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Some authors believe that urbanization is a Modern Disease. In not less than

250 words explain if you agree with this view and give your own opinion.

In developing countries, people who come from rural often tend to migrate to big

cities where the living conditions are probably better than their hometowns. Thisphenomenon called urbanization perhaps has caused a number of serious troubles.

Its two drawbacks many people could easily recognize are that not only may the

traffic system be declined but the standard of living would be deteriorated.

First of all, once the traffic system in urban no longer afford huge transports taking

place every day, a lot of adverse effects could occur. Congestion might happen

more often, especially, in rush hours when many means of transportations join

together simultaneously. For instance, in Ho Chi Minh City, a city called thecapital of economy, one of the cities in developing countries where urbanization

come about with rapid speed, traffic jams appear from 7am to 9am in the morning

and form 4pm to 5:30pm in the afternoon. As a result, traffic accidents can also

arise.

Another disadvantage is perhaps the degenerated standard of living. The rate of

crime would grow because civilians coming from countrysides, often are not well-

educated, so in order to maintain their life in big cities where contain a number of

competitions and challenges they could commit the crime which is maybe one of

the easiest ways to make money. Secondly, slums are possibly created because

they are the appropriate places for unemployed who have relatively low disposable

incomes. Consequently, criminals often were born in these areas.

In conclusion, urbanization is one of the hardships for governments in developing

nations in modern life. It could result in several bad effects for cities not only in

traffic system, the standard of city dweller life but in other results.


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IN SOME COUNTRIES YOUNG PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO

WORK OR TRAVEL FOR A YEAR BETWEEN FINISHING HIGH

SCHOOL AND STARTING UNIVERSITY STUDIES. DISCUSS THE

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO

DECIDE TO DO THIS.

The time period after finishing high school and starting studies is perhaps of the

most pivotal stages of a person's life. That is why a gap year between these two

stages is encouraged by some states for work or travel abroad.

Taking the decision for a gap year before studies has is pros and cons for a student;

working for a year would provide a teenager with the substantial experience and

give him/her a rounded view of the job market. For example, working in a school

may turn out to confirm a person's choice to become a teacher or make Kim/her

totally change the mind. Moreover, work experience could contribute to one's

maturity which is very crucial for balancing between desires and real necessities.

On the other hand, working for a year might reduce ones zeal for studies,

especially when a good working opportunity is offered. Regarding travelling for a

year, I believe it offers many advantages to a person who is about to make up

his/her mind regarding university studies; firstly, going abroad is a fantasticexperience and helps people become open-minded and nurture their personalities.

This is of great importance for young people who are at the beginning of their

lives.

Moreover, travelling offers the chance to mix with people from different social

backgrounds and also, you get to know programs of studies you have never heard

of.

However, some drawbacks may present from travelling, such as bad influences and

maybe the unwillingness to return back home.To sum up, I believe that taking a

year's break before studies carries much weight in the form of personality and the

undertaking of important decisions, such as what to study.


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Some people believe they should keep all the money they have earned and

should not pay tax to the state. Do you agree or disagree?

Those ones who think they should not pay taxes must be denied the benefits thatthe tax money can bring to the society. These include, but not limited to education,

pensions and idea of free health care services. I fall into the category of people

who believe that some part of the money has to be paid to the state to develop and

maintain these public services.

More money allocated for education means new improvements and innovations

can be introduced. For instance, more computers-equipped classes and research

laboratories can be established at universities and colleges. Also, some part of this

money can be used to support families experiencing financial difficulties sending

their children to schools.

Financial difficulties are also experienced by senior members of any society as

well. As a person gets older he or she loses ability to earn money and then it is time

for the government to start helping financially to the person with the money that

has been constantly paid to the government in forms of taxes. Pensions are also

extremely helpful in cases when old people have not got anybody who could look

after them; those might be children or relatives.

Last but not least is the idea of establishing free medical service maintained by the

tax money? It will enable people conduct regular check-ups, discover and prevent

illnesses in their early stages.

Therefore, I avidly believe that some part of the money that a person has earned

should be paid to the state. The aspects mentioned above are considered to be very

important for everybody and thus must be supported by every member of the

society.


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Some businesses now say that no one can smoke cigarettes in any of their

offices. Some governments have banned smoking in all public places. Do you

agree or disagree.

Smoking became an important issue to talk about in todays society. Althoughsmoking was strongly linked to many illnesses, the number of smokers expands

every day. Some businesses already banned their employers to smoke in the office.

Even some countries, such as Northern Ireland banned smoking in all public places

like pubs, bars, restaurants etc. There are good and bad side of this issue. I will

discuss both of it in this in this essay.

I would like to begin with positive side of banning smoking in public places. As a

nonsmoker and working in pubs myself, from my experience I think is necessary to

ban smoking in pubs, bars or nightclubs. Some percentage of people who smokes

but all costumers and staff breathe their cigarettes. In consequence of this, they

have same chance of probability of getting heart deceases or lung cancer as

smokers.

On the other hand businesses will face difficulties to enforce this ban. For example,

it will be extra job for them to deal with drunken person who smokes inside the

premises. They will lose customers as well.

Moreover, it will lead to more public disorder. Because, there will be more people

in the street on weekends than ever before. I would say more people in the street

means more problems. It will be difficult to control people coming in and out

frequently.

Furthermore, I would argue that smoking should be considered as other illnesses

and smokers should be treated like diabetics or asthmatics. They should be given

chance to smoke when they need like diabetics needing their insulin or asthmaticsusing their inhaler.

In conclusion, I firmly believe that it would unjustifiable to say that smoking

should be banned.


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In what ways has information technology changed work and working

practices in the past 10 years?

Information technology has very powerful influence to our daily life. Computers

used everywhere such as hospital, post office, banks, government offices etc. I canexpand this list. Undoubtedly, it has changed work practices for the last 10 years

period. In this essay I will examine in what ways working practice has changed by

introduction of computers.

I would like to start with unemployment that caused directly by use of computers.

First of all, very big amount of information, data could be saved and stored in

small hard drive of single computer. In result of this there is no need for big

archives or libraries anymore. Consequently, people who worked in these places

lose their job.

Secondly, not everyone easily adapts to the new system of information technology.

For example, doctor who experienced medicine for 40 years so used to write

prescriptions by hand and have the medical record of patient o the paper. They find

it very difficult when new legislation comes to force that all prescriptions should

be computer printed and medical record should be stored in database of computer

and struggle Because, they are not computer literate.

On the other hand, economic impact is undeniable. For instance, businesses save

money by employing one or two workers who can use computers instead of ten.

Because everything could be organize in just two computers.

Moreover, information technology gives a chance to set up and advertise business

on the net without actually having office, shop or warehouse. Pure example of this

is EBay business which thousands of people benefit by selling and buying without

even leaving their houses.Additionally, in todays very fast growing society due to immigration postal

services would be stretched if there was not e-mail. Many individuals, companies,

banks send e-mail rather than sending letters.

Overall, in my opinion, information technology changed work practices to the

benefit of all us.


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Argue either for or against on the following topic:

Training for the job is far more important than the broad based education

Training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result

of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relates tospecific useful skills. Apart from the education they had with proper training on the

particular job makes them successful in their field and there the training plays an

important role.

Training and development is the field concerned with workplace learning to

improve performance. And such training can be categorized as on the job and off

the job. On the job describes training that is given in the working situation using

the actual tools, equipment. Documents or materials that they will use when fully

trained. Off the job training takes place away from normal work which means that

the employee is not regarded as the productive worker when training is taking

place. An advantage of off the job training is that is allows people to get away from

work and totally concentrate on the training being given. This is most effective for

training concepts and ideas.

For example the training in the military makes us to learn many skills such as how

to survive in combat that are needed in a time of war and also how to use variety of

weapons. And the second example is in electronic or electrical firms the traininggives them the practical knowledge on the machines and the way how to use them

in the correct way without the proper knowledge it may take them to dangerous

risk if they make any wrong connections in the field and it lead to death also

sometimes.

The education which was learned theoretically has come in to use when we are

going to apply it practically on our own without any help from the seniors it makes

us more confident on the work we have done and we all know that experiencemakes man perfect and this will be achieved through this process.

In conclusion, with the proper training on the job that are going to do makes the

employees to do the work in a proper manner and in less stipulated time and it is

training gives them the backbone for the knowledge that was gained through

education


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There are social, medical and technical problems associated with the use of

mobile phones. What forms do they take? Do you agree that the problems

outweigh the benefits of mobile phones?

Nowadays nearly every 10-year-old owns one and we hardly can imagine how wecould survive without it. The discussion is about the benefit and drawbacks of

mobile phones. Surely their invention can be seen in either of the ways.

Nevertheless I will show that there are more negative than positive effects.

Firstly individuals seem to be addicted to mobiles.

One example is that people explained to feel lost and alone when they forget to

take their mobile with them. Psychologists refer to this and found out that the

continuous carrying of mobile suggests a feeling of not being alone and leads in

certain individuals to addictive behavior.

Second the electric interference of those devices weights other electronic machines

leads to problems.

In Hospital for example their use is prohibited since medical high tech devices

could be disturbed with fatal effects for the patient.

Similar effects have to be prevented by to restriction of use in air planes. These

precautions didnt have to be imposed 20 years ago.

Furthermore scientist found out that there are effects on our body which are still

investigated.

For instance the core temperature rises up to 0.5 centigrade Celsius due to the

radiation near the ear after a few hours of use.

Despite definite harms didnt occur yet, long term results are still awaited and

feared.

Although many people as managers, who have to travel a lot, can safe lots of time

and even money it is nevertheless a luxury article with the potential of furtherharm.

Conclusively mobiles facilitate our life, but are interfering already with many

devices and even with our body in a concerning way. In other words I think

Mobiles are harmful in many ways already, and I hope I mistaken when I think that

we are facing more and more problems compared to their questionable benefit.


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University should accept equal numbers of male and female students in every

subject

This given topic involves lots of thoughts and maybe some of them could beconflict.

If I have to take one straight position I would go with the main idea that

universities are places where we choose to continue to study and no matter if you

are a woman or a man you should not have any advantage for you gender.

Universities should prepare new students to a new life, different opportunities of

work and relationships. Why should they reserve the same numbers for men and

women, I believe they have to reserve places and opportunities for meritorious

person and good students.

Some field studies are mainly attended by men, for instance engineering, other

faculties like Arts and Literatures have a majority of women. These are personal

tastes; we are not talking about government representatives but of everyones

choices and University should not force this trend.

A big point I would like to underline is the following: many faculties have closed

entry list, meaning that you need good pre-requisites or a test to be enrolled insome degrees. Should it be fair if a good student would not enter the course

because he is a boy or she is a woman? I regret this, it would not be acceptable.

To conclude, focusing on the main purpose a university should embrace, I do

believe an opportunity to study must be provide to anyone who really deserve it,

despite of the gender they represent. Its a hard world out there; lets start to

remunerate good brains and good person.


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Giving detailed description of crimes in newspapers and on T.V has bad

consequences. Therefore the government should restrict them. To what extent

do you agree or disagree?

Serial killers gain large sum of money for an interview about their murders in somecountries. Some critics feel disgusted about that and they claim that government

should restrict them. In my opinion, people should be informed about crimes

anyway, so that they will know how to avoid them.

In the past, people had little knowledge about crimes. Consequently, they were

careless and it was very easy for criminals to commit their evil deeds. For example,

years ago, parents used to feel confident of leaving their children alone with other

adults or teachers. Later, there appeared many cases of child abuse and murderswhich shocked the society. It was the news media that highlighted the details of

such experiences and warned the parents to prevent further tragedies. Similarly,

banks and companies have a chance to update or change their security systems

according to the detailed news of high-tech burglaries and robberies.

What newspapers and TV media should do is to have ethical way in presenting the

news. They should describe the cases objectively. Media should shape the

criminals as disgusting monsters to warn the public. They should not make the

criminals popular as movie stars. I still remember the famous movie called natural

born killer in which a couple killed anyone whoever they met on their honeymoon

trip. News media described the couple as romantic rock stars, while, in the end, the

killers killed the audience and reporters who praised and worshiped them.

In conclusion, detailed description of crimes by news media is necessary for people

to improve public awareness and participation to build the peaceful and crimeless

society in the near future.


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In some Countries, People are encouraged to work or travel for a year

between finishing high school and starting university studies. Discuss the

advantages and disadvantages for young people who decide to do this.

Nowadays, many people, especially teenagers, want to get work experiences orbroaden their eyesight by travelling after finishing high schools. These ways can

spend the time rather than stay at home.

In most countries, summer jobs are available when the people are graduated from

the high schools. Most of them want to challenge themselves by interview,

working with partners. When they were studying at high schools, they don't have

time to work because they have to focus on their studies and public exam. Besides,

they are being looked after by their parents. In order to get working experiences for

future lives, they try to do part-time jobs

indeed; some people want to release their pressure from studying. They don't have

a job, but they want to broaden their knowledge. If the financial condition of their

families are good, their parents can support them to travel anywhere. The countries

where they like to travel may be historical, peaceful, and cultural. For example,

there are many historical buildings in China or Europe. Those buildings can

impress the people and they feel that they have the meaningful lives. Since the

holiday between high schools and universities are very long, the people can travelto countries as many as they can.

Although traveling and working are very beneficial to the people, there are some

risks if they do carelessly.

For traveling, if they don't join the trips which are held by the famous travel

agencies, they have to use much energy for planning, transport, accommodation,

eating. If they encounter some troubles, they can't solve the problems themselvesbecause of some reasons such as languages problem.

For working, there are many jobs such as selling the drugs whose properties are

bad and illegal. Some teenagers aren't mature; they think those jobs can let them

earn much money (E.g., $300000 per month). Finally, they will be arrested by the


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police and their future is lost. Besides, some jobs and their interviews want to cheat

employees in order to steal their money. As employees have signed their names

into the contracts, the agents may use their personal profiles to steal their money.

As a result, the employees lose all their money before they work. It's so ironic.

In conclusion, we have to consider the decisions carefully whatever traveling or

working. Even though they both have disadvantages and advantages, if we use our

mind, we can do it well and safety, So that we should avoid many problems that

we encounter.

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