Some people think all law breakers should be put into prison.Others believe that there are better alternatives.Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Some people think all law breakers should be put into prison.Others believe that there are better alternatives.Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Life is unpredictable and full of surprises. Some people like to live in the moment and not think about the future, while others like to plan ahead. With an increasing number of people suffering from mental illnesses like depression and anxiety, living in the moment can help alleviate stress and contribute to increased level of happiness. Although I agree that focusing on the present has its psychological benefits, I tend to place more importance on planning for the future for a variety of reasons.
Political turmoil, crime rampage, terrorist attacks, poverty, and tragedy, news always has a habit of erring on the grim side. Our planet is not a kind place - at least, if you keep up with the latest media reports, and that leaves people feeling hopeless and apathetic. This is exactly why I reckon the media need to take a new perspective and start to focus more on the good news.
Choosing a suitable career is becoming increasingly important to many young people, especially for fresh graduates from college. However, it faces various obstacles during the process.
First of all, with the lack of experiences, young people hardly realize what are the suitable jobs for themselves. Job descriptions simply illustrate the work contents in a written form that might mislead the young job seekers. Secondly, intense competition is another crucial reason for such phenomenon. Each year, thousands of graduates entering the labour market whereas there are limited vacancies for these less experienced young people. Meanwhile, with the rapid growth of technology, a great number of companies have increased their hiring standards for employment.
Some countries achieve international success, building specialised sports facilities for top athletes to train instead of providing sports facilities that everyone can use. Positive or negative?
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IELTS Writing Task 2
雅思真题 Topic:
Nowadays, some buildings such as offices and schools have open-space design instead of separate rooms. Why is it so? Do you think that this is a positive or negative development?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.
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Essay by Jeenn Lee Hsieh:
These days, it is common to see an increasing number of open-plan offices and schools, particularly in most major cities where there is limited area for buildings. The main reason for this trend is cost, of course, since the value of floor space has been rising. While having an open-space design is usually cheaper, it is worthy of more research on the pros and cons of this development.
To begin with, being cheaper in cost is certainly not the only positive aspect about the growingly popular open-space concept. Regarding the construction of schools or universities, the open-plan design is meant to play the dual role of social interaction among students and environmental enhancement on a compact campus in the urban setting. This is made possible by eliminating barriers such as walls, fences and hedges that traditionally used to separate distinct functional areas. Meanwhile, such advantages may as well happen to the office floor. It is argued that there are better interaction between staff, less distinction between different rankings of co-workers, more flexible space, and more natural light because of the removal of inteior walls. All these serve to explain the popularity of the open-space design.
As often as not, the open-space design may just turn out to be a negative development leading to stress, if nothing else. On the campus, it is reported that students are exposed to high levels of stress in their learning activities. Surveys repetively show the majority of them are experiencing significant stress as a result of interpersonal conflicts, self-esteem complexities, time constraints, academic frustrations and emotional problems. Similar effects are even more apparent in the working environment on the office floor. For instance, it is hard for staff to concentrate due to lack of privacy and feeling of being watched. What is more, problems of constant noise are likely to lower staff performance.
To sum up, there are both good things and bad things about open schools or open offices. While the recent trend toward the open-plan design can be explained as at least cost-efficient, it is also important to know that those benefits are typically offset by myriad distractions and stressful situations. Independent of the cost factor, not all people like the open-space design. (Essay created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh 谢振礼)
Nowadays, both men and women work full-time. Therefore, they have to share household tasks equally. To what extend do you agree or disagree?
A recent survey conducted by Sydney University showed that there was an obvious trend that the employees turnover in companies had been increasing dramatically in the last ten years, with new graduated students accounting for more than ninety percent of the turnover rate.
The tendency to copy is shown in the popularity of fashion in clothes and other consumers' goods. To what extend do you agree or disagree?’
As people’s aesthetic demands growing with the development of fashion industry. No issue seems more marvelous than fashion. Fashion has long been an important part in modern life and it is so common in my country for young people to follow some fashion trends in clothes, accessories, mobile phones, and even lifestyles like travelling abroad to enjoy the picturesque and exotic landscape. The most evident example is the apple’s gadgets which are so sought after that fans of the digital giant send their tributes to it in a fanatical way.
In the first place, there would be better understanding about this phenomenon if the driving factors are scrutinized. The young generation is always the fashion followers who are eager to win recognition from their community, and the way of achieving that includes looking like a huge celebrity or a successful tycoon. Therefore imitating the clothing style of celebrities becomes sought after. This tendency is also enhanced by glaring and dynamic advertisements in various forms. Rich and shiny stars endorse products and enthusiastic fans support them by making a generous purchase. But since when has all this materialistic lifestyle started? Are the celebrities the fashion setter?’ If we agree, it would be ridiculous. Without the abundant consumer goods in modern society, there would not have been so many entertainments or fashions. Therefore, the real fashion setter should be the high production efficiency which encourages people to pursue luxuries. Fashion trend as an effective marketing strategy has to be dynamic, otherwise there would be less demand for mass production.
In addition to the previous point, regardless of the high popularity of some consumer goods or world known brands, some mature minded people show no tendency of copying popular fashion. They have developed their own personal tastes for clothes and other consumer commodities and their preference tends to be less precarious. Further they are realistic and are more likely to make reasonable and sagacious decision when shopping than youngsters.
In conclusion, I believe that young people are prone to copy popular fashion trends in many aspects of life due to the ample supply of consumer goods and the promotion of advertisements while there are some mature people holding their personal way of life and ignoring the vogue vanity. In that case, the preponderance of the judicious consumers are just follow their internal desire to make a choice but not follow the superficial fad. Thus the tendency for human beings to copy one another cannot be shown in the popularity of fashion in clothes and other consumer goods.