STATEMENT OF PURPOSE Science and technology have revolutionised the world. We live in a better world than our ancestors found it. It’s all because of the implementation of ideas that led to the comforts and luxuries of lives we lead today. Technology has single handily made living much easier and we no longer die to fulfil the necessities of life. All these ideas fascinated me as a child. William Gibson rightly quoted “the future is already here‚ it’s just not evenly distributed yet" and I decided
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I disagree that money is the most important thing in life. Everything in life requires money‚ but little did people know there are many other things that should come before it. To some people money means everything to them‚ to me money is important but it’s not the most important. You need money to survive‚ to meet our basic needs‚ to provide for ourselves and our families. Other than that‚ money is only able to buy you materialistic things‚ but when it comes to love‚ happiness‚ etc. Money is useless
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Technology has made children less creative than they were in the past Society has been changing considerably since the advent of advanced development of technology that never grows as strong as it does nowadays. Thanks to a huge amount of knowledge‚ people invent lots of modern technology that come in handy in life. However‚ technology makes life faster and easier rather better‚ which is the most indispensable factor in development. Consequently‚ technology makes children less creative than they
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Monopolies can be national (royal mail)‚ regional (water companies) or local (petrol station). Unlike a perfect competition situation were firms are ’price takers ’ and only respond to consumer demand‚ a monopoly finds itself in an imperfect competition market. In this type of market the firm is more of a ’price maker ’ and can therefore influence the market price. When comparing monopoly and perfect competition under the same conditions‚ we can find that the monopolist when in equilibrium produces
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IELTS essay‚ topic: Children should be engaged in paid work‚ agree or disagree? In many countries children are engaged in different kinds of paid work. Some people regard this as completely wrong‚ while others consider it a valuable work experience‚ important for learning and taking responsibility. What is your opinion? The issue of whether or not children should be engaged in some paid work has sparked a heated debate. While some argue that having some employment experience is conducive to
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I agree with Rousseau’s statement. Rousseau’s statement suggests that humans are not born selfish and he believed that democracy was merely a reflection of our basic sense of fairness and equality. I mainly disagree with Hobbes’ statement because there is a discrepancy in what he is saying. He suggests that all people are born selfish‚ yet we are enforced by a supreme ruler to avoid chaos. Using his logic‚ wouldn’t a supreme leader be born equally selfish? Why would we expect him to teach us obedience
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“National boundaries have far less meaning now than they did in the past.” How far do you agree/disagree? A dividing line. This is the most fundamental definition of a boundary‚ but while we often take it to be a physical line in between two areas‚ a boundary is so much more than that. Boundaries can be anything from regional‚ to ethnic‚ to religious‚ to lingual. National boundaries have defined people since the first civilizations thousands of years ago. From the Roman Empire in the BC
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accumulate property. The people within this society who do not have the means to amass material possessions are pitied‚ considered the underclass. They are seen to be lacking in something‚ incomplete‚ and are encouraged to ’make something’ of themselves. To acquire qualifications‚ a job that pays well‚ to set themselves up so that they too can begin to accumulate material goods. This‚ society argues‚ is what everyone should strive for. It has been said that Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting is a critique
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Decentralisation is the process in which the population‚ retail and industry moves from urban CBD’s to the outer city. An out of town shopping centre is a group of shops and facilities that are located away from a town’s CBD. This movement will have positive and negative impacts on both the urban area and the outer city‚ where the out of town centres are built. The decentralisation of retailing and other services is happening because In order to sell goods‚ shops need to be located where people can
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Oliver Davies To what extent do you agree that schools have a uniform? From the ages of 5 to 16 by law every child in the UK must attend school; whether the school is state funded or privately funded they almost all have some form of school uniform. School uniforms are a requirement at almost all schools but in some state schools the regulations on school uniforms are a little looser than others‚ Meaning that some pupil wear pretty much whatever they want to school taking no notice of the school
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