Problem-solution composition - Pollution and global warming

Pollution and global warming are considered a world-wide problem. There are lots of types of contamination, such as the light, acoustic, radioactive or air one, among others. As we can see, our planet is being damaged in different ways, despite the attempt to end this situation by creating Kyoto Protocol of 1997 or the appearance of groups as green peace. The worst thing of this issue is that, polluting the planet, we are polluting ourselves.

We have grown up in a society which considered contamination acts as something habitual. Since lots of centuries ago, humans have contaminated the environment merely burning coal or making a bonfire. Moreover, now is usual see the vehicles exhaust fumes, factory smoke or spoiled water by throwing chemical waste. What type of world are we creating for the future generations? If we don’t transmit to our sons an environmental thinking education, the planet will disappear before than we expect.

Obviously, this not only affects to the environmental, it also influences to animals, vegetables and humans. All of us breathe the poisonous car smoke or eat chemical fertilized vegetables. We are able to kill animals just to make real fur coats or cutting down trees to make beautiful furniture. Accordingly, in recent years there have been an increased number of respiratory and carcinogenic diseases. As we can see, man's ambition is destroying the environment and themselves.

Fortunately, through the years more and more factories and people have contributed to curb with this problem. Since the Kyoto Protocol, the industry sector has tried to regulate their pollution level. Moreover, recycling is a usual act or hunting animals is being supervised. Nevertheless, there is still a high level of pollution, so these are not enough. If only there were electric cars instead of fuel contaminating cars or biodegradable materials, the pollution level would be lower. All of us should contribute. Just in this way this issue will disappear progressively.

To sum up, Earth is being attached by its own habitants. Although in last years this issue is being treated, there is still a lot a work to do. All of us must to contribute, not only for ending with contamination, also for keeping the future generations free of this great problem. 

Technologies.

In this report we will examine the different attitudes towards mobile phones. Last fifteen years have supposed a great informatics key breakthrough. Accordingly, these devices have become essential in our daily life. Nowadays, thanks to smartphones, we can know how will be the weather like tomorrow or where did our friend go last night. Notwithstanding, the dependence that it has created is considered as one of the most important issue of nowadays society, mainly young people.

It is a fact that smartphones have turned our life into a much easier one. With a device that fit neatly in your pocket, you can forward messages whenever you want or go online for access information that you need. Furthermore, with your digital camera phone you’ll feel like you were photography amateur. It seems like it is the greatest invention ever. Nonetheless, we should open our eyes and see the issue which most of us have been involved in.

Some psychological researchers have discovered that our society is getting more and more introverted since the smartphones apparition. Due to the fact that many people prefer talking by whatsapp than talking face-to-face, they consider that in a near future we won’t be able to empathize. This affects essentially to young people as you. Most of the readers of this report couldn’t spend one day without their mobile phone.

Besides, another con of the technologic time is that we have become available to everyone. Our personal information could be known in anywhere through social websites. For that reason, you must use them carefully. It is a fact that we are completely absorbed by these networks but… Are we going to let a machine to control our life?  We mustn’t.

To sum up, nowadays society, particularly young people should sometimes leave their phone at home and life without being an electronic slave. If we use it adequately, we will dominate them. We hope that this report will useful and we wish that you contribute to finish with this situation.

This is a video that made me think about this situation: 

Outline - Distance Relationship

I. Introduction: distance relationship.
   A. A little introduction about how do I feel and I think about this situation.
       1. Although sometimes it is difficult to hold up, love is stronger than that.
       2. I am proud of fighting for this relationship.
       3. Some people thinks that it is crazy.
  B. My situation in the distance relationship.
        1. How far we are.
        2. How often we meet.

II. What people normally think about distance relationship.
     A. It is tought that it has no sense because They say I should take my youth instead of handle something without future.
     B. Many people wouldn't be able to bear it. It has lot of cons.
         1. You can't see your partner whenever you want.
         2. There is not enough confidence.
         3. Jelausy.
         4. Different life styles.
      C. I don't agree with them.
         1. They haven't experimented it.

III. How it really feels like.
     A. It is not always as perfect as I'd like.
         1. Is awful when I don't know when I am going to see him again.
         2. Homesickness.
    B. Nonethless, I prefeer the positive part of this.
        1. When I am with him, I live the moment intensely.
        2. It is not like a normal relationship, which is not bad.
        3. I have matured.
        4. In this situation I have learned what is important, what I have to take care and that I have to                 fight for the things that I want and love.

IV. Conclussion.
      A. As everything, it is not as perfect as I'd like.
      B. If you are in love with somebody, you can handle everything.

The Impossible, a film which open our eyes.

Yesterday I watched on TV one of the most chocking and emotional movie I have ever seen. It is called "The Impossible" and it tells the story about how a Spanish family survived to the tsunami of Thailand. Watching this film I have changed a little my mind. We should to be pleased of eating every day and having a house where we sleep and also of having next to us the ones that we love. Lots of people from all over the world are not as fortunate as we are.

 Human has been always taking care about material things instead of the ones next to him. Families are separated by heritages or men from all periods of the history could make a war for feeling powerful, for example. We are able to loose people who we love or admired because we prefer having money and power. Selfishness has always existed and it could be the worst side of people.

 Thanks to this devastating situations or movies like “The Impossible”, we could open our eyes. I had heard about catastrophe when it happened in 2004. Then I was eight years old so what really occurred was unimaginable for a little girl. But yesterday, watching the movie and the real images I was shocked. People drowning, houses and hotels being rolled, hospitals collapsed… it must have been horrible.

Therefore, we should look after the ones we care: our family, friends, partners… We don’t know what will happen tomorrow. We must apply the famous quote “carpe diem”, which means “live this day as it were the last”.

Advertising

Nowadays, we are used to watching lots of advertisements at every place we go. We can find them on TV, books, magazines, social networks, radio and also on bus background. That’s because capitalism is getting bigger and bigger so we are exposed to such marketing strategy. However, some people is against of that since they think that advertising tries to manipulate our mind.

Personally, I am not against advertising if it is used in a right way, although not always it is. Advertising experts know how to make their product attractive to consumers. Last year, in my psychologist class at high school I learnt some advertising strategies. From there, now I know that, for instance, they use different colours or a catching jingle depending on the effect that they can make or a powerful slogan to catch public’s attention. This means that they can get into users’ subconscious “obligating” them to desire something that they don’t really need.

Advertising has been focused specially to child and young people. This sectors haven’t got the same personality as adults have so there are more possibilities for them to be manipulated. For example, on Christmas time around 80% of advertisement are offering toys or videogames with lots of special effects such as Wii’s announcement. Another successful advertisement is for selling Coca-Cola, one of the most powerful business all over the world. Everyone from all ages, particularly young people, has ever drunk coke. In the same way happens with adverts for mobile phones.

I understand that the different industries has to offer their products, but they must do it respectfully. Consumers are free to decide what product or service they need (or desire) and what don’t want at all. People don’t like the feeling of being manipulated, so maybe government has to control advertising. Is supposed that we live in a Free State, so we have to be free also deciding in what we are spending our money.

Unusual things that I like.

I love watching films or TV programs in original version, not dubbed, which is not something usual in my country. In my opinion, not many people know the benefits of doing this. The original version can helps us to learn a different language and to get a better pronunciation and vocabulary. For instance, this is a little step to get a job since they usually ask us to know a second language. Not dubbed shows sometimes can be funny because of you can now in this way the real actors' voices. However, people don't usually watch original version TV programmes or series because sometimes the just want to enjoy the movie, not learn a language. I understand this position, but if they knew the other language, they would do both things at the same time. In other countries, they usually do that so I imagine that that's why most of them speak English fluently. To conclude, doing something unusual many times can be better for yourself.

Problem/Solution paragraph - Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity is an important nowadays problem, which is getting worse progressively. It is considered as a chronic disease and it also affects adult people. The focus of this problem has been attributed to many different factors, such as genetic, life style or  nervous and endocrine system behaviour. But specially, has been blamed food education. Today's childs and young people don't usually have healthy meals as vegetables or leguminous, which are necessary in our diary diet. In stead of that, they are used to eating fast food, pasta, meat, chocolate.... Maybe this fact is not their fault: their parents are blamed. They must had given them a good food education since they were little avoiding problems like this.

In order to overcome these problems our society must change their mind and think about their and their child's healthy. As I said before, a good food education is probably the answer to aboid this problem, but if the problem comes from genetic heritage, we will have to think about other solutions. Today there are lots of  medical interventions as surgery. But I think that the best solution is doing sport and having a healthy diet everyday. 

Contrast paragraph: decision of study or not

Nowadays is very common to make the decision of study or not. Long time ago it wasn't necessary as nobody used to study, they just worked since they were child. However, today everyone have the chance of study at high school or at college but some people dislikes this option. Both have pros and cons. On the one hand, people who studies might spend much time that they'd like studying and not doing the things that they really want for instance. Sometimes the fact that you're friends are spending a good time while you are studying is frustrating.Though, every sacrifice is rewarded. It means that in the future they'll have a great job and a great life, in most cases. Whereas, people who had decide not to study maybe have a great youth. They can going out whenever they want, sleep lots of hours or spent all night watching TV. Also much people instead of study in their youth they work in bad conditions in most cases. I think that if you work hard in studies when you are young, you'll have a good live. As I said before, every sacrified is rewarded: we won't have what we want if we don't work hard.

Opinion paragraph: Television

I'm going to talk about a nowadays topic: pros and cons of television. The television has became an essential element in our life. Most of people watchs TV at last 2 hours per day, but... is it positive for us? As everything, it has pros and cons. In my opinion, the main pro of television is that it give us lots of information, sometimes more than we really need. Although we have other ways of being informed, television is the popular one. Another television's feature which I'm agree with is that it was created to enjoy us and make that we sing out from real world for a while. On the other side, I think that it have serious cons. One of them is that television is destroying imagination, converting persons into unsociable. With this I mean that we prefeer whatch a TV show or a movie instead of read a book, socialize or even doing exersice. So, as everithing, we can use it but with moderation.

Describing paragraph: Favourite Place

My favourite place is a particular beach city called La Manga. Since I was a child, I'd spent all my holidays there. This kind of city is in Región de Murcia, near of Cartagena. Its is a rare place as it has two different sees at both sides: Menor sea and Mediterranean see (populary called Mar Mayor). So, If Mediterranean see has wave, you can go to Menor see which is usually a calm sea. This unusual place is visited in summer for people from all over the world countries. As conclusion, this is a popular Spanish point for spending holidays, so I recommend everyone to visit it.

Zoos

Zoos can be seen from two diferent points of view. For many people Zoos are funny and nice places where people of all ages go to have a good time. However, others think differently because they see it as a cruel and horrible place. Those opposite ways of thinking about this situation have began a discussion.

On the one hand, zoos help to survive face species such as bengal tigers which natural habitat has changed because of the climatic change or the man's activities. Other example is the case of artic animals. Snow leopard or artic beards had to leave the places they used to live by the global warming. For that reason, zoos or aquariums copy their environment to make their life more comfortable and safetly. Also, there are domestic animals which can't survive by theirselfs so they need care from animals behaviours.

But, Is right the way they look after these animals? In my opinion, it isn't. Principally dangered animal are the salvage ones so their main need is freedom. Would we like to live in cages? It'd be horrible. I don't think the feeling of beeing sourrounded of strange people could be nice. They are alive as human, so I don't think that zoos or circus should exist. All the same, I am agree at animals asotiation which really helps animals giving them food and hygiene.

To conclude, I think that the best to the animals are asotiations which really takes care of them. Also, to prevent the animals extintions, we should contribute to not get worse the climatic change or avoid the hunting activities.