Some people think it would be a good idea for schools to teach every

young person how to be a good parent. Do you agree or disagree with

this opinion? Describe the skills a person needs to be a good parent.
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The increasing number of marriage in the coming years contributes to

the fact that the age of parents tends to be younger and younger. The
issue how to feed and teach their children in the correct direction has
been shown up in front of these low-aged parents. Setting up a specified
course in school for young person to acknowledge the essential skills
seems to be reasonable.
As to the skills of being a superior parent, responsibility is one of the
crucial expertises in this area. The majority of the parents, especially
who became parent at the early age, tend to rarely afford this burden
and lack of patience to keep on educate their children. Recent research
reported by East Daily, illustrates that approximately 35 percent of the
young parents fail to watch their babies which is taken care of by their
grandparent instead. This figure is also booming right now. Develop
responsibility when they feed and educate their own boys or girls is
supposed to be an evitable course for the special education institute.
Meanwhile, a well-qualified parent is capable of keeping the balance of
award and punishment. Its vital for parents to acquire this when
handling their childs trouble case. Provided that schools can supply the
appropriate measures and approaches for young person in this situation,
this can simply avoid the confusion and negative effect on his child.
To sum up, the qualification of being a good parent is involved in strong
responsibilities for family, properly encouraging their children and
criticizing the incorrect behavior when they are growing up. There is no

doubt that schools should establish the lesson for every young person to
acquire how to cultivate their next generation.
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It is generally believed that some people are born with certain talents, for
instance for sport or music, and others are not. However, it is sometimes
claimed that any child can be taught to become a good sports person or
musician. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

It is actually very common to hear people saying that "this kid was born
to do this". There is much discussion as to whether people are indeed
born with talents or anyone can be taught how to gain certain skills.
On the one hand, it is thought that each one of us has a specific talent
that was born with it. Therefore, there are several children that are
definitely very good at music or sports even from their young age even
though they have not be taught how to do this before. Moreover, there
are many children that have managed to develop their skills on their own
without any help from experts. This is actually what impresses people
and urge them to believe that there are people that have been born with
specify talents. However, that does not mean that experts and teachers
are not important, as they play an essential role in order to identify these
talents children and help them to improve their skills.
On the other hand, several people argue that everyone can become a
good musician or athlete, for example, provided that they are taught by
qualified teachers. What is needed is to be really keen on learning and
willing to try hard in order to achieve your goal. There are lots of
examples of children that they didn't seem to be able to ever be a

musician, but after a lot of practise and lessons, they finally succeeded
it. Everyone can become what he is dreaming through the right and
professional training.
Taking all the above into consideration, I hold the view that there are
actually some children that from the very young age seem to be very
talented in different skills, but without the appropriate training from
experts, no one can improve their skills in order to reach to the absolute
perfect scale.
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The costs of international travel are decreasing and tourism is growing.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of increasing tourism
activity in different countries?

In recent decades, low cost airfare has made international travel easier
and many countries have, therefore, developed their tourism industries
into key sectors of their economies. While it is clear tourism brings
obvious benefits to the countries that host tourists, it is also true to say it
may bring disadvantages as well.
Undoubtedly, there are significant benefits that tourism brings to a
country. First, a thriving tourist industry implies an increasing need for a
variety of services such as hotels, transport, restaurants, and
entertainment. This results in a considerable number of jobs being
created for people who lack a college education and also the
development of the infrastructure needed to accommodate visitors.
Moreover, tourism is a "green" industry that, unlike factories, generates a
low level of pollution. In fact, because beautiful natural landscapes are
often places that tourists come to see, a country will often be sure to
maintain the landscape in order to keep it attractive for tourists.

Despite the benefits, there are aspects of tourism that may prove
harmful to a country. For instance, a country may suffer from the loss of
their traditional culture. This is caused by people in a country changing
their lifestyle, customs, and language in order to more effectively serve
visitors or because they become influenced by foreign countries. This
can cause stress in a traditional society and could even lead to animosity
towards tourists. In addition, because tourists often carry expensive
objects like cameras and are unaware of their surroundings, they make
good targets for theft. Crime also increases as a result of the increases
in drugs and prostitution that caters to some vacationers.
In summary, global tourism is greatly beneficial to an economy and
environment of a country. However, it can be detrimental in several
ways. To my way of thinking, a country should seek to develop its
tourism industry because it can bring steady jobs to many people without
their need for higher education and without the risk of environmental
damages.
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University lecturer is now able to put their lectures on the internet for
students to read and so the importance of attending face to face lectures
has been reduced. Do you believe the use of internet in formal education
is a good idea? What future effects will internet have on academic
study?

The effects of the Internet is not only limited to the enhanced

accessibility of data and information, but it has gone beyond the
unexpected. One of the most overt effects of the Internet is on
education. Today, teachers make use of the internet to post lectures and
even assignments, thus reducing the need to have classroom-base and
face to face lectures.

I believe that the aid of the internet to formal education is really of great
help. The reason is that students can visit their lecture site anytime they
want to regardless of where they are, thus providing them convenience
in studying and allowing them to do other things like part-time works and
the like.
In addition, the use of online services for posting lectures helps the
students to understand clearly the lessons taught. Mostly, lecturers can
insert web links to the full definition of words which can be very
confusing to many students, or the essential contents of lessons that
need to be studied thoroughly. In that way, students can be challenge to
study further, thus letting the students to become fully aware of the
lessons posted. Moreover, the use of internet for posting lectures can
also minimise the use of paper and photocopy machines, then
preservation of energy and woods is very much possible.
However, in my own opinion the usage of internet in the long run can
lead to negative effects. Since students and lecturers would rely on the
internet heavily, it is more likely that some students may become lazy
learners. Moreover, the universities might close temporarily or even
permanently since the internet for academic study can be popular and
widespread. This may even lead to the ignorance of many people to the
real meaning and purpose of schools.
Furthermore, the evaluation of students can alter. Teachers may not fully
see or observe if the students are learning from the lessons or not. It can
also be possible for some students to let other persons answer their
school tasks, so assessment of students may not be that accurate and
reliable.
To sum up, the Internet has great effects on academic learning if utilised
in the proper, right and wise way. Gaining education cannot fully depend

with the utilisation of internet, yet it can only be one of the factors that
could help with the progression of learning and teaching.
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Out of a countrys health budget, a large proportion should be diverted
from treatment to spending on health education and preventative
measures. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

As reported, there have been a few recommendations from health

experts to Governments on allocating budgets to educate the public to
live a healthy lifestyle which can prevent people from falling ill. I totally
agree with them, as it is a cost-effective way to handle public health
problem confronted by most of the governments in the world.
One of the most important functions of governments is to maintain the
public health at a relatively high level. However, the traditional pattern
adopted by governments is spending a large amount of money on
providing treatment, which leads to a vicious circle: the more money they
invested, the worse situation it turned to be. Let's consider smoking
controll programs in China. According to statistics, there are about 1.2
million of people died of lung cancer because of smoking or secondhanded smoking. Merely in 2000, the cost of smoking in China has
reached nearly 5 billion RMB varied from treatment expenditure and the
production losses. In fact, if the government had switched its policy by
providing more education programs about living a healthy life style,
asking the cigarette manufactures to tag warning marks on the
packaging of cigarette, forbidding smoking in public, penalizing the
retailers who sell cigarette to the people under 18. Doing that, the
amount of patients suffered from lung cancer would reduce significantly.

Moreover, funding on disease prevention projects and educating the

public with healthy life style would contribute to the social stability.
Suffering from disease is not only money-consuming but also miserable
and painful. It isnt unusual to see people commit crimes because of
money shortage which stems from highly cost of disease treatments. If
Governments take action before bad situation happens, for example,
raising residents health awareness and proving an unpolluted
environment, it will prevent many people from suffering disease so as to
curb the proliferation of crime.
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In many cities crime is increasing. Why do you think this happening?
What can governments do to help reduce crime levels? Give reasons
for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own
knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.

In the contemporary world, the reported cases of crime all over the world
are alarmingly increasing. It is believed that the main reasons behind this
are the rise in population and the increase in the inflation rate. This can
be harnessed with the involvement of the Government which is
discussed further in the context of this essay.
In order to justify my point of view, I would like to state that the
population of a country will be the first and foremost reason behind this
increase in crime. Take India for instance, it is a developing country and
in the prevailing scenario its population is sky rocketing, which creates a
significant number of problems. With respects to that, unemployment is
the major one; consequently, educated and sophisticated people survive
without jobs and result in indulge in the crime to bear their expenses.
Thus it is clear from this example that population is the major cause
which ultimately forces people to commit crimes. To combat this grave

problem, governments can arrange educational classes and programs to

increase public awareness about the exacerbated effects of the increase
in population.
Furthermore, the inflation rate is another reason for the increase in the
number of crime cases in certain countries. To illustrate, In India
nowadays, the inflation rate is booming continuously; which causes
enormous problems and creates an inequality between rich and poor
people, as rich become richer and poor become poorer. Hence, it has
been seen from this example that the increase in inflation also leads to
the increase of crime to some extent. This grim and gruesome problem
can be tackled only by Governments, so government should adopt some
leniency against the poor people and give them rebates so that they can
survive and bear their expenses smoothly.
Eventually, after analyzing all the views, I would like to conclude that
crime in any way is a major problem for any country. It needs a
combined effort by Governments, masses and classes of any country to
join the hands together to nip this evil into the bud. Otherwise it is
expected that it could be worsen in near future.
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Nowadays, children play less with one another and this has an impact on
their development. What are the reasons for this? Does it have a good or
a bad effect on children?

In the prevailing scenario, it can be commonly seen all around the globe
that children spend more time with gadgets and gizmos, instead of
playing with their peers. There are quite a few possible reasons behind
this such as technology and parent's insecurity. Many consider this
attitude as a negative effect on children. However, from my
understanding, it has a significant number of benefits which are

discussed in the further paragraphs.

In order to justify my point of view, I would like to state that technology
has played an indispensable role to keep children busy at their home.
For instance, children in India especially in metropolitan cities spend a
huge amount of time on surfing the Internet and playing play station
games. With respect to that, they enhance and accentuate their
intellectual skills; while acquiring more knowledge from the internet and
moreover using keyboard booms the coordination and movement of
fingers. Besides this, the highly sophisticated play stations encourage
them to do more physical movements, thereby keeping them physically
fit. Therefore, it is clear from the above example that technology is one
reason through which children spend less time with each other.
Furthermore, it is believed that the contemporary world is not a safe
place for anyone. In today's busy world, parents have very less time or
no time to keep an eye on their kids. Take India, for instance, mostly
parents are working and children are always instructed not to go out to
meet with the friends because parents know that most of the time their
children learn some bad habits from their fellow age groups. Apart from
this, parents feel insecure about any miss-happening with their kids such
as kid-napping, as these are common in India. Thus it can be clearly
seen from the example that parents also are the another reason for this
behavior of children.
However, some people argued that this leads to many negative effects,
such as children's losing interaction, which is the base of their
development. However, I am at the variance of this because children fill
this gap by interacting with each other through social networking
websites.
Keeping in mind all the above, I would like to conclude that we all are
living in a techno savvy world, which blessed our children with enormous

websites to fulfill the physical requirements as well as intellectual ones of

their body, while staying safe from the outer world.
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Happiness is considered very important in life. Why is it difficult to
define? What factors are important in achieving happiness?

As far as I know, the perception of happiness differs considerably from

one individual to another as a result of the diversity of characteristics and
environmental factors. In this essay, a few factors to attain happiness will
be identified.
Admittedly, happiness means different things to different people because
of their various perceptions. Some people refer happiness as a feeling of
pleasure or enjoyment. For instance, a child has toys, a girl owns a
shoes collection or people enjoy spending time with their family and
friends. Nevertheless, other people see money as a source of
happiness. They sacrifice everything in their pursuit of wealth and
consider that earning money is solely a way to attain happiness.
Another reason why people have difficulty in defining happiness is that
their objectives and interests vary in different life stages. One has the
passion for toys as a child, fashionable clothing as a youth, an admirable
occupation as an adult and possibly a company of family members as an
elder. With age, ones attitudes, capabilities and concerns are subject to
change. Following the latest fads, for examples, appeals to young
people, despite the expenditure of time and money. By comparison,
senior people are hardly interested in their clothes fashion. They even
tend to regard them as a wasteful use of money.
Considering the fact that people are all motivated to attain objectives for
their happiness, they should first give different weight to different

subjects, such as health, money, family or occupation. Few people can

attain several aims at the same time. Therefore, the primary factor to
achieve happiness is identifying the top priority elements. In addition, in
order to be truly happy, it is necessary to live a good life as well as to do
something useful with their lives. Some people get a sense of
achievement from their work, whereas others find happiness is bringing
up their children.
In conclusion, each person defines happiness in his own ways based on
personal perceptions and life stages. In general, determining the top
priority elements in achieving one's objectives and living a good life are
the two most important factors to attain happiness
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In some countries people pay different rates of tax depending on their
salary, in other countries everyone pays the same rate. Which do you
believe is the best system?

Undoubtedly, governments all around the world depend heavily on tax

revenues to raise capital in order to fund their defence and development
projects. To collect this levy, governments use various methods of
taxation. While some are fairly simple, others can be quite complex.
Although a simple tax system in which everyone pays the same rate of
tax may seem more convenient, it has some serious drawbacks. On the
other hand, a complex variable taxing system may give justice to the
citizens as the amount of tax depends upon the level of income and
thus, it is popular in its own right.
In simple terms, the tax system that uses the same rate for all severely
fails to fully understand the economic complexities of the society, and
oftentimes they are quite unfair. In Nepal, for instance, where the
economic distribution is extremely uneven and complex, both the low-

income earners and the affluent pay the same rate of tax on their
income. This has instigated an outrage towards the government among
the lower and average income earners. Although the tax system is easy
to understand, the feeling of abuse and bias that it brings to the people is
somewhat depressing.
By contrast,in advanced economies like that of Australia, the tax systems
are tremendously complex. Nevertheless, it should be noted that various
solutions are available to counter this problem. Even though the
methods of levy contained in the Australian act may be difficult to
understand and implement; in theory, it treats people with fairness. With
this type of system, the rich pay more levy and the average-income
earners pay only what they can afford. However, it can be argued that
these systems are extremely sophisticated for an average person to
understand. Nonetheless, the issue of complexity can easily be resolved
by using various software and by visiting the official government
websites. In other words, although complex systems may appear
intimidating at first, they benefit the people since they treat people fairly
and equally.
It is, therefore, countries where a simple tax system is used, the burden
of the levy is hard to bear for the middle and the low-income earners,
whereas countries where citizens pay tax based on their salary, the
system does justice to all its citizens. Hence, the later however complex,
is a lot better, and more fair than the former.