but natural resource is not endless. People deforest grown trees without planting young trees. Soon more and more forests are deforested and gradually turn into desert.

The population increases quickly. There are more people than ever, living longer than ever. For example, today there are over ten million people in a big city. What a tremendous number! To feed millions of people, more fields are needed. To hold the growing population, cities extend a lot. Large population makes the Earth overburden.

Human activity also produces a lot of pollution. Factories dump waste to into water. Also more and more exhaust air is given out. White pollution can be found everywhere. Noise can be heard here and there. What a bad condition! All of these must harm the Earth.

From all we discussed above, we can see that human activity really harm the Earth. We must take action to heal the Earth, for our home, for you and me.

Essay 222 Topic 29 Does human harmed the Earth or make it a better place to live?

I believe that the earth is being harmed by human activity even though we live more convenient than before. For centuries, people keeping on changing their natural environment to have better life. However, all these make great damages to the Earth.

The most obvious damage is the decreasing of the forests. In china, many areas in mountains and are used for farming lands. Lots of trees are cut down for building. The

result is deserts occupy more place in north, while there are more floods in south in summer. The second damage is the pollution. Specifically in large cities, factories and automobiles make air full of dust and mist. Even in midnight I can hear the noise of car running on the way. I remember when I was a little girl the river is so clear that we children often jumped into it after class. But now it is so dirty that nobody wants to touch it. We often miss the blue sky, beautiful river, flourish trees and flowers. How pity it is if we can only find them in dreams.

Some might argue people have made great progresses in the modern society. One can travel the entire world in several days by taking airplane. Mother can hear her son's voice by telephone and fell free about his health who worked faraway. Yet, natural, the most beautiful and magical thing in the world, is damaged as a cost of all the modern technologies.

In sum, I concur that we should cherish our environments. Changing our life is important, but be care for mountains, lakes, forests where we live with everyday.

Essay 223 Topic 29 Does human harmed the Earth or make it a better place to live?

I think that people have not been thinking about saving the world they live in and have been damaging it for a very long period of time. And now many international organizations are doing their best to heal the 'wounds' of the Earth.

Since scientists discovered that there is a hole in the Earth's ozone layer we have been trying to find out which of people's activities harm world and whether it can be undone. Since this terrifying discovery new ozone friendly deodorants have been invented. They are becoming more and more popular every day because people do care about the destiny of Earth and they do not want to be "baked" by the solar energy.

Another problem that we have caused to the world is cutting of forests. Every little child studies at school that forests are the lungs of our planet and we are taught that it is very good if in our life we plant at least one tree. Many hectares of forests are being cut just because a fat businessman has decided to build there either a supermarket with parking lot, or a highway.

Next comes the problem with the nuclear energy. Are these nuclear power stations as important as it is stated? Is there a completely safe nuclear fusion used in these power-plants? No, there is not. Many people still remember the tragedy on 26 April 1986 called Chernobyl. And nobody wants it to happen again.

If my statement that people harm the Earth is not true how can we explain that new things are being invented just to stop or slow down the Earth's destruction?

Essay 224 Topic 29 Does human harmed the Earth or make it a better place to live?

When it comes to the issue whether the Earth is being harmed by human, different people hold different point of views due to their past experiences. If I were faced with this issue, I would probably say that human activities have harmed the earth. In the following discussion, I would like to present few of the important reasons to support my view point.

The most important reason is that human has polluted the Earth since the industrial revolution. For example, we produce millions of cars each year in the past century just to grant the demand for consumers. Every family in North America has at least one car and some of big families even have four or five cars. The carbon dioxide produced by all these cars every year is one of the main sources of air pollution. In some big cities, the color of the sky has turned from blue to gray. Oil leakages from the ships during transportation pollute the ocean and kill animals living in it. Factories release untreated toxic water into the environment, which kill wildlife. Do not you think the examples quoted above are very persuasive?

Over exploring resources on the Earth harms the Earth is another head and chief reason that I have chosen to put here. As we all know that many resources provided by the earth such as coal, oil, and other mines are finite. If we use them wisely, it can support human for an unlimited period of time. But according to a recent report, we can only use them for another 50 years with the current rate of exploring. We are taking them out of the underground way faster than we should. We are damaging the Earth by attacking its natural resources. If you can understand this, you can understand my viewpoint more deeply.

However, some human activities have tried to make the earth a better place. For example, we have planted trees in the city to help carbon dioxide absorption; we have created programs to save endangered animals. Nevertheless, we take more from the Earth than we give to the Earth, so the most striking conclusion is obvious.

To sum up, given all the reasons discussed above, we can safely reach the conclusion that human activities have harmed the Earth. In fact, not only I think this is true, if you have known more about our current horrible environment, you would agree with me as well.

Essay 225 Topic 29 Does human harmed the Earth or make it a better place to live?

Nowadays our Earth faces a number of serious problems, such as the environment pollution, the increasing population, the fatal effects of nuclear weapons, and so on. So some people believe that the Earth is being harmed by human activity. But as far as I am concerned that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live and also makes some negative effects in this process. My arguments for this point are listed as follows.

Even though we face so many crises, no one can deny that Earth is more suitable for human habitation. That is the result of the efforts of generations of people. If without that, we might also live in caves and eat the crude food just like wild animals. If that is true, we must have no time and energy to think over the problems of the Earth because we

have to look for food and avoid becoming the food of other animals. At that state, whether the Earth were harmed is not important for human because some certain crisis can annihilate the total population, such as some infectious disease or the a change of climates.

It is inevitable to produce some positive aspect functions when human are struggle to improve the survive abilities and from the experiences of history we also have make great effort to resolve this kinds of problems. For example, most of people hope to limit the scope of nuclear weapons and the protection of environment is accepted by almost every one. Most of problems are controlled by ourselves and some of them have the hope to be resolved in years. We are finding the balance between the development and the protection of our Earth. So it is unnecessary to deny the advancement of human.

For the reasons presented above, we admit that there are some problems in the process of the human development, but those problems are resolving and as a whole we make the Earth a better place to live. Human evolved in the mode of continuing to correct their mistakes and making a better progress.

Essay 226 Topic 29 Does human harmed the Earth or make it a better place to live?

No one can deny the fact that the earth is being impacted by human activity more and more, as the development of science and technology. There are two views to the impaction. Some people believe that the earth is being harmed by human activity, and others feel that human activity makes the earth a better place to live. When it comes to me, it seems that we cannot tell which one is more reasonable without some close investigation, because they can be concluded from different reasons and examples. Afterward, I will explain my opinion about it.

Everyone know that as the development as the progression of the human civilization, the earth is becoming a garbage bin with all of the waste being produced, a desert with more and more forest being destroyed and a tomb with so many spices of animals being killed out. Only one of these three tragedies is enough to support the argument that the earth is being damaged by human activity. But let us get down to fundamentals and agree that everyone who supports this view is not unarmed in the wild with the fear of being preyed by beasts, and is not naked in the blizzard. They are after all enjoying the modern civilization.

So, on the other hand, human activity indeed makes the earth a better place to live, if I can say so. For example, we construct houses to live in, make food to feed ourselves, make clothes to keep warm and so on. If it were not for human activity, few of us can live on the original earth.

If all of those reasons are contemplated, I will accept both of the views organically. After all the human activity is the fundamental difference between the human beings and animals, and the human civilization will never progress without it. But if out activity does

not stand to the order of the nature, we will sure do harm the earth.

Essay 227 Topic 29 Does human harmed the Earth or make it a better place to live?

Some people believe that the Earth is being harmed by human activity while others feel that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live. In my opinion, Earth is being harmed by human activity such as deforestation; harmful chemicals produced which damage the ozone layer and various types of pollution.

Deforestation is one of the main factors contributing to Earth's damage. People cut down trees, which results in lack of oxygen. In addition, it destroys the shelters of the animals that live in the trees. I saw a documentary on television once, which talked about how deforestation was destroying the beauty of our Earth and harming the poor animals for whom the trees are home. Deforestation not only reduces our oxygen but it also is the cause of animals becoming extinct.

The ozone layer is a very important part of the Earth because it prevents our Earth from the harmful rays of the sun. Due to the harmful chemicals produced by people, an hole has been found in our ozone layer. Consequently this hole has led to cancer becoming common among people because of the harmful rays. These harmful chemicals referred to as CFCs are causing destruction to our Earth. Air sprays, body sprays, whiteners and many others contain CFCs, which are a big problem for our Earth. If people do not control these harmful chemicals, our Earth will be totally destroyed.

Pollution has always caused damage to our Earth. Air pollution, water pollution and many others have harmed our Earth. The fumes from the transportations fall as acid rain later destroying the beauty of our Earth. The waste thrown in the oceans kills the marine life. Pollution is one of the main factors, which destructs our Earth everyday.

Our Earth is becoming a catastrophe because of the way humans have been treating it. Dangerous chemicals, cutting down trees and pollution is finishing the Earth day by day. If this continues, then there will be no place for any of us to live and enjoy life.

Essay 228 Topic 29

When it comes to the issue whether the Earth is being harmed by human, different people hold different point of views due to their past experiences. If I were faced with this issue, I would probably say that human activities have harmed the earth. In the following discussion, I would like to present few of the important reasons to support my view point. The most important reason is that human has polluted the Earth since the industrial revolution. For example, we produce millions of cars each year in the past century just to grant the demand for consumers. Every family in North America has at least one car and some of big families even have four or five cars. The carbon dioxide produced by all

these cars every year is one of the main sources of air pollution. In some big cities, the colour of the sky has turned from blue to gray. Oil leakages from the ships during transportation pollute the ocean and kill animals living in it. Factories release untreated toxic water into the environment, which kill wildlife. Don't you think the examples quoted above are very persuasive? Over exploring resources on the Earth harms the Earth is another important reason that I have chosen to put here. As we all know that many resources provided by the earth such as coal, oil, and other mines are finite. If we use them wisely, it can support human for an unlimited period of time. But according to a recent report, we can only use them for another 50 years with the current rate of exploring. We are taking them out of the underground way faster than we should. We are damaging the Earth by attacking its natural resources. If you can understand this, you can understand my viewpoint more deeply. However, some human activities have tried to make the earth a better place. For example, we have planted trees in the city to help carbon dioxide absorption; we have created programs to save endangered animals. Nevertheless, we take more from the Earth than we give to the Earth, so the most striking conclusion is obvious. To sum up, given all the reasons discussed above, we can safely reach the conclusion that human activities have harmed the Earth. In fact, not only I think this is true, if you have known more about our current horrible environment, you would agree with me as well.

Essay 229 Topic 29

When it comes to the issue whether the Earth is being harmed by human, different people hold different point of views due to their past experiences. If I were faced with this issue, I would probably say that human activities have harmed the earth. In the following discussion, I would like to present few of the important reasons to support my view point. The most important reason is that human has polluted the Earth since the industrial revolution. For example, we produce millions of cars each year in the past century just to grant the demand for consumers. Every family in North America has at least one car and some of big families even have four or five cars. The carbon dioxide produced by all these cars every year is one of the main sources of air pollution. In some big cities, the colour of the sky has turned from blue to gray. Oil leakages from the ships during transportation pollute the ocean and kill animals living in it. Factories release untreated toxic water into the environment, which kill wildlife. Don't you think the examples quoted above are very persuasive? Over exploring resources on the Earth harms the Earth is another important reason that I have chosen to put here. As we all know that many resources provided by the earth such as coal, oil, and other mines are finite. If we use them wisely, it can support human for an unlimited period of time. But according to a recent report, we can only use them for another 50 years with the current rate of exploring. We are taking them out of the underground way faster than we should. We are damaging the Earth by attacking its natural resources. If you can understand this, you can understand my viewpoint more deeply. However, some human activities have tried to make the earth a better place. For example, we have planted trees in the city to help carbon dioxide absorption; we have created programs to save endangered animals. Nevertheless, we take more from the Earth than we give to the Earth, so the most striking

conclusion is obvious. To sum up, given all the reasons discussed above, we can safely reach the conclusion that human activities have harmed the Earth. In fact, not only I think this is true, if you have known more about our current horrible environment, you would agree with me as well.

Essay 230 Topic 29 human activity vs. environment

The problem of development versus environment has now been in the limelight. Nowhere is the clash more visible than in China, where the world's largest population faces pollution, deforestation and acid rain on a large scale. Under this circumstance, some people argue that the earth is being harmed by human activity whereas others still feel that human activity makes it a better place to live, however as far as I am concerned, they are not conflicting issues. How to define human activity? I deem this is the premise of judging the influence it bringing to the earth. Yet, human activity includes diverse aspects, good and bad, non can be negated. As a matter of fact, in order to possess more plow lands as well as more resources such as wood, petroleum, mine and natural gas, there has been a rapid destruction of the tropical rain forests, which are the ecosystems with the highest known species diversity on earth, what is more, as the human population continues to expand, it will negatively affect one after another of earth's ecosystems, and the result is irreversible. Now humans are beginning to destroy marine ecosystems through other types of activities, involving disposal and run off of poisonous waste. Not to mention the wars that exactly do no good to the earth. Can you imagine what terrifying result will it lead to if continuing such kind of human activities? In contrast, the list of favorable human activities also seems endless. The discovery of electricity is a good case in point. Without electricity we will have nothing to do except for sleeping during the night; without electricity the factory will not be able to produce enough things to satisfy the society; without electricity we even have no chance to take this TOEFL examination! Similarly, the finding of antibiotics did much to our world, as a result, saved many lives of not only human beings but plenty of animals as well. Can you deny these merits that human activities brought to? As I have noted, human activity has both advantages and disadvantages to the earth. It is correlated with what kind of activity it is. Accordingly, we cannot simply figure out human activity do good or harm to the earth.

Essay 231 Topic 30 Should a high school be built in your community?

I support the plan of building new high school in my community, as there are no high schools in my community and the nearest one is nearly three miles away from the community.

Students in my community have to travel lot of distance either by any available conveyance or independent transportation. As all of them cannot afford to have their own transport and the parents are also finding it difficult to drop their children daily at the school which is far away from their work places. As the high school is far away and many children have to take either auto rickshaws or buses, there is a traffic problem caused in the route during the school timings. There is also potential danger as the auto

rickshaws tend to transport more number of children than that can be carried by their autos hence there is a danger of accidents by these overcrowded autos.

Also the land which was allocated for high school is being encroached by private people. Our community which mostly consists of middle class people cannot afford to send their children in school buses and there is a lot of time being wasted for transportation to the school. Our community consists of other facilities like universities, hospitals, etc but lacks in a high school. It would also be comfortable for small children to go to the school if it is made in our community and the parents would not worry about dropping off their child at school.

Finally the high school which is going to be built in the community can also provide employment opportunities to the graduate people who are unemployed in the community and ready to take up the teaching profession. In sum I support that a new high school should be built in my community.

Essay 232 Topic 31 Do you prefer to stay in one place or move around?

When compared with spending one's life in one place, in my point of view, moving a number of times throughout the life, looking for a better job, house, community or even climate is a better life style, at least for my generation.

Of course, staying in one place can make you feel easy and do not need to experience a process of making one place from strange to familiar. But, on the other hand, it will, at the same time, make you feel bored with facing the same place, the same streets and the same people some day. Further more it will easily lead you to a bad mood which definitely affects your work efficiency.

Comparatively, moving a number of times throughout the life has many advantages. The first, and the most important, is it can enable one to get acclimated a new place quickly and easily, which, for me, is deeply felt. I still remember my first time away from home when I went for education in university. It was completely a new place for me. But after my hard work or reading campus guides and asking other students I finally made my way to the places I want to go. And, from then on, when I went somewhere I never felt worry.

The second is it can make your more friends, which means, in one's personality, it will make one experience more and know more about what others think, what should do and what should not, and so on.

Furthermore it will broaden one's eyesight. When every time moving to a different place you will see different sceneries, from architecture to living style.

From all above, moving from place to place to find new way of working is obviously better than staying in one place throughout the life.

Essay 233 Topic 31 Do you prefer to stay in one place or move around?

Which is the better way to experience my whole life, living the place where I born through my entire life, or moving several times to seek dream place I want to live? This put me in something of a dilemma situation. There are advantages and disadvantages on both sides. In my view, I would prefer to move to many places to spend my life because that enjoys several key advantages over only living in one place.

The most conspicuous reason why I make such choice is that I could contact with different people. With the globalization and the spread use of World Wide Web, people throughout the world communicate more frequently than ever before. I maybe work with various people from every corner of the world in the future. Through working in various towns, cities, even different countries, I could learn thoughts, customs, and values of from other groups, religions, or cultures. I would come to deeply understand them and cooperate well with different people.

Moreover, I can find better opportunity in my carrier if I do not only focus in one place. The quick shifting in the world make chances raise in many other parts of our country, even our planet. Maybe, I could find proper position in different places, giving me great progress in my life.

In addition, living in different places could let me fresh my ideas, throw out rigid motions, and create new methods to deal with problems I have faced.

Given the reason discussed above, which sometimes intertwine to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive, we may safely reach the conclusion that living different areas in the world could learn from other cultures and civilizations, seek better chances and brush up people's mind.

Essay 234 Topic 31 Do you prefer to stay in one place or move around?

"Two drifters/ off to see the world/ there are such a lovely world/ to see. " If you have heard the beautiful song of "Moon River", you must be quite familiar with the lyrics. I find theses song words have strong spirit resonance in my heart, and I would like to spend my entire life to become such kind of drifter.

Staying at one place, comparatively, is more safe and stable, as we see. But once you are used to seeing the same people at the same place for a long time, everyday life may seem a little bit routine to yourself. And the life itself no longer become to me as long as I feel that I cannot find any excitement in it.

Contrarily, moving from places to places, off to see the world, as another way of living, has far more fun than staying one place. For example, on your way of traveling, you will never know what you are going to see and do tomorrow, something really interesting seem are always available at handy, Is not that kind of exciting? Moreover, there are

plenty of new things that cannot be seen any other place in the world, you can take pictures of them, or keep them in your diary, when you grow old, all of these turn to be a very precious memory to yourself. Moreover, living in different places and communicating with different people have fascinating attraction to me. Learn several kinds of foreign languages, try various exotic foods, enjoy totally new life style, all of these has always be my dreams.

Furthermore, living place to place offer more challenges into your life, which in my point of view is a very cherished life experience. For instance, you can test your ability to fit yourself into a entirely new environment, to start from zero before you find what you have been doing become a boring and tiresome stuff to you. I am open to such challenges, thus the drifter's life suit me quite well.

From what I have state above, you may get a clue about how wonderful a drifter's life can be. I am looking forward making these true one day in my life. What about you? Do you want to try? Even once in a life time.

Essay 235 Topic 31 Do you prefer to stay in one place or move around?

My parents spend their entire life in Xi'an city, and do not want move to any other places. Although it already takes me twenty-seven years being with them, I still prefer and willing to live different cities or town in my life.

People love to move several times during their lives for many kinds of reasons. To me, the most common reasons are to get better job, to enjoy mild climates, to meet different people.

With rapid development of economy and technology in China, more and more large international companies and business prefer to settle in some big cities. These businesses not only can need a large work-force, but also offer considerable salary to employee, and provide better job positions as well. For example, if I move to Beijing or Shanghai, good background of working in a famous company of Xi'an and talent will make me quickly find a position in a more famous multinational.

Have you ever thought of living a seaside town? I have thought of it many times. As we know, the quality of air and water has become worse and worse by lot of factories, automobiles, and chemic plants in city. Smog and pollution encircle us. You would breath very fresh air, hear sea wind around you, and freely swim in sea if you move to a littoral place. This is very agreeable thing, is not?

Of course, wherever I live, there are many people of different races, religions, abilities, and interests I will meet. The information that I learn from them can enlarge my sight, increase my knowledge. What's more, by getting along with them, I learn how to deal with peer pressure, how to have self-respect.

All in all, based on above discussion, I prefer to move different places several times in my life. At the same time, I would recommend other people, especially young people not stay one place all the time. They should live in other places to know the world around them.

Essay 236 Topic 31 Do you prefer to stay in one place or move around?

Some people hold the opinion that living in one place is superior to moving in search another place. Others, however, contradict it. Personally, I would like to vote for moving to another place. There are no less than three advantages in it as rendered below:

First and foremost, moving to another place may contribute to one's development. People always choose a better place than their present ones to be their destination. That way, they can learn some new knowledge, communicate with new friends and find some more chances. Those who change their majors may learn even more. There will be a new world open to them. So, moving to another place is really good for us.

There is another factor that deserves some words here. Changing their characters or habits may be one of lots of reasons for some people's moving. For instance, if you do not like your present statue, you should try to move to a new place which you have not been to. Certainly, your mood and attitude will change with the new circumstance.

In addition, if you like to make friends, moving to a new place will be fit for you. When you come to a new place, you will communicate with some new friends, and you can help each other. So, changing a place will make you more sociable.

It is undeniable that staying in one place has its own merits. You can do your work step by step. You will spend lots of time with your ole friends, and you can feel comfortable in the place with which you are very familiar.

Nonetheless, I still prefer moving to another place constantly. Because I can make new friends, look for some chances and become more experienced. I love changes.

Essay 237 Topic 31 Do you prefer to stay in one place or move around?

I prefer moving in search of another place. Certainly, Staying in one place can have firmer life, because most of the events are in the control, and people can spend more time to resolve other accidents in the life. Although it is fairly persuasion, I still prefer moving in search of another place, as I like to face more different challenges, increase varied experiences and extend my view in my limited life by moving in search of another place.

I must face all of the challenges when I move to another place, and I can increase my experiences by the challenges. There is no tract for me to following, because every thing is unknown. When I resolved a new problem, it means that I get a new experience. Those challenges can keep me improvement.

I can extend my view by moving, because of new job, new neighbors or new friends. Different people have different backgrounds, and varied companies also have varied traditions. For example, some of the companies think that an employee should work overtime to show his honesty, but others consider that the employee must work hard enough, so he always work overtime. I can share their conceptions when I contact new one.

Because of facing challenges, increasing varied experiences and extended view can fill of my life substance, so I prefer moving in search of another place.

Essay 238 Topic 31 Do you prefer to stay in one place or move around?

Moving a number of times throughout their lives, looking for a better job, house, community, or even climate, are the right attitude to the life. I prefer this opinion.

For somebody who spends their entire lives in one place, they can only know the outside of hometown by television, newspaper and books. They may live with unhappy environments such as cold, sand storm and pollution. Only know somebody who is old classmate and have a few people can talk with. So, their knowledge is less than some body who like to move.

If you would like to move from one place to another you can find one that is your choice. you will happy with the climate and enjoy the fresh air and sun shine. It is easy to keep your body healthy. you will be feeling fresh and getting new friend with. you will get different new idea about the life. The new culture will give you more knowledge, more interesting. Furthermore, you can make more new friendship to help each other.

So I prefer to move and search another place rather than spend my entire lives in one place. One of the famous man said: the tree will be died after moved, but man alive.

Essay 239 Topic 31 Do you prefer to stay in one place or move around?

Some people spend their entire lives in one place. Others move a number of times throughout their lives, looking for a better job, house, community, or even climate. I prefer to move in search of the most places for my life rather than stay one place.

First, I like to find a better job in my life. People cannot find a perfect job in one place. We need to move several places for finding a better job. People like to say if they find perfect jobs for themselves; they succeed most of their lives.

Secondly, people need their perfect lovers. I always believe if I find my husband, I need to go another place to find him. Because in biology people are married in the same place, their offspring are not so smart as couples who are from different places. People from different places have more issues to talk. Maybe sometimes they love their lovers having differences.

Finally, people like to find a perfect climate for their health. In my childhood I always coughed in winter because I lived in a cold place. When I moved to a warmer place, I did not cough again. Some people like warm places, others like cold places because they like to see snow and to skate on the ice. I prefer living in a place, which have four seasons.

On the other hand, people living one place in their whole lives can save money. They do not need to spend much money on traveling to find a better place. Maybe some people cannot find a better place to live when they use their whole lives to find it, but I think they have a lot of experiments to tell their offspring. If we do not move from a place to another place, we will not know which place we can have a happiest life. I prefer to move for finding the best place where I can live most happily.

Essay 240 Topic 31 Benefits of Moving

Along with the rapid development of modern society, there is a growing tendency that people are concerned about what a better living style is? staying in a place for entire lifetime or moving to other places for opportunities and challenges? Personally, I support the latter pattern of life and the reasons will be followed. My first reason is that moving to a new place is always a challenging and exciting matter. You learn many knowledge and skills from adapting to the locality, for example, making new friends or looking for another job at a place no one is familiar with you. That could be frustrated or painful at the very beginning. However, after all, you will find you can always survive from it and all the new things around you seem so fresh and different. My second reason is that moving across the country or even around the world is a demand of modern life. Students go abroad for further study and academic research. Businessmen travel here and there to expand their business or searching for new markets. Skilled workers choose to immigrant to foreign countries to seek for new professional opportunities and higher living standards. People will lose their chances of self- development if they solely stay in one single place. My third reason is that people tend to be more conservative and narrow-minded if they are lacking of experiences on exploring new environment of living. The more they are afraid of changes, the more they refuse to try new things. All in all, I strongly suggest people to move from their original places to travel to different places, to experience new and amazing things, especially when they are young. You may never regret for leaving your hometown since you have gained so much from it.

Essay 241 Topic 32 Do you spend money as they come or save them?

Is it better to enjoy your money after you earn it or is it better to save your money for the future? Today the question is a prevalent topic undergoing serious debate. When it is

placed in front of me, I found it is really difficult to make a choice. After pondering it from several aspects, I think it is better to save money.

The first reason for my propensity is that I can buy relatively expensive things that I need by saving money. Modern utilities are needed in modern time. A Mobile phone and a car are necessary for me. As a student, I cannot buy them immediately. But I can save my income monthly. Step by step, I will own enough money to get what I need.

Another reason why I prefer saving money is that I can save money for special use. Education is expensive. As an adult, I must depend on myself to afford the tuition. Sometimes I want to travel. As we know, the expenditure of travel is big. All of these must spend me a lot of money. Saving money is really a good resolution.

Finally, I must prepare money for emergency. Generally I have my plan to use money, but I really cannot predict what will happen. When a sudden illness catches me, I must cover the medical expenditure. If my friends ask me for help, I can even use the money I save to help others. "Save money for rainy days. " It really tells the truth.

From all we have discussed above, we can safely draw a conclusion that it is better to save money.

Essay 242 Topic 32 Do you spend money as they come or save them?

To enjoy one's money as soon as he or she earns it is not practical to me. Since one cannot foresee the future, a person should save some money for emergency, lifelong dreams, and the needy.

First of all, if one has savings, one will not need to worry about the future. From TV and newspapers, we learn that accidents happen everyday. How can we be certain that we will not encounter some misfortune like that? How do we know how much money we will need in order to survive or to solve the problems we are faced with? Money is definitely should be saved for one need it to handle the unpredictable situations.

Besides, if we save our money instead of spending it immediately, we can use it to pursue our lifetime dreams. Take me for example, I had a part-time job and have saved some money in order to achieve my goal--to go to the US for graduate studies. If I did not save the money, I probably will not have a chance to fulfill my ideal. My friend Kelly also has a dream that she wants to travel around the world. Think about it! How much will it cost? Too often, with little money saved, one's personal goal or dream is hard to be accomplished.

Also, money can help a lot of people. Whenever I go the or phage, I always feel that I should work harder, saving more money to help those children. Buying something they need, I see glimmers of hope in their eyes. In this world, there are too many helpless people such as refugees, orphans, and the senior citizens that need our assistance. We can

never turn a blind eye to the situations of them. Therefore, I believe that donating money on these poor people is much more meaningful than spending money on things we do not necessarily need.

We can never know when we have to use a large amount of money. Therefore, the best way is to keep the money in our accounts for those possible incidents in the future. With enough savings, we will not be struck with panic when encounter accidents, we can make our dreams come true, and help those who need our assistance.

Essay 243 Topic 32 Do you spend money as they come or save them?

When faced with the decision of saving your money for some time in the future or enjoying your money when you earn it, quite a few would claim to enjoy their money, but others, in contrast, deem to save their money as the premier choice and that is also my point. This quite different view is based on the every possible reason.

Fore most reason for saving the money for future use is when you need a lot of money to deal with some emergent things that happen to you, you should not worry about the fund or lend some money everywhere at that time. For example, two years ago, I spend my summer holiday in a famous scenery pot, after a wonderful trip of the first day, I lost my wallet unconsciously, and then I took out some money in the bank to finish the trip. If you did not have some deposit, you can imagine how embarrassed you are.

Second, I have finished my college study, and I am going to go abroad to get a master degree to enhance the ability to face the challenge in the society. Plenty of money is very important to me, so I have to save all the money that I economized for future use.

Third, the economy condition of my family is not so good that I decide to earn enough money to buy a big house for my deeply loving parents.

This is arbitrary to judge saving money for future use according only to the excuse I mentioned in the above paragraph. But I do not deny that enjoying the life is also important to everyone because of brief life. That is to say, I will enjoy my money if I deposit enough.

Essay 244 Topic 32 Do you spend money as they come or save them?

Some people want to use their money for the enjoyment of present life. Others save money in order to prepare for their future. Although both of them use their money for their sake in the end, I would be on the side of saving money for the future. There are some reasons for it and, I would like to mention two reasons with examples.

Naturally, people who save money worry about their future than present life. Some may think of their future payment of house loan. Some other people may think of their retirement life but, all these people save their money for their future happiness. On the

contrary, people who use their money in their present life probably enjoy their life without expectation. From the perspective of my view, people who do not save their money are more optimistic about their future than people who save money. I think we should worry about our future life now. Because the recent trend of economic situation around the world is mildly declining. If we spent too much money recklessly, we will probably pay for it in the future.

Another reason for the people saving money is that they have more ambitious than non-saving people. The proverb goes this "The poor are always busy. " However, in our society, people who earn much money do not spend much money in their present life. Because they always seek for their possibility to obtain another chance. Some people may save their money to enroll college for their carrier improvement. While they are aiming their future prospect, they are probably satisfied without using money. In a word, this is an ambition. Their future possibilities are derived from their present aspiration toward future. The bigger the expectation is, the more they can manage to save money.

These two main causes, worry and ambitious, are the reasons why I think people save money. For me, with these aspects, the expectation to my future is largely expanding. With these in mind, I strongly support people who save money.

Essay 245 Topic 32 Do you spend money as they come or save them?

Whether to save money to enjoy it will totally depend on what's outside and personal condition. From my understanding and experience, using money properly is much more important than just saving it.

Firstly, money itself do not have very little value. The value of money presents when owner use it. If you use it to buy good food, it will benefit your health; if you use money to travel, you will increase your experience; if you buy gifts to your friends, you will get friendship; if you pay money to good school, you will gain knowledge. But if you just save it, it will not give you any real benefits. So, let us enjoy the value of what money can bring to you, instead of enjoying the increased number that saving can provide.

Secondly, in a mature society, various finance organization will help you handle most of the special difficult time. To make sure you can survive when you are sick or disabled or old, you should buy those insurance. To have big money to pay for elite school, you can apply for a education loan. You want house, no problem, mortgage company can help me, so many zero down payment, zero cost finance. When you lost job, you can get unemployment check for at least half year, maybe even longer. That's also one of the reason that US person has very small amount of saving. After pay for those finance organization, the money come to your hand is what you should spend.

In the third place, no one knows tomorrow, too many saving actually take a lot of risk. Incident dying, inflation or country turning over all can get rid of your saving. I believe all the people who lived through 80s and 90s will remember how the inflation ate most of

your saving. So do not take too many risk, instead, let those finance organization to take.

More over, saving money is also not good for a nation's economy. If everyone spend very small amount of money, then a lot of goods or service will have no customer, which will cause those company to cut cost, layoff workers, and cause less income for the residents in that country, which will cause everyone spend less. This is something like spiral deflation, and it is very dangerous for a economic entity. On the contrary, if everyone spends as much as they can, then more money will come to companies, which will hire more workers and raise the salary, and pour more money to the invidious in that country.

On the whole, save money is an inactive life style, it looks safe, but actually it may cause you lose what you are suppose to get. Instead, we should enjoy our fruit from your hard working, improve ourselves, and enjoy the beauty of the life. And spend properly will also help our society, and it will eventually help everyone.

Essay 246 Topic 33 A piece of jewelry vs. a concert

Which should I chose, a piece of jewelry or tickets to a concert, by using the money as a gift. After pondering the questions from several aspects, I prefer a piece of jewelry. I am affected by the following reasons:

Because of its great value and beautiful appearance, jewelry obviously becomes a nice gift. A man likes to choose a diamond ring for the lady he loved. Mothers always receive gold earrings from their children. In this way, people express their emotions and best wish will be sent with jewelry.

Another reason for my propensity for a piece of jewelry is that it is permanent. Unless you lost it, it will be with you forever, even notes a unusual day for you. Every time you wear it, it gives you a great pleasure. The ticket stub cannot bring all of those to you.

How about you look like with or without a piece of jewelry such as earrings, rings. The answer is obvious. And people will always tell you what a beauty you are by wearing the jewelry. With a good wish to be beautiful, more and more people like to wear jewelry.

From all we discussed above, we can see a piece of jewelry is the best choice. It is a permanent adorning, and a great gift. Tickets to a concert can never give all the happiness and pleasures we can get from it.

Essay 247 Topic 33 A piece of jewelry vs. a concert

If I have a gift of money that is enough to but either a piece of jewelry I like or tickets to a concert I want to attend, I probably choose to go to the concert instead of jewelry.

First, a concert can give you an entertainment and experience that a piece of jewelry such

as diamond rings and necklaces can't give. A few years ago, I attended a farewell concert of a famous singer. The moment when people submerged into the beautiful melody was unforgettable and that is one of my most precious memories I have ever had. If I had used the money to buy some jewelry, I would have been regretful in my lifetime.

Second, concert is an experience that can't duplicate, while jewelry can. If you can't buy a piece of jewelry at once, you will probably get it a few years later. But a concert is different. You can't find the singers, the location, the atmosphere of joy exactly the same if you miss it. So that gives concert a priority to jewelry and many other things.

Finally, concert can give you an entertainment of art and a relaxation from the busy work, while jewelry can give you at most just a moment of vanity. Compared to concert's long lasting joy, jewelry's is just an evanescent one. You will remember a wonderful concert for a lifetime. But I think there are few pieces of jewelry you'll wear for a lifetime.

If I have a choice between jewelry and concert, I will pick up the tickets of the concert without hesitate. Because I don't want to miss a probably once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and spending the rest of my life regret for the wrong choice I make.

Essay 248 Topic 33 A piece of jewelry vs. a concert

Regarding the question which is better, jewelry or concert tickets, the vast majority of people would deem the concert tickets as the premier choice. Others, in contrast, vote the jewelry. Personally, I have a propensity for the latter.

There are numerous reasons why I want to buy a piece of jewelry instead of a concert ticket if I have received a gift of money, and I would in here explain a few of the most important ones. One convincing argument for my choice is that buying a piece of jewelry is a nice investment. It is known that jewelry is so valuable that even a little worth much. People can buy some jewelry instead of putting their money into banks when ample money is available. Furthermore, when you are trapped in a serious lacking of money, the jewelry you bought can help you out.

Another reason why I cast my preference for buying jewelry when money is available is that jewelry is permanent. An illustration can be presented in order to make my point. It is well known that few things can destroy a piece of jewelry. Once you get it, you can keep it throughout your life. Moreover, I am sure you will remember the day you get it. And It will remind you of the your nice memory.

An additional reason given in support of jewelry is that jewelry is fashionable This demonstrates the undeniable fact that wearing a piece of jewelry can make you stand in the frontier of the fashion. Also, a piece of jewelry can make you feel confident. As a result, you can enjoy your life better and do things more efficiently.

Admittedly, it is undeniable that buying a concert ticket has its own merits. But if all

these factors are contemplated, the advantages of buying a piece of jewelry carry more weight than those of buying a concert ticket. Judging from all evidence offered. We may safely arrive at the conclusions that choosing a piece of jewelry when you obtain a gift of money is a wise decision.

Essay 249 Topic 33 A piece of jewelry vs. a concert

There are so many things we want to possess need to spend money, such as a piece of jewelry, tickets to a concert and a modern car. If I have received a gift of money and the money is enough to buy either a piece of jewelry or tickets to a concert, I will buy the latter. The purpose of my essay is to address the reasons that make me decide.

The most significant reason is the internal value the tickets to a concert have. A piece of jewelry is a piece of jewelry, no matter where you wear, no matter how you use, what you get is only a piece of jewelry. But a concert ticket is different. For example, someone attends to the concert, listens the music carefully and quietly, and is intoxicated with the splendid and superb music. In this case, the one deeply feels the emotion, background and meaning of the music, which makes him in a high spirit, upgrade his graceful taste and improve his ability to appreciate. And what he obtains from the concert cannot buy by using money and more valuable than the concert tickets. It is obvious that a concert ticket has a wonderful and plentiful internal value that cannot be measured by money. And the price of a piece of jewelry determines its value.

On the other hand, safety is another considerable importance. People always heard about someone's jewelry was robbed, but seldom or never heard someone's tickets to concert were robbed. For example, if someone goes out, wearing a piece of jewelry, she will always keep an eye on her jewelry so carefully and cautiously that she may do things absent-mindedly. And if she goes out, wearing the jewelry on the unknown place, then the purpose of wearing jewelry will lose. But if she brings some tickets to concert with her, she will not be so alert and can do things casually. Because in most of the cases, the concert tickets do not attract the robbers. Therefore, it is safer to take tickets to a concert than to take a piece of jewelry outside.

In conclusion, I prefer to buy tickets to a concert than a piece of jewelry if I have received a gift of money. It is natural and logic because of the wonderful and plentiful internal value the concert tickets bring and the safety for their owner.

Essay 250 Topic 33 A piece of jewelry vs. a concert

Before rendering my opinion, it is important to take a glance at the arguments on both sides. Many people may feel that a piece of jewelry is much more advantageous; on the other hand, others might think that tickets to concert is even better. The choice, nevertheless, is not easy to make. However, I shall agree that the former is more reasonable. In the following discussion, I would like to reason and provide the evidence to support my viewpoint.

First of all, the important reason in support my view is that it is the faithful love that a piece of jewelry signifies. Generally speaking, when a husband asks his wife to merry him, a splendid diamond ring is indispensable, since it fully express the love between them. What the glorious diamond ring sees is the forever love; what the splendid diamond ring expresses is the beautiful memory between two lovers; what the shining diamond ring contains in the perpetuated belief that the husband makes a promise to take care and protect his wife until she leaves the world. Obviously, a piece of jewelry includes not only its own value but also the memory inscribing deeply in lovers' mind. Significantly, there is no better example than this to demonstrate the strength of this point.

Another chief reason for my view is that a piece of jewelry will raise your status in society. No matter how knowledgeable you are, the outer aspect is far more important. It will leave deep impression for others as well as symbolizes someone's status. Even more, a piece of jewelry will help you more. As far as we are concerned, the more beautiful jewelry you wear in a ball, the higher status in society you are. It is the major reason why all of the ladies in the ball wear all kinds of style jewelry to catch others' eyes. If you can see that, you will understand it more deeply.

All in all, given the reasons discussed above, which sometimes intertwine to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive, we may arrive at the conclusion that a piece of jewelry is better than a concert ticket.

Essay 251 Topic 33

Before rendering my opinion, it is important to take a glance at the arguments on both sides. Many people may feel that a piece of jewelry is much more advantageous; on the other hand, others might think that tickets to concert is even better. The choice, nevertheless, is not easy to make. However, I shall agree that the former is more reasonable. In the following discussion, I would like to reason and provide the evidence to support my viewpoint. First of all, the important reason in support my view is that it is the faithful love that a piece of jewelry signifies. Generally speaking, when a husband asks his wife to merry him, a splendid diamond ring is indispensable, since it fully express the love between them. What the glorious diamond ring sees is the forever love; what the splendid diamond ring expresses is the beautiful memory between two lovers; what the shining diamond ring contains in the perpetuated belief that the husband makes a promise to take care and protect his wife until she leaves the world. Obviously, a piece of jewelry includes not only its own value but also the memory inscribing deeply in lovers' mind. Significantly, there is no better example than this to demonstrate the strength of this point. Another chief reason for my view is that a piece of jewelry will raise your status in society. No matter how knowledgeable you are, the outer aspect is far more important. It will leave deep impression for others as well as symbolizes someone's status. Even more, a piece of jewelry will help you more. As far as we are concerned, the more beautiful jewelry you wear in a ball, the higher status in society you are. It is the

major reason why all of the ladies in the ball wear all kinds of style jewelry to catch others' eyes. If you can see that, you will understand it more deeply. All in all, given the reasons discussed above, which sometimes intertwine to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive, we may arrive at the conclusion that a piece of jewelry is better than a concert ticket.

Essay 252 Topic 33

Before rendering my opinion, it is important to take a glance at the arguments on both sides. Many people may feel that a piece of jewelry is much more advantageous; on the other hand, others might think that tickets to concert is even better. The choice, nevertheless, is not easy to make. However, I shall agree that the former is more reasonable. In the following discussion, I would like to reason and provide the evidence to support my viewpoint. First of all, the important reason in support my view is that it is the faithful love that a piece of jewelry signifies. Generally speaking, when a husband asks his wife to merry him, a splendid diamond ring is indispensable, since it fully express the love between them. What the glorious diamond ring sees is the forever love; what the splendid diamond ring expresses is the beautiful memory between two lovers; what the shining diamond ring contains in the perpetuated belief that the husband makes a promise to take care and protect his wife until she leaves the world. Obviously, a piece of jewelry includes not only its own value but also the memory inscribing deeply in lovers' mind. Significantly, there is no better example than this to demonstrate the strength of this point. Another chief reason for my view is that a piece of jewelry will raise your status in society. No matter how knowledgeable you are, the outer aspect is far more important. It will leave deep impression for others as well as symbolizes someone's status. Even more, a piece of jewelry will help you more. As far as we are concerned, the more beautiful jewelry you wear in a ball, the higher status in society you are. It is the major reason why all of the ladies in the ball wear all kinds of style jewelry to catch others' eyes. If you can see that, you will understand it more deeply. All in all, given the reasons discussed above, which sometimes intertwine to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive, we may arrive at the conclusion that a piece of jewelry is better than a concert ticket.

Essay 253 Topic 34 Should business hire employees for their entire lives?

Some people believe that if employees were hired for their entire life, it would provide businesses with excellent, experienced and highly knowledgeable specialists. However, after careful thought, I tend to disagree with this idea. I am sure this practice will have the adverse effect on the employees' performance and career options for many people.

First of all, it will eliminate the competitive element, which whips up many people to improve their professional performance. Since everyone would be hired for the entire life, there would be no need to make sure you keep you job, or to strive to get promoted.

At the same time, it would be almost impossible to change your job, if you are not

satisfied with your present one, or if you feel your present career does not suit you.

Personally, I find this prospect scary, because it often takes years and various experiences to finally find your professional niche: the job with provides you with the fulfillment and good feedback.

Finally, it will make the employment process abnormally important. It will determine the whole life of a person, which can result in widespread corruption. Recruitment managers will enjoy excessive power-the temptation too hard to resist, so their decision may not serve the businesses' interests.

To sum up, I believe that hiring employees for their entire lives is not a reasonable idea. This practice can deprive people the career options throughout their lives, will eliminate the drive for workers to get better and can create excessive corruption.

Essay 254 Topic 34

Some people believe that if employees were hired for their entire life, it would provide businesses with excellent, experienced and highly knowledgeable specialists. However, after careful thought, I tend to disagree with this idea. I am sure this practice will have the adverse effect on the employees' performance and career options for many people. First of all, it will eliminate the competitive element, which whips up many people to improve their professional performance. Since everyone would be hired for the entire life, there would be no need to make sure you keep you job, or to strive to get promoted. At the same time, it would be almost impossible to change your job, if you are not satisfied with your present one, or if you feel your present career does not suit you. Personally, I find this prospect scary, because it often takes years and various experiences to finally find your professional niche: the job with provides you with the fulfillment and good feedback. Finally, it will make the employment process abnormally important. It will determine the whole life of a person, which can result in widespread corruption. Recruitment managers will enjoy excessive power-the temptation too hard to resist, so their decision may not serve the businesses' interests. To sum up, I believe that hiring employees for their entire lives is not a reasonable idea. This practice can deprive people the career options throughout their lives, will eliminate the drive for workers to get better and can create excessive corruption.

Essay 255 Topic 34

Some people believe that if employees were hired for their entire life, it would provide businesses with excellent, experienced and highly knowledgeable specialists. However, after careful thought, I tend to disagree with this idea. I am sure this practice will have the adverse effect on the employees' performance and career options for many people. First of all, it will eliminate the competitive element, which whips up many people to improve their professional performance. Since everyone would be hired for the entire life, there would be no need to make sure you keep you job, or to strive to get promoted. At the

same time, it would be almost impossible to change your job, if you are not satisfied with your present one, or if you feel your present career does not suit you. Personally, I find this prospect scary, because it often takes years and various experiences to finally find your professional niche: the job with provides you with the fulfillment and good feedback. Finally, it will make the employment process abnormally important. It will determine the whole life of a person, which can result in widespread corruption. Recruitment managers will enjoy excessive power-the temptation too hard to resist, so their decision may not serve the businesses' interests. To sum up, I believe that hiring employees for their entire lives is not a reasonable idea. This practice can deprive people the career options throughout their lives, will eliminate the drive for workers to get better and can create excessive corruption.

Essay 256 Topic 35 A live performance vs. television

Attending a live performance is really more enjoyable than watching the same event on television. As I am very interested in football matches, I have experienced that watching a football match at a stadium is not comparable with watching the same thing on TV. I never forget the first time that I went the stadium and the match is inscribed in my mind. It was an unforgettable event. At a live performance, you can see everything that is not possible on TV. Cameras zoom on special scenes and you cannot see what is going on the rest of the stage. For example, at a football match, the cameraman always tries to see the ball and its related events. When you are watching a football match on TV you cannot see that a player kicks another one because it is out of stage. But when you are present at the stadium you can easily see it.

On the other hand, you can cheer and boo and even cry in a live performance. A crowd like you has attended the match. All cheer and shout together and it encourage you to take part in their happiness. This is really enjoyable. Imagine you were attending Michael Jackson show then you could dance, whistle and cheer. This was not the case when you were at home. You might be alone because others did not like that specific show or they wanted to study. So you could neither dance nor cheer. You had to sit before T. V and turn down its voice. It is not enjoyable at all.

Another advantage that you achieve by virtue of attending a live performance is that you can have the feeling of participating in the performance. Every thing is live. If it is a football match for instance, then it is as if you were playing yourself. You were part of the match and could sense the kicks of the players on the ball.

Above all advantages there is only one disadvantage. It is that you must pay money to buy the ticket and spend time to reach the location of the performance. But it does not matter for me. By considering that I can achieve many things like seeing any event, cheering and shouting and feeling that I am participating in the performance are with no doubt unforgettable and highly enjoyable. I myself attend a football match even if it were in another country and it would cost me money and time.

Essay 257 Topic 35 A live performance vs. television

There are two ways to watch a performance, such as a concert, a play, and a sport event. You can either attend the live performance or watch it on television. Generally speaking, I prefer the first way. Attending the live performance you can see more than on TV, you can enjoy the performance with other people, and you can get much closer to the performers.

A live performance is more than what you can see on TV. You can only see what in the camera if you just sit in front of your television. For example, in a soccer match, the cameraman always focuses on the ball. You may miss some important details, such as a player kicked another one, by just follow the cameraman. If you attend the live performance, you can see the whole match, you can focus on whomever you want. You will not miss what you are interested in as the result of the limitation of the zoom of the camera.

In live performance you can enjoy it with other people so that there is a much better atmosphere. You can cheer, you can cry, you can shout, you can dance, you can do whatever in a live soccer match, because people around you are the same as you. But if you watch the game at home, you cannot turn the TV loud, you cannot show your enthusiasm with other fans. You have to force yourself to keep calm. Without the atmosphere, the game will not be so interesting.

In live performance you can also get much closer to the performers. You can experience the performance directly. In some play or concert, you can even got chance to be face to face with the performer. If you are a soccer fan, or a pop song fan, you may even get the signature of your favorite stars'. It is really a good feeling to see the "real" performers.

In brief, you can get many advantages by attending the live performance. You can see more than on TV, you can enjoy it with others, you can also get closer with the performers. So attending the live performance is more exciting, and more interesting than just watching it on TV.

Essay 258 Topic 36 Which transportation vehicles has changed people's lives?

Nowadays, many forms of transportations, such as airplanes, bicycles and automobiles, have been introduced into the society. Though people's views vary from each other, I believe that it is the automobiles that changed people's lives. Because automobiles could give people more convenience, save everyone's time and increase the efficiency of the world.

Automobiles have given many freedoms to ordinary people. For the working people, the car enabled them to work in the city and live in suburban areas many miles away. Admittedly, commuting is commonly believed uncomfortable. However, as the land in the city is expensive, a comfortable big house in the suburbs is more preferable than a

small apartment in most people's opinions. Without automobiles, they would not have this opportunity.

Automobiles give people great convenience, too. Although public transportations are cheap, they cannot always follow the lines in our mind. It means that we will spend more time on traveling than really need. I once go to a university to do something urgent so I went there by taxi. It cost me only 20 minutes. But when I got back by a train and a bus, the journey cost me almost an hour. "Time is money. " The automobiles have given a great many conveniences to today's world. Of course, we had better take a plane for a very long journey, but the automobiles are more accessible for ordinary people in daily lives.

To sum up, the automobiles have greatly changed our world and I believe that they have contributed much to improve people's living standard.

Essay 259 Topic 36 Which transportation vehicles has changed people's lives?

As opposite to cars and bicycles, airplanes changed human lives in a most radical way. While automobiles in most cases link people living within the same country, a transcontinental aircraft is capable of reaching most remote locations on earth within days and even hours thereby connecting people and carrying goods and ideas. Fast and inexpensive air delivery system benefits all aspects of social well-being, from industrial needs to emergency and rescue operations.

Moreover, modern tourism based primarily on air travel makes it possible to visit virtually any country or even countries within regular vacation time and, therefore, serves the most noble purpose of establishing mutual understanding and trust between nations.

On the other hand, military airfare also drastically changed both military doctrines of the nations with modern air forces and battlefield tactics by significantly reducing number of military and civilian casualties in armed conflicts, increasing intensity and effectiveness of assault on enemy troops thereby reducing total duration of a conflict.

To summarize, aircraft revolutionized modern life in many areas in most cases serving to the benefit of humanity.

Essay 260 Topic 36 Which transportation vehicles has changed people's lives?

Since human beings invent the airplanes, People's lives have dramatically changed. If I have a chance to choose transportation vehicles from automobiles, bicycles and airplanes to travel, I prefer to choose airplanes. There are many advantages of choosing airplanes. My arguments for this point are listed as follows.

The main reason for my propensity to choose plane is that the plane is fast and saving a time. For example, The university where I study in the capital of my country is far from

my parent hometown. It takes 5 days by train. Every vacation I spend half of vacation days on the road and make me so tired. I just have little time to stay with my parent. . But now everything is different since the airplane emerges. It only needs 3 hours to my hometown by airplanes. Can you imagine the conception of 5 days (120 hours) and 3 hours? I could have a breakfast in the university dorm and later enjoy the delicious hometown's lunch that my parent cook for me in the same day. It is the airplanes that fast reduce the distance between my parents and me.

Another reason why I advocate the attitude of the airplane is that the airplane is known as one of the most safe and convenient vehicles. It is reported from the statistic date that accident ratio of the airplane is far under that of the train, the ship and the automobile. With the development of the hi- tech, Faster, safer and more comfortable plane are made. The plane provides variety of the equipment to make customers comfortable.

In a world, In spite of the fact that there may be a couple of advantages by the automobile and the bicycle, I feel the advantages of the airplane are more obvious. Taking into account of all the factors, We may reach the conclusion that as am important transportation vehicles the airplane changes our daily life and at same time brings enormous influences to our society.

Essay 261 Topic 36 Which transportation vehicles has changed people's lives?

The recent decades have seen incredible development in transportation vehicles. Our everyday lives have been tremendously changed by most of these modern vehicles, among which automobile is a good example.

Recalling the age before the invention of automobile, in which the best transportation vehicles people can utilize is manpower and animals, we should owe the inventor of automobile, Benz, for the great conveniences and facilities automobile have brought us.

Firstly, automobiles provide people with the ability to go to anywhere they want to in a short time. This changes people's everyday lives not a little. Thanks to automobiles, people in big cities lead better lives, they drive to supermarkets, post offices, hospitals and cinemas, most of which are far away from their houses; driving a car makes people's life much easier. What is more, someone can even live in the suburb and drive to work or to school in less than an hour.

Secondly, it is much more convenient for us to drive ourselves than to take train or airplane, especially when we are traveling among many places. Driving a car, we can arrange our journey flexibly, and do not have to meet the schedule of those public transportations. And if we have a van, we can also take anything we need with us.

Admittedly, possessing a private automobile also brings us some trouble at the same time. We have to pay for the car insurance and regular maintenance. Additionally, traffic accidents due to automobiles are not rare. But on the whole, automobiles give us facilities

rather than troubles.

In a word, automobiles have changed people's lives in various aspects. Our everyday lives become more and more convenient owing to this modern transportation vehicle.

Essay 262 Topic 36 Which transportation vehicles has changed people's lives?

In 1903, the Wreight brothers tried out the first powered airplane in the United States, and led human into the era of the airplanes. One hundred years later, when we have already successfully sent astronauts into the moon and been able to reach any place of the world within one day. Airplanes, as one of the ground-breaking inventions of us, have greatly changes our lives.

Firstly, The distance of the world seems shorten by airplanes. Before the emerge of this vehicle, to travel around the world is always a arduous work, and sometimes very dangerous. It usually took severally days or even months to reach the destination by train or by ship. The planes, featured by its speed, are able to transport passengers to every corners of the world within 24 hours. Furthermore, it is always a pleasure to sit in the comfortable couches and drinking coffee in a huge jet to make the journey. airplanes serve as a better transportation vehicle because of their convenience and effectiveness.

Secondly, People's communication within each other has benefited a great deal from the development of the airplanes. Thanks to the vehicles, the world itself is often referred as a "global village". The cross-continent trip, made easier by the airplane, sometimes even save our "villagers' lives". For example, we have often heard some people who had to take a organ transplant got donator in another country, it is the flight to transport the donation freshly and quickly. Many other ways, provided by airplane, such as the EMS or UPS delivery, the great fight campaign, indeed make the life today unbelievable to our ancestors 100 years before.

Thirdly, also the most important, is that the airplane make our dream of flight come true. It seems that the Weighter Brothers' 7-mins off-the-ground can hardly be seen as a real flight nowadays. But it exactly incited the later generations to achieve one and another victory in our endeavor of shaking off the gravity of the planet, and it is also that try -out led to the later trip to the moon. And we can say that from that day on, although our root is still on the ground, our hearts is high above the sky.

At the centennial of human powered flight, the airplane has become a part of our daily life and has spread its influence everywhere.

Essay 263 Topic 37 Is progress always good?

I believe that progress brings both good and bad but it is inevitable and we have to do our best to decrease its bad consequences and increase the good ones. The inclination to progress is one of the properties of humankind. It is acquired during the evolution from

animals to human beings. We can observe both tendencies by reading the history of progress. The fields of agriculture, and industry might provide a spectacular example, too. Our generation should take lessons from history and enforce the favorable parts of the tendency. The early history of humanity is the history of struggling for survival and the history of the birth of progress on the human genetic level. Using the simplest weapon, like stick, to defeat more powerful beasts and survive was the naissance of progress in technique, while gathering in groups for the same purpose presents example of social progress. The human's existence in the wild nature caused its genetic inclination to progress.

In the contemporary conditions of many nations, agriculture is the field, in which people struggle against hunger and for life. We see that the progress in chemistry increases crop yield but engenders health problems. Thus, scientists try to avoid chemical poisoning and develop natural means to increase harvest. Modern industry shows one more aspect of contradiction in progress. We could not enjoy television and cars, Internet and clothe washers without industry's achievements but extensive industry, also, produces a vast pollution. So, states and companies should more and more invest in clean technologies.

So, progress is proper to humankind, and it is a controversial process, which contains favorable and unfavorable manifestations. Society has to control it and prevent bad consequences.

Essay 264 Topic 37 Is progress always good?

It is truly hard for me to agree or disagree with the statement that progress is always good. As many things in life progress has also its 'black' and 'white' sides.

I would not generally agree with those who claim that progress is always good. They would say that progress in medicine has helped people live longer and fought with terrible diseases that have tortured human kind for centuries. Furthermore, these people would also say that technical progress has improved our lives enormously. The use of machinery, automation in industry and new kinds of communication are things that have changed people's lives tremendously.

However, I would agree with those who believe that the price we pay for our progress is too high. It is a fact that the earth is overpopulated as a result from medical treatment of various diseases and longer life thanks to progress in study of medicine. Consequently, we not only consume much more than we can produce but we also run low on natural resources.

What is more, as a result from our technical progress our air, soil and waters are irreversibly polluted. Besides the fact that we live in a poisonous world, technical progress has brought a new disease called 'stress' that is considered a basis of many different health disorders.

Nevertheless, I would not dare to argue with those who think that progress is good. I agree that progress has made human abilities unlimited. But on the other hand it appears that we all are victims of our own progress.

Summing up, I believe that progress is good, unfortunately not always.

Essay 265 Topic 37 Is progress always good?

The nobleness & the use of progress in any field, to an individual, or to the society on the whole, will depend on what use the progress is being put to, and I feel, cannot be generalized as stated above.

Progress has been inherent with the human race. As the human brain developed, so has progress been achieved, in almost all fields known to man. The cultural progress over the ages, have made humans better and made this world, a better place to live in. Similarly, scientific progress has been effective in eradicating diseases, providing better food crops, facilitating transportation etc. Literary progress has helped us better document our history and has produced works that have made us think. Progress in communication techniques have converged this whole world of ours, into the 'global village'.

If we look at the above examples, we see that they are all aimed at the betterment of our world. Here progress is being applied for the society's good.

The products from the same progress in the various fields, when in wrong hands, wreak havoc in the same society that they are supposed to make better.

Sophisticated arms & explosives in the hands of terrorists & children, science of human cloning in the hands of scientists, crop control technologies in the hands of corporations etc., are some of the examples of how progress can go wrong. Think of how much better the world would be, without nuclear and biological weapons, without mutated food grains et al. Think of how many people would not have died or maimed for life, if there had been no land mines ? After witnessing the destructive use the Dynamite could be put to, Alfred Nobel himself repented his own creation of Dynamite so much that he set up the Nobel prize, to be awarded to people who work for the betterment of the human society.

Therefore, it is my strong contention that progress is only good when it is put to the right use, for the betterment and uplift of the individual and the society, on a whole. Progress put to any ulterior uses should be out rightly condemned.

Essay 266 Topic 37 Is progress always good?

Is progress always good? Almost all the people think progress is a good thing to improve their lives. Though some of them point out that progress brings about some bad side effects at the same time. In my point of view, I think progress is always good, if we attach higher importance to its minor negative effects, it should show even significant

merits. I have several reasons to demonstrate my opinions.

First of all, progress means development. With the rapid technical development, our lives are changed tremendously day and night. For instance, nowadays, we can travel to another country in a few days or even hours. We can keep contact with clients in thousands miles away by e-mails every day. These progresses ensure us to live in a comfortable society our older generation could hardly imagine in their times.

Second, progress enhances healthy competition. We can see that several big companies' pitch for the flagship position in the market. When they make big technical progress and lessen the costs so as to make more profits, they obtain the leadership position in the industry. Thus, many companies are eager to carry out new inventions and technical breakthroughs.

Admittedly, overheated industry progress sometimes brings about some bad shortcomings such as pollution, deforestation, etc. However, its advantages surely outweigh its disadvantages, we should not throw the water out along with the baby in the same bathe basin. If we set up strict policy and sincerely obey the law, we can minimize these bad things to a large extent.

We can conclude from the foregoing reasons that progress is always good, Besides, when we cautiously avoid its bad side effects, we can ensure it benefiting us more in a long term.

Essay 267 Topic 37 Is progress always good?

'Change' is an ever present, recurrent factor in man's life. Man's hatred for monotony has enabled him to race towards progress. His quest for more comfortable life resulted in the advancement of science and technology.

Without progress, life is drab. Society vegetates. Life does not improve. Science is the religion of modern age. So it is very much essential. Progress makes life outgoing, expansive, assertive and fearless.

Progress affects all spheres of life. In the field of agriculture it has resulted in the construction of dams, improvement in the field of irrigation, increase in the production of crops and machinery. Progress in medical science mitigates misery. Revolution in psychology, commerce etc. has brought a great change in the overall development of man. Progress in the field of nutrition has helped in better health and prolongation of one's life. Progress has resulted in the invention of telephones, computers and assisted in better weather forecasts.

It is because of progress man's life has become more comfortable. The various facilities man today enjoys are due to progress in science and technology. It provides him greater material befits. Progress has made the world smaller. The invention of the transportation

vehicles and mass media network has resulted in bridging distances and bringing people of the world close to one another.

Hence progress is a quintessential feature for a person or a nation to grow.

Essay 268 Topic 37 Is progress always good?

Progress, an abstract noun in the vocabulary, varies in different fields. Usually, we will take pride in some kind of progress as it takes along success. But is it always good? I do not think so. Sometimes it's on the opposite side of the active effect.

Our nature is one who is suffering from our progress. Progress in the industry has been giving great damage to our earth. Look around and you'll find this point. It's the progress of technology that gives us brightness even in the evening. But later we lost our stars, which is called light pollution as it's too bright in the evening for us to see the stars. This is only a common example of the numerous cases of pollution in the world. We can see others if you want to find some. Natural pollution is only a part of the bad effects progress has.

Also, our society is a sufferer of the progress of our own. Here, computer will show us why. It's called the greatest invention last century. That's progress of our science. It indeed has turned many dreams or supposals into truth, which is I have to admit. But what comes along with the progress in the science? Computers help biologists to find the secrete of DNA, and thus we have the technology of clones. However, what would happen if clones are used on us? While the spread of information is speeding up, we are becoming more and more unconcerned about our relatives and friends. And what's more terrible is that the computer is used in the military which is threatening the precious peace nowadays.

Now you will see that progress is not always good. Just like the coin with two sides, progress has its good effect and also has its bad effect. To us, it's necessary to pay attention to the bad ones coming along with the good effect which may not appear at the present time.

Essay 269 Topic 38 Is learning about the past useful?

Nowadays, someone holds the opinion that learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. This statement is radically wrong. On the contrary, people living in the present can learn no more from anywhere else than from the past.

The most valuable things one should learn from the history is politics, and this is why so many statesmen are familiar with history. Our society ran and is running in exactly the same way. Those events, such as great depression, financial crisis, and warfare, will show

up just as they did before. Recalling the history, one can find experience as well as lessons, from which one can tell right countermeasures from wrong ones. Actually, history is the most vivid textbook; from nowhere other than history can a statesman living in the present learn more about how to handle.

Not merely for the statesmen is the information from the past useful. As an ordinary individual, one can also learn many from the past. Since ones childhood, he/she should have heard about a lot of anecdotes of celebrities. These interesting stories infused various characteristics, virtue, integrity, and courage, into the bottom of ones heart. These stories are much more lively than just interpretations. There might also be such stories in our daily life, but to a child, an interesting story happened on a celebrity always seems more convincible.

It is for these reasons that people study history. History is the best candidate that can show us right and wrong, true and false, good and bad. Learn from the past, one can learn more than he has expected.

Essay 270 Topic 38 Is learning about the past useful?

I fully disagree that learning about the past has no value for those living in the present. In fact, it is much more useful than somebody thinks.

Although sometimes it may be good to overlook the previous knowledge in order to avoid constraint conformity, we cannot scorn the important role of the vast knowledge from the past for the following reasons.

Admittedly, nothing emerges from zero. All knowledge that we acquire nowadays is from the past: language, customs, academic subjects, and so on. We inherit the past knowledge, use it and improve it. In deed, only with the knowledge of prior achievements can technological progress be made. For example, the discovery of micro particles made it possible for the physicists to create the flow of electrons under the influence of magnetic field. Hence many inventions based on the discovery of electric current have been made.

Besides the fundamental knowledge, learning from the past provides us with the most valuable experience. As we have neither hardships nor difficulties, it is really advisable to learn by our predecessors' experience. For instance, the Chinese medicine is accumulated by the knowledge of the effect of plants on illness, built from trials, even on men, and errors through thousands of years.

Furthermore, it also helps prevent reoccurrence of negative events in the history of our civilization. By examining our actions in the past and making judgments about what was right and what was wrong, we can avoid causing those same mistakes again. Let us take the example of the Holocaust, the infamous massacre that nobody ever wants to happen again.

In short, learning about the past is necessary for everyone. It is advisable to ignore the past to make a breakthrough and to keep free thinking, however, not at the expense of past knowledge.

Essay 271 Topic 38

Nowadays, someone holds the opinion that learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. This statement is radically wrong. On the contrary, people living in the present can learn no more from anywhere else than from the past. The most valuable things one should learn from the history is politics, and this is why so many statesmen are familiar with history. Our society ran and is running in exactly the same way. Those events, such as great depression, financial crisis, and warfare, will show up just as they did before. Recalling the history, one can find experience as well as lessons, from which one can tell right countermeasures from wrong ones. Actually, history is the most vivid textbook; from nowhere other than history can a statesman living in the present learn more about how to handle. Not merely for the statesmen is the information from the past useful. As a ordinary individual, one can also learn many from the past. Since ones childhood, he/she should have heard about a lot of anecdotes of celebrities. These interesting stories infused various characteristics, virtue, integrity, and courage, into the bottom of ones heart. These stories are much more lively than just interpretations. There might also be such stories in our daily life, but to a child, an interesting story happened on a celebrity always seems more convincible. It is for these reasons that people study history. History is the best candidate that can show us right and wrong, true and false, good and bad. Learn from the past, one can learn more than he has expected.

Essay 272 Topic 38

Nowadays, someone holds the opinion that learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. This statement is radically wrong. On the contrary, people living in the present can learn no more from anywhere else than from the past. The most valuable things one should learn from the history is politics, and this is why so many statesmen are familiar with history. Our society ran and is running in exactly the same way. Those events, such as great depression, financial crisis, and warfare, will show up just as they did before. Recalling the history, one can find experience as well as lessons, from which one can tell right countermeasures from wrong ones. Actually, history is the most vivid textbook; from nowhere other than history can a statesman living in the present learn more about how to handle. Not merely for the statesmen is the information from the past useful. As a ordinary individual, one can also learn many from the past. Since ones childhood, he/she should have heard about a lot of anecdotes of celebrities. These interesting stories infused various characteristics, virtue, integrity, and courage,

into the bottom of ones heart. These stories are much more lively than just interpretations. There might also be such stories in our daily life, but to a child, an interesting story happened on a celebrity always seems more convincible. It is for these reasons that people study history. History is the best candidate that can show us right and wrong, true and false, good and bad. Learn from the past, one can learn more than he has expected.

Essay 273 Topic 39 Can students learn more information quickly with the help of new technologies?

With the help of technology, students nowadays can learn more information and learn it more quickly. In my view, I disagree with the statement because of one point-surreal, though it is very convenient and fast.

By overlooking the society, more and more novel science and technology emerge, so grasping information is making a few progresses. In these years, Internet blooms like mushrooms, so that many people begin to scout for information on the Cyber world, especially X-generations. In these youths' points of view, little time-consuming and energy-saving are their priority. For example, my schoolmates always stroll around on the Net for something-report. As soon as finishing their papers assigned, time leaving for fooling around, and plagiarizing is the only way. Of course, they are able to capture tons of information and data on the Cyber world, putting them into contents of papers, handing in them to their professors on time.

On the surface, it is a good way to seize news on the Net, learning information easily. One side effect, however, gradually erodes their minds and souls. It is idleness that discourages their interest in books or newspapers. Frankly speaking, we may learn real knowledge from abundant books and newspapers, instead of Internet. However, as the rapid growth of technology, fewer people have the habit of searching for information in volumes.

There is no doubt that ambling on the Net is funny and interesting. In addition to hunting, downloading what you want is addictive. I have to confess that I also enjoy looking for something on the Cyber world. In my opinion, however, receiving knowledge from newspapers as well as magazines is always better than searching for pieces of news on the Net.

Essay 274 Topic 39 Can students learn more information quickly with the help of new technologies?

How do you think that technology today is helping your daily life? Honestly, our life would be much difficult without it. Can you imagine your life without technology? Without computers, telephones and even televisions? But even technology is something that cannot be missed in our daily life, there are some disadvantages as well as advantages that comes with it.

The advantages that we can gain from the technology is that it has made our life much easier. For example, television has made it possible for us humans to learn more information about what is going on around the world easier and faster than newspapers. Computers has let us gain information that we need for our assignment in school and let us use e-mail services which we can send to people all around the world and much faster than using normal mails. How can we imagine our life without technology? They have made our life much easier n simple.

But we should not forget that it is not only advantages that we are getting from using new technologies that has been invented. Young people today are getting lots of bad influences by watching televisions that are not for young kids. Televisions are something that anyone can watch at anytime. And we cannot avoid the fact that kids today are getting loads of bad influences by watching things that they should not be watching. And even worst, by using the Internet, they are allowed to go to any website that includes pictures or articles that they must not be watching at their age.

Can anyone say that technology influences us only in a good way? I certainly do not think so. In my opinion, it is the fact that we cannot live without technology, and we would be devastated without them. But I think that there are too many negative things that come with it. Yes, it is the fact that we can gain information faster n easier by using Internet or by watching television. But are not they forgetting to use important resources from books at the library? Books from the library are more specific and can be trusted than Internet resources. So I disagree with the following statement. And people today are forgetting what is really important in our life.

Essay 275 Topic 39

In this descend, the information technology developed so rapidly that nearly all families in Hong Kong have at least one computer nowadays. Not only can students surf on net and search for information at home, but they can also use computers in schools, at cyber centers and even in certain fast food restaurants. For no doubt, the convenience in accessing information on the internet enable students to learn more information and learn it more quickly. In the past, students can only learn from traditional books. In addition to the school curriculum, students might be able to learn from the extra-curricular books. They can go to the library and search for information. But this is much incontinent than just sitting in front of the computer and learning things from websites from all over the world. In comparison, the information from the traditional books is so limited. By surfing on net, students can get a wider horizon on any kind of information and have a deep understanding on each field. On the other hand, students can never have such a quick way to search for information that they required. In a library, students might have to spend a whole hour in searching for a single book with relevant information. Yet, with a computer, students can search for an entire page of links with a search engine such as Yahoo. The whole process involves just few clicks and several seconds. Moreover,

information from books in library might be outdated. On the net, students can learn the first-handed information. With the help of technology, students can learn information much quicker. However, searching on the net for information has its disadvantages too. It is difficult to ensure the information is true or not as the publishing of website do not have controlling policy as that of publishing books. Yet, in general, it is still true that the information technology help students to learn more and learn more quickly.

Essay 276 Topic 39

In this descend, the information technology developed so rapidly that nearly all families in Hong Kong have at least one computer nowadays. Not only can students surf on net and search for information at home, but they can also use computers in schools, at cyber centers and even in certain fast food restaurants. For no doubt, the convenience in accessing information on the internet enable students to learn more information and learn it more quickly. In the past, students can only learn from traditional books. In addition to the school curriculum, students might be able to learn from the extra-curricular books. They can go to the library and search for information. But this is much incontinent than just sitting in front of the computer and learning things from websites from all over the world. In comparison, the information from the traditional books is so limited. By surfing on net, students can get a wider horizon on any kind of information and have a deep understanding on each field. On the other hand, students can never have such a quick way to search for information that they required. In a library, students might have to spend a whole hour in searching for a single book with relevant information. Yet, with a computer, students can search for an entire page of links with a search engine such as Yahoo. The whole process involves just few clicks and several seconds. Moreover, information from books in library might be outdated. On the net, students can learn the first-handed information. With the help of technology, students can learn information much quicker. However, searching on the net for information has its disadvantages too. It is difficult to ensure the information is true or not as the publishing of website do not have controlling policy as that of publishing books. Yet, in general, it is still true that the information technology help students to learn more and learn more quickly.

Essay 277 Topic 40 Never, never give up

Most people like to encourage others with the words "Never, never give up", if their friends, family members or relatives encountered failure. But I do not think it is always right to persuade or encourage others in this way.

Almost every body will encounter failure on their pursuit of life objectives or high goals. They failed, because they might not have worked very hard or their objectives do not fit the reality or their abilities are beyond such a high goals. The encouragement with the words "Never, never give" might be appropriate for the first situation. But for the second situation, it may mislead the loser. It means we will encourage them to stick to the wrong things with obstinacy for ever. So it might be wise if we help the losers to review their goals and assess their capacities to achieve the set goals. If it is impossible for them to

succeed, "Give up" is the most wise encouragement words for them.

Furthermore it is not foreseeable for a person's ability and potential to achieve a set goal. Their ability and potential for certain goal vary as the accumulation of their experience and knowledge. The surrounding is changing all the time as well. They might set a certain goal based on the current surrounding situation or their actual personal skill. But any changes will cause them impossible to reach the final point and succeed. So what they should do is not to stick on it anymore, instead they should give up and look for a new starting point.

We all expect our friends to have a good future and live better, but it is silly idea if we encourage them "Never, never give up" anything. Sometimes "Give up" might be a starting point for another success.

Essay 278 Topic 40 Never, never give up

Not getting success in any work does not means failure, but is only an indication of keep trying until the job is done goal achieved. This principle is clearly reflected in India's struggle for Independence.

Every person in this world has some ambitions and targets and he works towards those targets in fulfilling them. For realizing his aims, he works hard, but there are instances when he is not able to meet his ambitions. The reasons can be many either because of unplanned methodology or shortage of resources or not setting realistic targets.

The real struggle is to work again towards those goals but this time with new zeal and preparations so that all hurdles and challenges are successfully countered because work done half-heartedly and without preparations can again topple you from reaching summit and this in turn can lead to frustration.

This reminds me of a story of a king who lost his battle and ran away. Later he saw a spider trying to climb uphill and every time it fell down after reaching half distance, but the spider kept on trying and ultimately it succeeded in climbing the hill. This inspired the king to organize his army again and he attacked the enemy seven times before finally conquering over his rivals.

The essence is to gear up again and fight for the job and come up with flying colors. Therefore constant struggle should be taken as a part of life for working towards and achieving one's ambition.

Essay 279 Topic 40 Never, never give up

I agree with the expression " Never, never give up". It's not necessary that we get success after first try, so we should try that thing at least once more. Let me explain my point of view.

There is always another opportunity. First time I appeared for the pre pharmacy test, I could not get through. I realized that I did not cover all the topics and I was so nervous during the exam. Lack of confidence and improper preparation were the reason of my failure. But I did not give up; next year again I appeared for the examination. This time I got through and got admission in one of the top universities. The reason for my success was correcting my mistakes and proper preparation for the examination.

There is always another goal. After graduating, I thought of pursuing my studies in aboard. But due to financial restrains, I could not do this. I realized that only reason for studying in abroad was to pursue research. I changed my goal from doing research to helping in research. Now I am working as research assistant in a firm. I am gaining the knowledge, which I wanted.

There is always another option. Once I wanted to watch a movie. I could not go to theater for movie, due to the shortage of money. My cable operator told me that he cannot show movie on cable at least for one more week. Since I really wanted to see the movie, I went to near by rental movie shop and got the movie. So you can always look for options before giving up.

If you give up, you might not be able to succeed in your life. I think one should always look for another goal, another option, or another opportunity. I think this is the way life goes on.

Essay 280 Topic 41 Should we save land for endangered animals?

In the present time, many species of animals are in danger because they are harmed by human such as destroy the forest, hunting them for fun or as sports. There are some groups or people acting to protect those endangered animals by asking for some preserved land for those poor animals. In contrast, there are some people arguing that lands which are used for human purposes like farmland, housing and industry, are more effective. In my opinion, there should be some spaces allocated for harmed animals. I will discuss all the reasons in the paragraphs below.

Back to basic, all lives in this universal are equal. I think every body does agree with this sentence. There is not only human's right, but also the animal's right. They all have rights to live in this world the same as human does. I think we should respect every single life in this world.

To harm or threaten those animals is to harm ourselves. There are a lot of food chains in this world. Those animal as well as human are in those food chains. Little or more, we hurt ourselves, our children and children's children by destroying those animals, getting the land to serve our needs and neglect to care for endangered animals.

Another reason, the best place for animal to live is the forest. We save the animal and

save lands for them thus finally we can save the forest. In the forest, we cannot refuse that there is amount of natural resource, for example mineral, woods, rare plants which are the resource of the whole world. In addition, the forest can keep the land's moisture which provides us a water to drink, water to plant the vegetable and even the power from water in damps.

In conclusion, I would like to say that I really agree to keep or preserve some lands for the endangered animals because of all the reasons I explained above.

Essay 281 Topic 41

Nowadays, with the increasing number of the human population around the globe, it is necessary to expand the development of the human needs such as housing, industry and so on. I agree with the statement above that people think more about their needs than about saving land for endangered animals. In the following paragraphs, I will try to support this point of view with several examples. It is believed that during the last several decades, human lives generally have lasted longer than the lives of people of the past. With the increasing development of modern technologies, especially in medicine, millions of people could prolong their lives. This opportunity, of course, has raised the overall human population around the world. The increased human population has made a new problem, the availability of the planet space and resources have been decreasing significantly due to the enormous expanding of the human activities. It is generally understandable that the tremendous density of the population would probably continue to destroy many beautiful lands together with endangered animals unless these lands are protected by governments and many organizations focusing on the saving of the mother nature. Generally, I would like to say that, governments should support the nature organizations, such as Green Peace and expand the bounders of many protected lands, preventing the inevitable death of endangered animals and plants. In my opinion, in the future, it would be possible to save the Mother nature by the building of space stations on other planets of our universe. As far as I am concerned, it would be the only one way of saving the nature...

Essay 282 Topic 41

Nowadays, with the increasing number of the human population around the globe, it is necessary to expand the development of the human needs such as housing, industry and so on. I agree with the statement above that people think more about their needs than about saving land for endangered animals. In the following paragraphs, I will try to support this point of view with several examples. It is believed that during the last several decades, human lives generally have lasted longer than the lives of people of the past. With the increasing development of modern technologies, especially in medicine, millions of people could prolong their lives. This opportunity, of course, has raised the overall human population around the world. The increased human population has made a new problem, the availability of the planet space and resources have been decreasing significantly due to the enormous expanding of the human activities. It is generally

understandable that the tremendous density of the population would probably continue to destroy many beautiful lands together with endangered animals unless these lands are protected by governments and many organizations focusing on the saving of the mother nature. Generally, I would like to say that, governments should support the nature organizations, such as Green Peace and expand the bounders of many protected lands, preventing the inevitable death of endangered animals and plants. In my opinion, in the future, it would be possible to save the Mother nature by the building of space stations on other planets of our universe. As far as I am concerned, it would be the only one way of saving the nature...

Essay 283 Topic 42 What is a very important skil a person should learn?

With the development of science and technology, the world is no longer what it used to be. Everyone should master one or more skills in order to survive and succeed in the world. As far as I am concerned, the most important skill one should learn is to teach himself or herself.

To begin with, no one can depend on a teacher in the whole life. In high school and university, several teachers can teach you physics, chemistry, biology and so on. But when you find a job and leave school, few people will tell you how to solve the problem you encounter in the job. What you can do is to read books and find the answers yourself. If you do not have the ability to teach yourself, it is difficult to survive in the world.

In addition, what we have learned in the school is probably not enough. Nowadays new science and technology develop very rapidly. Suppose you are majored in computer. As we all know, the computer science is changing fast. New idea and concept may appear everyday. Once you stop studying, you may probably leave behind and even lose your job.

Last but not least, keeping studying can lead you to a high salary job. If you understand the most advanced knowledge, lots of companies may hire you, because the more science one can master, the higher productivity he will have. Do you have a dream to have a good job? If you do, learn how to teach yourself right now.

So from what has been discussed, one can reach only this conclusion that teaching himself or herself is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be successful in the world today.

Essay 284 Topic 42 What is a very important skil a person should learn?

What is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be successful in this world to day? As far as I am concerned, I contend that the skill should be the ability of introspection. There are many reasons why introspection is the skill crucial to success, and I state some primary reasons as follows. First of all, it is impossible for any person that never encountered failure in his or her life. Since failure is the essential and

unpleasant part of our life, what we should learn is the ability to overcome it. Therefore, I deem the ability of introspection as the skill that we should learn, because it is the most effective way to overcome our failure. By introspecting ourselves, we could find the reason that causes our failure and then we could learn from this failure. As an old saying goes, failure is the mother of success. Having the ability to introspect oneself means having the key to success. Thus introspection is the skill to learn in order to success.

Secondly, we all know that success in one thing does not guarantee the success in another. However, many people were still lost in this kind of confusion and finally lead to their failure. To avoid this, we should learn the ability of introspection. Because this ability could make as awake in every step we do, every decision we make, and this ability could guarantee our success in the long run. Thus it is essential to learn the skill of introspection.

In conclusion, no matter it is success or failure that we encountered, we all need to introspect ourselves, because this skill could help us exam our behavior or decision, and this method is the secret of success. Therefore, to learn the skill of introspection is important to success.

Essay 285 Topic 42 What is a very important skil a person should learn?

Many problems are solved in our society every day. These are problems about policies, such as allowing or disallowing driving at certain speed or forcing mandatory voting. It is the principle of the democracy that citizens have to participate in the debates that concern the policies and laws. To participate in the debates one has to be rather skillful at presenting his argument. Bad presentation can diminish the value of your point and the opposition will win.

I have read articles in newspapers that discuss certain policies. It is very nice that people care about the problems and participate in the discourse, but unfortunately in many articles the fallacious logic is evident. The author seems to have a good point, but after reading the article the impression is that he doesn't know what he is suggesting.

It is very important to correctly present your point in the debates that concern these policies. To reach a fair decision all members of community should present their ideas without logical fallacies. For example the ideas of poor people should be presented equally well as the ideas of the elite. Otherwise the social group of poor people will not be properly represented in the government and the democracy will degenerate in oligarchy.

It is unfortunate that most people do not pay much attention to their obligations as citizens. I am of the opinion that being an active citizen is crucial in the modern democratic society and that one cannot be a proper citizen without the ability to correctly present one's argument. One who overlooks the citizenship obligations knowingly or otherwise supports the oligarchy.

Essay 286 Topic 42 Learning how to communicate

Nowadays, people are living in a society which is more and more socialized. What is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be successful in the world today? My answer to this question is the communication skills. The human society used to be little socialized, in which the relationship between people are not important. A farmer was able to support himself by planting rice and vegetables himself, and there was little need for one to exchange things with others. In such a society, the communication skills were dispensable. While, as time goes by, things change gradually. People in the society are becoming more and more interconnected with each other. In business, a big project involves dozens of individual; in academic, it is usual that there are hundreds of scientists and engineers working for one project, for instance, the Apollo Project, and the Manhattan Project. In such cases, the communication skills become a very quality for a good colleague. One should be willing to exchange thoughts with others, to study from others. And, the most important, one should have skills to share his opinions with others, and let others value his thoughts. Only possessing these skills, can one make best use of his capabilities and do well in his career, since he can make himself better understood and valued by his colleagues and the superiors. This would be beneficial to both the person himself and the business. However, this is not to say that once one has communication skills, he would definitely succeed. There are a lot of other characteristics one should have in order to be competitive in his career. At least one should virtually have some valuable ideas which deserve others' notice. What is more, one should keep himself from communicate with others in wrong way. As a case in point, it would be inappropriate if one tries selling business secrets to other company. Besides communication skills, one should also have communication morals. In sum, today's society is so socialized that the communication skills become a quality which is indispensable to a person if he want to be successful. At the same time, there are some other important traits.

Essay 287 Topic 43 Why are people attracted to a dangerous sport?

Today, most of the people would like to play dangerous sports or dangerous activities because the world is getting faster and getting sophisticated or complicated. While working their work, they want to escape from their job because it is hard to keep working their job without feeling from other activities which can be dangerous sports or dangerous activities. Then, if they did something dangerous activities, they definitely would like to look for other dangerous activities again. A couple of years ago, I went to Colorado for snowboarding. I had to take a helicopter to go to top of mountain which is located in Aspen. Before went to top of mountain, I had to sign up a document which is responsibility for death. When I was dropped the top of mountain, I was thinking about only one thing. That is whether I can survival or not. There was no rescue and there was no safety tape which can protect us from wrong way, but there were just snow and mountain. I just had one map and my friends. My friends also were thinking about their death. When I arrived at bottom line of mountain which is our motel without injury and losing my friend, my feeling was so great. I thought this experience was the most exciting

moment entire my life. I also thought I could do whatever I want to because I made this happen that nobody wants to do that. The most important feeling is freedom which can make me to forget about everything I have. After this happen, I was looking for more dangerous and exciting activities. I have tried bungee jump two times because when I fell down from top to lake, I could feel real fear. Before trying it, I really worried about lope and heights. I thought I had no idea if the lope tore or cut and I had no idea how length from top to bottom. When I was top of tower, I just decided to jump because I wanted to get more dangerous feeling. When I did it, it was nothing. It was just jump from top to bottom. In conclusion, people want to get more exciting feeling because their work and their society make people to do this. And then when they did something very dangerous, I want to get more thrills than before they did it.

Essay 288 Topic 43 Why are people attracted to a dangerous sport?

Have you experienced the fear of bungee jumping? Have you ever enjoyed the excitement of car racing? Nowadays, many people are attracted to such dangerous activities, especially the young people. Wondering why? The reasons responsible for it are the lifestyle of those people.

While the world is becoming more competitive, the task on each person's shoulder is getting heavier. People's activities everyday are very intense. They would be fiercer after days of hard work. Therefore, everyone wants a release. The best way to relax and get relieved is to do the things that the person has not ever tried, such as adventure before. While he is doing something dangerous, he must be concentrated on it, and he cannot think about anything else. Hence the person relieves all the pressure and the troubles he had in daily work.

In addition, to take risks and try out new things is one of human being's basic instincts. People always like to do something new, especially something in trend. According to some statistics, the dangerous activities are extremely popular among young people. If a boy does not try thee game, people will think that he is a coward and afraid of doing it. Consequently, it is reasonable for some people to show their courage by putting themselves in danger.

Based on getting relieved and showing modern, some people are attracted to dangerous sports or other dangerous activities. However, I do not like those activities. Also, I believe that people are attracted in it for a whim. After realizing countless disadvantages of them, people will reconsider about them.

Essay 289 Topic 43 Response to Topic 43

Some people are attracted to dangerous sports or other dangerous activities for various reasons: religious purposes, material interests, enjoyment etc. Many religious people sometimes go to a road of dangers and risks to the sacred places in order to show their firm belief in the religion. Every Moslem people, no matter where he lives, is required by

the holy book to go at least once in his life to Mega, the sacred place, for pilgrimage. In ancient times, it was a long, tiring, and dangerous road for many to travel to Mega, who might go through deserts or barren lands with such bad conditions that their lives were constantly in threat. However, they went without hesitation to this road, which was regarded as one to salvation, despite of the dangers they might face. No doubt that many people engaged in dangerous activities are out of material considerations. At the time of Columbus, sea voyage was a very dangerous activity due to backward technology and limited geographical knowledge. However, inspired by stories of the wealth of the Oriental countries, Columbus led his fleet to a voyage full of risks and uncertainties. In the past century, the growth of population and economy imposed great pressure on the environment. Countries in the world competed against each other for land and resources. People explored to many remote areas of very bad conditions, even the polar regions, in sear of new resources. Nowadays, some people like to be involved in dangerous sports or activities merely for enjoyment. Gliding, parachute jumping, surfing on sea waves, all give them exciting experience that cannot be got from other common sports. The higher the danger is, the greater the enjoyment they have. Finally, when doing dangerous sports or activities, we should ensure our own safety and be care not to harm the interests of other people.

Essay 290 Topic 44 Travel with a companion vs. travel alone

With the development of economy and the living standard being raised immensely, more and more people can afford to travel to different places in their vacation, expecting to see more of the world and meanwhile have a relaxation after a period of hard work. And generally, people prefer to travel with a companion, believing it would be more fun. Whereas other people choose to travel alone, maintaining that it offers more freedom and fewer restraints. According to my personality and fondness, I would certainly choose to travel with a companion. Numerous reasons can be cited, and I would in here explain a few most important ones.

The first and foremost reason is safety. I believe it would be safer to travel with a companion than without. On the long journey of traveling, no one can foresee what would occur. It is not unusual to be encountered with some emergent happenings. For example, you may come down with a sudden illness, like sunstroke, or diarrhea. On such occasions, it would be disastrous if you do not have someone around to take care of you when you are far out in a remote place. What's more, what if you are unlucky to meet some ill-intentioned guys?

Secondly, as traveling is an activity from which you expect to get fun and during which you hope to learn more about the world, and it would impossible to do so if you travel alone. For example, when you come to a spectacular place and its natural beauty tremendously amazes you and you strongly feel liking sharing your feelings with someone, but there is no one around, then how would you feel? I am sure you could not fully appreciate the beautiful scenery. Moreover, it would surely add richness to your journey if you and your companion discuss about and comment on what you see and

what you hear on the way. The above discussion is far from an exhaustive one, but we can clearly see the advantages of traveling with a companion. So I would choose to travel with a companion without hesitation.

Essay 291 Topic 44 Travel with a companion vs. travel alone

I prefer to travel with a companion.

First, you can save plenty of time and money. In the travel, you have lots of things must do except see landscape such as booking hotel, buying tickets, looking for bus stations etc. If you have a companion can do these things with you, you will have more time to see landscape and to rest. It's the most important that you will have a good mood rather than be upset by those small beer. Money is a very big problem. If you like to travel alone, you must afford all. But if you have a companion, you can save money in transport, hotel, even tickets. That may let you travel more days than you plan.

Time and money is important to you, but when you have trouble what you want is sincerely help. I like climbing mountain. I have been to the Jiuzhaigou in the Sichuan province. It is very beautiful place, but it locates high altitude. We meet big trouble of breath when we climbed mountain. in the way, my friend and I had a turn on carrying bags and helping each other when we felt tired. when we reached the mountain peak, we embraced. We all knew the one thing that if you have no help from your friend, you cannot reach the peak.

In most of time, you may get funs from your friend. When you want to get a photo, your friend can take a picture for you. When you feel scared, your friend can encourage you. When you are lonely, your friend can joke you. When you get a beautiful place, you can share your happiness, inspiration with your friend.

A companion can bring some help, save time and money; also you can feel human's spirit in the same time. Your eyes not only see nice landscape of nature, but the beautiful landscape of human beings.

Essay 292 Topic 44 Response to Topic 44

Some people like to travel alone for they feel that they can go everywhere at their own will and concentrate on their own affairs in traveling. However, like most people, I prefer to travel with others because there are many advantages by doing so. When traveling to other places, the most important thing for us to consider is safety. In China, many famous scenery spots with Buddist temples or shrines are situated in deep mountains or remote areas. Travelers sometimes have to go on a tiring and even dangerous road before they can arrive at these places: crossing rivers with rapid currents, climbing high mountains, walking along a narrow path on deep cliffs etc. If a person travels with others, he may receive aids or lend a hand to his companion in time of needs. Several years ago, I traveled with some other people to Wuyi Mountain, a famous scenery spot in Fujian

Province. When climbing a high cliff, one of the people slipped, but a man grasped him by hand almost instantaneously at his side. If he had traveled there alone, he would have fallen down the high cliff and injured himself. Another reason why I prefer to travel with others is that we can ease the feeling of loneliness and nostalgia by talking with each other. When traveling to far away and unfamiliar places, we may easily fall into a low spirit and have strong nostalgic feeling. There are numerous ancient Chinese literary works, poems or essays etc., which describe such feeling on road. A man sat in an empty hub, facing a small lamp, seeing the dumping rain outside the window, etc., all constitute a typical picture of a lonely traveler. But if at this time, the traveler had a companion to chat with him, his sad feeling would be much lessened. In a higher sense, life is like a traveling, most of us need someone to accompany us to go through the road. I think those who have to live alone are unfortunate ones in human society.

Essay 293 Topic 44 Traveling alone

Although it might be more comfortable to travel with a companion, I certainly prefer to travel alone. If you go by yourself, you have the chance to learn a new language, to get to know cultures and customs and to meet new friends. If you travel alone, you have to learn the language of the country. Otherwise, your trip would be very difficult. Speaking the national language makes many things, like shopping and interacting with native people, much more easier. If you travel with a companion, you are possibly not anxious to learn the national language because your friend might already be able to speak this language. Speaking the national language enables you to get to know new cultures and customs, too. You might see strange customs, but on the other hand, you will understand them because you get familiar with the background of the people. If you travel with a friend, you might be not as open for new things as you are when you travel alone. Last but not least, you have the opportunity to get to know new friends when you travel alone. Interacting with other people is always the first step to find new friends and you might find someone, who accompanies you for a part of your trip. If you travel with a companion, there is no need to find new friends because you already have one. Altogether, I am sure that I prefer to travel alone. I would have more opportunities to get to know the language, the customs and the people of the country. As a result, I have the chance to experience a lot of new things.

Essay 294 Topic 45 Getting up early vs. staying up late

Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. Nothing is more precious than time. Of course, if we did not need to sleep, it would be better because we can have more time to do something but it is almost impossible. Sleeping is integral part for us. Therefore, we need to make and find time effectively so that we can have more time. As a result, getting up later makes me have several advantages.

The first reason why I prefer to get up later is that I prefer to go to bed late. Since I am a university student, I need to study. I usually choose night time to study because I can concentrate my attention on working at night more than in the morning or evening. Night

is good time for me to study because of the atmosphere. It is so quiet that I study hard without being annoyed surround noise.

The second reason I prefer to get up later is that there is more things to do in the afternoon and night. Even if I wake up early, what can I do? I may take a walk, read a newspaper, watch TV while I am drinking coffee. I can do all of them in the afternoon and night, too. I can read a newspaper at night. I can drink coffee at night. However, can you drink in the morning? Can you play with your friends excitedly in the mooring? People usually more excited at night. You can do anything at night you can do in the morning but the reverse is difficult.

Finally, I must go to school on weekday. Therefore, I must wake up early even though I am sleepy. Even though I go to bed earlier, I will wake up the same time when I go to bed later. As a result, I can have more time.

Going to bed later and getting up early or at least at noon is most effective way we can use time well and enjoy ourselves.

Essay 295 Topic 46 Important qualities of a good son or daughter

Every child is different. However this difference comes from the family, environment in the house and the way one was raised. A son or daughter is considered good if she is respectful, successful at school, and tries to do everything possible to not let the family down.

Respect, in my opinion, is the most important criteria for a child. If children respect their parents they are never going to argue with them; parents' advice and opinion will be valuable. For example, in my family my sister and I will never disrespect our parents. Moreover, a respectful child will always take care of his mom and dad.

Both academic and athletic achievements at school are important for a child. Every parent would love to see their offspring's success, and it is delightful for them to hear from teachers how smart and grateful their child is. My dad always asks me about my school. If I brought him good news he would be very happy and that night we might go out somewhere, but if my marks were not so great, which is rare, my father would not even talk to me.

Finally, if a son or daughter is good she will not disappoint her parents. In my opinion, the worst thing that parents might know about their kid is that he does drugs; and if it happens parents become terrified and worried for teenager's health and future. You can also make your parents worry by not coming home on time, having a friend with criminal record, and by not communicating with the family.

Shortly, a child should love and respect his parents, try his best at school, and never make his family worry. This is the only way you can make your parents be proud of you.

Essay 296 Topic 46 important qualities of a son

In Chinese culture, a person who is filial and obedient to his parents is regarded as a good son. Confucianism, an ideology that had great effect on the Chinese society, stresses the importance of harmonious interpersonal relations between family members, particularly that between parents and children. Judgment on a man is often based on his attitude toward his parents. Confucian classics contain many principles regarding the "right" conducts people should have to handle the relation with their parents. For instance, people in the past were required to pay respects to their parents everyday in the morning. Children should follow whatever orders or instructions their parents issued. A person who was most respectful to his parents was highly praised and often set up as a model in the society. The ancient Chinese thought that there was a connection between the relations within the family and political institutions of the country. They extended the formula of administering a family to social and political affairs. In other words, the Chinese people ran the country on the principles based on family life. The emperor was respected by his subjects as a father was by his children. An official faithful to his lord was often compared to a son filial to his father. However, China has undergone great changes over the past century. Influenced of western thoughts, the Chinese people have revised and transformed many traditional ideologies and their way of thinking. Parents have no longer had absolute authority over their children. Now young people may stand on an equal relation with their parents and they stress more personal freedom and independence. But the traditional ideology remains to be very influential, a good son who is respectful to and takes cares of his parents is considered by others as one of high moral character.

Essay 297 Topic 47 Working for a large company vs. working for a small company

No doubt, I choose to work for a small company because there are too many benefits that outnumber its disadvantages not to choose. But working for a large company has advantages no more than its disadvantages.

The most important benefit of working for a small company is that I will have many chances to develop. In general, a small company is a developing enterprise and it is not easy to absorb many excellent employees. If I enter this small company, I think that the boss will appreciate me and give me many opportunities to reveal my abilities. Only I let the job do well, I am sure that I will rise very rapidly.

On contrary to this, a large company is already a high developed institution. There are many prominent talents working for it. A good position will absorb hundreds of opponents. It will take me a lot of time and vigor to get this position. Maybe I have no chance to win this competition at all.

Another benefit of working for a small company, which working for a large company almost cannot achieve, is that I can learn more skills in a small company than in a large company. As shown above, a small company is a developing enterprise. This means that it have no a great deal of money to employ many persons. So, I can do all kinds of jobs at the same time. I think that this will be useful to compete in the society. But in a large company, maybe I only engage a monotonous job over a long period of time. I believe that this will be helpless to improve my capacity.

Of course, choosing to work for a large company also has advantages to some extent. For example, it will afford handsome salary and will be not easy to fail in business competition. But from my own development, I still want to work in a small company. In addition, I believe that every large company originates from a small company. Maybe I will become an important person when the small companies in which I work become a large company.

Essay 298 Topic 47 Working for a large company vs. working for a small company

I have had one-year experience of working for big company and two-year experience of working for some small companies. So now I evaluate that working for big companies should be always better than working for small ones. In a big company, you can have a stable job with high salary, get a lot of experience with new technology and widen your relationship with more helpful friends, which may not be found in a small company.

In a big company, you never have to think about losing your job; you never have to worry about delaying in getting your salary. In my case, when I worked for some small companies, they had very few projects so that the income of the company depended on those small projects; as a result, sometimes I got the salary late. In contrast to that, a big company always has many projects, so the company's income is more stable. Even some projects may fail, but you never have to worry about losing your job and delaying in getting your salary

What you get more in a big company that you cannot get in a small company are new ways of working and new ideas. There are so many kinds of jobs in a big company, so you can feel free to select the best one that suits you. In addition, working with many people means you can learn a lot of new ideas so it may help you to have your work done in the fastest way. Another advantage is that, in a big company you do not have to face to heavy job pressure, so you may have more time for your studying and your family, which will give you better future.

The last but not the least, getting more relationships which cannot be found easily in a small company but might be found easily in a big company. In big companies, you work with many kinds of people with many kinds of characteristics, so you will have more relations not only in that company but also with other friend companies. And when you have more relations, it will help you succeed more easily.

Based on all discussion I have made above, with all of my experience, I strongly believe that working for a big company will give you more advantages than working for a small company. Those are stability, high salary, a lot of experience and new relations which will help you go through your life easily.

Essay 299 Topic 47

I have had one-year experience of working for big company and two-year experience of working for some small companies. So now I evaluate that working for big companies should be always better than working for small ones. In a big company, you can have a stable job with high salary, get a lot of experience with new technology and widen your relationship with more helpful friends, which may not be found in a small company. In a big company, you never have to think about losing your job; you never have to worry about delaying in getting your salary. In my case, when I worked for some small companies, they had very few projects so that the income of the company depended on those small projects; as a result, sometimes I got the salary late. In contrast to that, a big company always has many projects, so the company's income is more stable. Even some projects may fail, but you never have to worry about losing your job and delaying in getting your salary What you get more in a big company that you cannot get in a small company are new ways of working and new ideas. There are so many kinds of jobs in a big company, so you can feel free to select the best one that suits you. In addition, working with many people means you can learn a lot of new ideas so it may help you to have your work done in the fastest way. Another advantage is that, in a big company you do not have to face to heavy job pressure, so you may have more time for your studying and your family, which will give you better future. The last but not the least, getting more relationships which cannot be found easily in a small company but might be found easily in a big company. In big companies, you work with many kinds of people with many kinds of characteristics, so you will have more relations not only in that company but also with other friend companies. And when you have more relations, it will help you succeed more easily. Based on all discussion I have made above, with all of my experience, I strongly believe that working for a big company will give you more advantages than working for a small company. Those are stability, high salary, a lot of experience and new relations which will help you go through your life easily.

Essay 300 Topic 47

I have had one-year experience of working for big company and two-year experience of working for some small companies. So now I evaluate that working for big companies should be always better than working for small ones. In a big company, you can have a

stable job with high salary, get a lot of experience with new technology and widen your relationship with more helpful friends, which may not be found in a small company. In a big company, you never have to think about losing your job; you never have to worry about delaying in getting your salary. In my case, when I worked for some small companies, they had very few projects so that the income of the company depended on those small projects; as a result, sometimes I got the salary late. In contrast to that, a big company always has many projects, so the company's income is more stable. Even some projects may fail, but you never have to worry about losing your job and delaying in getting your salary What you get more in a big company that you cannot get in a small company are new ways of working and new ideas. There are so many kinds of jobs in a big company, so you can feel free to select the best one that suits you. In addition, working with many people means you can learn a lot of new ideas so it may help you to have your work done in the fastest way. Another advantage is that, in a big company you do not have to face to heavy job pressure, so you may have more time for your studying and your family, which will give you better future. The last but not the least, getting more relationships which cannot be found easily in a small company but might be found easily in a big company. In big companies, you work with many kinds of people with many kinds of characteristics, so you will have more relations not only in that company but also with other friend companies. And when you have more relations, it will help you succeed more easily. Based on all discussion I have made above, with all of my experience, I strongly believe that working for a big company will give you more advantages than working for a small company. Those are stability, high salary, a lot of experience and new relations which will help you go through your life easily.

Essay 301 Topic 47 where to go

Each year, millions of students graduate from schools and join the army of people seeking for jobs. Many of them aim at getting a position in a large and outstanding company which often means higher income on average and good fame. Walking in and out the high buildings in downtown areas and wearing professional clothes and dressings, those lucky people working in big companies are admired by others. They are often referred as "white collars" or even "golden collars" who rank high in the society. A large company offer many advantages that are helpful to a person's career development. I am now working in a company which is one of the largest ones in China and ranks among Fortune top 500. Our office building is located at the most prosperous downtown area in the city. Staff members of our company have higer income than those of many other companies. In recently years, our company is aiming at proceeding into the world market and has established business connections around the world, which provides us with opportunities to work abroad. In short, working in a large company may enable us to gain valuable experience and have broader views in a competitive environment. But not everyone is suited to work in large companies. For those who like to work independently and enjoy more personal freedom, a small company may be a good choice. People in a large company may feel stable and be less likely to be dismissed, but they are also subjected to many restrictions imposed by the regulations of the company. A small company may require their employees to do more comprehensive works and give them

more free choices. In business, stagnation equals retrogression. Wherever we work, large or small company, it is essential to work hard to make progress. In a fast changing society, if we always stay where we are, we will face the risk of being surpassed by others.

Essay 302 Topic 48 Why people work?

Earning money they need to live is one of the most important reasons for people who work, but some other reasons do exist, at least it seems to me. People also work because they enjoy doing what they like, they like to work for a goal in a group, and they love the sense of success.

Almost everyone has some actions that are what he or she most likely to do. When they put most of their time on the things they love, they will feel they are the happiest guys on the earth. For example, some of the young today look forward to working as computer engineers, just because they love the moment to spend in front of the screen, the moment to put their tips on the keyboard, and the moment to solve a problem of it. To them the click of the mouth is a melody composed by themselves.

Some people insist on going to office everyday, although the Internet has made it possible for them to work at home. To them, they cannot be adapted to work at home without colleagues around them. To them, the feeling of a group is important. If they are separated from the working group, they will feel some lonely and sometimes may think that they were deserved by this world. So they will never give up the opportunity to work with others.

The last reason but never the least is that most of people like the feeling of success in the competition of modern society. For example, billionaires who have enough money to live a luxury life always see money in the check as a code of success. They works day after night, and only want to increase the number of the code, even though they know that the money they have is much more than they can use in their life, but they persist in working as if they are playing a race game.

From the reasons and examples above we can see that we work for money, but we do not work for money only. I believe that people who enjoy the work is happier than those who tolerate it only for the money.

Essay 303 Topic 48 Why people work?

It is commonly known that people work to earn money for their different living purposes and other needs. But truly, money is the only one part of people's desires and willingness to work. In the following paragraphs I will discuss some values of why people work, supporting my opinion with a few examples.

Since ancient times till nowadays human societies have developed moral aspects to

establish a civilized and systematic scheme of people's behavior. One of those aspects is a tendency to work in order to be successful throughout their lives. Since childhood, people are taught in a particular way to be accustomed to study, practice and work. They do their homework, pass tests and exams to acquire perfect results achieving important values of future working.

After graduation, people usually think about taking a new step in finding appropriate careers according to their life goals and gained knowledge. They aspire to acquire interesting careers in different fields of people's activities such as business, politics, medicine and so on. In this case, I think, people work to satisfy their aspiration and goals, showing different successful results in their fields of working in order to be respectful and admired by community members as a perfect example of being successful. Generally, I would like to say that, people work not only to earn money to live but also to achieve certain levels in their communities.

Essay 304 Topic 48 Why people work?

In modern society, work has already been a necessary means by which all the people live in the world, in spite of a few exceptions. First of all, people must work in order to get the money to meet their living. Besides, there are some more reasons that are also important for people's working, of which making continuous progress is what I mostly want to emphasize.

As we all know, the human being is an animal greatly more advanced than, and greatly different in many aspects from, other common animals in the world such as cats, horses, oranges and so on. So feeding is not the only aim that people live for, as is said in a Chinese saying, &"human beings are not living for only living. &" People also need to make continuous progress personally in the modern and continually changing world. And all kinds of work give people one of the most effective ways to make progress, which can be illustrated by some reasons below.

First of all, people can learn varieties of basic knowledge and abilities that they need to deal with all kinds of problems they may meet in study, life, or work in current society. All the abilities, except for those physiological functions, people need to live in the world are not innately, of which family and school could supply only a small part, and most of them must be given by work. For example, proper relationship in work is the basic warranty of your working successfully. While in work, you would learn how to deal with the relationship between you and your leaders of your company, if you are an ordinary employee, or the relationship between you and your followings if you are a director mastering the company. Further more, this rule can surely also be used when you affiliate with other people you meet in society.

Besides, on the way of making continuous progress, people usually cannot control themselves correctly by themselves in two basic aspects: the direction and motivation of progress. However, in the course of work, people will not lost their basic direction

according to the daily task given to them. As the same time, once you have a fresh task that can interest you, you also will process the motivation to finish it, which keep you making progress in your life.

In a word, there are various kinds reasons that people need to work, some of which usually combine to each other. So far as to me, however, making continuous progress is one the most important reasons because it is people's one of the most expected aims in their life, and work gives people a very effective approach to reach the aim.

Essay 305 Topic 48

It is commonly known that people work to earn money for their different living purposes and other needs. But truly, money is the only one part of people's desires and willingness to work. In the following paragraphs I will discuss some values of why people work, supporting my opinion with a few examples. Since ancient times till nowadays human societies have developed moral aspects to establish a civilized and systematic scheme of people's behavior. One of those aspects is a tendency to work in order to be successful throughout their lives. Since childhood, people are taught in a particular way to be accustomed to study, practice and work. They do their homework, pass tests and exams to acquire perfect results achieving important values of future working. After graduation, people usually think about taking a new step in finding appropriate careers according to their life goals and gained knowledge. They aspire to acquire interesting careers in different fields of people's activities such as business, politics, medicine and so on. In this case, I think, people work to satisfy their aspiration and goals, showing different successful results in their fields of working in order to be respectful and admired by community members as a perfect example of being successful. Generally, I would like to say that, people work not only to earn money to live but also to achieve certain levels in their communities.

Essay 306 Topic 48

It is commonly known that people work to earn money for their different living purposes and other needs. But truly, money is the only one part of people's desires and willingness to work. In the following paragraphs I will discuss some values of why people work, supporting my opinion with a few examples. Since ancient times till nowadays human societies have developed moral aspects to establish a civilized and systematic scheme of people's behavior. One of those aspects is a tendency to work in order to be successful throughout their lives. Since childhood, people are taught in a particular way to be accustomed to study, practice and work. They do their homework, pass tests and exams to acquire perfect results achieving important values of future working. After graduation, people usually think about taking a new step in finding appropriate careers according to their life goals and gained knowledge. They aspire to acquire interesting careers in different fields of people's activities such as business, politics, medicine and so on. In this case, I think, people work to satisfy their aspiration and goals, showing different successful results in their fields of working in order to be respectful and admired by

community members as a perfect example of being successful. Generally, I would like to say that, people work not only to earn money to live but also to achieve certain levels in their communities.

Essay 307 Topic 48 People work for money and more

Most people work because they need money to live. This is not true for some people who prefer to do it as a hobby, passion or research. Some others work because they need something to do besides sleeping, eating and watching television all day long. The twentieth century has brought up hundreds of new inventions and discoveries. Some of these scientists really enjoyed working; not because they needed money but because they liked to do research, gain more knowledge, and, sometimes, make some discoveries. I knew at the university a teacher of mine who used to work there because the university allowed him to use its labs for his experiments. He did not need money but a passion to follow. There are plenty of people who also work as a hobby; for instance, sportsmen and athletes. It is not about money but about a hobby they really enjoy doing it. Not to mention that it brings some other rewards such as fame, recognition, and prizes. At high school, John, my classmate, liked to run every day; It was his favorite hobby. Nowadays, he has won a lot of marathons (besides money) and championships by running as the fastest competitor. He still enjoys running as much as he did on high school. No wonder why he is so successful running marathons. Besides, I have found people that are used to work not for a need but they want to do something. They usually have a lot of money and do not have a clear goal in life. Working is a way of wasting their time; otherwise they will feel bored. In my neighborhood, there is a very rich family whose only child, a 25-year old gentleman, got a job nearby downtown because he did not know what to do with so much time available during the day. He really enjoys working because it is such a pleasure for him to serve other people. It is not because he needs money but because he just want to do something. Money is not the only reason for working. There are some other reasons such as hobbies, research, or passion. Also, a few people work because they just need something to do in a lifetime. Whatever the reason is, money is one of the rewards work brings.

Essay 308 Topic 49 Face-to-face communication vs. emails or phone calls

There are many different ways of communications, such as letters, emails, or telephone calls. However face-to-face communication still is the most efficient way to communicate among people.

First of all, face-to-face communication is indispensable in situations such as a relationship. Lovers need body contact such as a hug and a kiss, which cannot be done in letters or emails. Although lovers can use letters or emails to communicate, being apart for a long time is definitely not beneficial to a relationship.

Second, face-to-face communication is the most helpful way to express people's behavior. People need eye contact and body language to express their feelings.

Sometimes they are so happy or angry that they are out of words. At these times, there is nothing more efficient to express their cheer or sadness than a big hug or dancing. If a person visits a foreign country, his language is not fluent; gesticulations might help him or her understand more quickly. He can order simply by pointing our fingers to the menu when he is in a restaurant.

Finally, by face-to- face communication people can get direct response from others. When they talk with their friends, they can immediately gain feedback from their verbal response, body language and facial expressions. Based on these responses, people know what the next step is to take, such as how to carry on the conversation. Sometimes, speaking words and body languages may not mean the same thing. Although people can hear words through a telephone conversation from friends, people do not always know what friends really mean. This is also true in criminal inspections. Police inspectors would judge whether the suspect is telling the truth through his or her body languages; therefore, that helps quickly solving a criminal case. Thus, face-to-face communication is more perceptible and helps us understand a speaker's true feeling better than other ways of communication.

In brief, communication is very important for us, especially face-to-face communication. Face-to-face communication is good for people to understand each other better. Also, it is more visible, more direct and more effective than any other ways.

Essay 309 Topic 49 Face-to-face communication vs. emails or phone calls

Since that communication can be misleading, reducing the misleading of the communication may be important. I agree that face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication.

Language is a kind of good ways for communication, especially face-to-face communication. Through someone's body language, facial expression or even the tone they speak, we can know more clearly what they think or what they mean. However, there are more convenient types of communication, such as email or telephone calls. Face-to-face might be more important just because we need more contact with people that we can make sure of their feeling and expressing.

Many people may ignore that face-to-face expression may be a direct communication. We can react what we hear or what we see to people and discuss about what we think. More discussion might reduce the misleading of language because people can discuss the different ideas and find a balance of their results. Take myself as an example, I have some living habit problem with my roommates at first time we live together. We find many ways to get along with each other, but finally we find the best way is just talk to each other when we feel not good. Through this way, we can deal with our problems and try to get a balance, making sure everyone feels good in a very short time.

Make sure our expression of the words might not hurt someone. Face-to-face is the best

way to communicate. It is also a respectful ways to communicate with people in case we can show our kind in our expression.

Essay 310 Topic 49 Face-to-face communication vs. emails or phone calls

There are many different ways of communications, such as letters, emails, or telephone calls. However face-to-face communication still remains the most efficient way of communication between people.

Firstly, in face-to-face communication people can get direct response from the other party. When we talk with our friends, we can get feedback immediately from their verbal response, body language and facial expressions. Based on these responses, we can know what's the next step to take, such as how to carry on the conversation, and change the direction or finish the conversation if necessary. Sometimes, speaking words and body languages may not mean the same thing. Although we can hear words from a telephone conversation from our friends but we do not always know if they really mean it. This is also true in criminal inspections. Police inspectors can judge whether the suspect is telling the truth through his or her body languages, therefore get new clues and solve a criminal case more quickly. Thus, face-to-face communication is more perceptible and can help us understand a speaker's true feeling better than other ways of communication.

Secondly, face-to-face communication is the most helpful way to express ourselves. In communication it is just not enough for us to say the words; we need eye contact, body language to express our feelings. Sometimes we are so happy or angry that we are out of words. At these times, there is nothing more efficient to express our happiness or anger than a big hug or turn our face to another side. When we are a tourist in a foreign country, language is not always enough, and gesticulations might help us get understood more quickly. We can order in a restaurant by simply pointing our fingers to the menu when we do not know how to pronounce an item exactly.

Finally, face -to-face communication is indispensable in situations such as a relationship. Lovers need body contact such as a hug, a kiss and more, which cannot be done in letters or emails. Although lovers can use letters or emails to communicate, being apart for a long time is definitely not beneficial to a relationship.

In brief, face-to-face communication is a very important way for us. It is good for better understanding. It is more visible, direct and more effective than any other ways.

Essay 311 Topic 49 Response to Topic 49

In our developed society there are many means for getting in touch among people, such as e-mail, letters, and telephone calls. In my opinion however, the best way for talking with people is the traditional and the oldest method- face-to-face communication. I consider it the best way for communicating for several reasons. First of all, there are many things, such as gestures, emotions, body language that can't be interpreted by e-

mail, for example. By face-to-face communication you have the chance to understand what the other person is thinking at the moment. Gestures, signals and other kinds of body language are accounting for more than ninety percent of the whole conversation.

These signs mean a lot, but they can't be interpreted through other kinds of conversation. Moreover, as you speak with your partner face to face you can always understand if he is lying to you or if he is honest. By using other methods of conversation, you can't be sure of the person's sincerity and emotions. Another reason why I think the best method of communication is face-to-face communication is that you can talk to the other person immediately after him, with no delays. This is very helpful because if you don't understand anything you can just ask and you aren't likely to misunderstand something. For example, a few months ago, I talked with my boyfriend through the Internet and we were kidding. I told him that I wanted to break up our relationship and he didn't understand that I was joking. He was very surprised because he didn't get it in the right way. It took me few days to explain him that I didn't mean it. If we had talked face to face, he would have understood that I was joking and there wouldn't be this lack of understanding. In other words, I consider face- to-face communication the right and most secure way of communicating because there is no misunderstanding and you can feel the real emotions in the conversation that you can't feel in the other ways of communicating.

Essay 312 Topic 49 face to face talk

I agree that face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication, such as letters, email, or telephone. Nowadays people go from one place to another for various purposes: business men go to the market places to visit their customers or promote their goods; diplomats attend conferences to settle international disputes or crises; even military people from different countries hold regular talks to avoid misunderstanding or exchange ideas. On all such occasions, face-to- face talk is indispensable for them to attain their goals. Face-to-face talk provides an opportunity for people to have interactive communication. Today, companies that need to recruit new staff members generally require an interview with the applicants. Bosses may test the applicants' ability and try find whether they are suited to the jobs by asking them questions or even giving some quizzes. On the other hand, the job-seekers may ask the interviewers something they want to know about the company or the position they apply for. Another advantage of face-to-face talk is that one may communicate the other people he talks to by means of something other than languages. For instance, sometimes language constitutes an obstacle for communication between people of different countries. However, they can communicate with each other by using gestures, facial expressions, or other body languages. On other occasions, one may persuade other people by affecting their moods or feelings, which only possible when they face with each other. Of course, in many times, people use other types of communication, such as letters, telephone calls or email. For those who live far away, face-to-face talk may be too costly as they have to spent money and time for the traveling. Sometimes people have no need for direct talks as the matters may be too trivial and a letter or a telephone call is enough. But face-to-face communication has remained the most important means and has many advantages over others.

Essay 313 Topic 51 Taking risks vs. planning

It is truly hard for me to give a certain answer what does success exactly come from. I believe that it is a wrong way to depend only on chance or risk. On the other hand, I am not so sure that careful planning is the only factor for success.

When we talk about success we should be aware that it has different measurements. I can be a successful person in my job field, for example. It may mean both I have planned carefully my way to success and I have taken my chances right on time. If we quit our job looking for a better paid or more progressive work position, the real situation at work can destroy at once our expectations if we do not have enough information about the job, we apply for. That is why, any important decision that refers to our success at work should be made after careful planning along with taking rational risk.

Another aspect of success, I believe, is making and keeping a happy, well-bound family. In this case some people would say that it is crucial for everyone to know his partner very well before a serious engagement. While others feel that meeting the right partner is a stroke of luck and only a week appears to be quite enough for them to find themselves at the altar. Referring to love and family success results sometimes neither from taking risks nor from careful planning.

I hardly know a person who does not want to succeed in life. In my opinion, both viewpoints in the topic are extreme answers to the question: 'which way we should chose to success'. Life shows that everything in Nature should be balanced so if we find the same way sooner or later we will see that real success comes from taking risks and chances after careful planning.

Essay 314 Topic 51 Taking risks vs. planning

To reach success is a general goal of most people, however what success comes from is a public debate nowadays. Some people believe that success in life comes from taking risks, while others hold the idea of a careful plan. In my opinion, hard working, a careful plan and a good luck are the best way to head on success.

In the first place, a hard working people can get a good result. As all know, it is impossible to gain without suffering in pain. As a student, to receive a good mark is the most important thing. They work hard day in and day out just for a simple purpose. Furthermore, through hard working, students can learn a lot of knowledge not only about the subjects, but also about life and themselves. Finally, they will success in their study field.

In the second place, a careful plan plays an important role in success. Anyone without a good and careful plan for their study, work or life will not achieve a real success. Those people lack of managing skill for themselves. Sometimes it is very meaningful in many

cases, because a good plan can provide anyone a well organized mind, so that they will not in a hurry at most time. Moreover, they can well concentrate on their study or work too.

Last but not least, no one can succeed without a good luck. Obviously, it is one the most important thing in the process to reach success. When taking a road test, for instance, it is significant to have a nice examiner and an easy test line. This is result for those who have a bad luck, but eligible driving skill.

All in all, hard working is the basic step to success, as well as a careful plan. Also luck is significant for all cases. Those three factors make an easy way to achieve success.

Essay 315 Topic 51 Taking risks vs. planning

Everyone dreams success. When he or she is asked where that success come from, we got different opinions. Some people believe that success in life comes from taking risks or chances, while others believe that success results from careful planning. But in my opinion, both of them are not completely right. I believe that the success comes from careful planning, taking risks and working hard.

First of all, success needs us to plan carefully. Actually, only a very small school of people are success so far, and that will always be true. People know the opportunities of success are not anywhere. if they do not plan carefully in advance before they take some important actions, they will lose and suffer a lot. We can ask those successful people, such as politicians, CEO of big companies, and movie stars if they successes without plan carefully. I believe, nobody will say that.

Secondly, success needs us to take risk most times because success is not easy. We know the risk is lost. Nobody wants to lose. But only we do nothing, we never lose. If no taking risk could lead success, then everyone would be successful. It is not the case in the world. Whenever we do anything, make any decision, or take any action we have to take the risk. "No risk, no profit". This is popular law.

Furthermore, success means working hard, this is still because success is difficult. "no pains, no gains". Success always loves those people who work hard. The great politician, the former prime minister Mr. Churchill only slept 4 hours a day, all other time was used for his work.

In summary, although everyone like to become success, only those people who plan carefully in advance, take risks or chances, and work hard can enjoy the success.

Essay 316 Topic 51

When I think of success, there are several words such as perseverance, aspiration and obstacles come to my mind. Those words all related with the way which everyone faces while trying to succeed. Without these words, success cannot be explained. For me, Success is defined with the obstacles which I have overcome along the way to succeed, and perseverance and aspiration is the key to success. Following is my illustration. First, success is measured by many elements. When people try to succeed, there is a long process which they have to get through. For example, people who want to get a better job will prepare for a job interview and essay writing. However, some people can do better than others even if they are educated in the same school. This disparity is result from one's personality, uniqueness and effort. Also, confidence and luck will contribute to the success. However, all these elements can be obtained by the one's perseverance and aspiration. Even the luck can be led by the person's efforts. Therefore, success can be accomplished with these inevitable evidences. Secondly, the obstacles which one get through while trying to succeed imply one's ability to cope with the problem. If one can get over the higher obstacles, one can get closer to his or her success. However, it is difficult to define what is real success. Success is scaled by the individuals own purpose. Some people think of their success as a marriage, while others refer it as reputation or position in their work. In my opinion, success is the ability to deal with things. In other word, this is a progress. If I make a progress, I can handle what I could not do yesterday. So the Success is the future progress which is derived from my ability. All in all, Success, for me, is the progress which will happen in the future and it can be attained by getting over obstacles which face in the purpose of one's success. I believe that if people have a perseverance and aspiration, they can succeed in the end.

Essay 317 Topic 51

When I think of success, there are several words such as perseverance, aspiration and obstacles come to my mind. Those words all related with the way which everyone faces while trying to succeed. Without these words, success cannot be explained. For me, Success is defined with the obstacles which I have overcome along the way to succeed, and perseverance and aspiration is the key to success. Following is my illustration. First, success is measured by many elements. When people try to succeed, there is a long process which they have to get through. For example, people who want to get a better job will prepare for a job interview and essay writing. However, some people can do better than others even if they are educated in the same school. This disparity is result from one's personality, uniqueness and effort. Also, confidence and luck will contribute to the success. However, all these elements can be obtained by the one's perseverance and aspiration. Even the luck can be led by the person's efforts. Therefore, success can be accomplished with these inevitable evidences. Secondly, the obstacles which one get

through while trying to succeed imply one's ability to cope with the problem. If one can get over the higher obstacles, one can get closer to his or her success. However, it is difficult to define what is real success. Success is scaled by the individuals own purpose. Some people think of their success as a marriage, while others refer it as reputation or position in their work. In my opinion, success is the ability to deal with things. In other word, this is a progress. If I make a progress, I can handle what I could not do yesterday. So the Success is the future progress which is derived from my ability. All in all, Success, for me, is the progress which will happen in the future and it can be attained by getting over obstacles which face in the purpose of one's success. I believe that if people have a perseverance and aspiration, they can succeed in the end.

Essay 318 Topic 52 What change would make your hometown more appealing to people your age?

If I would be given a chance to work for my town, I would definitely like to change and improve drainage and water supply systems existing in the town. As these two are the basic amenities which should be given prime concern. I have given top priority to these problems so as to bring happiness and comfort to the dwellers of my town. I think, this is however a big task but always possible to deal with.

However it is known that no one can live on this earth without water. Thus water plays a vital role in man's life as water is needed for so many daily activities such as for washing clothes, for drinking purpose, for bathing etc. And if your town lacks this basic facility, it becomes a headache for everyone. Therefore I think that this problem should be seriously dealt with. The problem of water is caused in my town because the government has not changed pipelines supplying water for last many years which might have met with corrosion as the time progresses and due to this corrosion inside and outside the pipelines, flow of water is either blocked or obstructed resulting in a less or no flow of water at consumer premises. There are serious leakage problems also in some areas of the town on account of which precious water gets wasted. What I want to say is that infrastructure exists in the town but what is to be done is to pay attention towards the problem along with the periodical maintenance and periodical cleanliness of these systems. Until now no one was serious about this problem but now I have decided to do needful in this matter by holding meeting with the concerned authorities making them aware of the problem. I had given written complaints and if government would not be serious to deal with the problem, I have make up my mind to file the petition on behalf of each and every dwellers of the town in the court. And why shouldn't we go in to the court? We pay taxes to the government for what? Obviously for our easiness and comfort. It is our fundamental right to ask for these basic amenities.

In India many years ago, when the kings were ruling, they had taken a wise step of building ponds, lakes inside the town or city. One can also see rainy tanks inside some old houses and these tanks are built underground to store rainy water collected in rainy season. All these things were constructed keeping in the mind to collect water in a big amount during rainy season rather than to get it wasted. But today's modern politicians

have done a ridiculous job by sealing these lakes, ponds etc to acquire big money from builders and thus made a situation out of control and terrible. In spite of being the fact that 1/3 of the land on this earth is full of water, people have to suffer. These sufferings are panic which has arise from bad management of water supplying and different government policies.

Due to such a large problem, our town has to suffer a lot. People avoid working in our town as the industrial growth is also hindered. Also we are not getting enough electricity as people try to pump the water through pumps. Intellectuals like doctors, engineers also not ready to face this problem and are leaving the town causing more trouble to the dwellers.

Now I am fed up of this problem and have firmly decided to fought legally against the government so as to get the earliest resolution of this problem and I hope, I will be succeeded in my hard endeavors as I am fighting for humanity and I hope my serious efforts might open the eyes of concerned authorities to pay attention towards the above mentioned difficulty.

Essay 319 Topic 53 Is money the most important aspect of a job?

Nowadays many people have shared a belief that the most important aspect of a job is the money they earn. As far as I am concerned, I disagree with this statement and the reasons are given below.

Firstly, money cannot represent everything but only meets our needs of living; while a job can provide us with more important aspects such as the spiritual impetus, which can make people rich in spiritual life. One concrete example can throw some light to this point. Many people who have retired from their post will feel so idle that some of them cannot bear the life without work. Even there are some people who volunteer to work without pay.

The second reason I disagree with the statement lies in the fact that a job can make a person more progressive and cultivate many virtues such as carefulness, which also outweigh the importance of money he earns. A person taking a job will often face the difficulties and drawbacks in the task, which stimulates the person to work harder and more careful as well as to learn more knowledge from professional references.

The last but not the least, a person can get to know a lot of colleagues when working and benefit from the group. Since people working in a group can help and care for each other, which not only does good to the working spirits but also facilitates the accomplishment of jobs. This is called eamwork? which has become more valued when compared with money.

Admittedly, money is necessary for our daily life. Without money we cannot survive. However, money is anything but the most important aspect of a job.

Again, I would state my objection to the issue after analyzing the three reasons. The money a person earns is not the most important aspect of a job.

Essay 320 Topic 53 Is money the most important aspect of a job?

In modern societies, people pursue various careers that could provide tremendous salaries and successfully interesting life. It is commonly known that social statuses of individuals could be estimated and recognized according to their job occupation and average salaries earned annually. I firmly agree with the statement above since the estimation of money that people earn could be one of the most important aspects of people's jobs.

In the modern and competitive world, where money is the top priority of the people lives, it is very important to have a highly paid job in order to be a successful person. Today, modern communities are divided and interpreted into social statuses such as low, middle and upper ones. Particularly, the most important factor of the status estimation could be the money people earn and their job positions. Throughout the people's lives, most individuals are trying to accomplish and acquire the most rewarding and highly paid salaries that could be found in the upper class's job positions.

However, the quite interesting fact is that people could have different kinds of job positions, in which, the money they earn could be put aside since their jobs could be expressed as a priority of self-satisfaction. In this case, people usually could have two or more jobs, focusing on some of them as money earning ones, since the money is required for their needs of the every day life.

Finally, I would like to say that, most people try to accomplish all the necessary knowledge and skills gained from educational institutions in order to acquire job positions that are highly paid. This aspect of a job could initiate the willingness of younger generations to study and work hard in order to be successful of getting the most prestigious and outstanding job positions with the high salaries.

Essay 321 Topic 53 Is money the most important aspect of a job?

Nowadays many people think that their most important aspect of a job is the money they earn. But I think differently. In this assay I am going to argue money is not the most important aspect of a job.

The experience we can learn in the company is very important when we choose a job. While working, we may learn some skills that we have never been learned before. When I worked in a restaurant during the summer holiday, I learned the way to set seats, how to take the bill and how to help the customer to order food. This is all I could not learn from book or use money to buy. Although the salary was low I worked very happily. The skill

we learn in the job will be useful in life e but money will spend all. It cannot be kept but the skill can.

Working environment is important. It can affect people's working. If we work in a large company, we do not enjoy our work because of the poor environment. It will affect our work and make our performance not good. So to choose a good place to work is important. If we do not like the job or the environment, I think we are better look for another job and do not waste time!

Having mutual understanding among colleagues is important. If we do not communicate well with the people in company, it will cause misunderstanding. Although our salary is high, we will not have any friends in the company. It will make our work become boring and no mood to continue to work. So mutual understating is important. Social skills cannot learn from the book too. Gaining mutual understanding is important among counterparts in our workplace. All in all, money is not the only aspect to choose a job. The environment, what can be learned and the mutual understanding are very important too. If we are going to choose a job, we should think more clearly about all the factors. Do not only choose the job that the salary is high. Maybe the job is not suitable for us and we will work badly.

Essay 322 Topic 53 Is money the most important aspect of a job?

Job is a major issue, specially, in this era and one of the major factors that govern this issue is Income. Whoever is seeking a job, without the disparity of age, sex, religion and location, the prime consideration stays ow much will I get?. ?But my opinion is that this is not the most important aspect; in fact a person counts on a number of factors. In this essay I will discuss various aspects of a job and will argue against the idea that Income is the most important one.

It is the nature of man to seek luxury. And when certain desires are fulfilled, demands increase. This is a natural tendency. And this enlightens the importance of money. As the source of income is usually a job, it may seem to follow the rising demands of finances; and usually it does. This has become a common trend, a so-called un-official rule of progress, to kick away every hurdle in the way towards becoming rich. People do not take into account their close ones in this rush. But there is a back door of every room. When someone steps-in through that, concepts abruptly change. I mean to say, there is something called self-respect. No one will like to get a few bucks more by losing his honor and nibbling his head down or when reputation of a person is at stake, consideration of money evaporates. Same is the case, when there is a risk of life in a certain job.

The discussion can be concluded by saying that, people have different priorities, in different circumstances, but there are certain aspects that keep the highest hierarchy with them, under all circumstances. And to change the sequence is not a common practice, it takes more than just a man.

Essay 323 Topic 53

In modern societies, people pursue various careers that could provide tremendous salaries and successfully interesting life. It is commonly known that social statuses of individuals could be estimated and recognized according to their job occupation and average salaries earned annually. I firmly agree with the statement above since the estimation of money that people earn could be one of the most important aspects of people's jobs. In the modern and competitive world, where money is the top priority of the people lives, it is very important to have a highly paid job in order to be a successful person. Today, modern communities are divided and interpreted into social statuses such as low, middle and upper ones. Particularly, the most important factor of the status estimation could be the money people earn and their job positions. Throughout the people's lives, most individuals are trying to accomplish and acquire the most rewarding and highly paid salaries that could be found in the upper class's job positions. However, the quite interesting fact is that people could have different kinds of job positions, in which, the money they earn could be put aside since their jobs could be expressed as a priority of self-satisfaction. In this case, people usually could have two or more jobs, focusing on some of them as money earning ones, since the money is required for their needs of the every day life. Finally, I would like to say that, most people try to accomplish all the necessary knowledge and skills gained from educational institutions in order to acquire job positions that are highly paid. This aspect of a job could initiate the willingness of younger generations to study and work hard in order to be successful of getting the most prestigious and outstanding job positions with the high salaries.

Essay 324 Topic 53

In modern societies, people pursue various careers that could provide tremendous salaries and successfully interesting life. It is commonly known that social statuses of individuals could be estimated and recognized according to their job occupation and average salaries earned annually. I firmly agree with the statement above since the estimation of money that people earn could be one of the most important aspects of people's jobs. In the modern and competitive world, where money is the top priority of the people lives, it is very important to have a highly paid job in order to be a successful person. Today, modern communities are divided and interpreted into social statuses such as low, middle and upper ones. Particularly, the most important factor of the status estimation could be the money people earn and their job positions. Throughout the people's lives, most individuals are trying to accomplish and acquire the most rewarding and highly paid salaries that could be found in the upper class's job positions. However, the quite interesting fact is that people could have different kinds of job positions, in which, the money they earn could be put aside since their jobs could be expressed as a priority of self-satisfaction. In this case, people usually could have two or more jobs, focusing on some of them as money earning ones, since the money is required for their needs of the

every day life. Finally, I would like to say that, most people try to accomplish all the necessary knowledge and skills gained from educational institutions in order to acquire job positions that are highly paid. This aspect of a job could initiate the willingness of younger generations to study and work hard in order to be successful of getting the most prestigious and outstanding job positions with the high salaries.

Essay 325 Topic 54 Should one judge a person by external appearances?

Some people judge a person only by his or her external appearances. I disagree with their attitude. I think that one should never judge a person by external appearances.

Judging a person by his or her external appearances may mislead your understanding him or her. A person who has a pretty face and wears beautiful clothes may not have same kind of heart inside. On the other hand, the internal characters of a person cannot be judged by his or her external appearances.

If you judge a person only by his or her external appearances, you may lose chances to make good friends. Everyone has his own habits to choose clothes, hair style and the way to live. Maybe both of you have interests and hobbies in common. You cannot know this point because your wrong judgment from his different ways to deal with something prevents you from knowing his interest and keeps you too far from him to make good friends.

Judging a person by external appearances is unfair and one-sided. To evaluate a person fairly, you have to know his family, his situation and him entirely and clearly. A person who is from poor family may be intelligent and diligent. The one who can afford expensive clothes may be indifferent with others.

So I think that judging a person by his or her external appearances always leads us to draw a wrong conclusion about a person. It is limiting and unfair. Everyone longs for the understanding from others. So we should give others chances to show all of their characters and at the same time we should evaluate them fairly and objectively.

Essay 326 Topic 54 Should one judge a person by external appearances?

I do strongly agree that one should never judge a person by external appearance. I have following reasons and examples to support my opinion.

First, usually beauty attracts most people. One of the characteristics of human beings is that they are followers of beauty. Therefore, most of the time beautiful persons are at the center of public attention. However, in many cases the beautiful individuals are not very sociable and nice people to communicate. Sometimes they think that they are very unique and have supremacy against the others then they cannot behave well with others and people in spite of their beauty prefer not to communicate with them.

My second point is that in contrary, most ugly individuals are very nice and kind persons. For example, I had a classmate in my university that he was an ugly person. At first sessions of university classes when I was a freshman, I could not talk to him even a word. However, after one term, I could communicate with him more and then he became one of my best friends. He was very kind, very scholar and he could help me with many of my difficulties in the lessons. In the lab classes, the existence of him was very helpful for other students and he taught every thing that he knew to the others.

Third, in retrospect to humankind history, many of the cruel and tyrannical leaders or governors do not have special appearance characteristics such as ugly faces. Therefore, their appearances do not reveal their actual brutal feature. Nowadays, many murderers and criminals do not have special characteristics in their semblances to be recognized by the people or their victims. Mostly, they conceal their real face behind some attractive and beautiful masques. Their fake appearance can entice the unwary individuals. Then the governors should inform people about those criminals that have fake semblances and people should try their best not to judge the others from their appearance.

In general, I do believe that all people have some good and bad characteristics. However, the mental characteristics of different individuals are so vary that we can sense or fathom out them. Therefore, we must communicate with people with wise and caution. The people are not trustworthy just because of their attractive, beautiful or bountiful appearances.

Essay 327 Topic 55 Should one make an important decision alone?

People chose their friends for many different reasons. Some seek someone who is intelligent. Others want their friends to be reliable. While many of us prefer their friends to have sense of humor. However, the characteristic, I seek most in a friend, is reliability.

The reason why I consider reliability so important is that along with my family friends are the closest people I have around me. Therefore, I want to be able to rely on them as I always rely on my family.

When do we need our friends most? I would answer: when we are in trouble, or experience some difficulties, or we are truly unhappy. That is why, I always expect help, or advice, or some understanding from a real friend. But I can call 'real friends' only people that have proved I can rely on them; moreover, I can trust them without reserve.

In addition, I think that reliability is the most important in friendships because to be reliable means also to be tactful, to be able to keep secrets and to be ready to give hand in tough moments. What is more, real friends should depend on each other in any situation. Furthermore, if my friend is reliable I expect that he or she would never mislead me.

Of course, I appreciate friends who are intelligent or have sense of humor. It is always better to keep around me people I can talk to about everything or I can have fun and

laugh with.

I truly believe that the most important characteristic of a friend is reliability. But if someone possesses a lot of these qualities: intelligence, sense of humor and reliability this person will be the best friend the man can ever have.

Essay 328 Topic 55 Should one make an important decision alone?

Making a important decision alone or not absolutely depends on what kind of issue you have to decide on. We could not draw a conclusion simply that everyone must consider other opinions or allegiances otherwise he should never make a important decision alone. Different problem is solved by different method.

For example, the future private life plan, I think I can decide it by myself, because I know entirely what is suitable for me and what is my genuine interest. In case that my parents, teachers, or friends will all persuade me to agree with their varieties of suggestions, I would probably confuse. However, in the unknown field of our social life, it is better to ask other experienced persons or experts for help before deciding, such as stock market, real estate. I still remember what had happened, when I was seventeen years old and had to decide my major and university just before University Entrance Examination. A great many ideas came from relatives, parents and teachers into my mind, consequently making a decision became difficult for me. Finally, I choose a famous university with a hot medical major even though I am really interested in Computer Science concerned major. I regretted it until now and it almost lead to my quit from the university. I believe that things could be better unless I can decide it alone.

To sum up, I advise that you had better decide something alone if you could convince that you know all about it better that others. You are the one to enjoy your own life, not anyone else.

Essay 329 Topic 55 Should one make an important decision alone?

If you always have someone one around who is really helpful, you are lucky and can ask them about your important decisions. But sometimes you have to make important decisions by yourself for several reasons.

Sometimes you are alone. For example, when you start to study in a foreign country. Your parents and your friends are not there. Thus you have to make some important decisions by yourself, like if you need to have a part-time job, how to buy a car or if you need to get a loan and how. Those decisions are all important to you, but no one is available to help you that time. Your parents and friends in your own country really don't know what's going on, and your new classmates or teachers hardly know you. In that situation, you have to make all the important decisions by yourself.

Furthermore, in many situations, the people around you don't have the same interests as yours. Many parents are like to help their children to decide their futures. If the father is a doctor, he may want his kids to be doctors, too; if the mother was graduated from MIT, she may want his children to send their applications there. In that case, you have to consider carefully by yourself. Do you really interested in what your parents' interests? Maybe you'd rather be an engineer instead of a doctor. That time, you have to make the important decisions by yourself.

Although you may find your decisions are wrong at last. And since they are important, the loss will be big so you may want other people to have the responsibility of the possible big mistakes. But you can only learn when it's you who lead to the failure. Otherwise, you'll either fail or learn nothing.

Anyway, it's always good to have other people giving you suggestions. Many people there are more experienced in some aspects, and many people there are really care about you. Their advices are usually very useful. But if it seems only you can make the decision, just go on, or you may miss your own interests and regret in the future.

Essay 330 Topic 56 Should a company give money to support the arts or protect the environment?

Civilization has changed made things in this world. One of the major impacts of this civilization is the use of factories to make goods. These factories differ from each other in many ways. But all of them have things in common. These are: firstly, all have inputs, then all produce the goods, finally all have waste products. It is on these similarities that I bias my discussion.

If a newly opened factory has to survive, it should recruit officers to fill up open jobs. And this is most likely done among the community that the factory is built in. Many other kinds of business establishments would be created in association with the new flow of human resource. In addition this factory would compel other kinds of business making opportunities that would boost the economy of that particular community. Furthermore, the community would be benefited from the products of the factory. It would even be better for the community to buy goods from the factory since the price of goods gets more expensive when your moving further away form the source.

However, the waste products produced by this factory would be hazardous to the environment the community lives in, there by affecting the community itself. As most of environmental problems, the effect of the waste products of the factory would be gradual and would not be noticed until much damage has been made. Therefore, in the long term, the factory would deteriorate the environment and would ultimately make it unsuitable to live in.

I would most likely support the building of a factory if such kind of offer came upon my

community. Here I must once again mention the fact that I live in a poor country, which means that a factory would be compulsive. My community would most likely welcome a source of income and might be filled with apathy towards the future.

In conclusion a factory may have both advantages and disadvantages. If it were to be built in a community it would be beneficiary and damaging at the same time. Therefore it all depends on the status and perception of the community.

Essay 331 Topic 57 Serious movies vs. entertaining movies

This is a very flexible topic to argue upon. Both the sides have their own pros and cons. But I would like to argue on the fact that the movies are to amuse and entertain the audience rather than fomenting their emotions and causing them to think. In the following paragraph, I have supported my argument with some examples.

Think of a person who is working the entire day. While he returns home, he will be completely exhausted and will start feeling that he leads a very hectic life. At that situation, if he watches a movie which is full of lively pranks and jokes, he will be revitalized like a battery that is being recharged. This is what everyone wants, especially when they are dejected and doomed.

On the other hand, when a person watches a movie that is very serious and emotional, it will only raise his tiredness. He will be having a lot of thoughts in his mind, like, what to do nest ? what is my first job when I go to work tomorrow? what are my assignments tomorrow ? what is my account balance? Among all these numerous things, when he watches a movie that contains serious dialects, he will start thinking about those things. This is not the thing that he has to put in mind to relax.

Moreover, a movie can be made to convey a thesis in an entertaining way rather than by serious ways. This will do more good for children also. We would have seen many kids who will be imitating their favorable characters. For example, the American kids are greatly moved by the cartoon character called the 'Barney', after seeing which they try to talk in the same accent and style. So children can be molded through their favorite character. The movies can be made to convey a good moral through their famous stars, which will inculcate a deep emotion in them in the right way.

On the contrary, when a serious movie is watched by the children, they are left confused and soporific, that the neglect it even when there is a good moral in it.

Hence, I conclude that, the movies which are filled with amusement and entertainment will be appreciated by most of the people of all categories. After all, movies are virtual world were impractical things can be put into practicality and ideology.

Essay 332 Topic 57 Serious movies vs. entertaining movies

Which kind of movies should be chosen, the serious movies or the amusing ones, is a prevalent topic undergoing wide debate. After pondering from several aspects, personally, I prefer the amusing movies. The decision I made is based on that they can give me relaxation, show me how to be humorous, and keep me in good spirits.

As we know, firstly the movies are designed primarily to amuse and entertain. After a hard working day, all I want to do is to get rid of the fatigue. A amusing movie make me laugh and relax while I am watching it. After the movie, I feel so good that I am ready to take the challenge of the next day.

Another reason for my propensity for amusing movies is that I can learn the humorous style they show. A humorous person is always welcome anywhere and anytime. When seeing amusing movies, I find many funny things in them. The ways in which actors speak, also the pose they show, are very humorous. I am affected so much that almost all my friends take it for granted that I can bring them a lot of fun, and no doubt, they like me.

Finally I want to mention that the amusing movies give me a good mood by helping me relax and get ride of fatigue. Then I can focus all my energy on my study. So, obviously, we can see how great benefit they give to me.

From what we discussed above, we can find the movies that designed to amuse and entertain are really helpful. And I like them very much.

Essay 333 Topic 57 Serious movies vs. entertaining movies

I have watched many movies. One type of these movies were serious, designed to make the audience think, while other type of these movies were designed primarily to amuse and entertain. If I have to choose which one I prefer, I will choose the first type of movies. That is because these movies are always more instructive than the second type of movies.

First of all, I enjoy appreciating the way how the director show me his ideas through the movie. Sometimes, the method the director used may be particular and special. Have you ever seen the movie named Chicago In this movie, what impressed me most is that the director assigned all the actors and actresses act as if they are carved wood figures in a situation of the hostess's public speech. At first, I thought it was very funny, until I realized that the director wanted to show us that the lawyer in that story controlled all the other people, just like the man who played the wooden figures. Then I was attracted deeper by this movie. Watching this kind of movie is like communicating with the director through the movie. So I love these movies most.

Secondly, through these movies, I can learn about something that only some particular people would meet. For example, I have never been to a war. But war actually took place earlier and a number of people in elder ages around me have ever been to a war. If I

hadn't seen the movies about the war, such as World war 2, I might hardly imagine what the soldier's life might be. Watching this kind of movies extended my eyeshot and help me communicate better with those particular people.

Lastly, I can feel really relax after watching these movies. After my busy working or studying, my brain needs relaxation. Watching movie can help me forget my work temporally and get relaxed. Someone may argue that the entertainment movies can give people more relaxation than serious movies. However, After watching these so called relaxation in the entertainment movies, I always found myself learned very little.

In conclusion, I love the serious movies better, because they are more instructive. They can show me movie director's idea, they can give me more information and they can relax me indeed.

Essay 334 Topic 57 Serious movies vs. entertaining movies

It is a controversial issue that what the main purpose of the movie is. Some people suggest that movies should be amusing and entertaining, while other maintain the opposite view, regarding the solemn movies are the best. As far as I am concerned, the former carries more weight.

I take this view on account of the following reasons. First of all, after a hard working day, people need to take a break and have a good change of pace. Amusing movies definitely meet such kind of requirement of people. Sitting in a theater and watching a amusing movie, people can temporarily forget all the troubles they got recently and enjoy the point of live, all of which will extremely promote people's attitudes toward live and work.

Second to take into account is that entertaining movies let people have the opportunities to participate in the situations that they never meet before. For example, a movie about racing car will give the chance to car fans to enjoy the hurtling speed and get in touch with the secrets that they cannot see from TV and newspapers.

Last but not least, both amusing and entertaining movies make people relaxed, and such relaxation is very crucial to the people's health.

However, just as English proverb goes,?a coin has two sides? those who maintain the opposite view are partly reasonable that solemn movies may be the best choice of teaching history and theories.

Even the factor I outlines, we can easily conclude that, generally speaking, the primary purpose of the movie is entertainment.

Essay 335 Topic 57 Serious movies vs. entertaining movies

It makes me sensitively to think of Hollywood place where movies were first made

before World War I. In those days, Hollywood movie was like a magnet, drawing ambitious young men and women form all over the world.

Up till now, there is nothing that can substitute for the position of movies that is the most efficient way to relax ourselves. I prefer to the movies designed to make the audience think. As far as I know, most movies are supposed to be made from the source material that mirrors a part of the social events. That means there is another methods to force us to think about what we have done for our country, what is our responsibility in the society and so on. De facto what kind of information we need can be gain from different medias including television, Internet, radio, newspapers, especially from some movies.

Tracing back to my childhood, I like watching the first work directed by Alfred Hitchcock,Rebecca. So young though I was, it did make me sunk into contemplation. Not only did the plot make me a little confused, but also it really told me the truth that whoever is right or wrong, no one can live in the shadowy place and everyone must live his or her own live, enjoy the sunshine belonging to their own.

Ad hoc, a movie worthy thinking about should conquer everything, including one's heart, never fade with time going by, even be possible to change our lives.

Here I cannot help siding with the other view, however it does not mean that we should totally ignore it, this is not a matter of making an ither-or?judgment. What we want to clarify here is what is primary and what is secondary.

If permits, a movie primarily designed to make audience think add some amusement and entertainment, just like tasting a cup of cappuccino.

Essay 336 Topic 57 Serious movies vs. entertaining movies

Movies have become more and more popular in our daily life. Many people like to choose to go to a theater or watch movies on TV in their spare time. However, it seems that different people have different tastes. For example, some people like to see some serious movies; on the contrary, others may enjoy the ones just entertaining themselves. As far as I am concerned, I prefer the former ones, the kind of movies designed to make us think.

Firstly, serious movies can give us something to think about. Unlike amusing ones, probably there is nothing still left in our mind after a certain period of time. Comparatively, serious movies are supposed to stipulate the audience to think, acquire something valuable from the thinking and then keep it in mind for a relatively longer period of time. Such is a kind of course of learning, and what we obtain in this way maybe turn out to be a necessary supplement to what we learn from the textbooks.

Furthermore, the serious movies can help us gain some life experiences we might have not had in our real life before. Through imaging ourselves being in the plot, we may get

to know how to make the proper reactions in different situations. Also the movies give us the opportunity to think or value whether the roles act right or not, through which we are sure to become smarter than before, which is definitely benefit to our future life.

For us young generation, we need to learn something new every day by different ways. In this case, thinking is incredible for us. Fortunately, serious movies play a right role in leading us to a more thinking life.

Essay 337 Topic 57

This is a very flexible topic to argue upon. Both the sides have their own pros and cons. But I would like to argue on the fact that the movies are to amuse and entertain the audience rather than fomenting their emotions and causing them to think. In the following paragraph, I have supported my argument with some examples. Think of a person who is working the entire day. While he returns home, he will be completely exhausted and will start feeling that he leads a very hectic life. At that situation, if he watches a movie which is full of lively pranks and jokes, he will be revitalized like a battery that is being recharged. This is what everyone wants, especially when they are dejected and doomed. On the other hand, when a person watches a movie that is very serious and emotional, it will only raise his tiredness. He will be having a lot of thoughts in his mind, like, what to do nest? What is my first job when I go to work tomorrow? what are my assignments tomorrow? what is my account balance? Among all these numerous things, when he watches a movie that contains serious dialects, he will start thinking about those things. This is not the things that he has to put in mind to relax. Moreover, a movie can be made to convey a thesis in an entertaining way rather than by serious ways. This will do more good for children also. We would have seen many kids who will be imitating their favorable characters. For example, the American kids are greatly moved by the cartoon character called the 'Barney', after seeing which they try to talk in the same accent and style. So a children can be molded through their favorite character. The movies can be made to convey a good moral through their famous stars, which will inculcate a deep emotion in them in the right way. On the contrary, when a serious movie is watched by the children, they are left confused and soporific, that the neglect it even when there is a good moral in it. Hence, I conclude that, the movies which are filled with amusement and entertainment will be appreciated by most of the people of all category. After all, movies are virtual world were impractical things can be put into practicality and ideology.

Essay 338 Topic 57

This is a very flexible topic to argue upon. Both the sides have their own pros and cons. But I would like to argue on the fact that the movies are to amuse and entertain the audience rather than fomenting their emotions and causing them to think. In the following paragraph, I have supported my argument with some examples. Think of a person who is working the entire day. While he returns home, he will be completely exhausted and will start feeling that he leads a very hectic life. At that situation, if he watches a movie which is full of lively pranks and jokes, he will be revitalized like a battery that is being

recharged. This is what everyone wants, especially when they are dejected and doomed. On the other hand, when a person watches a movie that is very serious and emotional, it will only raise his tiredness. He will be having a lot of thoughts in his mind, like, what to do nest? What is my first job when I go to work tomorrow? what are my assignments tomorrow? what is my account balance? Among all these numerous things, when he watches a movie that contains serious dialects, he will start thinking about those things. This is not the things that he has to put in mind to relax. Moreover, a movie can be made to convey a thesis in an entertaining way rather than by serious ways. This will do more good for children also. We would have seen many kids who will be imitating their favorable characters. For example, the American kids are greatly moved by the cartoon character called the 'Barney', after seeing which they try to talk in the same accent and style. So a children can be molded through their favorite character. The movies can be made to convey a good moral through their famous stars, which will inculcate a deep emotion in them in the right way. On the contrary, when a serious movie is watched by the children, they are left confused and soporific, that the neglect it even when there is a good moral in it. Hence, I conclude that, the movies which are filled with amusement and entertainment will be appreciated by most of the people of all category. After all, movies are virtual world were impractical things can be put into practicality and ideology.

Essay 339 Topic 57 serious and entertaining movie

While some movies are designed primarily to amuse and entertain, there are other kinds of movies, which I personally prefer, urge audience to think and contemplate. My preference of such kind of movies is attributed to various reasons. Concurring with the opinion saying that art by all its kinds, and among them movies, are nowadays playing a role in educating people and prodding them to think because they may reflect the reality as it is without any retouch or makeup. One of the movies that illustrate the aforesaid is American Beauty. This movie which won a number of Oscar awards pictures the disunity that roles the relations in some of the American families. We are seeing movies besides being amusing or entertaining are making people think. Being directed by distinguished directors and devoted producers, there are movies that show reality as it occurs within a comedian formula. An example of that is The True Man Show. The movie contains some funny shots but also pointing out how the communication means like TV channels are intruding the privacy of our lives for the sake of increasing the viewers rate of the programs they are producing. Being seen by millions of people around the globe, I believe that the importance of movies is gradually increasing. Some people prefer watching movies than sitting and reading books because movies satisfy their needs better. Therefore, more efforts should be devoted for the production process of movies to see, hopefully very soon, superior movies that entertain and educate at the same time.

Essay 340 Topic 58 Should businesses do anything they can to make a profit?

It is claimed that the only aim of business is to make a profit. Moreover, it is thought that running a business without making benefits makes no sense. Actually, from an economic point of view, the statement "businesses should do anything they can to make a profit" is

thoroughly true. However, from a moralistic and legal point of view that statement seems not quite well sustained.

I consider that to make a profit means a person deals with business to be as flexible as possible. It means to put new technologies in operation or to explore new scientific areas. Furthermore, to invest in individual improvement of employees' professional skills and to be awake of the global market tendencies are things absolutely necessary for the modern management of business.

Unfortunately, business is not a quite fair game. It is well-known that sometimes businesses have their own "dark" sides such as tax evading, illicit trade or disloyal competition. In addition to this, many employers make their employees get overworked without any extra payment.

Another point worth mentioning is that businesses do not care enough about environment and they frequently pollute it. Law in most countries prosecutes these actions, although some businesses keep breaking it without any punishment.

I consider that businessmen sometimes forget about utter limits in their ambitions to make a profit. Generally speaking, I do agree that businesses should do anything they can to make a profit but do not forget that anything does not mean everything.

If I ran my own business I would do it in a way that would neither ruin my name nor corrupt my conscience.

Essay 341 Topic 58 Should businesses do anything they can to make a profit?

When it comes the issue of the business development strategy, some people suggest that one company should do everything it can to make money, while others maintain the opposite view. As far as I am concerned, business should not be entirely profit oriented.

I take this view on account of the following reasons. First of all, totally profit oriented companies may make decisions and develop some industries, which may extremely destroy the environment, and overlook the health problems of human beings. For example, one chemical factory may outlet its high polluted materials directly into a river for the purpose of reducing its cost. With the new law and the development of social awareness, such kind of companies will be swept out sooner or later.

Second to take into account is that making money not in proper methods will eventually hinder the development or even destroy the company. To make best profit, companies may be dishonest, cheat their partners, or do something illegally. Probably, they can achieve the temporary prosperity but can never develop constantly by using such tricks.

Last but not least, employees are the fundament of the company's success. How can expect such dishonest and totally profit oriented companies have outstanding and real

honest people.

However, just as English proverb goes, coin has two sides? those who take the opposite view are partly reasonable that making profit really plays a crucial role in the company's existence and continuous development.

Even as the factor I outlined, we still can easily conclude, generally speaking, making profit should not be the orientation of business.

Essay 342 Topic 59

%% Wrong topic ID %% The last 20th century has been a century of advances and developments: the emergence of Inter-net and web technology. When I think of the 21st century, I am afraid to say that nothing but only bad come to my mind: overspreading epidemics, increasing religion conflicts and resources overusing. The first thing that has hit my head is the overspreading diseases which modern medicine has nothing to overcome. For example, in China, there were hundreds of people had a new disease called SARS, a killer responsible for over one hundred people. In HongKong and Vietnam, the bird flu infected large numbers of poultry and caused children's death. In the United States, the west-Niles virus is feared among public since it transmits through mosquito. All of these diseases are new to human because of their rare genetic structure. Modern medicine is challenged by such diseases. However, there are only prevention but not cure. Another thing which on every-day news is religion-related terrorists. Even now the American- Iraq war has been tensioned in spite of the last's cease-fire. Some people say that this is a war between Christianity and Islamic, others insist that this a war aimed to oil power. As a result, innocent children and public are sacrificed for those so-called cause meaning justice or security. It is hard for me to understand that how much human-beings have involved from animals, if we can only use force in this high technology time. The last but not least thing that occurs to me is the concern of natural resources. Despite the fact that we are running out of available natural resources such as clean water, oil, and natural gas, our life is becoming more and more convenient, which means we will consume more energy than ever. This is also a vital problem for human's existing. For the three factors I have mentioned above, I believe that there are some changes in this century, although I doubt whether those changes will lead us to happier future than now.

Essay 343 Topic 59

%% Wrong topic ID %% The last 20th century has been a century of advances and developments: the emergence of Inter-net and web technology. When I think of the 21st century, I am afraid to say that nothing but only bad come to my mind: overspreading epidemics, increasing religion conflicts and resources overusing. The first thing that has hit my head is the overspreading diseases which modern medicine has nothing to overcome. For example, in China, there were hundreds of people had a new disease called SARS, a killer responsible for over one hundred people. In HongKong and Vietnam, the bird flu infected large numbers of poultry and caused children's death. In

the United States, the west-Niles virus is feared among public since it transmits through mosquito. All of these diseases are new to human because of their rare genetic structure. Modern medicine is challenged by such diseases. However, there are only prevention but not cure. Another thing which on every-day news is religion-related terrorists. Even now the American- Iraq war has been tensioned in spite of the last's cease-fire. Some people say that this is a war between Christianity and Islamic, others insist that this a war aimed to oil power. As a result, innocent children and public are sacrificed for those so-called cause meaning justice or security. It is hard for me to understand that how much human-beings have involved from animals, if we can only use force in this high technology time. The last but not least thing that occurs to me is the concern of natural resources. Despite the fact that we are running out of available natural resources such as clean water, oil, and natural gas, our life is becoming more and more convenient, which means we will consume more energy than ever. This is also a vital problem for human's existing. For the three factors I have mentioned above, I believe that there are some changes in this century, although I doubt whether those changes will lead us to happier future than now.

Essay 344 Topic 60 Are games important to adults?

I strongly support the idea that games are as important for adults as they are for children. As an adult, I have realized that need something interesting in my normal life. Playing games is an great option. I will render my opinions as follow:

Firstly, as we can see, many kinds of games in the society make for adults, such as gambling, extremely violent computer games, and so on. Obviously, game is one kind of entertainment. There are so many products that only sell to mature. As it is for children, game is also an activity for adult that is important.

Secondly, we have to relax after the busy working. Relaxing ourselves well is an effective way to prepare for the work of tomorrow. For example, if you are a social worker, you have been talking with some members of the society, who have troubles, for a whole day, and you still keep working on the housework non-stop when you should have a rest, you will fall down one day. That is impossible for you to get back to with a good mood any more. Game is not the only way for an adult to relax, but as a convenience method, it is important for adult.

Thirdly, we will live in a gray environment without games surrounding us. We will have no happiness and be sad all that time. Why children can be so innocent and naive? This is because they can get fun from games. The same thing will take place to adults. Games can mostly make fun. The sociable people are conversable and easy going. The reason for that is they play games with you as communicating with you. Therefore, games can make you accessible and widely welcomed. That is very important.

Games are the recreation in the life, the way of relaxing, the way of reforming yourself, as they are for children, they are important for adults too.

Essay 345 Topic 61 SHould parents make decisions for their older teenage children?

In today's fast paced society, parents and adult relatives play a significant role in shaping a child's life. They teach them how to live, how to make a right decision, & struggle for achieving their goals. Most of the teenager thinks that they are able to make all decisions in their lives. In my opinion, I strongly agree that parents and adult relatives should make important decisions for their teenage children because teenagers are inexperienced, over-confident and do not realize the consequences that the important decisions can have on their lives.

Teenagers being in the adult world and having their first experiences of their adult lives, think that they are capable to make their own decisions without parents opinion. However, most of the times, their friends influence their decisions. For instance, a student may get a scholarship into a top university, but just because of his/her friend is going to the college, he/she also follows to go to college too. This is not a creative or proud decision they have make. In this case the decision is obviously influential and in the future it may have great negative effects. So, parents or adult relatives should play their role to make decisions for their children.

Secondly and equally important, teenagers mostly are over-confident to make up their own decision. The teenagers have not enter the practical life, they are still fresh and do not have any idea of how practical world works. Teenagers are living in a kind of fantasy world before entering university. They think everything is cool and perfect or too ideal such that their mind is too easy and simple to make decision. For example, teenagers might think that playing badminton in school definitely can get them selected on national team. This may be true in some cases, but usually it would not work out in this way. So if they neglect their study, just to concentrate on their sport, they are going to be definitely loss and might give a deep impact of their lives.

All in as far as I concerned, I agree to stay that parents or adult relatives make important decisions for their teenage children because teenagers are lack of experiences and over-confident not be able to make decisions for themselves.

Essay 346 Topic 61 SHould parents make decisions for their older teenage children?

I disagree the statement. Parents or other adult relatives should not make important decisions for their older (15 to 18 year-old) teenage children. Their older teenage children should make the decisions by themselves. The reasons are as below.

The children will not be regret if they do the decisions. When children get the age 15 to 18 year-old, they have a lot of decisions to do. Most of them are about the rest of their lives. One of the most important decisions is the education one. Go to the college, university or work? Sometime the parents or other relatives like to make a decision for the teens with their idea, however, most of the time the kids do not like adults' idea. When the children grown up, they may feel regret. For example, I like history very and I

am doing very well in history. I want to study history in university. However, my parents want me to study engineering in university. While, I am a good child, I let them make a decision for my major. finally, when I get into the university, I could not get good mark, could not get scholarship, I could not get everything I expected. I am regret right now. I always think if I did that decision by myself, it will be much better.

Teens should learn how to make decisions. Parents or other adult relatives could not always make decisions for them, especially when teens grow up. The age between 15 to 18 is a perfect time to learn how to make a decision. Their parents or other adult relatives can help them. Remember, it is help them, it means give the teens some advices. The teens can think about their advices. The advices may helpful for teens to make decision. It is good for the teens' world lives.

In conclusion, teen's should make any decisions by themselves.

Essay 347 Topic 61 SHould parents make decisions for their older teenage children?

It seems a little bit difficult to choose approval or disapproval between these two opinions, because they both have their own positive sides and negative sides. To some extent, it is hard to distinguish strictly, but this does not mean they are of the same to me. After weighing two distinctive features, I disagree with the above statement that adult family members should make important decisions for their older teenage children, if personal quality is considered as a criterion to choose things.

There are many reasons that can account for my personal opinion. The most important one is that an big decision to these older teenage children may influence their life or behavior heavily in the future. The decision made by parents is not absolutely fit to their children or the young people will not satisfy with their parent's decision, though parents knew their children very well. If the children did not like the decision, they will not perform it very well automatically and, apparently, it will not get a good result. Like an eighteen-year old teenage children, he or she is going to enter a college or university. Which major will be taken is problem to them. A good, fit decision which is made by children's considerate thinking leads them to the way of success.

The second obvious reason is that learning how to make an important decision is an essential thing to these older children. From birth to growing, people always learn how to make decision either small one or big one. This is a necessary ability to everyone. A child when he or she is going to adult age especially should know how to distinguish things. The skill is absolutely useful to them. Parents could foster their older children this capability through giving them some valuable suggestions and the result of things will depend on children themselves.

Furthermore, a people should have responsibility to what he or she decides. Older

children make decision by themselves and they also should take on the result. This rule is very important to them, especially for their future. A responsible person is always popular among his or her groups.

In conclusion, fostering older children to make decision is an important job for adults.

Essay 348 Topic 61 SHould parents make decisions for their older teenage children?

First of all, it is not easy to define if people at the age of 15 to 18 are adults or children because they are physically grown up and intelligent enough to carry out general work like adults do in a company, while a lot of them are under their parents' control. I believe that they should be able to make important decisions by themselves, no matter how hard for them.

Needless to say, recognition of age and maturity is not universal sense. There were some times that 15 to 18 years old were recognized as adults and supposed to think and act independently. It was usual for women at the age of fewer than 20 to get married in my grandmother's generation in Japan. Even the present days, it maybe still a common thing in some developing countries. Thus, I guess it depends on whether the community is wealthy enough for 15 to 18 year-old children to be children or not. Women in my grandmother's generation needed to get married as soon as possible to have about 10 children in order to get enough labor forces for their family business and have them taking care of their parents and grandparents. In those days, children must have grown up with prediction of earlier age they had been supposed to become independent.

These days, women in developed countries do not need to have so many children anymore and they can go on to higher education, by comparison with early times. It has enabled mothers to get a job as well as fathers in order to make their family wealthier and keep their children beside them longer. As children are not expected to be important labor forces for their family anymore, it may not really matter if they are mature enough to make important decisions. Then how do children predict themselves to be independent at the age of 15 to 18 in such a situation?

I strongly believe that this phenomenon has made today's adults more immature and immoral. I could not believe that a lot of 20 year-old Japanese people attended the ceremony for Coming of Age Day with their parents this year. Unless adults stop treating young people like children, future adults will become even more immature. They still need parents' and other adults' advice to make important decisions but I cannot agree with the statement: parents or other adult relatives should make important decisions for their older teenage children. I would say that it is no more than spoiling children.

Essay 349 Topic 61 SHould parents make decisions for their older teenage children?

Some people think that parents or other adult relatives should make important decisions for their older teenage children. In my opinion, I disagree with this statement. There are

many reasons and examples to support my view.

The main reason for my view is that everybody should make decision by himself. Parents or adult relatives can advise some useful advices based on their experience, but only children can make the important decisions for themselves. For example, teenage children will choose the major when they prepare to enter college or university. Since only the children themselves know what is their most enjoyed, which career is that they would like to devote all their time to pursue. So this decision should up to children no their parents or other adult relatives.

Another reason for my view is that letting children make the important decision by themselves is very helpful to cultivate their independent, responsible character. If parents always make the decision for their children, it might lead to children overly depend on others. Furthermore, children do not need to be responsible for the result of the decisions. since decisions just were made by parents or others. So they have more reasons to complain about their awful situation.

Based all these reasons and examples, I believe that teenage children should make the important decision by themselves not by parents or adult relatives.

Essay 350 Topic 61

First of all, it is not easy to define if people at the age of 15 to 18 are adults or children because they are physically grown up and intelligent enough to carry out general work like adults do in a company, while a lot of them are under their parents' control. I believe that they should be able to make important decisions by themselves, no matter how hard for them. Needless to say, recognition of age and maturity is not universal sense. There were some times that 15 to 18 years old were recognized as adults and supposed to think and act independently. It was usual for women at the age of under 20 to get married in my grandmother's generation in Japan. Even the present days, it maybe still a common thing in some developing countries. Thus, I guess it depends on whether the community is wealthy enough for 15 to 18 year-old children to be children or not. Women in my grandmother's generation needed to get married as soon as possible to have about 10 children in order to get enough labor forces for their family business and have them taking care of their parents and grandparents. In those days, children must have grown up with prediction of earlier age they had been supposed to become independent. These days, women in developed countries do not need to have so many children anymore and they can go on to higher education, by comparison with early times. It has enabled mothers to get a job as well as fathers in order to make their family more wealthy and keep their children beside them longer. As children are not expected to be important labor forces for their family anymore, it may not really matter if they are mature enough to make important decisions. Then how do children predict themselves to be independent at the age of 15 to 18 in such a situation? I strongly believe that this phenomenon has made today's adults more immature and immoral. I could not believe that a lot of 20 year-old Japanese people attended the ceremony for Coming of Age Day with their parents this

year. Unless adults stop treating young people like children, future adults will become even more immature. They still need parents' and other adults' advice to make important decisions but I cannot agree with the statement: parents or other adult relatives should make important decisions for their older teenage children. I would say that it is no more than spoiling children.

Essay 351 Topic 61

First of all, it is not easy to define if people at the age of 15 to 18 are adults or children because they are physically grown up and intelligent enough to carry out general work like adults do in a company, while a lot of them are under their parents' control. I believe that they should be able to make important decisions by themselves, no matter how hard for them. Needless to say, recognition of age and maturity is not universal sense. There were some times that 15 to 18 years old were recognized as adults and supposed to think and act independently. It was usual for women at the age of under 20 to get married in my grandmother's generation in Japan. Even the present days, it maybe still a common thing in some developing countries. Thus, I guess it depends on whether the community is wealthy enough for 15 to 18 year-old children to be children or not. Women in my grandmother's generation needed to get married as soon as possible to have about 10 children in order to get enough labor forces for their family business and have them taking care of their parents and grandparents. In those days, children must have grown up with prediction of earlier age they had been supposed to become independent. These days, women in developed countries do not need to have so many children anymore and they can go on to higher education, by comparison with early times. It has enabled mothers to get a job as well as fathers in order to make their family more wealthy and keep their children beside them longer. As children are not expected to be important labor forces for their family anymore, it may not really matter if they are mature enough to make important decisions. Then how do children predict themselves to be independent at the age of 15 to 18 in such a situation? I strongly believe that this phenomenon has made today's adults more immature and immoral. I could not believe that a lot of 20 year-old Japanese people attended the ceremony for Coming of Age Day with their parents this year. Unless adults stop treating young people like children, future adults will become even more immature. They still need parents' and other adults' advice to make important decisions but I cannot agree with the statement: parents or other adult relatives should make important decisions for their older teenage children. I would say that it is no more than spoiling children.

Essay 352 Topic 61 Taking decisions

I believe that a person should most of the time makes his decisions particularly the important ones by his own because that will accustom him, to depend on himself and judge things in a reasonable way. The absolution rejection that a person should not take the important decisions alone is, in my opinion, wrong. This is because every individual wants to be independent and free. Decisions should be based on the perspectives of the concerned person and not to what some other people think or believe. While not ignoring

the importance of consulting and seeking the advice of elder and experienced people who might come through the same matters before, the final decisions should be always left for the related person to take since it is his life and his future. Parents, of course, should take decisions on behalf of their sons and daughters when they are children. But it is preferable that parents encourage their children particularly in the teenage to take decisions by their own and be responsible for the outcome or the consequences of their decisions whether being positive or negative. In adulthood, taking decisions is one of the main responsibilities of any person whether being a man or woman. Undoubtly, it is okay to ask other people for advice and guidance in certain matters to benefit from their experience but the final decision should always be left for the concerned person.

Essay 353 Topic 62 What do you want most in a friend?

I think what I want most in a friend is some one who is reliable. There is two reasons: first, I think a reliable person can be trusted, then, I think whenever I have trouble, I can rely on him, he will be sure to help me a lot.

First of all, as a friend of mine, he must be reliable, so that I can trust him. I think friends are the ones who share secrets with me. I must make sure that he is reliable, then I can tell my even the deepest secret in my heart, may be the skeleton in the cupboard. Well, I am just kidding, but I do think that being reliable is the most important factor of a friend. Imagine that once you told your secrets to your friend, and you found in the following day that everybody in the school was talking about your secret----not a secret any more---

how would you feel? It's such a horrible thing, is not it? Besides your huge anger, the only thing you could do is to regret that you didn't choose a reliable friend. Now you can see how important choosing a reliable friend is.

Secondly, a reliable friend is always ready to help you whenever you are in trouble. There is an old saying that friend in need is a friend indeed?which is very meaningful. That is what a reliable friend does. You can always rely on him. We can say that a reliable friend is a true friend. One is lucky if he has even one reliable friend in his life. Not too many words are needed for a reliable friend to help you, just one sentence hank you, my friend?is enough and you needn't think hard in the pay back because that is not necessary. That's the reason why I see reliability as the most important factor when I choose my friends.

A reliable person can be trusted and relied on---that's the two reasons why I think reliability is what I want most in a friend.

Essay 354 Topic 62 What do you want most in a friend?

riends are angels who help us stand up on our feet when our wings forget to fly? riends are the siblings God forgot to give us? riends are a gift from God? these and other similar quotes come up time and time again to try and find out the true meaning of a friend.

First of all, we need to know what exactly is a friend, and why is it that everyone seeks this relationship? Man is a social animal, and therefore, he cannot stay isolated. At some point in life everyone needs a person to confide in, somebody to look up to, somebody who is willing to listen to them, and somebody who stands by them through thick and thin.

In my opinion, it is wrong to expect too much off a friend, after all they are human being as well. But there are a few qualities a friend should posses. For me my friends are pretty much, all I have and so I look up to them for everything. It is important that a friend is reliable, trust-worthy, caring, dedicated, intelligent and most of all, someone who makes you feel comfortable, someone who makes you feel good about yourself.

A few people might say that one should choose friends who are intelligent, I don not, necessarily, agree with them, because friendship is a bond between two people that forms on its own. Although I agree with the fact, that an intelligent friend is a valuable asset, but if a friend is not caring and dedicated then there is no use of their intelligence, if you cant rely on them and cannot trust them then there really is not any bond or relationship.

Therefore, I would rather have friends who care about me and who stand by me in all sorts of situations than someone who is intelligent and good looking. After all friends are angels.

Essay 355 Topic 62 What do you want most in a friend?

Friends are very important in everyone's life. But there are different types of friends: some of them are very intelligent, some have a good sense of humor and some are reliable. What I want most is the friend who has a good sense of humor.

Humor is a very important character of a person, because a person who is humorous can always bring you happiness. I have a friend, who is not very intelligent and reliable, but he is one of my best friends, just because he has a good sense of humor. Whenever you call him, talk with him, he always tells you some funny jokes that make you laughing.

Even though you are in a very bad mood, he can make you laugh and forget the sad things. A friend with a good sense of humor is very optimistic; they can make your world full of light.

If a person doesn't have a sense of humor at all, that's really bad. No matter how intelligent he is, no matter how reliable he is, he will never bring you happiness, although he can help you solve a few problems, his world is without laughter. In my class there is a very smart guy, but because of his lack of humor, we do not like to play with him, although it seems that he knows everything.

Friend plays a very significant role in everyone's life. But humor is the most important character in a friend, because humorous friends make you happy and see the world

optimistically. They make your world full of hope, and full of laughter.

Essay 356 Topic 62 What do you want most in a friend?

One good friend can have many characteristics that are very important. Intelligent, sense of humor or reliability is all desired characteristics that somebody whom we call friend should have. Personally, I prefer friends who are reliable. This is the most important characteristic that a friend of mine must have. I often need to trust a friend something or need to ask somebody to do a favor. That is because I prefer people trustable much to friends with any other characteristic. First, if we have friends, we need some support from them about our businesses. We need somebody on whom to trust our problems and experiences. This is one reason because reliability is the most important characteristics of a friend for me. Some years ago I had some problems with a former girlfriend, and needed to tell somebody about it. Because I had a very good and trustable friend, on whom to trust that experience, it was very easy for me to overcome those problems and finally decide to break my relationship. If I had not have that friend, I would not have been able to overcome the situation as fast as I did it.

Second, usually when we need help, our friends are the first people whom we go. So, we need trustable friends on whom to rely to do those things. Some years ago I was to be out home for several months. My wife had to stay at home alone; it was a hard experience for our marriage. However, thank to a friend on whom I could truly trust, the experience was not so difficult. In fact, my friend went by my home everyday and saw how she, my wife, was going on. I had only been able to give that responsibility to a trustable friend.

In conclusion, a friend who is reliable, is the most valuable treasure that one can have in life. The possibility of having a friend on whom to trust secrets, confidentialities, problems, etc. is very necessary and important value. Additionally, we need some reliable friends to ask for some favor and be sure that they will accomplish what we have asked for.

Essay 357 Topic 63 Are difficult experiences valuable lessons for the future?

During our life-long time, there are times of frustration as well as times of happiness. Life is realistic and sometimes cruel, no body can lead a smooth and happy life without encountering any difficulties and obstacles. So the question is how to look at these setbacks and bad lucks. In my opinion, if you always uphold such a view that, most experiences in our lives that seemed difficult at the time will become valuable lessons for the future, then you will no only successful overcome your current difficulties but also enable you to hold a healthy attitude toward life. As a matter of fact, these frustration and unhappy experience exert an import and far-reaching influence upon our later life.

As the foremost reason, the past setbacks and frustration will teach you how to cherish

your current peaceful life. Undoubtedly, life is a combination of painful struggle and happy harvest. There is an old saying in China which goes like this: no pain, no gain. So it is only after experienced all these hardness, you can realize that the peaceful daily life is a kind of happiness and then you will cherish it more than before. Actually, the one, who never taste the bitter of pain, can never truly understand what the life is, how to enjoy life, as well as how to lead a meaningful life.

Another strong argument for my avocation is that the past painful setbacks will remind you, from time to time, to avoid the similar mistake you offended past when you encounter the same situation again. And it will also offer you a rich experience to overcome this kind of difficulties. Moreover, this time, when you bad luck come again, you have become more mature, composure and experienced for your past frustrations have offered you strong reference background.

There may be other reasons available to defense my argument, but as far as I am concerned, above two are the most convincing ones. Personally, I truly regard the past difficulties and frustration as the most valuable lesson to our later life.

Essay 358 Topic 63 Are difficult experiences valuable lessons for the future?

I completely support the opinion that most experiences in our lives that seemed difficult at the time become valuable lessons for the future. The reasons are obvious, everything we did in the past should teach us something that will be useful when we encounter the problem again.

In the first place, we learn the academic knowledge in school to prepare for reaching our goal in the future. As we all know, learning can be the most difficult thing in the world, especially for the children in the age of playing games. They cannot sit down quietly to read books and listen to the teacher. But they must force themselves to do so. Why?

Because their parents and teachers always tell them that if they do not learn well now, they cannot do what they can do in the future. I think that is a wonderful example that can verify that the experience of learning time seemed difficult but can become valuable lessons for the future.

In the second place, we take exercises everyday now to keep fit for the future. How can we fulfill our dream if we do not have a healthy body? Of course keeping fit is very difficult, but you must do it. When I jogged in the morning, played basketball on the playground, or played volleyball, sometimes I had a feeling to give up, but I recognized soon that if I did not do it today, I must lose a lot in the future. I must try my best to experience that.

In addition, some unhappy things we experienced teach us how to be a real man. Our own life always tells us how to become patient, honest, arduous, and so on. It is surprising that we must make some mistake then we can memorize what we should do in the future. For example, when I was ten years old, I needed to attend a test. But there was a very

interesting program on the TV, so I did not prepare for it. When I know that I failed in the test, I could not believe that. From then on, I know that what you get depend on what you have paid.

From what has discussed above, I agree with the title statement not only because the seemingly difficult experience can make us adapt to the future but also because it can bring us health.

Essay 359 Topic 64 Self-employed vs. employed

Although the idea of owning a business is an exciting and admirable one, it is not always a realistic option, especially for a new graduate like me. On the Contrary, I would like to work for someone else after my graduation. The reasons for my view go as follows.

The most obvious reason is that I can learn plenty of mature business and administrative knowledge as an employee. If I were given the opportunity to work at an outstanding company such as Mckinsey & Company or IBM, I certainly would absorb its first hand management skills accumulated for years. I would also benefit greatly from its various valuable training programs. With the help like that I can avoid many unnecessary trials and failures that may be involved in my own business path.

Another positive aspect of working for someone else lies in the development of my broader social contact network. As I just step into adult society, I am still timid and lack of communication skills. Working for others will offer me opportunities to get access to all kinds of clients, customers, and employers. Undoubtedly, adequate exposure to them will teach me how to communicate with one another, how to deal with socializing problems, and how to establish my own personal social network.

Moreover, working for an employer, to some extent, can build up nice personalities that are essential for my future career. As we all understand, management knowledge itself does not lead to success without a combination of broad social network and nice personality. Working with colleague helps me to cultivate nice dispositions-cooperative, responsible, caring for others, outgoing, etc.

All in all, working for an employer suits my situation perfectly. Therefore, from what has been discussed above, I would rather choose to be an employee and prepare myself in all fields, if possible, for my future self-employed.

Essay 360 Topic 64 Self-employed vs. employed

My friends and I always talk about our jobs. Whether to work for ourselves, own a business or work for an employer is one of the hot topics we discuss. Some prefer to work for themselves or own a business. While others prefer to work for an employer. As far as I am concerned, I would like to work for myself. My arguments for this point are listed as follows.

First of all, perhaps one disadvantage to work for others is that we could not plan our time freely. We have to work from 8 to 5 according to the employer's schedule. No matter what the weather is like and no matter whether it is necessary, we have to go to our office on time. We have no choice but to obey the rules set by the employer. Suppose we work for ourselves, we could decide our own timetable. We could find the best time for us to work and improve the work efficiency.

Another reason for my inclination for working for ourselves is that we earn what we deserve. Our wages would be very clear to us. We know what we should earn. That's fair and we would work harder to get better result. However, when we work for others, the boss decides what we earn. It often occurs that we get less than we could earn.

In addition, working for ourselves, we try our best in our work to reach our goal, thus it would be faster to be successful in life. If we work for others, the enthusiasm to work may not be so high. I heard many enterprisers who work for themselves succeed earlier than people of the same age.

In a word, in spite of the fact that there may be a couple of disadvantages to work for ourselves, I feel that the advantages are more obvious, that is we could plan our time for work more freely, earn the amount of money that we deserve and get early success in life. Taking into account of all these factors, I would choose to work for myself.

Essay 361 Topic 64 Self-employed vs. employed

Some people prefer to work for themselves or own a business. Others prefer to work for an employer. Personally, I prefer to work for myself. I choose to be self-employed because of the reasons as follows.

I can decide what I do according my own willing and interest. This point is the most important because one person can find work motivation from his interest. I also can decide how to do the thing. I can choose my own directions and ways, whereas those who are employed by others must do work according to the directions of their employers.

The other important point is that I have freedom to decide when I do the thing. The time I work is determined by myself. I am not constricted by other people. Hence, if I am tired, I can rest in the daytime; if I have more energy, I can work late at night. I have more freedom on the choice of work time than those who work for an employer.

I work for myself, so I only can depend on myself. This can train me to learn more knowledge and to work hard and teach me to face the success and the failure correctly. I can learn how to take advantage of different conditions and deal with different situations from the practice. I can learn to encourage myself when I succeed and not to be afraid of difficulties and failures.

Based on the above statements, I think that self-employing has more advantages. So I prefer to be self-employed.

Essay 362 Topic 64 Self-employed vs. employed

Today, we are living in a rapidly developed society. The science and technology are striding forward with a dramatically fast footstep. The styles of employment are also increasingly diversified. Some people prefer to work for themselves, while other prefer to work for employer. Personally, if I am qualified enough, I would like choosing to work for myself. As a matter of fact, to be self-employed have many advantages which can never be found when you work for others.

Firstly, to be self-employed can avoid the embarrassing fate of to be unemployment or to become the sad laid-off workers. You are your own boss and you can never suffer the painful course of job-hunting. Every one must know the severe and cruel competition in the talent market. Even when you have done a good preparation and hold a thick pile of resume and various kinds of diplomas or certification to have an interview, your fate still remain unknown. The feeling of disappointment and a sense of helpless and failure are beyond description by words, let alone the extremely tense stress you suffered during the course of job-hunting. So, imaging, if you own a company, you are the boss, every thing is yours, then what a wonderful sense of superiority.

Secondly, to be self-employed means you will face more opportunities to enrich your mind, expand your horizon and accumulate knowledge. The difficulties, obstacles and some other special experiences you encountered during the course of doing business will enable you become more mature and more composed. The heat competition in the business community will let you taste all flavor of our colorful life.

All in all, according to above analysis, we can safely draw a conclusion that to be self-employed is really a gold opportunity for you to achieve an all-round personality. Though, we have to admit that to work for other can enjoy more freedom and suffer less stress than to be self-employed, but why we do not find a chance to challenge ourselves and to lead a different kind of life.

Essay 363 Topic 65 Should a city perserve its historic buildings or replace them with modern ones?

Every culture has its special features. Buildings, as symbol of architectural heritage, are an important part of the history of any country or city. Moreover, they could help us find the answers of many questions about the historical development of our society.

Therefore, I truly believe that every city-administration should try to preserve the old, historic buildings.

All over the world many buildings are preserved in their authentic appearances. Furthermore, many of them have unique constructions and are really beautiful and

impressive. In my opinion, the destruction of such remarkable pieces of architecture and their replacement with modern buildings can be called 'barbarity'. Nevertheless, a lot of old buildings belonging to the historical heritage of the world are protected by UNESCO.

It is a fact that cities, which have their old, historic buildings, are favorite places for holiday and tourism. The reason is that these cities keep their special atmosphere and could offer us a magnificent journey through their cultural and architectural history.

The only reasonable argument to destroy some historic buildings and replace them with modern ones, is when there is a risk of self-destruction, which could endanger human lives.

In conclusion I would say that preserving old, historic buildings could be considered as a sign of our respect and regard to the previous generations. I am aware that it is an expensive initiative. But who can evaluate the worth the historic buildings have, for those who will come after us. And I would dare to ask ' who gives us the right to destroy what the centuries have kept for us? And I would answer 'Nobody'!

Essay 364 Topic 65 Should a city perserve its historic buildings or replace them with modern ones?

A city could not destroy the historic buildings, the city should preserve its old, historic buildings. The historic buildings for a city even for a country have a unlimited value. When people destroy the buildings, they will not show up again and the historic buildings are record a period of history.

First, the historic buildings for a city even for a country have a unlimited value. Those buildings show up in a specific time. The time is the only thing could not go backwards. Therefore, if people destroy the buildings, they will never see it and have it again. For example, ShangHai, one of the biggest cities in China, destroyed some historic buildings in 1950's. Those buildings built in end of 19th and the beginning of 20th. Most of those building are building by the foreigners and with the foreigner styles. Not only on building like that but the whole street or the neighborhood. In 1950's, people were crazy, they destroyed the building, but in some reason, they did not destroy all of them and replace them with then modern buildings. However, right now, the people in Shanghai are repented. But all the buildings are gone.

Besides that, those buildings record a period of history. I still use Shanghai as an example. The people destroy the building in 1950's because those building built in colonial time in China. It records a very dark history in Chinese history. However, in 1950's the new regime just built up. People do not want to recall those histories by those building, so they destroyed them. However, yes, the buildings record a period of history because these styles and the stuffs. But the history could not be destroyed even destroyed the building.

Please preserve the old, historic buildings. Those buildings are the unlimited values for a city and they are the gift from ancestors

Essay 365 Topic 65 Should a city perserve its historic buildings or replace them with modern ones?

In the world, many countries have many old building in their city. Some people thought that they should destroy it to build modern buildings but some people said that we had to prevent it because it's very important for their countries. My opinion, I think we should and have to prevent or conserve it because I have several reasons such as all of it will be the world heritages, it also will be an achievement of our ancestors and it can teach us about old techniques and methods to construct these buildings to give some idea for our next generation.

First of all, these building will become world heritage if it has been approximately one hundred years old so the UNESCO(United Nations for Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization)will recognize and put it in the list of world heritage. Also, it is very important for our economy because many tourist would like to visit all world heritage in the world so we can earn much money from their visit or buying some souvenir gifts in our historic areas or buildings.

Secondly, these historic building will illustrate the people in the world about our ancestor achievements. It also will be a proud of your country in the future. For example, the Great Wall in China have been a world heritage that recognize by UNESCO since 1987. All Chinese people are very proud of this monument. It also can improve Chinese idea try to prevent it and give its value to human value because all building are human value for all people in the world.

Finally, the historic monument or building can tell us about the ancestor techniques to build that building or monument so all people should prevent and preserve it because it will teach us to know their ideas. For example, Angkor Wat temple have been a world heritage since 1992 by UNESCO, its location is in Siem Reap Province in Kingdom of Cambodia, some foreign organizations went to study of conservation and preservation this temple because they wanted to know how they(khmer ancestor) could build this temple, why they built it and which method that they used. Now, four or five foreign organizations have studied some temple in Angkor are such as JSA(Japanese government for Safeguarding of Angkor), SOPHIA, Monument Fund, and some organization from India, Italy, and Southeast Asia. Then, they will report in the annual meeting and publish some documentaries that they study and research to Cambodian government and students.

In conclusion, all historic building have a lot of benefit that we can take from it and it's better than we destroy it to build modern building for only the business. Some develop countries have changed their idea from destroy to prevent these old buildings since 1980s,so I think all countries in the world should prevent and conserve their historic buildings rather than destroy it.

Essay 366 Topic 65 Preserving historic buildings

Currently, some cities are facing the situation whether to preserve the old, historic buildings or to destroy them and replace them with modern buildings. In my opinion, a wise solution to this dilemma depends on the circumstances. Firstly, it is obviously that the historic buildings are valuable and deserve being preserved. The old buildings are an important aspect of the traditional culture; they represent the history of a country or a culture. For example, the Forbidden City, lying in the center of Peking, is one of the representatives of the long history of China. Every day, visitors from all over the world go there to have a look on the palaces where Emperors lived thousands of years ago. These kind of historic buildings reminder people the history, and is reasonable to be well preserved. Secondly, some historic buildings are excellent textbooks on architecture, and need good care. One cannot imagine how clever the ancient architects were; they invented so many artful techniques and adopted these on their works. Every ancient building that lasts till today is a good example for certain architectural technique. One will be surprised to know that some of the ancient stone bridges in China have last for thousands of years. They are strong enough to suffer the ages. What is more, some of the techniques have been lost and people can no longer reproduce such bridges. The current architects realize that even with the modern techniques, people can hardly build as a lasting stone bridges as those ancient ones. These kind of historic buildings are supposed to be preserved. However, there are some exceptions. In some historic town in China, there are a lot of similar historic buildings. These cities cannot develop themselves any more because there no more space, unless they destroy some of the historic buildings. As a case in point, in my hometown, there used to be a large amount of historic housings, each of which is hundreds of years old. In this case, the best solution is, as the government has done, to preserve a few of these buildings as representations, and destroy the others in order to build new ones. By this means, we not only preserve the history but also develop ourselves. In sum, people should preserve the historic buildings. But we should leave enough space for the development of modern buildings.

Essay 367 Topic 66 Are classmates a more important influence to a child than parents?

Although students stay with their classmates all time in school, parents are a more important influence on a child's success. I disagree with the statement that classmates are a more important influence on a child's success in school, because of the reasons as follows.

First of all, parents are the people who understand their own children best. They know the children's good sides and bad habits. They can correct the children's bad idea and make them give rid of the bad habits. So children can found a good base to get success in school. But classmates cannot do this work.

The other reason is that parents have experiences on a lot of matters. If children have problems, parents can give them their experiences to help them solve problems. If parents have no similar experiences, they still can give their children some advice and make them avoid the wrong directions. Classmates can also give children some help, but they do not have more experiences than parents. So their influence is less than that of parents.

Parents also have other important influence on their children's success in school. Parents may analyze something in different ways and have different opinions from children. Classmates also can have different opinions on one thing, but they are at the same conditions with each other, their opinions may be similar or narrow. Children can learn more comprehensive knowledge about on thing from their parents.

So, based on the above discussion, I think it is clear that parents are a more important influence than classmates on a child's success in school.

Essay 368 Topic 66 Are classmates a more important influence to a child than parents?

I strongly disagree that classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child's success in school. I would like to say, there is no substitution for parents. They could teach their children how to tell right from wrong, and set the best model for children. At first, I think the parent's function of udgment?can never be substituted. In my opinion, family school is like a small society, where children learn how to socialize themselves. However, children would not know how to behave accurately by the imitation or competition of their peer group. They might learn something inappropriate, which they cannot judge by their own, and that is the main function of family.

Second, I believe that parents are always the best model. In most of families, the parents know their own duty--they should be responsible for the whole society, and then they will try to treat their children correctly. Nevertheless, the students in school are not. They just like different shapes of clay, needing to be educated. If your child learns how to behave according to what their classmates do, they will never know the correct way.

I will not deny the importance of child's classmates at school. However, they cannot always point out the correct direction for their friend. The function of family could never be replaced. Our parents play a very significant role in out initial learning, how to behave, and where is the model to follow, which our classmates could not do exactly.

Essay 369 Topic 66 Are classmates a more important influence to a child than parents?

Some people hold the opinion that classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child's success in school. As far as I am concerned, parents act the big role than the classmates for the child's success in school. I explain my main reasons as follow.

Firstly, the children have used a lot of time with his or her parents than classmates. When the parents pay more attentions on their child, child will get the influence by their parents. Furthermore, children need good model to imitate. The parents live with them everyday. So the parents play the main actors to be intimated. People say that like father like son. It means if the parents behave good attitude to others, children will learn the same attitude from their parents.

Secondly, when the children have made the fault, the good words and advices decide children the set of value, because parent advices and behaviors always have been followed by their child. The Classmates have not this kind of chance to influence your children. For example, when children have told the lie to others, parents attitude decide the children's behaviors in the future. If parents can tell them what is right and what is wrong. The children have less chance to be a bad boy or girl.

Although parents give more influent to a child's success in the school than the classmates do. I have to say that classmates also can influence to a child. Whole classmates of the child are hardworking students, the children will learn from the others. They will want to be an up-and -coming person in one day. However, compared with the parents influence, this is one of the small factors, just like many others contribute a child's success.

In a word, if a child's success in the school, the parent attitude plays ninety-nine percentage factors. We may reach the conclusion that ike father like son. ?The parents play correctly behavior children always follow it and vice versa.

Essay 370 Topic 67 Inexperienced, cheap workers vs. experienced, expensive workers

Some employers prefer to hire people who have work experiences and pay them higher salaries. They may think that if they want to make a success in business, they have to do so. If I were an employer, however, I would rather hire the inexperienced employees and paid them relatively lower salaries. I do not care about whether experiences an employee has or not, I really care about the cost. Besides, it needs not only experiences to do a job well and experienced workers may not definitely be suitable to certain job position.

Hiring an experienced employee to do a job that he has experienced means that he can easily make the job done or do it efficiently. But here is the problem. I am a poor boss. As a young man, I have not earned much money myself. The experienced worker always asks too high salary to afford at my present financial condition. If I managed to pay employees higher salaries, it would probably push me to close my business eventually. So, I need to hire the inexperienced workers with lower salaries to cut down the cost of my business.

To run business well, I have to consider a lot of other factors of an employee, not only the employee's experience. Is the employee loyal to me? Could he probably cheat me in business operation? I really concern with these questions. If he chose to be not loyal to

me or chose to cheat me at work, the experiences he has would be useless for my business. Considering of this, I would rather hire a worker who is inexperienced but loyal to me and trustworthy.

An employee who has a lot of experiences does not always mean that he is just suitable to an assigned job. Someone who has experiences does not mean that he has experienced just this present job. His experiences are simply related with his former jobs. Everything can be changed over time and the needs for the same job can be changed, too. So, if I hired an experienced worker, perhaps I would still have to train him for just the present job again. Thus, if I have to train an experienced employee and pay him higher salary, why not train an inexperienced employee and pay him lower salary, now that I have to train any employee anyway? The cost of training is just the same, but the salaries I have to pay later are different: the former is higher; the latter, lower. Anyone who has normal sense will definitely choose the latter: the inexperienced but cheaper employee.

In short, taking the cost, the suitability and the loyalty and honesty of employees into consideration, if I were an employer, I would definitely hire the inexperienced employees and pay them lower salaries.

Essay 371 Topic 67 Inexperienced, cheap workers vs. experienced, expensive workers

To hire an inexperienced worker at a lower salary or an experienced worker at a higher salary, this is an interesting question for an employer. As far as I am concerned, a good employer will choose the latter without hesitation, because he knows an experienced worker deserves what he is paid.

Qualified workers play the most important role in any business. Directorate controls the business, managers manipulate the business, whereas, it is nobody else but the workers who are expected and responsible to make the products available and qualified. And product, without which the business will be a castle in the air, is the virtual pith of the business. Thus qualified workers are indispensable for an employer.

What makes a qualified worker? Undoubtedly, experience is one of the most valued merits. Experience means quality and efficiency; both of them guarantee a well-run business. It is true that the employer has to pay more for an experienced worker, but what such a worker earns the employer is much more than he is paid.

Admittedly, no one is born to be an experienced worker. A rookie is inevitably a rookie at his debut, and he needs opportunity to obtain the required experience. Hence there must be some employers who are willing to provider them with such opportunities.

In a word, for an employer, it is profitable to hire an experienced worker at a higher salary than to an inexperienced one at a lower salary. However, some wise employer may want to hire inexperienced workers with potential.

Essay 372 Topic 67 Inexperienced, cheap workers vs. experienced, expensive workers

There are some people who would like to hire an inexperienced worker at lower salary, but others prefer to hire an experienced worker at a higher salary. I would have to say that, if I were faced with this issue, I would probably to hire an experienced worker at a higher salary. In the following discussion, I would like to reason and provide evidence to support my viewpoint.

No issue is more important now than the one that refers to efficacy. An experienced worker can do the job more efficiently and create more fortune than an inexperienced one, so even if I pay a higher salary to him, except his salary I still can get more profits from him than from an inexperienced worker. Do not you think this reason quoted above is very persuasive?

Maturity is another head and chief reason that I have chosen to put here. It is no better reason that can demonstrate the view. An experienced worker often knows how to maturely face and resolve the problems which occur in his work and life, and he also knows how to treat the relationships well with his employer and other colleagues. It is a very important quality to a worker to know how to keep a balance between work and life and cooperate well with other co-workers. If you can see that, you can understand my viewpoint more deeply.

Superior as an experienced worker at a higher salary is, however, he also has own demerits, too. For instance, sometimes an experienced worker is less enthusiastic to his work. Besides, an experienced worker asks a higher salary. Nevertheless, the advantages of an experienced worker at a higher salary carry more weight than that of disadvantages of him, so the most striking conclusion is obvious.

To sum up, given the reasons discussed above, which sometimes intertwined to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive, we can safely reach the conclusion that if I were an employer, I would prefer to hire an inexperienced worker at a higher salary.

Essay 373 Topic 67 Inexperienced, cheap workers vs. experienced, expensive workers

The labor market today contains plenty well educated people looking for work. At the same time, fresh graduates are also searching for jobs and employers have the advantage of choosing between more or less experienced workers. Regarding the statement put forward with myself put in a position of being an employer, I would prefer to hire an inexperienced worker at a lower salary to an experienced worker representing higher costs. My point of view is supported by the arguments listed below.

First of all, an inexperienced worker gives the employer an opportunity to shape the

employee in the best interests of the company from day one. No patterns have already been internalized into the worker, which means no bad habits to get rid of before introducing the person to new rules and methods. Second, and obvious enough, the company can save money by hiring workers at a lower starting salary level. This also gives the employee more of a chance to use a rise in payment as an incentive to push inexperienced workers to reach higher.

Despite what is said above, I realize that there are several cons represented by hiring people who have already worked for a while, and who knows the way to go about in different businesses. If their knowledge suits their new work, it could be a huge advantage for the company. On the other hand, if their backgrounds tend to be less compatible with their new job, the company would be better off putting their effort into educating new people to the job.

The topic presented is in my opinion highly debatable, however I certainly share the point of view that in the evaluation of new employees one should often prefer the inexperienced worker instead of the worker holding a lot of experience. Other aspects like for instance personality should most likely also be taken into account when hiring the right worker for the right job.

Essay 374 Topic 67 Inexperienced, cheap workers vs. experienced, expensive workers

If I were an employer, I would be glad to hire an inexperienced worker at a lower salary. My reasons are as follows:

First, those who can accept the lower salary are those not care too much about money, what they care the most is personal development. The success and failure of a company are correlated to employees' attitude, a success company needs some men with the heart that eager to success.

Second, inexperienced men are always modest and friendly, they like to learn and listen to others opinion or suggestion, so they can improve their working skills by accept some right opinions. These are two important characteristics of a good employee, not only they can bring success business to the company but also can set up a good company impression to the public.

Third, those inexperienced employees are mostly just graduated from school. They are active and enthusiastic, to some extent, they prefer working together as a team to working alone. teamwork can speed up the working efficiency and also make the company fill with energy.

Since there are so many advantages, why not hire inexperienced guys!

Essay 375 Topic 67 Inexperienced, cheap workers vs. experienced, expensive workers

The computer is the most beneficial for people in my country. Computer is transportation tool, computer is improving technology and easily use by people.

First, computer is a good transportation tool. In past century, from New York to Boston, people have to spend one month and more time to mail each other. In early twenty century, people can use three or four days to mail and connect each other. Because the transportation tools were improved. In the end of twenty century, human made computer. People can connect with each other in a few seconds. People can use easily connect each other from electric mail and net phone.

Second, The information technologies are coming from computer. Computers are going to change people life. Computer also can fill up free time for people. People can enjoy entertainment from computer and make more and more new programs. Thus, technology can improve in incredible speed.

Third, In 1990 of China, there are not a lot of people can touch computer even they worked on computer workplace who are not have professional skills. In 1995 of China, the people, who lived in Beijing, Shanghai and several big cities, are interesting in computer. Right now, almost everyone knows how to use computer and use computer on line. What a big deal! What incredible increasing speed, is not it? Thus, Computer is very easy and comfort by people.

In conclusion, In the last 100 years, computer is the most beneficial for people. Computer is transportation tool, computer is improving technology and easily use by people.

Essay 376 Topic 67

To hire an inexperienced worker at a lower salary or an experienced worker at a higher salary, this is an interesting question for an employer. As far as I am concerned, a good employer will choose the latter without hesitation, because he knows an experienced worker deserves what he is paid. Qualified workers play the most important role in any business. Directorate controls the business, managers manipulate the business, whereas, it is nobody else but the workers who are expected and responsible to make the products available and qualified. And product, without which the business will be a castle in the air, is the virtual pith of the business. Thus qualified workers are indispensable for an employer. What makes a qualified worker? Undoubtedly, experience is one of the most valued merits. Experience means quality and efficiency; both of them guarantee a well-run business. It is true that the employer has to pay more for an experienced worker, but what such a worker earns the employer is much more than he is paid. Admittedly, no one

is born to be an experienced worker. A rookie is inevitably a rookie at his debut, and he needs opportunity to obtain the required experience. Hence there must be some employers who are willing to provider them with such opportunities. In a word, for an employer, it is profitable to hire an experienced worker at a higher salary than to an inexperienced one at a lower salary. However, some wise employer may want to hire inexperienced workers with potential.

Essay 377 Topic 67

There are some people who would like to hire an inexperienced worker at lower salary, but others prefer to hire an experienced worker at a higher salary. I would have to say that, if I were faced with this issue, I would probably to hire an experienced worker at a higher salary. In the following discussion, I would like to reason and provide evidence to support my viewpoint. No issue is more important now than the one that refers to efficacy. An experienced worker can do the job more efficiently and create more fortune than an inexperienced one, so even if I pay a higher salary to him, except his salary I still can get more profits from him than from an inexperienced worker. Do not you think this reason quoted above is very persuasive? Maturity is another important reason that I have chosen to put here. It is no better reason that can demonstrate the view. An experienced worker often knows how to maturely face and resolve the problems that occur in his work and life, and he also knows how to treat the relationships well with his employer and other colleagues. It is a very important quality to a worker to know how to keep a balance between work and life and cooperate well with other co -workers. If you can see that, you can understand my viewpoint more deeply. Superior as an experienced worker at a higher salary is, however, he also has own demerits, too. For instance, sometimes an experienced worker is less enthusiastic to his work. Besides, an experienced worker asks a higher salary. Nevertheless, the advantages of an experienced worker at a higher salary carry more weight than that of disadvantages of him, so the most striking conclusion is obvious. To sum up, given the reasons discussed above, which sometimes intertwined to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive, we can safely reach the conclusion that if I were an employer, I would prefer to hire an inexperienced worker at a higher salary.

Essay 378 Topic 67

The labour market today contains plenty well educated people looking for work. At the same time, fresh graduates are also searching for jobs and employers have the advantage of choosing between more or less experienced workers. Regarding the statement put forward with myself put in a position of being an employer, I would prefer to hire an inexperienced worker at a lower salary to an experienced worker representing higher costs. My point of view is supported by the arguments listed below. First of all, an inexperienced worker gives the employer an opportunity to shape the employee in the best interests of the company from day one. No patterns have already been internalised into the worker, which means no bad habits to get rid of before introducing the person to new rules and methods. Second, and obvious enough, the company can save money by

hiring workers at a lower starting salary level. This also gives the employee more of a chance to use a rise in payment as an incentive to push inexperienced workers to reach higher. Despite what is said above, I realise that there are several cons represented by hiring people who have already worked for a while, and who knows the way to go about in different businesses. If their knowledge suits their new work, it could be a huge advantage for the company. On the other hand, if their backgrounds tend to be less compatible with their new job, the company would be better off putting their effort into educating new people to the job. The topic presented is in my opinion highly debatable, however I certainly share the point of view that in the evaluation of new employees one should often prefer the inexperienced worker instead of the worker holding a lot of experience. Other aspects like for instance personality should most likely also be taken into account when hiring the right worker for the right job.

Essay 379 Topic 67

To hire an inexperienced worker at a lower salary or an experienced worker at a higher salary, this is an interesting question for an employer. As far as I am concerned, a good employer will choose the latter without hesitation, because he knows an experienced worker deserves what he is paid. Qualified workers play the most important role in any business. Directorate controls the business, managers manipulate the business, whereas, it is nobody else but the workers who are expected and responsible to make the products available and qualified. And product, without which the business will be a castle in the air, is the virtual pith of the business. Thus qualified workers are indispensable for an employer. What makes a qualified worker? Undoubtedly, experience is one of the most valued merits. Experience means quality and efficiency; both of them guarantee a well-run business. It is true that the employer has to pay more for an experienced worker, but what such a worker earns the employer is much more than he is paid. Admittedly, no one is born to be an experienced worker. A rookie is inevitably a rookie at his debut, and he needs opportunity to obtain the required experience. Hence there must be some employers who are willing to provider them with such opportunities. In a word, for an employer, it is profitable to hire an experienced worker at a higher salary than to an inexperienced one at a lower salary. However, some wise employer may want to hire inexperienced workers with potential.

Essay 380 Topic 67

There are some people who would like to hire an inexperienced worker at lower salary, but others prefer to hire an experienced worker at a higher salary. I would have to say that, if I were faced with this issue, I would probably to hire an experienced worker at a higher salary. In the following discussion, I would like to reason and provide evidence to support my viewpoint. No issue is more important now than the one that refers to efficacy. An experienced worker can do the job more efficiently and create more fortune than an inexperienced one, so even if I pay a higher salary to him, except his salary I still can get more profits from him than from an inexperienced worker. Do not you think this reason quoted above is very persuasive? Maturity is another important reason that I have

chosen to put here. It is no better reason that can demonstrate the view. An experienced worker often knows how to maturely face and resolve the problems that occur in his work and life, and he also knows how to treat the relationships well with his employer and other colleagues. It is a very important quality to a worker to know how to keep a balance between work and life and cooperate well with other co -workers. If you can see that, you can understand my viewpoint more deeply. Superior as an experienced worker at a higher salary is, however, he also has own demerits, too. For instance, sometimes an experienced worker is less enthusiastic to his work. Besides, an experienced worker asks a higher salary. Nevertheless, the advantages of an experienced worker at a higher salary carry more weight than that of disadvantages of him, so the most striking conclusion is obvious. To sum up, given the reasons discussed above, which sometimes intertwined to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive, we can safely reach the conclusion that if I were an employer, I would prefer to hire an inexperienced worker at a higher salary.

Essay 381 Topic 67

The labour market today contains plenty well educated people looking for work. At the same time, fresh graduates are also searching for jobs and employers have the advantage of choosing between more or less experienced workers. Regarding the statement put forward with myself put in a position of being an employer, I would prefer to hire an inexperienced worker at a lower salary to an experienced worker representing higher costs. My point of view is supported by the arguments listed below. First of all, an inexperienced worker gives the employer an opportunity to shape the employee in the best interests of the company from day one. No patterns have already been internalised into the worker, which means no bad habits to get rid of before introducing the person to new rules and methods. Second, and obvious enough, the company can save money by hiring workers at a lower starting salary level. This also gives the employee more of a chance to use a rise in payment as an incentive to push inexperienced workers to reach higher. Despite what is said above, I realise that there are several cons represented by hiring people who have already worked for a while, and who knows the way to go about in different businesses. If their knowledge suits their new work, it could be a huge advantage for the company. On the other hand, if their backgrounds tend to be less compatible with their new job, the company would be better off putting their effort into educating new people to the job. The topic presented is in my opinion highly debatable, however I certainly share the point of view that in the evaluation of new employees one should often prefer the inexperienced worker instead of the worker holding a lot of experience. Other aspects like for instance personality should most likely also be taken into account when hiring the right worker for the right job.

Essay 382 Topic 67 Hiring decisions

One decision the manager of the personnel department frequently needs to make is to choose between and inexperienced worker with lower pay or a skilled one with higher pay. Seen from the side of the company, it is in fact a problem of investment and output.

And to make the maximum profits, the manager should consider it on a case-by-case situation. As we all know, the constitution of modern corporation is complex and the labor division is so specialized that no rigid conclusion can be made. So far as assembly line workers are concerned, I believe employing inexperienced workers is highly sensible. Low investment is, of course, a major concern of the employer and the workers inferior in education and experience ask far less than better-qualified ones. And this default can be easily made up by some compact on the job trainings that can quickly fit the workers into their niche. Since this kind of skills take almost no time to master, their shortcomings will not put sand in the wheels of business development. However, for management positions, I prefer to hire people with rich experience despite their higher salary expectation. For one thing, the performance of these people is firmly connected with the prosperity of the business and one decision of them can make a life or death difference. A careless decision made by an unqualified manager can lead to a catastrophe causing a loss that dwarfs the amount of money saved in his or her salary. Accordingly, money spent on hiring a shrewd manager can be compared to investments on some kind of blue stock which always makes sense. For another thing, to qualify for such position, one has to get fine education and usually a MBA degree, which cost a skyrocketing price. It is comparatively economical to hire those experienced ones than to try to train them by the company itself. All in all, whether to hire an inexperienced worker or an experienced one is a relative issue and no arbitrary conclusion can be made. Jobs with different requirement ought to be considered respectively to serve the best interest of the company.

Essay 383 Topic 67 workers

We live in a difficult era of competition with business manager to search the best for their companies. There are people who believe that the profit of the companies depends on the work which the workers do and so they prefer to employ experienced people, whilst the opponents claim that the inexperienced workers can bring to company much more money than experienced workers do. In my opinion, if I was an employer I would prefer experienced workers. To begin with, experienced workers have enough background Knowledge and they do not need education for the basic concepts of the companies functions. They know to react in difficult situations and they know the needs that will give to the company the opportunity to gain many benefits. In addition, experienced workers know to cooperate with their colleagues and to manipulate a variety of machines and computers in the company. As a result of this, the employer have not to hire other persons for this jobs since they have necessities. Furthermore, the hiring of experienced workers is essential for companies who aiming to develop a successful company in the market place. Despite that these workers are hiring more money than the inexperienced workers, the future profit of the company will be grater since they can do work in little time. On the other hand, people who prefer inexperienced people do not think the future of their company since they think the present and how to save money. They do not think that their workers will need education and that they will be useless since they do not know how to manipulate the machines of the company. To sum up, for all the foregoing reasons, since the time is money, I firmly believe that employers should prefer to hire experienced workers. Is due to experienced workers if companies are able to compete

other companies in the market place.

Essay 384 Topic 68 Is daily homework necessary?

As for students, they study in schools in the day time. When they go back home, one task for them to do is homework assigned by teachers. For a long time, a question has been discussed: whether daily homework is necessary for students. In my opinion, daily homework has its advantages and disadvantages, but the advantages always overweigh the disadvantages.

One striking advantage I want to mention is that, daily homework can be helpful to students to go over what they have learned at school. If they didn't do reviewing, the knowledge they have learned might be forgotten gradually. For some students of good memory, they can still remember what they learned without doing homework, whereas, they cannot apply what they learned to some practical questions because of superficial understanding. So homework is still necessary for them. Through the process of doing homework, students can have a better understanding towards what they have learned.

There is another advantage, that is, homework can help students organize their spare time regularly. After finishing homework, they can do some extra readings or outdoor activity. Gradually, students can strike a balance between study and playing. If there were no homework, given to the young age, some students may have less self-control, and they would prefer to play with others all the time! So that is why homework is necessary for them.

But there are also some disadvantages. Nowadays, some teachers assign too much homework to students, making homework occupy all their spare time. Being afraid of punishment they would suffer if they do not finish their homework, some of them may do it carelessly or even copy others'. What is worse, if homework is not properly assigned, it can make students get tired of study.

In a word, I want to claim again, homework is certainly necessary for students, but excessive homework can do no good to them. Teachers should assign homework properly in order to let students become interested in study and enjoy their study!

Essay 385 Topic 68 Is daily homework necessary?

ou must finish your assignment when coming back from school, y mother always told me when I was a child. Therefore, I am used to doing my homework as my first thing at home.

According to my habits and fondness I am unanimous with this statement that teacher assign homework everyday. Maybe others hate doing homework everyday because they take it as a burden which will reduce their time for playing games. Here! Let me tell you why I advocate it.

The main reason is that teachers assigning homework everyday really helps me go over my lessons I have had on class. Through my homework I can understand the knowledge by myself and get what the teacher said the most important things in order in my brain. I really liked playing and postponed homework to the next day. Woo! That realizes an old saying ite more than you can chew?

Another reason is that completing homework everyday will help to raise habit that everyone need think in his/her own way independently. What teacher teaches us is just their understanding track and what we gain on class is just others' experience.

What I discussed above is just two points of many persuasive ones. To some extent, we may obey the rule-- lways work and study makes Jack a dull boy?

But if all these factors are contemplated the advantage of assigning homework everyday carry more weight than those of the opposite one. What I agree with is just personal idea. Maybe you can remember this word. oing over what you have learned will give you more new knowledge. ?br>

Essay 386 Topic 68 Is daily homework necessary?

Many teachers assign homework to students everyday, and they seldom doubt it. However, as far as I am concerned, it is not necessary.

To begin with, not every teacher has classes everyday. For instance, a chemistry teacher may have no class on Monday. It makes students learn nothing new about chemistry that day. As a result, it becomes unnecessary for the chemistry teacher to assign homework. Because if the teacher still assigns homework, perhaps the students will not have enough time to review what they have learned that day, such as physics and biology.

In addition, everyone must have his or her own leisure time. Students are not machines. They cannot work without any rest. Even if a machine works everyday, its efficiency will become lower and lower and refuse to work finally. So the teachers must let students have some spare time, when they can play games, have a picnic and do other things they like. It is good to children's health.

Last but not least, assigning homework everyday is not a scientific way of studying. Suppose you must do physics homework everyday. After several weeks, you will probably think physics is so boring that it no longer interests you. How could one learn physics well under such circumstance? I think the only way to solve this problem is not to assign physics homework everyday.

So from what has been discussed, one can reach only this conclusion that daily homework is not necessary at all.

Essay 387 Topic 68 Is daily homework necessary?