Do Teenagers Really Need a Mobile Phone?

Nowadays, mobile phones are becoming an extremely popular electronic for people. They are also becoming more technologically sophisticated; most can take and share pictures and videos and connect to the Internet for web surfing. Many teenagers are cell phone owners, however. It is debatable whether a teenager actually needs a mobile phone, but mostly they will say that a phone was essential to their happiness and social standing. There are however positive and negative sides for teenagers having a mobile phone.

One of the reasons of letting a teenager have a mobile phone is because one way of making a teenager do exactly what you want is by using a combination between bribery and blackmail. They will do what you want easily if you offer to put more data on their mobile phone. The second reason is that mobile phones can also be an excellent way of staying in touch with a teenager when they are away from home. Third, many cell phones enable teenagers to access the internet. By using this feature, teenagers can obtain answers to questions very quickly and easily. The last, if a teenager has a mobile phone, they can use it to call for help in a risky situation for some reason. In such a condition, having a cell phone handy could be a lifesaver.

In spite of having some advantages, letting teenagers have a mobile phone has also some disadvantages. First, cheating can be done more easily by using mobile phones since students can

search or text the answers under their desks during tests. Second, mobile phones can be very distracting from some important activities in a child’s life such as studying, doing homework, or even crossing the street. Third, adult contents which can be accessed easily is also an issue for parents to consider before giving a mobile phone for their child.

We need to be wise to use such a sophisticated technology in our lives. As parents, we can set guidelines for our children on when they are able to use their cell phones or give a suitable phone

for their age so that we can get more advantages from purchasing a mobile phone for our children

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Nigel Cullens

10900 Richmond Avenue, Houston, Texas 77042

Date: 6th December 2017

Dear Mr. Cullens,

The National Environment Association is a non-profit and non-government organization. The organization will be holding a national conference with the topic "Save the Environment". It will be held on December 26th at 10 a.m. and the venue is on the Pearl Center, Washington DC. The conference is one of our annual program which aims to provide a scenario for field professionals and the society to learn the latest issues about environment pollution. We will invite the experts in the country as our keynote speakers who will share their knowledge and expertise.

We are inviting you to take part in the conference. Therefore there will be mandatory fee of the attendance. Kindly see the attachment and confirm your attendance one week before.

Sincerely

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Bullying is the use of force or coercion to abuse or intimidate others. The behaviour can be habitual and involve an imbalance of social or physical power. It can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims, perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability. The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "target".

Bullying can occur in any context in which human being interact with each other. This includes school, church, family, the workplace, home, and neighborhoods.

Bullying is absolutely wrong for several reasons. First, nobody wants to get bullied. Imagine if you or your family member is one who is being bullied. What do you think will happen to him/her? Nobody wants to live his /her life like a frightened rabbit, right?

Second, the victims can make a revenge by telling their parents, teachers or even your principal about what you have done to them, and surely, you will be in a very, very big trouble.

Finally, bullying can result in very serious consequences. Maybe it is done for fun, but the victims can consider it as a deep traumatic experience that can lead to depression, or even suicide. When that happens, surely you will forever be regretful.

From the facts above, it is clear that bullying is wrong, and it only brings negative impacts

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Bullying is the use of force or coercion to abuse or intimidate others. The behaviour can be habitual and involve an imbalance of social or physical power. It can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims, perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability. The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "target".

Bullying can occur in any context in which human being interact with each other. This includes school, church, family, the workplace, home, and neighborhoods.

Bullying is absolutely wrong for several reasons. First, nobody wants to get bullied. Imagine if you or your family member is one who is being bullied. What do you think will happen to him/her? Nobody wants to live his /her life like a frightened rabbit, right?

Second, the victims can make a revenge by telling their parents, teachers or even your principal about what you have done to them, and surely, you will be in a very, very big trouble.

Finally, bullying can result in very serious consequences. Maybe it is done for fun, but the victims can consider it as a deep traumatic experience that can lead to depression, or even suicide. When that happens, surely you will forever be regretful.

From the facts above, it is clear that bullying is wrong, and it only brings negative impacts

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Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was dead tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped and spread a cloth under a tree. He placed his bag full of caps bear him and lay down with his cap on his head.

The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour. When he got up, the first thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled when he found all his caps were not there. He was wondering where they could have gone. Indeed, he was greatly puzzled.

When he looked up the sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a tree, each wearing a cap on his head. They had evidently done it to imitate him.

He decided to get his caps back by making a humble request to the monkeys. In return, the monkeys only made faces of him. When he began to make gestures, even when he raised his fist towards them to threaten them, they also imitated him.

At last he hit upon a clever idea. “Monkeys are a great imitator,” he thought. So he took off his own cap and threw it down on the ground. As he had expected, all the monkeys took off the caps and threw it down on the ground. Quickly he stood up and collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away.

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Is Smoking Good for Us?

Before we are going to smoke, it is better to look at the facts. About 50 thousands people die every year in Britain as direct result of smoking. This is seven times as many as die in road accidents. Nearly a quarter of smokers die because of diseases caused by smoking.

Ninety percent of lung cancers are caused by smoking. If we smoke five cigarettes a day, we are six times more likely to die of lung cancer than a non smoker. If we smoke twenty cigarettes a day, the risk is nineteen times greater. Ninety five percent of people who suffer of bronchitis are people who are smoking. Smokers are two and half times more likely to die of heart disease than non smokers.

Additionally, children of smoker are more likely to develop bronchitis and pneumonia. In one hour in smoky room, non smoker breathes as much as substance causing cancer as if he had smoked fifteen cigarettes.

Smoking is really good for tobacco companies because they do make much money from smoking habit. Smoking, however is not good for health both the smokers themselves and every body else.

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Capital punishment is one of the most controversial subjects to be discussed today. This controversy is caused by so many things all over the world having so many different views about it. Capital punishment happens when someone is put to death for a crime, for example murder or drug trafficking. Many people think capital punishment should be reinstated in Britain, but there are just as many people who think that the criminal system is better the way it is.

One important argument against the death penalty is that sometimes an innocent person is put to death. If capital punishment is used, the authorities must therefore have evidence beyond the shadow of any doubt that they have accused the correct person. Furthermore, capital punishment removes all possibilities for a person who has done something seriously wrong to be able to change and to be rehabilitated.

Another strong point against capital punishment is that two wrongs do not make a right. Killing a victim, for instance, and then being sentenced to death do not suddenly make everything all right or make things better. A poor, helpless victim’s life has been stolen from him, but killing the murderer will not bring the victim back.

Nevertheless, those who are in favor of the death penalty have many points to justify their stance. Most importantly, it punishes the criminal by doing to him what he did to others. It acts as a form of revenge for the victim’s family by letting them know that the criminal has felt some of the pain he inflicted on another.

Furthermore, capital punishment could act as a deterrent to anyone whoever thought about committing certain crimes because he would know that when he was found guilty, the death penalty awaited him. It can also save money because, instead of the criminal being kept in person for the rest of his life, he is killed.

After weighing up the arguments for and against capital punishment, I have come to the conclusion that I am for it, and that it is pity it was abolished in Britain thirty or 50 years ago.

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Last week was a hectic week. I have been touring East Java and Bali. There were so many things that I’ve experienced that it’s difficult to write about all of them.

I arrived in Yogyakarta on Sunday. I stayed in a cheap accommodation, a wisma. The room was clean and I could get hot water to bathe. On Monday I went with a tour group to visit Borobudur the Hindu temples in Prambanan. Some of these temples are more than twelve hundred years old. They date well beyond the churches in my home town in Europe, I was amazed at the enormity of the construction. I’m sure they did not have the heavy machines we have today to raise and lay those huge blocks of stone. The carvings on the walls were another feature of construction.

I’m getting used to the spicy food served here. I have eaten fresh fish, lamb and beef. I know you don’t eat all this but I’ve got used to it. On Tuesday I decided to go for a hike to Mount Merapi. But I found out that it was a difficult climb. So I went to the forest park in Kaliurang. That was a lovely walk that made me hot and tired. But I managed to cool off in a waterfall in the park then walked up to a hill nearby where I could see the smoky, fiery Mount Merapi.

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