Inborn qualities versus hard-work

People often believe that great musicians are born and not made. 
Do you agree that we are born with much of our ability or are there other factors such as family and environment, that determine success?

Nature versus nurture is an ongoing controversial debate from decades. Whether some people who are famous, for instance great musicians, are born with possessed talents or they achieved that position with their determination and hard-work. Undoubtedly, many great artists, musicians belong to the families who have the same skills they possess, which make us believe that talents are innate. Contrarily, there are many examples who have achieved their positions with their caliber, firm determination, patience and continuous practice. 

In my opinion each of us are born with multitude of talents. Those who realize them, can be benefited but who don't, lacks those skills. Even though, someone is talented, they need to be nurtured to reach to their full potential. It is essential that our parents and others should recognize our talents and give us proper  environment, guidance to be able to enhance ourselves to that potential. People  whom we label as "talented" are privileged enough to get these opportunities while growing up, that is why their skills are prominent and they are successful.

Additionally, hard-work and determination can not be ignored in building a successful personality. Regardless of being innate or not, if someone possess these two things, will definitely grow in life. Many musicians spends hours in practicing, sacrificed numerous comforts to achieve the position they have. Best example is a great musician Beethoven, who was almost deaf. Despite of being deaf, his determination and never giving-up attitude made him a great musician in history. 

To summarize, I believe that nature and nurture go hand in hand and its the responsibility of the parents to recognize their children's qualities and nourish them to reach to that potential where they can utilize them to be great  or successful.

Early computer education

Using a computer every day can have more negative than positive effects on children. Do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Essay :
        There is no doubt that the advent of computers has revolutionized the world in last one decade. Around the globe, children nowadays start using computers from very young age. Although it is very important for children to participate in a well balanced veriety of activities like outdoor event and sports, in my openion computer education is the must-have skill for succeeding in future. Computer cognition (knowledge) is imperative (necessary) in all perspectives such as personal, academic and professional.
        From personal point of view, computers are an invaluable resource for young people to explore the world and avilable oppertunities around them. Internet connectivity has expedited the data availabilty to such extent that information searching has now became more easier and more amusing. By starting in early age, children feel totally at ease around computers./By starting computes at early age, children tend to be more comfortable and confident in future.
        Computers are backbone of todays education system. Recent Educomp learning method is the perfect example of that. Not only students, teachers are also procuring the enormous benifits of this. From writing assignments, creating presentations to completing thesis, computers are the most valuable resource. So, early knowledge is definately a plus point for the children.
        Lastly and most importantly, computers have taken a parmanent position in workplace nowadays. Starting from government job to hi-tech engineering profession, computers are now the initial requirement.
        In conclusion, we will have to accept that computers as a technological tool is here to stay forever and I believe that if children start learning them daily for reasonable time along with other important activities, they will become more confidant and successful in future.

Need for Public Transport

The rising levels of congestion and air pollution found in most of the world cities can be attributed directly to the rapidly increasing number of private cars in use. In order to reverse this decline in the quality of life in cities, attempts must be made to encourage people to use their cars less and public transport more. Discuss possible ways to encourage the use of public transport.

Essay:
        In the modern world where the environmental awareness is increasing very rapidly, improved public transport system is the key to the future quality of life. Although people do enjoy convenience and privacy of travelling in their own private vehicle, they can use public transport if it fulfils few conditions which will attract or encourage them to shift to public transport. These conditions can be categorized as attitudinal, financial and logistical.
        From an attitudinal perspective, people who are accustomed to use their private vehicles needs to be convinced that public transport can be better alternatives with lots of benifits. An educational and public relation compaign should be launched to sensitize people and familiarize them with the environmental, social and personal benifits for future generations.
        From functional perspective, the cost of public transportaion should be affordable for all range of consumers. If people feel that by using bus and subways, they can save a lot of money to take a free holiday trip each year, many more people can be persuaded to travel in this way.
        The last but not the least, logistical perspective. This means that route, timing and availability of buses and subways should be traveller friendly. City planner and transport officials needs to ensure that a convinient and reliable public transport is available for each citizen. The conditions of transport vehicles, bus or subway stations should be well maintained and clean.
        To summarize, there are mulitple ways available to promote the use of public transport over private vehicles but for this, city government, transport officials and polititions should also use this mode of transport and set an example for public. The more people will be encouraged to follow this suit and we may all hope to live in a cleaner environment.

Computer vs Teachers

Topic : As computers are being used more and more in education, there will be soon no role for teachers in the classroom.  
Do you agree or disagree.

Essay :
        There is no doubt that the advent of computers has tremendously raised the level of education in last two decades. The internet connectivity has expedited data availability and the search for information has become more eaiser and more amusing. The digital books and study materials is replacing the traditional paper books very rapidely. Some people believe that this computerized revolution is fading the role of the teacher in our education system and soon there will be no room for teachers in the classroom. But I strongly disagree and believe that there is no substitute for human interaction in the learning process.

        Firstly, I believe that there is no alternative to the vast experience and expertiese of a teacher. Only a teacher can make the difference in the monotonous and shrewd student and change his/her style of teaching as per the needs of the student. The role of a teacher become more important for kids at primarly level as they can not even operate the complex computer systems.

        Secondly, there are many subjects like mechanical, architectuer, biology, geophysics etc where hands-on experience has more imprtance over theoritical konwledge. So for these subjects the role of teacher is more important as they can guide the students based on their past experiences.

        In the end, I would like to conclude that although computers are breakthrough in every field, the teachers play and will always play an important role in the classrooms especially at the primary level. No matter how complex the computer become, the human interaction can never be replaced.

Reveolution in Travel in 20th Century

World travel was revolutionized in the 20th century to the extent that the world has now become a global village. What factors will influence travel this century? Will travel continue to grow or will it become less popular ?

It is a fact that in today's time travelling around the world is increasing very fast than ever before due to numerous offers of travel packages including cheep flights, budget hotels etc. Increasing tourism brings many good things for the tourist places but this popularization is also carrying many problems with it.

Around a century back, due to limited resources of travelling, people can only travel the nearby places. But with the invention of high speed trains, aeroplanes, cargo ships, million kilometer distance looks like nothing. This inspires people to travel around the world and see the different cultures, natural beauty with their own eyes. In the 20th century, due to globalisation, many companies are operating in multiple countries, which increases the work related travels for the people. This affect also brought down the travelling prices especially flight costs, so more and more people can afford travelling to different countries. Apart from that many new technologies are discovered to simplify designs, less fuel requirements and increased performance of cars, trains, which increases the short distances travels.

There are few factors which can cause set-back for this increasing tourism. One such factor is increasing number of accidents. But, many new inventions are taking place to make the vehicle more intelligent to reduce these accidents. Other factor is increasing terrorism, but this will only affect only a minimal amount of tourism as the world will not surrender itself to these kind of terrorists.

In the end, I think that, there are more factors which will help in increasing the travelling around the world than the factors to stop them. So the travel and tourism will continue to grow in future, making the world smaller and mixing the world culture.

Violence in Young due to Action in TV and Cinema

A lot of  people believe that the amount of violence shown on TV and in the cinema affects the actions of our young people and therefore increases the amount of violence in our society today.
Do you agree or disagree with this statement? What can be done to reduce violence in our society today ?

    Now-a-days television and cinema are the most easily accessible source of entertainment. Most of the movies now-a-days show large amount of action. Even the animations have big amount of violence e.g. "Rango". Television programs like WWF shows dirty violence. This increasing violence in television and cinema is really affecting the young minds adversely.

    It is a fact that visual things affect our mind very fast and they remain in memory for long time. The kids don't have knowledge to decide what is right or wrong. They learn and try to imitate what they see, whether from their parents or from television.They feel glamor in what they do by committing violence. When these kids grow, they tend to be more aggressive in many situations rather than being calm. Many times we have seen in news that few young bikers created nuisance on the road at midnight as they were just inspired by the movies like "Fast and Furious".

    To reduce this increasing tendency of violence in young, we need to refrain kids from watching too much television and engage them other activities like arts, music and outdoor sports. Being aware of the age of the children when they start seeing these things and raise the age limit will help in preventing this. Another solution can be to control the violent behavior of a young. Rather than putting them in prison, put them in the army, where their violence can be controlled and they will learn discipline.

    In the conclusion I completely agree that our society is really facing the large amount of violence specially from young people. There are few thing that can be done to control the situation but it will be very difficult I think.

Leisure Time vs Hard Studies

In some countries young people have little leisure time and are under a lot of pressure to work hard in their studies.
What do you think are the causes of this?
What solutions can you suggest?

Sometimes many young people find very little leisure time for recreation and have to do lot of hard work in their studies. There can be many reasons for this including heaving competition in schools/universities, parental pressure, maintaining social standards, financial conditions.

Every parent wants their child be successful in their life. Some of them has decided what their child will become in future for example engineer, doctor. In many countries, where the economic condition is not very good, people want their child to do what they were not able to do in their life. So they start pressuring their child to study hard to achieve the same. Even in my country, kids have to go for three to four hours of private tuitions after the regular six hours of schools. As a consequences, they have very little leisure time to go for sports and other recreational activities.

Second reason is our higher education system. In todays competitive environment, a child has to put lot of extra effort to compete with others to survive. Due to increasing population, specially in Asian countries, there are thousands of young people competing for little number of seats in good universities. This puts lot of pressure on teenagers to put long hours of studies to get even a single chance of success.

One solution of the problem is that the parents have to understand the abilities and interest of their child and support them to follow their dreams rather than imposing their own will. The schools should inform the parents about their children's' interests and ask them to give their child a stress-less environment of growth.

Other solution is to improvise the curriculum of the schools/universities to include latest technologies. So that the kids don't have to put extra efforts to learn new things to beat the competitions along with good grades. The schools should also promote sports, arts based on the interest of the kids.

In conclusion, only studies will not help in the overall growth of the individual. To compete in the society they have to be smart, energetic and free.